About Me
Dorina Rajanen - University teacher, Researcher
At Fab Academy my aim is to create a product that is useful to people and enables them to communicate better with their peers and environment. Thus, I choose to design and build a prototypical smart home device that is interactive and transmits data from user and environment to a computer device via wireless sensors.
I am a University teacher at University of Oulu and hold a PhD in Information Systems from Åbo Akademi, Finland. I come from Romania where I did my bachelor and master degrees in Economics and Quantitative Economics.
I am interested in science and technology, and currently I research how people adopt, use, and interact with digital technology at work and everyday tasks using psychophysiological methods. My research includes building and evaluating data mining models, data visualization, visual analytics, and the adoption, use, and interaction with new digital media and technology such as cloud computing, smartphones, tablets, wearables and smart home devices.
I wish the world to be full of green and the people to protect nature and live a long and healthy life. Therefore I try to limit my use of plastic materials in the fab lab and promote the use of green and renewable materials like wood.
My Research Interests
Human-Computer Interaction
Media experience, media psychology, psychophysiology
Information and data visualization
Data science and Data mining
Business intelligence and forecasting
Cloud computing, Software as a service
Rajanen, D., Salminen, M., Ravaja, N. (2016) Reading a Newspaper on Print versus Screen: A Motivational Perspective. Proc. of the 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS49), January 5-8, 2016 Grand Hyatt, Kauai, USA. IEEE.
Rajanen, D., Salminen, M., Ravaja, N. (2015) Reflections on the Use of Psychophysiology in Studying Reading on Digital Media. IRIS Selected Papers 2015. AIS.
Quantitative Research methods
IT infrastructure
Open Source Software Development
Business Process Modeling
