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Professor: Strategic Marketing and Management (University of Helsinki); Selling and Sales Management (Aalto University)
Petri Parvinen is leading MRHub research group with is extensive and multidisciplinary experience. His research interests are high-growth business and venturing: Digital selling, dynamic algorithms, bioeconomy, industry transformation and learning.
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Postdoctoral researcher: Service research
PhD Osmo Mattila is a digital service design researcher. He is interesting in how to design novel digital technologies to be integral parts of service processes - and in validating the value of service designs by research. Besides technology and service research he has strong sectoral knowlede of bioeconomy.
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Postdoctoral researcher: Service and information system design research
PhD Jani Holopainen is a service and information system design researcher. His topics of interests are customer psychology and learning, service ecosystems, human-computer interactions, technology aided marketing and sales.
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Postdoctoral researcher: Social media and consumer research
PhD Essi Pöyry is profiled as a social media researcher. Her topics of interest cover electronic commerce, customer engagement, human-computer interaction, customer relationship management and data economy. Essi works at the Centre for Consumer Society Research.
Postdoctoral researcher: Pedagogics research
PhD Ilona Södervik’s study concerns the development of expertise in the context of life sciences. She is particularly interested in questions that deal with the challenges related to conceptual understanding of complex phenomena. Methodologically, she combines both surveys and eye tracking.
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Doctoral student: pedagogics research
MSc Antti Lähtevänoja is specialized in pedagogics research that is assisted by immersive digital technologies. The topic of his PhD aims at scientifically validating the best learning designs that are implemented by using virtual reality and augmented reality.
Doctoral student: Mixed Reality aided IoT sales
MSc Mikko Vermanen conducts research on Mixed Reality aided IoT sales. In the experimental setups the focus is on validading the value of technology aided sales in various fields: customer learning, customer relationship management, customer engagement, proceeding in the marketing and sales funnel. The research follows the Design Science Research Methodology and the aim is to develop and design better IoT sales systems. The implications are drawn to both system designers and sales personnel.
Master's Thesis student
An experimental study of forestry education: Expertise and credibility in a Mixed Reality application
Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki
Master's thesis student
Using virtual reality in sales negotiation - an ethnographic approach
Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki
Master's Thesis student
Perceived restorativeness of an immersive virtual reality
Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki
Master's thesis student
Digital service design in tourism in the museum context
University of Lapland
Master's thesis student
Explaining and understanding complex systems in virtual reality
Aalto University
Master's thesis student
Developing the measures for organization learning in MR – multiple case study design
Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki
Master's thesis student
Learning experiments on Massive Open Online Courses and Mixed Reality – developing content and usability
Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki
Master's Thesis student
Data visualizations, sensory and service designs in Mixed Reality – optimizing the customer experience and engagement
Master's Thesis student
Virtual Reality fair and sales applications improving the communication and customer learning
Pilvi "The Cloud" Ahtinen (2018): Mixed reality in craft education
Riikka "Rapid deployment" Vehviläinen (2018): Mixed Reality in Timber Trade and Forest Management Advisory Services
Kalle "Roope" Riihikoski (2018): Comparing mixed reality devices in sales and marketing - Studying touchpoints with different stakeholders
Kalle "Iconic" Ikonen (2017): Digital forest services and customer segmentations (Kalle Ikonen)
Samuel "Husqvarna" Heinonen (2017): New business models and technologies in the forest service market