About
Sanna Raudaskoski serves as a University Lecturer in Social Studies at Tampere University's Faculty of Social Sciences. She is affiliated with the Childhood, Youth and Family Research Center and specializes in social psychology with a focus on technologically mediated interactions. Her work bridges theoretical social science with practical applications in digital communication and human-robot interaction.
Dr. Raudaskoski's research expertise spans social psychology, smartphone use in social contexts, social robotics, affordance theory, ethnomethodology, discourse analysis, and conversation analysis. She investigates how people interact with technologies in everyday settings, with recent work focusing on group interactions with social robots and parental discussions about smartphone use. Her methodological approach emphasizes qualitative analysis of naturally occurring interactions.
Her recent publication trends show a clear progression from mobile phone affordances in her doctoral work to current research on social robots and smartphone-family dynamics. The publications demonstrate consistent application of ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches to understanding human-technology interaction across different contexts.
As an educator, Dr. Raudaskoski provides extensive student guidance, serving as a teacher/teacher tutor responsible for HOPS guidance in the Social Studies degree programme. She supervises bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses and teaches various courses in social psychology and research methods. Her academic service includes peer review for journals like Frontiers in Robotics and AI and AFinLA vuosikirja.
Dr. Raudaskoski maintains an active research profile with 28 research outputs documented between 2003 and 2025, showing consistent scholarly productivity across two decades. Her recent work (2020-2025) demonstrates increased focus on social robotics while maintaining her expertise in smartphone interaction research.
