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  1. Identities in Flux

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, April 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  2. Promoting Criticality with Design Futuring with Young Children

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Grace Eden, Marianne Kinnula, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  3. How to combine criticality with reflection? Scaffolding children's critical reflection in the case of anti-bullying interventions

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  4. Participatory design that matters – with activism education of children

    Article • August 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  5. Fostering children?s critical literacy in computing education

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  6. Transformative agency – the next step towards children's computational empowerment

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Marianne Kinnula, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  7. Making The Future School: An Analysis of Teens' Collaborative Digital Fabrication Project

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  8. All the World is our Stage

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  9. Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Grace Eden, Marianne Kinnula, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  10. A Series of Fortunate Accidents: Lessons Learned When Things Go Sideways in Making Projects with Children

    Article • May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Behnaz Norouzi, Marianne Kinnula, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  11. Madness to the methods: Speculating approaches to study and nurture children's designer and Maker identities

    Article • May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  12. Introducing a Practice Toolkit for Understanding and Shaping Children's Digitalized Everyday Life

    Article • November 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  13. Nowhere to Now-here: Empowering Children to Reimagine Bully Prevention at Schools Using Critical Design Fiction

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  14. Entrepreneurship Education Meets FabLab: Lessons Learned with Teenagers

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Marianne Kinnula, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  15. Make4Change: Empowering Unemployed Youth through Digital Fabrication

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  16. CHI Against Bullying

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  17. Embedded assumptions in design and Making projects with children

    Article • December 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Marianne Kinnula, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  18. Digital technologies in everyday environments

    Article • September 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  19. Emergent practice as a methodological lens for public displays in-the-wild

    Article • June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

  20. Insights from Deploying See-Through Augmented Reality Signage in the Wild

    Article • June 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Florian Alt, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen