Publications

Kaisa Pihlainen, Anja Ehlers, Rebekka Rohner, Katerina Cerna, Eija Kärnä, Moritz Hess, Lisa Hengl, Lotta Aavikko, Susanne Frewer-Graumann, Vera Gallistl & Claudia Müller (2022) Older adults’ reasons to participate in digital skills learning: An interdisciplinary, multiple case study from Austria, Finland, and Germany, Studies in the Education of Adults, DOI: 10.1080/02660830.2022.2133268

Katerina Cerna, Vasiliki Mylonopoulou, Marvin Landwehr, and Minna Laurell Thorslund. 2022. Designing for collective survival: Design fiction game for the apocalyptic world. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3547522.3547699


Paluch, R., Cerna, K., Volkova, G., Seidler, M., Weiler, T., Obaid, M., & Müller, C. (2022). Robots in heterogeneous contexts: Negotiation of co-creative lifelong learning spaces through participatory approaches. In Proceedings of 20th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET).


Cerna, K., Müller, C., Randall, D., & Hunker, M. (2022). Situated Scaffolding for Sustainable Participatory Design: Learning Online with Older Adults. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(GROUP), 1-25.


Bevilacqua, R., Strano, S., Di Rosa, M., Giammarchi, C., Cerna, K. K., Mueller, C., & Maranesi, E. (2021). eHealth Literacy: From Theory to Clinical Application for Digital Health Improvement. Results from the ACCESS Training Experience. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(22), 11800.


Cerna, K., Paluch, R., Bäumer, F., Ertl, T., & Müller, C. (2021). Transformation of HCI co-research with older adults: researchers’ positionality in the COVID-19 pandemic. Interaction Design and Architecture (s), 27-47. Paper presentation can be found here.


Cerna, K., & Müller, C. (2021). Fostering digital literacy through a mobile demo-kit development: Co-designing didactic prototypes with older adults. Adjunct Publication of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, 1–6.


Cerna, K. & Müller, C. (2021): Making online participatory design work: Understanding the digital ecologies of older adults. In: Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: The International Venue on Practice-centred Computing on the Design of Cooperation Technologies - Exploratory Papers, Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (ISSN 2510- 2591), DOI: 10.18420/ecscw2021_n22


Cerna, K. and C. Müller (2021). Going online with older adults: Hands on guide. Accessible here.


Struzek, D., Cerna, K., Paluch, R., Bittenbinder, S., Müller, C. Reuter, A. … & Vines, J. 2021. Designing for New Forms of Vulnerability: Exploring transformation and empowerment in times of COVID-19. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’21 Extended Abstracts), May 08–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages.


Cerna, K., & Müller, C., (2020). Learning for life: A Workshop Report. International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI), 17 2, (ISN ISSN 1861-4280 ). Link.


Cerna, K., & Müller, C., (2020). From Design Space to Learning Place: Conceptualization for Meta Design Space for and with Older Adults. In Learning for life: A Workshop Report. International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI), 17 2, (ISN ISSN 1861-4280 ). Link.

Engelbutzeder, P., Cerna, K., Randall, D., Lawo, D., Müller, C., Stevens, G., & Wulf, V. (2020, October). Investigating the use of digital artifacts in a community project of sustainable food practices:‘My chili blossoms’. In Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society (pp. 1-4).

Cerna, K., Dickel, M., Müller, C., Kärnä, E., Gallistl, V., Kolland, F., Reuter, V., Naegele, G., Bevilacqua, R., Kaspar, H., Otto, H. (2020): Learning for life: Designing for sustainability of tech-learning networks of older adults. Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: The International Venue on Practice-centred Computing on the Design of Cooperation Technologies - Exploratory Papers, Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (ISSN 2510-2591), DOI: 10.18420/ecscw2020_ws04 . See a short trailer.

Cerna, K., Grisot, M., Islind, A. S., Lindroth, T., Lundin, J., & Steineck, G. (2020). Changing Categorical Work in Healthcare: the Use of Patient-Generated Health Data in Cancer Rehabilitation. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 29(5), 563-586.

Cerna, K., Weilenmann, A., Ivarsson, J., Rysedt, H., Islind, A.S., Lundin, J., & Steineck, G. (2020). Nurses’ work practices in design: managing the complexity of pain. Journal of Workplace Learning, 32, 135-146.

Cerna, K. (2020). Designing self-monitoring data for chronic care. XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, 26, 26 - 29.

Černá, K. (2019). Designing for learning and knowing: Nurses in chronic care and patients' self-monitoring data. Phd Thesis. Gothenburg University.

Islind, A.S., Snis, U.L., Lindroth, T., Lundin, J., Cerná, K., & Steineck, G. (2019). The Virtual Clinic: Two-sided Affordances in Consultation Practice. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 1-34.

Cerna, K., Lundin, J., Islind, A.S., & Steineck, G. (2019). Supporting Appropriation of Self- Monitoring Tools in Clinical Settings: The Case of Pain in Cancer Rehabilitation. ECSCW Exploratory Papers, Demos and Posters.

Cerna, K., Ivarsson, J., Weilenmann, A., & Steineck, G. (2019). Supporting self-management of radiation-induced bowel and bladder dysfunction in pelvic-cancer rehabilitation: An ethnographic study. Journal of clinical nursing, 28 13-14, 2624-2634 .

Cerna, K., Islind, A.S., Lundin, J., & Steineck, G. (2018). Decision-support system for cancer rehabilitation: designing for incorporating of quantified data into an existing practice. NordiCHI '18.


Presented papers (not published)

  • Cerna, K. & C. Müller (2021). Research related to older adults during the COVID-19 crisis: Supporting older adults´ learning from distance. Symposium at Virtual NKG25 Nordic Gerontology Congress June 2-4 2021.

  • Müller C. & K. Cerna (2021). Participatory design of learning support for older adults under conditions of the COVID-19 crisis. Contribution to symposium Research related to older adults during the COVID-19 crisis: Supporting older adults´ learning from distance Virtual NKG25 Nordic Gerontology Congress June 2-4 2021.

  • Cerna, K. Digitalization of caring: Supporting older adults’ learning of digital tools use. Beyond work European Conference on Labour Research, 21 - 22 October 2020, online. Invited talk.

  • Cerna, K. & C. Müller. Research related to older adults during the COVID-19 crisis: Supporting older adults’ learning from distance. DGGG Online Symposium, 10th November, 2020, online. Poster.

  • Gryska, E., Cerna, K., & Heckemann, R. A. (2020). Increasing trust through the design of algorithm-based lesion segmentation support systems. iConference 2020, online. Poster.

  • Cerna, K. (2017, October). Quantified data in healthcare: transformation of nursing work practice. A poster presented at Design Trade-Offs for Quality of Life - Exploring Grand Challenges for the Digital Age symposium in Hanover, Germany. Poster.

  • Cerna, K. Steineck, G. (2017, May). Quantified Data in Cancer Rehabilitation: Way to Learn to Know Yourself Again?, position paper presented in a workshop Quantified data and social relationships, at CHI (Human-computer Interaction) in Denver, US. Position paper.

  • Cerna, K. (2016, October). The “other” participants: what do they learn? Position paper presented at a workshop Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: From “Have to” to “Want to” Participate, at NordiCHI in Gothenburg, Sweden. Position paper.

  • Cerna, K. (2016, August). “Equalizing complexity”: co-designing mobile application for collection of new type of quantified data. IRIS, Ljungskile, Sweden. Work-in-progress paper.

  • Hård af Segerstad, Y., Weilenmann, A., Cerna, K. (2015). Communication across platforms: Switching between talk and text in mobile phone communication, 12th ICA Mobile Pre-Conference.