Publications
Press releases
AI-powered tram senses mood on board and prevents disturbances – new technology reshapes passenger experience, 28.5.2025,
https://www.vttresearch.com/en/news-and-ideas/ai-powered-tram-senses-mood-board-and-prevents-disturbances-new-technology-reshapes
Meeting room senses activity – VTT technology identifies when meetings aren’t working, 28.8.2025,
https://www.vttresearch.com/en/news-and-ideas/meeting-room-senses-activity-vtt-technology-identifies-when-meetings-arent-working
Scientific publications
2025
Ballardini, R., van den Hoven van Genderen, R., & Järvinen, S. (Eds.) (2025). Emotional Data Applications and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Society. Springer. Law, Governance and Technology Series No. 69 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80111-2
Ballardini, R., & Pitkänen, O. (2025). Fair and sustainable data governance for responsible uses of emotional data. In R. Ballardini, S. Järvinen, & R. van den Hoven van Genderen (Eds.), Emotional data applications and regulation of Artificial Intelligence in society (pp. 201-219). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80111-2_12
Schütte, B. (2025). Damage Caused by Emotional AI: Do Existing and Prospective Liability Rules Provide Sufficient Protection?. In: Ballardini, R., van den Hoven van Genderen, R., Järvinen, S. (eds) Emotional Data Applications and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Society. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 69. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80111-2_14
Järvinen, S., & Kallio, J. (2025). Adding Emotional Intelligence to Physical Spaces: Data-Driven Solutions for Measuring, Analysing, and Responding to User Needs and Expectations. In Emotional Data Applications and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Society (pp. 11-29). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80111-2_2
Tervonen, J. (2025). Personalized multiclass stress and cognitive load detection. In Proceedings of the Discovery Science Late Breaking Contributions 2024 (DS-LB 2024) co-located with 27th International Conference Discovery Science 2024 (DS 2024) CEUR-WS.
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3928/paper_68.pdf
Kallio, J., Liikka, J., Mäkelä, S-M., Kinnula, A. & Vildjiounaite, E. (2025). Understanding indoor context in an office environment: An empirical study on air stuffiness perception. In the proceedings 2025 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI).
Väre, J. (2025, June 26). From Sci-Fi to Reality: How Emotional Intelligence Found Its Way into a Tram. Teleste. https://www.teleste.com/news-and-insights/articles-and-blogs/vsi/blog/from-sci-fi-to-reality-how-emotional-intelligence-found-its-way-into-a-tram/
2024
Ballardini, R., van den Hoven van Genderen, R., & Nokelainen, T. (2024). Legal Incentives for Innovations in the Emotional AI Domain: A Carrot and Stick Approach? Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 19(8), 658-667. https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpae041
van den Hoven van Genderen, R., & Ballardini, R. (2024). AI and Emotional data between the Scylla and Charybdis of European Regulation
Abstract from IRIS2024: Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion 2024, Salzburg, Austria.
Järvinen, S., Kallio, J., Peltola, J., & Mäkelä, S. M. (2024). A behavior and emotion recognition framework for emotion-aware services in physical spaces. In 21st International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI 2024 – Proceedings, IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMI62980.2024.10859231
Schütte, B., van den Hoven van Genderen, R., Ballardini, R., Vesala, J., & Drake, A. (2024). HIPE Project Policy Brief: Emotionally Intelligent AI in the Workplace – Risks, Benefits, Accountability. Liikejuridiikka, (2/2024), 108-114. https://www.edilex.fi/liikejuridiikka/1000990005
2023
HIPE project pitch in the Nordic Conference on Law and Information Technology, October 2023, Rovaniemi, Finland, Sari Järvinen, VTT
Ballardini and van den Hoven van Genderen participated as a panelist and a speaker respectively to the Science Night LIVE event organized at Heureka, Vantaa, https://www.sciencenightlive.com/
Presentation by Béatrice Schütte on liability and AI in an informal meeting with resident researchers at VU Amsterdam held in June 2023
Dr. Rob van den Hoven van Genderen, Dr. Hurmerinta-Haanpää Anna, Dr. Rosa Maria Ballardini, Dr. Olli Pitkänen, LLM Amanda Drake and Dr. Béatrice Schütte, HIPE Legal and Ethical Guidelines [PDF], University of Lapland
Organization of the conference “Ethical and Legal Aspects on Human-Technology Interoperability and AI Processing of Emotional Data” on 6 June 2023, University of Lapland
Ballardini, R., van den Hoven van Genderen, R., Emotional data and AI, a legal Enigma, Presentation in Ethical and Legal Aspects on Human-Technology Interoperability and AI Processing of Emotional Data seminar, Rovaniemi, 2023
Ballardini, R., van den Hoven van Genderen, R., Patenting Emotions – Innovations in the Emotional AI Domain, Presentation in Helsinki IP Summit, 2023
A radio interview by Rob van den Hoven van Genderen on “On ban on Artificial intelligence” (31 March 2023)
https://www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/economie/463a65ed-27a0-468e-9f0e-67b4ee5c73b4/oproep-om-ai-ontwikkelingen-te-pauzeren-onzin-en-gebaseerd-op-angst
The FARIA network webinar in March 2023, University of Lapland, https://www.faria.network/
A news article on “European Digital Identity (eID) Wallet: a Paradigm Shift for Digital Identity in Europe – Start for a European Social Credit System?” by van den Hoven van Genderen to Data Cybersecurity and Privacy (February 2023)
https://www.dcsp.nl/art/90-5576_European-Digital-Identity-eID-Wallet-a-Paradigm-Shift-for-Digital-Identity-in-Europe-Start-for-European-Social-Credit-System
2022
Ballardini, R., van den Hoven van Genderen, R. , ‘From Lapland with Law ‘: Transparency and sharing requirements for data in the EU – stimulating or killing innovations? Blogpost in From Lapland with Law blog
HIPE presentation in “Augmenting humans with AI-driven knowledge” event, October 2022, Espoo, Finland, Johannes Peltola, VTT