Hyysalo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 10832 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hyysalo |
| APELLIDO | Hyysalo |
| FIRMA | HYYSALO |
| AFILIACIONES | Aalto University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0545-0011 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 887 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Information receivers or change makers? Citizen representations in co-created energy transition pathways
The transition arena approach is among the prominent approaches for advancing sustainability transitions by bringing together diverse actors to co-create future visions, goals and pathways towards low-carbon change. These arenas engage participants from civil society, policy, technology and business, thereby expanding the circle of individuals who can influence low-carbon policy development. Drawing on the concepts of user representation and imag…
Co-production trajectories
Despite growing interest in knowledge co-production for environmental governance, questions remain about whether and how it creates societal impacts. A central challenge is attributing impacts to particular co-production arrangements. Existing literature tends to assume that co-production arrangements are the originators of impacts. However, this assumption obscures how societal outcomes actually form and makes their substantiation difficult. Usi…
Energy information infrastructures
Energy production, markets, and patterns of use are undergoing a rapid transition under the banner of promoting environmental sustainability, accompanied by a shift towards renewable energy and the increasing electrification and digitalisation of society. The transformation underscores the need to develop new concepts that highlight the subtle interconnectedness of current energy infrastructures and their interdependencies with other infrastructu…
Who to turn to
The adoption of renewable small-scale energy technologies (S-RET) into hybrid heating solutions consisting of several energy technologies is rapidly increasing in the domestic sector. The adoption of hybrid S-RET involves an information intensive process in fitting a combination of new technologies to existing energy and building infrastructure. The specifics of hybrid S-RET adoption processes and the related information acquisition processes hav…
Characterizing hybrid heating in the households
Household hybrid heating solutions can be conceptualized as arrangements that work. • Material resources shape what kinds of hybrids are sensible for households to obtain. • Households’ capacity to advance the energy transition is widely distributed through the hybridization of household heating. Households are moving beyond the adoption of single renewable energy technologies. Additive adoption of heating systems has resulted in ‘hybrid heating’…
Trade-offs in expanding citizen participation in low-carbon transitions
Amid the complex and persistent challenges of sustainability transitions, experimental governance has emerged as a way to foster reflexivity, learning, and policy innovation through diverse participatory practices. This paper examines the role of transition arena methodologies in expanding and deepening civic engagement in low-carbon transitions, specifically through seven experimental processes focused on "climate-wise housing" in Finland in 202…
Series of configurational movements
The detailed studies of adoption and user activities indicate that continuous alterations accompany the proliferation of new technology, yet diffusion theory and system change-oriented frameworks portray the spread of technologies across a social or sociotechnical system with relatively few changes. To better reconcile the two orientations, we introduce a series of configurational movements (SCM) as a conceptual register for the generalization of…
Materiality in community energy innovation
Collective and citizen-driven activities for energy transition have been thriving globally in recent decades. Community energy innovation (CEI) developed through hands-on engagement with materials has garnered increasing attention from the interdisciplinary energy research community. The recent scholarly discussion has highlighted the role of materiality and its relation to collective agency, inclusion, and approaches to participation. Accordingl…
Modes of intermediation
Citizen energy lost in sustainability transitions
Countries are moving towards renewable energy systems, which creates new requirements and pressures for the established energy policy frameworks. One emerging issue is citizen energy production in community level that has been given a central role also in recent policy reforms in the EU. However, one understudied topic is how the decision-making and action in the existing and potential citizen energy communities connects to broader energy governa…
The interrupting capacities of knowledge co-production experiments
Knowledge co-production is increasingly referred to as a means to reorganise expert work and generate policy support. Co-production processes bring together diverse expertise to explore environmental problems beyond epistemic or administrative silos. This re-orchestration of knowledge production is seen as critical for the attainment of sustainability transformations. However, little attention has, so far, been given to the ways in which co-produ…
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions
If sustainability transitions research is to be relevant for upscaled diffusion of radical innovations and wide systemic socio-technical changes, then markets remain critical to account for. Founding frameworks in transition studies regard markets and market formation as important. Yet, the conceptualization of markets has so far not been elaborate: markets are mostly pictured as target areas for sustainable innovation and emphasis is on diffusio…
User Representations as a Design Resource
The study of how the understanding of usages and users is achieved and turned into the characteristics of products comprises ‘the sociology of user representation’ in Science and Technology Studies. Whilst the early research on the topic was foremost a critique of designers’ imposition of theirimagination and preferences on prospective users, research has since discovered a richer research landscape in accomplishing the difficult task of anticipa…
Capturing the micro-level of intermediation in transitions
To date, a major portion of sustainability transition research has relied on retrospective methods to generate encompassing macro-level views of transitions. However, such methods may have considerable impacts on the insights generated in the study of intermediation, action and agency by actors on the micro-level of transitions. In this article, we compare retrospective interviews and real-time ethnography to understand how they portray micro-lev…
Passing the baton
Method Matters in the Social Study of Technology
Science and Technology Studies understandings of technological change are at odds with its own dominant research designs and methodological guidelines. A key insight from the social shaping of technology research, for instance, has been that new technologies are formed in multiple interlinked settings, by many different groups of actors over long periods of time. Nonetheless, common research designs have not kept pace with these conceptual advanc…
An agenda for sustainability transitions research
Energy Internet forums as acceleration phase transition intermediaries
Citizen users play important roles in the acceleration phase of energy transitions, during which small-scale renewable energy technologies (S-RET) become taken up more widely. From users’ perspective, turning the early, and typically slow, proliferation into a more rapid and widespread diffusion requires not only the adoption of S-RET but also the adaptation, adjustment, intermediation and advocacy of S-RETs. These activities become necessary bec…
Towards a Typology of Intermediaries in Transitions
Shove, Pantzar and Watson. The dynamics of social practice
Proximal Design
By examining mobility in remote Arctic areas, we analyze how challenging environmental conditions, while affecting technology performance, evoke people's creativity and efforts as technology users. Based on historical materials and ethnographic observations of user inventiveness in the transport sector in the Russian North, we define and document a phenomenon of "proximal design" in three different modes: the proximal complementation of "distant …
Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Air‐Source Heat Pump and Innovative Ground‐Source Air Heat Pump in a Cold Climate
This article compares climate impacts of two heat‐pump systems for domestic heating, that is, energy consumption for space heating of a residential building. Using a life cycle approach, the study compared the energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of direct electric heating, a conventional air‐source heat pump, and a novel ground‐source air heat pump innovated by a citizen user, to assess whether such user innovation holds benefit. The en…
The managed prosumer
This paper contributes to the reworking of the traditional concepts and methods of Science and Technology Studies that is necessary in order to analyse the development and use of social media and other emerging information infrastructures (IIs). Through long-term studies of the development of two contrasting IIs, the paper examines the prosumer-management strategies by which vendors manage their relationships with their diverse users. Despite the…
Energy in Society
Internet Forums and the Rise of the Inventive Energy User
While climate and energy policy voice concerns about citizen’s lack of improving their houses and heating systems, some citizens by far exceed the expectations. Our research on heat pumps revealed over a hundred inventions by citizen users in Finland alone, despite the technology being in many respects uninviting to modify. Users’ capacity to carry out these modifications owes much to their exchanges at userrun Internet forums, a new and prolifer…
An agenda for sustainability transitions research
Passing the baton
Method Matters in the Social Study of Technology
Science and Technology Studies understandings of technological change are at odds with its own dominant research designs and methodological guidelines. A key insight from the social shaping of technology research, for instance, has been that new technologies are formed in multiple interlinked settings, by many different groups of actors over long periods of time. Nonetheless, common research designs have not kept pace with these conceptual advanc…
Representations of Use and Practice-Bound Imaginaries in Automating the Safety of the Elderly
The present paper examines how representations of prospective use became designed in a novel healthcare technology for elderly people. The case lends support to studies arguing that explicit investigations provide only a part of the representations of prospective use for technology design. It draws attention to a source of representations of use that is at once obvious and under-explored: the professional traditions of developers of technology. T…
Capturing the micro-level of intermediation in transitions
To date, a major portion of sustainability transition research has relied on retrospective methods to generate encompassing macro-level views of transitions. However, such methods may have considerable impacts on the insights generated in the study of intermediation, action and agency by actors on the micro-level of transitions. In this article, we compare retrospective interviews and real-time ethnography to understand how they portray micro-lev…
Modes of intermediation
Proximal Design
By examining mobility in remote Arctic areas, we analyze how challenging environmental conditions, while affecting technology performance, evoke people's creativity and efforts as technology users. Based on historical materials and ethnographic observations of user inventiveness in the transport sector in the Russian North, we define and document a phenomenon of "proximal design" in three different modes: the proximal complementation of "distant …
Citizen energy lost in sustainability transitions
Countries are moving towards renewable energy systems, which creates new requirements and pressures for the established energy policy frameworks. One emerging issue is citizen energy production in community level that has been given a central role also in recent policy reforms in the EU. However, one understudied topic is how the decision-making and action in the existing and potential citizen energy communities connects to broader energy governa…
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions
If sustainability transitions research is to be relevant for upscaled diffusion of radical innovations and wide systemic socio-technical changes, then markets remain critical to account for. Founding frameworks in transition studies regard markets and market formation as important. Yet, the conceptualization of markets has so far not been elaborate: markets are mostly pictured as target areas for sustainable innovation and emphasis is on diffusio…
The Virtuality of Virtual Worlds, or What We Can Learn from Playacting Horse Girls and Marginalized Developers
This article discusses the emergence of Habbo Hotel as a large-scale virtual world and its changing versions through time. We consider how social events taking place within the hotel are conditioned by designed-in symbolic resources and how, in turn, with creative processes of symbolization, novel social objects emerge out of particular interactions. We then discuss how the membership trajectories of hotel members are essential in understanding h…
Trade-offs in expanding citizen participation in low-carbon transitions
Amid the complex and persistent challenges of sustainability transitions, experimental governance has emerged as a way to foster reflexivity, learning, and policy innovation through diverse participatory practices. This paper examines the role of transition arena methodologies in expanding and deepening civic engagement in low-carbon transitions, specifically through seven experimental processes focused on "climate-wise housing" in Finland in 202…
Materiality in community energy innovation
Collective and citizen-driven activities for energy transition have been thriving globally in recent decades. Community energy innovation (CEI) developed through hands-on engagement with materials has garnered increasing attention from the interdisciplinary energy research community. The recent scholarly discussion has highlighted the role of materiality and its relation to collective agency, inclusion, and approaches to participation. Accordingl…
The interrupting capacities of knowledge co-production experiments
Knowledge co-production is increasingly referred to as a means to reorganise expert work and generate policy support. Co-production processes bring together diverse expertise to explore environmental problems beyond epistemic or administrative silos. This re-orchestration of knowledge production is seen as critical for the attainment of sustainability transformations. However, little attention has, so far, been given to the ways in which co-produ…
Some Problems in the Traditional Approaches to Predicting the Use of a Technology-driven Invention
While direct user involvement has started to find its way into commercial product development, most companies still rely on more traditional ways to investigate and represent users. This paper is a case study of the methods and means employed by small high-tech companies in their effort to learn about the users of their emerging new technology through the use of market surveys, user interviews, design studies and pilot use. Theoretically, the dis…
Technology Nurtured - Collectives in Maintaining and Implementing Technology for Elderly Care
Elderly care has become an increasingly appealing market for technology producers. Design for the elderly, however, often entails the meeting of two different worlds, one of young male high-tech professionals and one of elderly people and elderly care. This paper focuses on what happens to a new security technology making the transition between the two. Particular emphasis is laid on distributed and collective aspects of implementation and adapta…
Social Learning in Technological Innovation
mobilization of social interests towards new social and economic goals, not compromising the welfare state tradition but reinventing its material basis. So far, the result is spectacular. Schienstock and his co-authors give an excellent portrayal of the institutional renovation of Finland in its the first decade as an innovative society, a rare example of an innovation system developed by design rather than by default
Objects and Motives in a Product Design Process
Activity theory seems to be a potential framework for analyzing the complexity of product design, because of its concern with mutual transformations of objects, collectives, and subjects. In turn, design work provides a rich ground for discussing the key concepts of activity theory. This article uses an analysis of the development of a new healthcare appliance to open up discussion about the notions of object and motive in activity theory
Representations of Use and Practice-Bound Imaginaries in Automating the Safety of the Elderly
The present paper examines how representations of prospective use became designed in a novel healthcare technology for elderly people. The case lends support to studies arguing that explicit investigations provide only a part of the representations of prospective use for technology design. It draws attention to a source of representations of use that is at once obvious and under-explored: the professional traditions of developers of technology. T…
The Role of Learning-by-Using in the Design of Health Care Technologies
New technologies typically go through significant improvements during their early diffusion. Literature suggests that these modifications follow from learning-by-using. However, the micro-level processes by which learning-by-using is actually achieved remain understudied. This article examines these processes through an in-depth case study of the design and use of a new health-care device. It identifies several learning processes and precondition…
Intermediaries, Users and Social Learning in Technological Innovation
This paper explores the role of intermediaries in the development and appropriation of new technologies. We focus on intermediaries that facilitate user innovation, and the linking of user innovation into supply side activities. We review findings on intermediaries in some of our studies and other available literature to build a framework to explore of how intermediaries work in making innovation happen. We make sense of these processes by taking…
The Virtuality of Virtual Worlds, or What We Can Learn from Playacting Horse Girls and Marginalized Developers
This article discusses the emergence of Habbo Hotel as a large-scale virtual world and its changing versions through time. We consider how social events taking place within the hotel are conditioned by designed-in symbolic resources and how, in turn, with creative processes of symbolization, novel social objects emerge out of particular interactions. We then discuss how the membership trajectories of hotel members are essential in understanding h…
Energy in Society
Internet Forums and the Rise of the Inventive Energy User
While climate and energy policy voice concerns about citizen’s lack of improving their houses and heating systems, some citizens by far exceed the expectations. Our research on heat pumps revealed over a hundred inventions by citizen users in Finland alone, despite the technology being in many respects uninviting to modify. Users’ capacity to carry out these modifications owes much to their exchanges at userrun Internet forums, a new and prolifer…
The managed prosumer
This paper contributes to the reworking of the traditional concepts and methods of Science and Technology Studies that is necessary in order to analyse the development and use of social media and other emerging information infrastructures (IIs). Through long-term studies of the development of two contrasting IIs, the paper examines the prosumer-management strategies by which vendors manage their relationships with their diverse users. Despite the…
Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Air‐Source Heat Pump and Innovative Ground‐Source Air Heat Pump in a Cold Climate
This article compares climate impacts of two heat‐pump systems for domestic heating, that is, energy consumption for space heating of a residential building. Using a life cycle approach, the study compared the energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of direct electric heating, a conventional air‐source heat pump, and a novel ground‐source air heat pump innovated by a citizen user, to assess whether such user innovation holds benefit. The en…
Shove, Pantzar and Watson. The dynamics of social practice
Proximal Design
By examining mobility in remote Arctic areas, we analyze how challenging environmental conditions, while affecting technology performance, evoke people's creativity and efforts as technology users. Based on historical materials and ethnographic observations of user inventiveness in the transport sector in the Russian North, we define and document a phenomenon of "proximal design" in three different modes: the proximal complementation of "distant …
Towards a Typology of Intermediaries in Transitions
Energy Internet forums as acceleration phase transition intermediaries
Citizen users play important roles in the acceleration phase of energy transitions, during which small-scale renewable energy technologies (S-RET) become taken up more widely. From users’ perspective, turning the early, and typically slow, proliferation into a more rapid and widespread diffusion requires not only the adoption of S-RET but also the adaptation, adjustment, intermediation and advocacy of S-RETs. These activities become necessary bec…
Passing the baton
Method Matters in the Social Study of Technology
Science and Technology Studies understandings of technological change are at odds with its own dominant research designs and methodological guidelines. A key insight from the social shaping of technology research, for instance, has been that new technologies are formed in multiple interlinked settings, by many different groups of actors over long periods of time. Nonetheless, common research designs have not kept pace with these conceptual advanc…
An agenda for sustainability transitions research
Capturing the micro-level of intermediation in transitions
To date, a major portion of sustainability transition research has relied on retrospective methods to generate encompassing macro-level views of transitions. However, such methods may have considerable impacts on the insights generated in the study of intermediation, action and agency by actors on the micro-level of transitions. In this article, we compare retrospective interviews and real-time ethnography to understand how they portray micro-lev…
User Representations as a Design Resource
The study of how the understanding of usages and users is achieved and turned into the characteristics of products comprises ‘the sociology of user representation’ in Science and Technology Studies. Whilst the early research on the topic was foremost a critique of designers’ imposition of theirimagination and preferences on prospective users, research has since discovered a richer research landscape in accomplishing the difficult task of anticipa…
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions
If sustainability transitions research is to be relevant for upscaled diffusion of radical innovations and wide systemic socio-technical changes, then markets remain critical to account for. Founding frameworks in transition studies regard markets and market formation as important. Yet, the conceptualization of markets has so far not been elaborate: markets are mostly pictured as target areas for sustainable innovation and emphasis is on diffusio…
Citizen energy lost in sustainability transitions
Countries are moving towards renewable energy systems, which creates new requirements and pressures for the established energy policy frameworks. One emerging issue is citizen energy production in community level that has been given a central role also in recent policy reforms in the EU. However, one understudied topic is how the decision-making and action in the existing and potential citizen energy communities connects to broader energy governa…
The interrupting capacities of knowledge co-production experiments
Knowledge co-production is increasingly referred to as a means to reorganise expert work and generate policy support. Co-production processes bring together diverse expertise to explore environmental problems beyond epistemic or administrative silos. This re-orchestration of knowledge production is seen as critical for the attainment of sustainability transformations. However, little attention has, so far, been given to the ways in which co-produ…
Series of configurational movements
The detailed studies of adoption and user activities indicate that continuous alterations accompany the proliferation of new technology, yet diffusion theory and system change-oriented frameworks portray the spread of technologies across a social or sociotechnical system with relatively few changes. To better reconcile the two orientations, we introduce a series of configurational movements (SCM) as a conceptual register for the generalization of…
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