Collaborative and Industrial Design

Martina Čaić

Assistant Professor, Service Design
Potrait of assistant professor Martina Čaić

Martina Čaić is an Assistant Professor in Strategic Service Design and the leader of the ENCORE (Engaging Co-Design) research group. She holds a PhD from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, where she was a Marie Curie Fellow funded by the Service Design for Innovation Network (SDIN). Martina’s research interests are at the intersection of service management, service design, and emerging technologies (e.g., AI, social robots, chatbots). She studies interactions between AI-powered agents and humans in diverse public and private service settings (e.g., healthcare, education, financial, and industrial services) with a focus on value co-creation, well-being, ethical implications, and organizational transformation.

Courses

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Designing for Services

Designing for services course addresses application of design competence and engagement in the emerging topics of service design.

Collaborative and Industrial Design

Latest publications

Collective imaginaries for the futures of care work

Yiying Wu, Jung-Joo Lee, Ajit Pillai, Janghee Cho, Thida Sacathep, Naseem Ahmadpour, Virpi Roto, Jiashuo Liu, Mouna Sawan, Song Dongjin, Martina Caic, Lucas Cheng, Sarah Kettley, Renxuan Liu, Luis Soares, Kazjon Grace, Thomas Astell-Burt 2024 CSCW '24 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Design of Robotic Care: Ethical Implications of a Multi-Actor Perspective

Martina Caic, Stefan Holmlid, Dominik Mahr, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder 2022 Service Design Practices for Healthcare Innovation

Scaling up Diversity and Inclusion: From Classroom to Municipality

Annukka Svanda, Martina Caic, Tuuli Mattelmäki 2021 Proceedings of Nordes 2021

Robotic Versus Human Coaches for Active Aging: An Automated Social Presence Perspective

Martina Caic, Joao Avelino, Dominik Mahr, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder, Alexandre Bernardino 2020

Robotic transformative service research

Alexander P. Henkel, Martina Caic, Marah Blaurock, Mehmet Okan 2020

An Interdisciplinary View of Marketing Ethics

Dominik Mahr, Martina Caic, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder 2020 The SAGE Handbook of Marketing Ethics

Leveraging service design for healthcare transformation

Lia Patrıcio, Daniela Sangiorgi, Dominik Mahr, Martina Caic, Saleh Kalantari, Sue Sundar 2020

Beneficiaries' View of Actor Networks: Service Resonance for Pluralistic Actor Networks

Martina Caic, Stefan Holmlid, Dominik Mahr, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder 2019

Value of social robots in services: social cognition perspective

Martina Caic, Dominik Mahr, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder 2019

Service robots: value co-creation and co-destruction in elderly care networks

Martina Caic, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder, Dominik Mahr 2018
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