Marjaana Siivola
Marjaana Siivola is a usability engineer (Master and Licentiate of Science (Tech)), a teacher, an elearning specialist, and a childbirth professional. She is an Advanced Certified Birth Doula (DONA) and Lamaze-certified childbirth educator who transformed childbirth education by combining her passion for good usability, online learning and family wellbeing into online childbirth education well before COVID-19. In her latest PhD research, she developed a VR childbirth education program to add experiential learning to childbirth education. Users were an integral part of her research, and parents and midwives provided valuable insights into the program's design.
Sat. March 1
Virtual Reality Childbirth Education
Location: Ringling Auditorium