Hi! I’m a senior researcher and project leader at the Mobile Life Centre in Stockholm, Sweden. On a very general level, I’m interested in how people perceive technology and use it in their daily lives. My research revolves around mobile location-based services and people’s perceptions of ‘place’, ‘Research in the Large’: using wide distribution channels and existing services for research purposes, mobile mashups (resulting in e.g. spotisquare.com & φ²), and people’s interaction with applications and ‘things’ that use data around -or about- them. I currently lead Mobile Life’s Mobile 2.0 project and activities of SICS within the European LIREC project, which together form the Future Applications Lab.
To list some topics I’m interested in: playfulness, mobile interaction, location-based services, services as design materials, connecting the virtual data around us with the physical and social environment, urban computing, interaction with (semi-)autonomous ‘things’, affective and physical interaction, control, trust and situated user experiences.
I graduated with a PhD from the Human-Computer Studies lab at the University of Amsterdam in April 2010. My PhD focused on user interaction with user-adaptive and semi-autonomous systems and involved user studies to gain more insight in user behaviour, (affective) reactions and trust. Its studies involved interaction with personalised recommenders and information filters, mobile devices and human-robot interaction.
Some of my personal interests include photography, dancing (Lindyhop/Swing), electronic music, and spending time in tents amidst lots and lots of summer festival noise.
Conference Organizing Committees
- MobileHCI 2012 Panels Co-chair, with Frank Bentley (Motorola Mobility Research)
- CHI 2o12 Works-in-Progress Co-chair, with Lichan Hong (Google)
- MobileHCI 2011 Poster Co-chair, with Frank Bentley (Motorola Mobility Research)
- UbiComp 2011 Publicity Co-chair
- HRI2011 Publications chair
Workshop Organizing Committees
- ‘Research in the Large!’ workshops on wide distribution of research apps at UbiComp2010 & 2011, and MobileHCI 2012
- Ethics in Large Scale Trials & User Generated Content workshop at CHI 2011
- Playfulness in Mobile Interaction workshop at MobileHCI 2010
- HRI Young Pioneers workshop at HRI 2010
Guest Editorship
Guest editor Int. Journal of Mobile HCI special issue on Research in the Large (2011)
Program committees / juries
- Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia 2012 Program Committee Member
- Nokia Mobile Data Challenge Workshop 2012 Technical PC
- MobileHCI 2011 Senior Program Committee
- CHI 2012 Program Committee Member (Interaction Techniques and Devices PC)
- CHI 2012 Workshops jury
- CHI 2010 Works-in-Progress committee
Awards
- CHI 2009 best note award
- 2008 James Chen Annual Award for Best UMUAI Paper
- Human-Robot Interaction 2008 Student Design Competition Award for Phobot, the Phobic Lego robot
