is centre director for mobile life. Annika is a ‘research by design’ academic with a background in computer science and Human-Computer Interaction, who has dedicated the latest ten years of her life to understanding games, and more specifically, pervasive games. These are games that are played in the physical world, often but not necessarily with the aid of mobile and ubiquitous technology. She is on the board of DIGRA, the Digital Games research association, acts as editor for the DIGRA journal ToDIGRA, and frequently participates in programme committees for scientific conferences.

+46 703 36 39 16 annika@mobilelifecentre.org

http://annikawaern.wordpress.com

is senior research leader. He was previously an associate professor at the University of California, a research fellow at the University of Glasgow and a research scientist at Hewlett-Packard’s research labs in Bristol. His recent work has focused on the sociology and design of leisure technologies - computer systems for leisure and pleasure. Recent publications span top forums in both social and technology fields, and include studies of activities as diverse as games, tourism, museum visiting, the use of maps, television watching and sport spectating. He has a book forthcoming with MIT press titled "enjoying machines", and he has edited books on music consumption and mobile phone use. His qualifications include a degree in computer science from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in sociology from the University of Surrey.
Phone: +46 70-284 50 31
barry@mobilelifecentre.org

http://barbro.tumblr.com/

first major participatory television drama is The Truth About Marika with SVT. The show was given the International Emmy Award in 2007, along with multiple other international and national awards. Before that, Sandberg created a participatory national digital TV-channel with TV4. Sandberg headed the 2009 production of Dollplay, with Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) for 20th Century FOX Television. In 2010, Sandberg was the Executive Producer and Creative Director for Conspiracy For Good, with Tim Kring (the creator of Heroes). Conspiracy For Good was nominated for an International Emmy, and awarded two Banff World Media Awards and received several other awards. Sandberg is currently developing a sci-fi show with Ridley Scott’s production company Scott Free and the international transmedial show Treasures, together with the European Broadcasting Union, and with the support of Mobile Life innovations.

Deniz studied Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University in Turkey and did his master in System-on-Chip Design (Embedded Systems) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He has done his master thesis in iMPACT project at Mobile Life. He is specialized in Toolkits for Sketching in Hardware and Software. Here in Mobile Life, Jordi Solsona and Deniz Akkaya designed a wireless low power toolkit for rapid sketching for cross-disciplinary teams within Internet of Things concept. He is still working in different projects at Mobile Life.

+46 764099940

denizea@gmail.com

is Master of Computer Science student at University of Trento, Italy and holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering degree from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. She joined Mobile Life in order to carry out her master thesis correlated to the pervasive game “Codename:Heroes”. She has experience in web and mobile application development as well as designing a web platform to be used by university students as part of Smart Campus course project. In her master thesis she will be focusing on designing a game master interface for “Codename:Heroes”.

+46-73-6273720
ece@mobilelifecentre.org

is a social anthropologist and researcher within the field of Human-Computer Interaction. She started her Ph.D. student position at the Mobile Life Centre in May 2011. Elin does research focused on ethnographic methods and analysis. She has done fieldwork at sports bars, among amateur broadcasters and amateur meteorologists. Her interests lie mainly with people’s leisure activities, nature experiences and also the role of technology within these areas. Elin holds a Master in Social Anthropology at University of Lund. She is also working part time (20%) as an assistant for the administrative coordinator at Mobile Life Centre.

On maternity leave from May 2013

+46730410464
elin@mobilelifecentre.org

is a part of the involve group and is working as a PhD student in design research. She is an industrial designer with a MFA in interaction design from Umeå Institute of design. Her research interests involve dilemmas such as perceptions of temporality, rhythm, pulse and memory. She is also interested in how to motivate people to reflect upon and (maybe) change their behavior in everyday life and she is involved in developing aesthetic reasoning and video as design research methods. She used to live by the Norwegian Sea working as a freelance musician around the Nordic countries. Then she decided to change her main profession from music to architecture, industrial design and now design research. Her work is currently focusing in the projects ”Affective Health” and ”Re-Mobiling, Breaking apart time and technology”.

+46 736 57 66 40
elsa@mobilelifecentre.org

Academic title: MA interaction designer, PhD student

Fergus holds a BA in Industrial Design and Technology and a MPhil in Design Research from Brunel University. He is enthusiastic about the use of human centred design and the application of technology to enhance human performance, self-concept, social engagement and innovation. Having worked as a design consultant on projects in contexts as diverse as the Design Museum in London and the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, through to the participatory design of knowledge transfer resources in the social care sector in the UK. Fergus’ research interests are in exploring the role of design and technology in shaping and supporting human motivation, engagement, wellbeing and innovation. Fergus’ work as a designer also draws upon his background as a cross-country ski racer and ski coach.

Mobile: +46 72-550 04 58

Inger is vising the centre from University of Tampere, where she is currently pursuing a PhD on game sound design. Her research looks into the semantic and aesthetic aspects of game sound, exploring the design space of sound effects and environmental ambiance, and the emotional and psychoacoustic processes by which game sounds contribute to game experience.
Inger holds a M.Sc. in computer science from the University of Tampere (2003). Before coming to Mobile Life, she worked in various research projects at Aalto University. Most recenlty, she has been applying psychophysiology as a way to investigate experience within gaming and other high performance scenarios, and as input for emotion-responsive user interfaces.

inger.ekman@uta.fi

´s research interests involve aspects of tangible and embodied interaction. In particular Jakob is interested in technologies that allow for increased bodily, physical, and social engagement. Currently, he is working in a project called Generalised Interaction Models that investigate future ways of interacting with mobile and tangible technologies, with the long term ambition of developing the “desktop metaphor” for mobile interaction.

+46 704 82 1251
jakobth@dsv.su.se

Jinyi is a PhD student in the field of Human-Computer Interaction at Mobile Life Centre. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design and a Master’s degree in Computer Animation. Her current research interest is to investigate a new hybrid media from a design perspective that combines emergent mobile technologies for video interaction with the advances in the Internet of Things.

Jinyi has industrial experiences in the field of Graphic Design, Interaction Design and Animation. She has been working for various companies, including KONE Corporation and Naturskyddsföreningen. She has also been involved in designing and building prototypes for the EU project EnRiMa.

+46 734 61 11 45
jinyi@mobilelifecentre.org

has studied Cognitive Science at Linköping University. She wrote her master thesis on the Affective Health system at Mobile Life Center in 2011. In her thesis she explored everyday use of a mobile application with biosensors for a longer period of time. She has continued research on the Affective Health system to further understand how it could help users to monitor their bodily reactions and is exploring the possibility of sharing bodily data. She has also conducted research on a robot assistant placed in a workplace environment, as a part of the LIREC-project.

+46 702 262 399
johanna@mobilelifecentre.org

Jonas Celander Guss is a Human-Computer Interaction Master student at Uppsala University, with a bachelor’s degree in Information System Science. He joined Mobile Life Centre to do his master thesis in the Opphos project, where he will develop and test the application, under Iza Marfisi’s supervision. His main interests are in interaction design, usability and development for mobile and web. In his free time he likes to be outdoors or at home watching TV series. Other things that interest him are internet of things, ubiquitous computing, wearable tech and games.

jonascg@gmail.com

is working as a PhD student from Stockholm’s University, as part of Game Group, in the Mobile Life Centre. KiM started in January of 2010 and is working on the combination of Pervasive Games, Mixed Reality and the Internet of Things. Having written a master thesis on a Game Design Methodology and a second master thesis on multicore processing, his background also includes over 10 years of Software Engineering experience, at least 6 of which were in industry. KiM is currently working on the research and production of a pervasive game under the working title, “Heroes”, where he will be concentrating on design aspects pertaining to a pervasive game engine and emergent properties.

+46 70 20 30 770
kim@mobilelifecentre.org

Louise Barkhuus is an associate professor at Stockholm University and a senior researcher at the Mobile Life Centre. Her research focuses on social interaction through and around mobile and ubiquitous technologies, particular in relation to issues of privacy, friendship maintenance, location-reporting and game playing. She looks at the intersection of technology and social interaction by combining the development of prototype applications with newly adopted commercial technologies. Her recent work includes studies of social media as facilitators of ad-hoc socializing and analyses of privacy issues within ubiquitous computing research. 

Before coming to the Stockholm University and Mobile Life Centre Louise Barkhuus was working as a research scientist at University of California, San Diego, serving as the PI of an NSF funded project on technologies for supporting social science research. 

Louise Barkhuus gained her Ph.D from the IT University of Copenhagen in 2004; her dissertation focused on context-aware computing and its complications for implementation in a social world.

cse.ucsd.edu/~barkhuus

is the head of ABB development centre in Bangalore, India. In Bangalore Magnus will work closely with ABB research and lead the implementation of the many of the research results into ABB products. Prior to his position in India, Magnus worked as manager at ABB Corporate Research in Västerås, Sweden, His group in Västerås worked with research in the area of software architecture and user experience, where thorough work with the software architecture is needed to reach great user experience. Magnus is also engaged part time in the academia as an adjunct professor at Mälardalen University in the area of component-based software engineering and software architecture. Since 2007 Magnus has been invited to the Swedish foundation for strategic research, to do work on new national research programs.

holds a 3-year VinnMER Fellowship and will during this period be a visiting researcher at Mobile Life. She is a senior lecturer in Media Technology at the School of Communication, Media and IT at Södertörn University. The theme for her project at Mobile Life is ‘Nomadic Interaction Models’. Her current main interests are collaboration in practice, design quality and norm-critical design.

+46702 290 313
maria.normark@sh.se

Martin is a visiting Ph.D student from the Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society (ICT&S) at University of Salzburg. Martin holds a degree in Information Design from University of Applied Sciences Graz. He was
involved in multiple national and international research projects around the topics of interaction design for industrial, automotive and domestic applications. His research interests lie in the methodological and environmental influences on explorative design of contextual interaction.

is a programmer and PhD student employed at SICS. After more than 20 years of programming experience, he currently focus on mobile development, web development, and mobile web development, with a focus on user experience. He says he is a platform agnostic. Mattias research interests are mobile, social, and location based services, and look at services as mashup-materials, and study users using mobile services.

+46 704 145664
rost@mobilelifecentre.org
http://www.rost.me

is manager of the User Experience Lab at Ericsson Research in Sweden. At Ericsson he and his group is studying the use of communication systems from the end-user perspective and doing exploratory work in new service concept areas. Mikael has been working with user experience issues and interaction design for mobile and fixed communication systems at Ericsson since 1994. Prior to Ericsson he worked 10 years at Digital Equipment with user centred system development and user interface design. In addition to several publications within the human-computer interaction area he has participated at panels and as invited speaker at international HCI conferences and seminars. Mikael have a long experience working in international standardisation and research foras like ITU WP8F and the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). In WWRF he was vice chairman elect of working group 1 (The Human Perspective and Service Concepts) for 2002-2007. He was also a member of the program committee for “Services and IT-implementation” at the Swedish innovation agency - VINNOVA between 2001-2009. Mikael has a Master of Science degree in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering from Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Moira has just completed the MSc Human Centred Systems at City University, London and her thesis was based upon research conducted at Mobile Life working with Barry Brown, during summer 2012.

With a keen interest in field research, ethnography and ethnomethodology in relation to HCI, Moira has now happily returned to Mobile Life to work with Barry on a number of different projects investigating how people use smart phones in everyday life.

+467606 46873 moira@mobilelifecentre.org

will do a Ph.D. in the Mobility studio on video related research issues, starting off with developing the Instant Broadcasting System. In 2007 he was awarded the Overseas Scholarship for MS/PhD for Sweden by
Higher Education Commission (HEC) where he started his Masters in Internet- Working at KTH. He has a BSC Software Engineering degree from the University of Engineering and Technology in Taxila, Pakistan.

is the chair of the Mobile Life board. He studied MSc in Engineering Physics at Uppsala University and joined Ericsson in 1997. Niklas has 14 years of experience from working with telecommunications and internet-based systems such as Voice over IP, MobileTV, IPTV and Advanced Communications Systems. He is currently Director for Services and Software Research at Ericsson Research in Kista.

studied Computer Engineering at IST in Lisbon, specializing in Graphical Computing and EIS. Pedro did his Master’s work at Mobile Life on the Affective Health, graduating in 2008. Since that year he has been doing his PhD at Mobile Life. Pedro's PhD is based on fieldwork in Vanuatu, among communities, which had only very recently been introduced to the world of mobile communications. Getting those first hand impressions and reflecting on their mobile interaction has been the inspiring force behind his research. How do our bodies orient themselves around the technology? Is it legitimate to spend so much time playing with our mobiles? What does it mean for economically constrained communities? How can we think about and help alleviate this tension? These are some of the questions which motivate Pedro's work.

+46737078729
pedro@mobilelifecentre.org

is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge and co-manages the Socio-Digital Systems group. Richard is concerned with how to design for ‘being human’ in an age when human-as-machine type metaphors, deriving from Turing and others, tend to dominate thinking in the area. Trained as a sociologist and with a strong passion for ordinary language philosophy, he has published over 120 papers and recently published his 10th book, Texture: Human expression in the age of communication overload, (MIT Press).

is an Interactive Media Design Master Student from Södertörns Högskola. She joined the Mobile Life Centre in the end of January 2013 in order to develop her Master project and scientific paper. During her time at the centre she works on the “Somaesthetics and body awareness” project and takes part in the interaction design tasks. Sophie’s background is in the field of media production and management, as she gained her bachelor’s degree in Media Management and Journalism at the Jade University in Wilhelmshaven (Germany) and Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall. Her field of interests include user-oriented research and the practice of the design process, as well as combining tangible interaction with social media in order to create an online-offline experience. 

sophie@mobilelifecentre.org

is a PhD at the Mobile Life Centre. Her research interests lie mainly in the everyday use of mobile technology and how it blends into our lives. Recently she has worked on how internet is used from mobile phones at home and how robot companions, how mobile services can support lifestyle change, and how can find their place in our lives and homes. She is currently starting several projects within sports, exploring the use of sensors and actuators to augment the experience and improve the performance of athletes.

Phone: +46 70 3530369

stina@mobilelifecentre.org

Tom is a recently graduated master student, with a Master in Embedded Systems from Uppsala University, Sweden and a Bachelor of Computer Science from Loughborough University, England. He is working jointly for SICS and the Interactive Institute on a long-term project that aims to create a technique training tool for cross-country skiers of all abilities. This project is a continuation of his master thesis and is being run in conjunction with Ski Team Sweden cross-country and the Swedish Olympic Committee. Away from work, Tom enjoys railway modelling, hiking and playing cricket.

is professor in Computer and Systems Science, with emphasis on IT and Learning. Fors is also vice head of department at DSV. As vice head of DSV, Fors has a special responsibility to coordinate research and research information. Fors’ own research is focusing on virtual cases for learning and virtual encounters for learning and assessment. Fors was earlier professor in Medical Education Simulation at Karolinska Institutet and well as founding chairman of the department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics for more than 10 years.

Victor Guerrero Corbi joined Mobile Life's game group to establish his master thesis working in an interface for game mastered pervasive games in the context of the game: ''Codename: Heroes''. He is a Computer Engineering student from UPC - BarcelonaTech (Spain) with a specialization in system interfaces and integration. Along with his studies he has been involved in the game development group team-iso and developed technological solutions for educational institutions in educabits.

victorgc@mobilelifecentre.org

Title: Master Student

is a PhD student in Media Technology and Interaction Design department at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm as well as constantly joining creative processes at Mobile Life Centre. He does practice based artistic research involving practices from design and HCI and investigating topics around interactivity. Research field covers affective computing, visualization of emotions, physical interaction design and new media art taking perspective from bodily experiences and phenomenology. He has achieved Licentiate of Art in Vilnius Art Academy, Lithuania, in media art and photography. He has being active in artistic proceedings as curating exhibitions and writing critical articles as well as running an art centre for several years in Vilnius, Lithuania, before moving to Sweden. His art projects were exhibited and screened in many venues all around the world.

vygandas@mobilelifecentre.org

holds a master degree of Language and culture at Linkoping University and a master degree of Fashion studies at Stockholm University. From May 2011, she started her PhD study at DSV in Stockholm University. Her research in the project focuses on the empirical studies of the fashion practices, such as fashion blogs and magazines, dressing in everyday life; theory of aesthetic interaction; historic study ofwell-known mobile phones and fashion theory. Her research not only aims to bring in new perspectives to both HCI and fashion theory, but is also to see how fashion, specially fashion practices, could influence mobile design in a new way in the future. She is also in charge of organizing mobile life seminars now.

+46 76 025 81 66
celia@mobilelifecentre.org