joined Microsoft Research Cambridge Lab in September 2004 as a member of the Socio-digital Systems Group (SDS). Since joining, he has undertaken investigations into a range of routine aspects of everyday life - with a particular emphasis on life at home. For instance, he has shown what some might describe as an unhealthy preoccupation with hoarding, dirt, clutter and similar seemingly banal subject matter. Most recently, he has begun obsessing over robots and other curious "thinking" machines. Much of this work has been considered alongside the design of computing technology. Rather than informing design directly, however, he has sought with varying success to open up the possibilities for different and hopefully new ways of interacting with technology. Alex was a member of the board and has been engaged in Mobile Life since the start in 2007.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/ast/

professor in Human Computer Interaction at Dept. of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University. Annika was one of the founders of Mobile Life. Her research focusses on the design of physical and pervasive play.

annika.waern@im.uu.se

is a Professor at Stockholm University, and was the research director at Mobile Life. 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.

+46 70-284 50 31 barry@dsv.su.se

http://barbro.tumblr.com/

is an Assistant Professor within the ACT in Communication with Technology (ACT) group at the University of Stockholm in the Department of Computer and System Sciences and a senior researcher at the Mobile Life VINN Excellence Centre.

He joined Mobile Life in November 2012 by way of an ERCIM postdoctoral fellowship and is currently leading the Reality Mining project in Mobile Life looking at current practices around personal quantification and new challenges brought by future IoT services. Following on from the recently finished EU Network of Excellence in Internet Science he involved in organising the third annual conference on Internet Science. His current research interests include honing methods to conduct large scale, remote, and participatory user trials – using the collected data in the understanding of device and application use as well as exploring the ethical challenges and responsibilities new technologies places on the researchers who study them.

He has been a visiting researcher at the User Interface Technologies lab in Nokia, Tampera in Finland. While the weather was slightly darker and colder than Sweden the work on multi-device use by single and multiple users was interesting, as was the insiders view of the Nokia/Microsoft transition.

He received his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 2012 and before moving to Sweden was working with the Edinburgh Festivals to identify areas where current research could be applied without disrupting the experience of attending cultural events and to design applications that fit with the practices of festivalgoers.

+46 70 181 5527 donald.mcmillan@dsv.su.se

Title: Senior researcher Academic title: Assistant professor http://www.mcmillan.it/

holds a PhD and is a researcher at in the Interaction Design group at RISE SICS. 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 temporal changes and events. She is also interested in how to motivate people to reflect upon and (maybe) change their behavior. She used to live by the Norwegian Sea working as a musician but decided to change her main profession from music to architecture, industrial design and now research throug design. She has been part of the SOMA project and was project leader for the Re-mobiling project in Mobile Life.  

+ 46 73-6576640 elsa.vaara@ri.se

Title: MFA interaction design Academic title: PhD https://elsavaara.wordpress.com

is a Innovation Project manager, Future Home IKEA of Sweden, M.Sc Techn.
I am fascinated by the potential and the positive impact there is in designing beautiful, sustainable solutions for the many people. My contribution is to connect people and provide space for “new things to happen”. I love to build on ideas together with others and to create good stuff & new business to be proud of. I want to ensure bottom up approach, openness and transparency. There are three main purposes for cooperation within Future Home: 1) To deliver ground-breaking sustainable Homes (furnishing, house and community) to bring a greater everyday living for the many people, 2) To foster an environment of innovation and business development, 3) To be perceived as leading in functionality and green innovation.

is a scientist at ABB Corporate Research in Västerås involved in concepts development for different industrial domains applying an interdisciplinary human centric approach. Goga's previous experience includes work in the field of live video interaction, multimedia communication and facial animation of virtual characters. She holds a M.Sc. (2005) and a Ph.D. (2010) in electrical engineering from the University of Zagreb, Croatia with specialization in telecommunications and informatics. During 2010 until 2013 she worked as post-doctoral researcher in the LiveNature project at Mobile Life.

goranka.zoric@se.abb.com

Title: Scientist Academic title: PhD

is a senior researcher working with aspects of embodied interaction. He has a background in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and technology enhanced learning. In particular Jakob is interested in technologies that allow for increased bodily, physical, and social engagement and has explored theories of performance and agency in interaction design . In Mobile Life he worked with the Internet of Sports and Homes and Cities projects. Jakob has his main position as senior lecturer at the Departement of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University.

jakobth@dsv.su.se

is a PhD student in the field of Human-Computer Interaction at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University. 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 (0) 734 61 11 45 jiny-wan@dsv.su.se

is Professor in Sociology at Stockholm University. She held the chair as Head of  the Sociology department at Stockholm University between 2008 and 2012. Karin Bergmark has a long academic career within the field of Sociology, alcohol and organization research and, more recently, in the field of contemporary virtual activities and life online. Her dissertation (1995) was based on the Swedish case study for the International Colloborative Study on Alcoholics Anonymous – a ground-breaking study in its field. She is a member of Kettil Bruun Society; the main international network for social science alcohol research, IRGGA (the International Research Group on Gender and Alcohol), GENACIS (Gender, Alcohol and Culture: An International Study) and, at Stockholm University; ARG – the Addiction Research Group. She is affiliated to SIRG - Stockholm Internet Research Group. Karin Bergmark is member of the Mobile Life board.

Title: Member of the board Academic title: Professor

is appointed professor in Interaction Design at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) from April 2012. She is also part-time at RISE SICS. She is one of the founders of the Mobile Life centre that started in 2007. Höök is known for her work on social navigation, mobile services, affective interaction and lately, ways of involving users bodily and somatically in interaction. She has formed a research agenda around consumer-oriented Internet of Things, building applications integrating sensors/actuators with cloud services to form interesting end-user applications. 

+46-70-5617035 khook@kth.se

http://www.sics.se/~kia/

joined the Mobile Life Centre in 2008. She has a background in business and management from the industry where she worked in a number of SME’s as director of Finance. She has also experience from start-ups and has established a company. Her expertise lies in the areas of marketing strategy, strategic management, operations management and business administration and she holds an MBA from Warwick Business School (WBS), University of Warwick, UK. She has also been part of the EIT ICT labs technology transfer program at RISE SICS that covers her interest for the innovation system and the process of commercialisation. During 2008 - 2012 she worked as the coordinator of Centre for Networked Systems, an Institute Excellence Center based at RISE SICS and with funding from VINNOVA, KKS and SSF.  

+46 709 855 192 maria.holm@ri.se

is a researcher at RISE SICS and part of the Interaction Design group. He successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Tinkering with Interactive Materials - Studies, Concepts and Prototypes" in December 2013. His main interests revolves around user centered Internet of Things, Sports and how physical-digital materials can become sources of inspiration in a design process. This involves the study and use of various practices such as late night barefoot running, disassembly of gadgets in teams and hooking up raspberry pi's and other devices to the internet.

+46 703128557 mattias.jacobsson@ri.se

Academic title: PhD http://majakk.tumblr.com/

is senior expert at Ericsson Research in Sweden. Previously he managed the UX group at Ericsson where investigated the use of communication systems from an end-user perspective and did exploratory work in new service concept areas. Mikael has worked 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 (HCI) area he has participated at panels and as invited speaker at international HCI conferences and seminars. Mikael have long experience working with international standardisation and research foras like ITU WP8F and the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). In WWRF he was vice chair elect of working group 1 (The Human Perspective and Service Concepts) during 2002-2007. He has also acted as member of the program committee for “Services and IT-implementation” at the Swedish governmental innovation agency–VINNOVA during 2001-2009. In Mobile Life he acted deputy member of the board and collaborated with the Centre from the start in 2007. Mikael has a Master of Science degree in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering from Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden.

is a PhD student at the Departement of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University. Moira's research looks at technology use in everyday life - from mobile phones in co-present interaction, to how an app like Uber impacts the work practices of its users. Having previously worked extensively in the delivery of digital UX strategies and applications in UK design agencies, she is expanding her professional experience with doctoral studies. Her thesis focuses on everyday interaction with mobile devices, based upon several innovative and naturalistic studies conducted using combined methods of video analysis and interviews. Moira has worked as research assistant on a range of projects relating to the diverse research interests of Mobile Life, expanding her skills in field research, video ethnography, interactional analysis and design. In addition, she has worked on Sharing Economy studies led by Airi Lampinen, and has collaborated and published with others. 

+46 701 800 693 mcgregor.moira@gmail.com

holds a position as IT-strategist at the City of Stockholm’s IT-department at the Executive Office. During her long experience in the City, she has been working in different leading positions in different departments, among other Head of Administrative Development at the Executive Office and Head of IT Development at Stockholm Business Region. During that time she was active in positioning Stockholm as the IT Capital and Mobile City.
Monica has also been appointed expert to the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Interior and Vinnova regarding e-democrazy and e-services. She has been chairman of the national e-service Award Guldlänken and the Program Manager of The Stockholm Challenge Award.

Anna Ståhl, Anton Gustafsson, Arvid Engström, Bin Zhu, Celia Yanqing Zhang, Elsa Komack Vaara, Fredrik Aspling, Goranka Zoric, Jarmo Laaksolahti, Jinyi Wang, Jon Back, Jordi Solsona Belenguer, Kim Nevelsteen, Liselott Brunnberg, Maria Håkansson, Marie Denward, Marie Sjölinder, Mark Perry, Markus Bylund, Martin Jonsson, Mattias Esbjörnsson, Mattias Jacobsson, Mattias Rost, Moira McGregor, Mudassar Ahmed Mughal, Petra Sundström, Sara Ljungblad, Stina Nylander, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Vegandas Simbelis and Vincent Lewandowski

is a PhD student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Working at the intersection of interaction design, crafting and materiality, her research interests include hybrid crafting and materials, critical views on making interactive artefacts and experential properties of interaction. Additionally, she is interested in so-called traditional materials such as leather, copper, wood and textiles, combined with electronics, and the intersection of high-tech making with traditional craftsmanship. She is exploring – both theoretically and practically – concepts such as impermanence, longevity, obsolescence and preciousness in contemporary computing. She studied Product and Systems Design Engineering in Greece during 5 years and has been an exchange student at Köln International School of Design and Weissensee School of the Arts in Berlin (department of Textile and Surface Design). Before she started her Ph.D, she was working at HyperWerk Institute of PostIndustrial Design in Basel, in the motoco project designing equipment for mobile and nomadic education labs.

+46 732 702 894 tsaknaki@kth.se

is a PhD student in Media Technology and Interaction Design department at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He does practice based artistic research involving practices from design and Human-Computer Interaction (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 been 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 has been exhibited and screened in many venues all around the world. Vygandas worked in several Mobile Life projects such as Delete by Haiku and the Metaphone.

vygandas@kth.se

Title: PhD student