is a master's student in Mechatronics at the Royal Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. During the studies his main focus has been software development and embedded systems. At Mobile Life Centre he will conduct his master's thesis together with Simon Asplund working on the SOMA project. With Martin Jonsson as the supervisor, the aim of the master's thesis is to combine mechatronics and the field of somaesthetics in order to create new ways of interacting with technology.

andaxt@gmail.com

joined MobileLife in February 2014 as a research assistant in Barry Brown's group. He is on leave of absence from Ericsson where he worked on software for 4G base stations. Antoine is also partner of a music startup for which he developed a group music recommendation engine. His interests cover embedded programming, physics and machine learning. Currently, he is researching ubiquitous speech recognition systems.

antoine@mobilelifecentre.org

is a PhD-student in Human-Machine Interaction with specialization in Mobile Interaction Design at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden.

 Bin Zhu is a teacher in Internet and Games Department, School of Media and Animation, China Academy of Art. Her research area is about affective interaction involving users bodily and somatically in communication. She is interested in how mobile technology can be designed to help people gain closer connection from emotional dimension. She also has a background of digital movie making. Before she moves to small screen on mobile phones, she had experience of making short films, TV programs and animation. binz@kth.se

bin@mobilelifecentre.org

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.

is a Human-Computer Interaction master student at KTH. He came to Mobile Life to develop his master thesis under the supervision of Elena Márquez. He will continue with the PhySeEar project developing a movement recognition and an app design for the elderly in assisted living facilities. He recently came from Madrid Polytechnic University, Spain. He holds a bachelor degree in computer science. He is interested in medical health care combined with games and all type of new mobile technologies davidlr@mobilelifecentre.org +46760692606

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. After returning from an internship at Microsoft, Deniz continues to work with 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. On maternity leave from May 2013 +46730410464 elin@mobilelifecentre.org

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

is senior researcher at the Mobile Life Center, employed by the Interactive Institute, since January 2010. She is part of the Mobility Studio. She holds a M.Sc. (2005) and a Ph.D (2010) in electrical engineering with a major in telecommunications and information science at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Goranka’s current research includes interdisciplinary human centric approach in the field of live video interaction with the focus on mobile technologies. She is working on the EU-project FascinatE. Goranka’s previous work was in the field of automatic face animation of virtual characters and their applications in networked and mobile environments. She defended her PhD thesis, “Hybrid approach to real-time speech driven facial gesturing of virtual characters”, in July 2010.

+46 70 55 22 416
goga@mobilelifecentre.org

is a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre. His areas of interest are human-computer interaction and media technology, informed by knowledge on human expertise and multisensory perception, from multiple disciplinary viewpoints. This is apparent both in his research towards developing system for live artistic audio-visual performance (the topic of his PhD research at University College London), and in the basic science experiments he conducted employing Virtual Reality technology, their outcomes contributing to neuroscience and psychology (the topic of his post-doctoral research at the eventLAB, Universitat de Barcelona). Fundamental to his work is the human ability to develop advanced levels of expert skills, and how these form the core to human professional and leisure activities. This refers both to professional domain expertise and to the multitude of other tasks we carry out daily, ludic or other. Two notions are central throughout: first that our cognitive abilities are not limited to the brain, with the body acting only as a vessel, but that our bodies and brains are one inseparable whole. This is informed from the philosophy of science literature on the various ‘Grounded’ cognition concepts.

Second, and related, is the notion that the majority of what we do, even some of the superficially simplest activity, actually demands considerable expertise. Throughout our lives, we have amassed extensive training, mastering a number of skills. It is a challenge in ICT research to then harness these existing skills, giving rise to what Marshall McLuhan refers to as extending technologies, in contrast to those he refers to as amputating ones.

His spare time interests are closely related to his research interests. He plays music (drumset, synthesizers and studio engineering),and also takes great pleasure in working on real-time audiovisual artistic performance, the subject of his PhD research, and a context for which he keeps developing software.

0046 (0)73-765 21 36

Academic title: Post doctoral researcher

joined Mobile Life as an ERCIM postdoctoral fellow in December 2012.
Her research interests are related to Serious Games and exploring innovative educational techniques such as using mobile and pervasive applications.
During her PhD at the INSA (National Institute od Applied Science) in Lyon (France), she designed and developed an authoring environment to help teachers conceive better quality Serious Games for their use in class.
She also is evolved in several Art projects that use computer science to create new forms of participatory entertainment and culture.

iza.marfisi@gmail.com

Academic title: ERCIM postdoctoral fellow

is one of the founders and the CEO of Movinto Fun – a Swedish startup company that creates interactive products that make pople move and have fun. The first product, Oriboo, is launched in 2012 and is a spin off from Jin’s PhD thesis, KinAesthetic Interaction Design – Designing for the Pleasure of Motion, carried out at Interactive Institute and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), in Stockholm Sweden. The project was truly interdisciplinary and merged her two backgrounds, i.e. MSc in Human-Computer Interaction/Engineering Physics from KTH and BFA in Dance Education from University College of Dance. Before founding Movinto Fun, Jin worked as project manager for design research projects at Interactive Institute.

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

is a Ph D and game design researcher with focus on play in public places. He designs larps, as well as board games and pervasive games. He is interested in how to design for certain feelings and experiences creted in the games. In his spare time he is interested in street performance and mind reading magic.

+46 (0)708 - 32 71 43 jon@mobilelifecentre.org

http://www.lets-play.se/

is a Master’s student in Media Technology at the School of Computer Science and Communication at the Royal Institute of Technology. During his studies, he has taken courses on a wide variety of subjects, including web development, human-computer interaction, sustainable development, and image processing. At Mobile Life Centre, Jussi will work on his Master's thesis in the Homes & Cities project. He will conduct research on systems and services that allow neighbours to share goods with each other.

jussis@kth.se

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

is a master student in the field of Human – Computer Interaction, from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Her main interest lies within interaction design and has the last two years focused on learning about different interaction design methods through different projects. She has previously read a bachelor in print communication, where she learnt about graphical technology and communication. However, her main interest for the future lies within HCI since she finds it more innovating and challenging. Lidija joined the Mobile Life Centre in January 2014 to conduct her master thesis, connected to the project “Internet of Sports”. She is researching how the experience of running can be increased for the ordinary runner during a running session, by using interactive materials and technology. This will be done by investigating two extreme groups of runners, night – and trail runners, who assumingly uses the latest sport technology and to see experiences they strive for when running. The results will end up in 2-3 design proposals for her master thesis.

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joined Mobile Life as an ERCIM postdoctoral fellow in April 2012. His research interests lie at the intersection of interaction design and computer science. Lucian aims to design more compelling human-machine interactions focusing specifically on the ways in which technical innovations continuously rework the distinctions between people and machines. To imagine and design novel human-machine experiences, Lucian draws on his observations of technology in use together with scholarship on the mutual constitution of humans and non-humans from a diverse set of disciplines including anthropology, feminist studies, and philosophy of science. Lucian received a PhD in computer science from Cornell University in 2012. While at Cornell, he was awarded an Intel PhD Fellowship in 2010. lucian@sics.se

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

is a visiting scholar who is currently a post doctoral researcher in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research brings together approaches from Human Computer Interaction, Anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies for the study of sociotechnical systems. She conducts ethnographic research on software systems and computational work, focusing on the cultures and politics of design in organizations and digital societies.

Her research interests include materiality of computing, infrastructure studies, design ethnography, embodiment and temporality, software studies, and feminist and critical theory. Her current work examines the relationship between computational work and time in the case of a long-lived computational infrastructure project supporting on ongoing NASA-ESA space science mission. This project considers how people's careers are shaped by obsolescence and how they approach concerns of legacy, inheritance and survival of computational practices at the end of project life-cycles.

Marisa is a member of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing at UC Irvine and will be visiting with the Mobile Life Centre this year before starting a faculty position at the IT University of Copenhagen.

marisa@sics.se

is a senior researcher in the centre. His research interests lies within the realm of HCI with a specific focus towards tangible and embodied interaction and sensor based interactive systems. 

His previous research engagements ranges over context aware interaction, research on interaction design for children and physical interaction in school and museum settings. 

Martin is currently leading the Arts and Craft and SOMA project at Mobile Life.

martin.jonsson@sh.se

Academic title: PhD

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 a master student in Embedded Systems programme at Royal Institute of Technology. He has the degree of BSC in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey. His current interest is mobile and web development. In Mobile Life, he will write his masters thesis about Internet of Things and Tech Probes.

is a physics engineering student at KTH and is currently doing her master in machine learning. She will be at Mobile Life while writing her master thesis. She will be engaged in the cross-country skiing project at SICS and work with data analysis.

moa@sics.se

is a master student in Interactive Systems Engineering at Royal Institute of technology Stockholm Sweden.  He has a BSC Computer Science  degree from the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore, Pakistan .Yasir has joined the Mobile Life center to do his master thesis. During his stay at Mobile Life Center , Yasir will work on a Project" Somaesthetics and body awareness ". Yasir will do a technical part of this project.  Yasir was a web developer in Pakistan at Company XCELSOFT (PVT) LTD.


yasirmym@kth.se

is currently working as a research assistant at Mobile Life on the SOMA project. He completed his Master’s thesis at the centre working with development of Feldenkries based design interactions for body awareness and has a Master’s in Electronic Design. 

Naveens work is mainly concentrated on hardware design and development of various sensor interfaces that improve bodily awareness. He is interested in research areas concerning interaction design and Internet of Things.

+46 76 0798550 naveen@mobilelifecentre.org

is member of the board 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.

is a Senior Researcher in the Centre. She holds a PhD in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and has a background in engineering. Her interest the past years has been on technologies from the perspective of being the design material we as designers and researchers in HCI and interaction systems design work with. Petra argues for more of ground-level material explorations of technologies in order to find what potential these hold for design. And further, how we need methods and tools to help us better talk about and share this knowledge in the multidisciplinary design teams we work in. Petra currently leads the Material Explorations project within Mobile Life. (Photo: Edis Potori)

+46 (0)70 766 76 76 petra@mobilelifecentre.org

heads the Innovation unit within TeliaSonera Mobility Services, with responsibility for innovation, business incubation in selected areas and shaping of the future product portfolio. Roger Bengtsson has been with Telia/TeliaSonera since 1994. From 1999 he has been heading different units within Telia/TeliaSonera’s R&D, Business Development and Innovation. He has worked with mobile service, business and network issues from a holistic perspective (business, strategy, user, standardisation, technology) with the target to develop new business. Roger Bengtsson holds an MSc in Electrotechnical Engineering from Lund University, Sweden.

is a master student in Engineering Design: Mechatronics at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), with a bachelor in Mechanical Engineering. Simon is conducting his master's thesis together Andreas Axtelius in the SOMA project at Mobile Life Center, supervised by Martin Jonsson. The aim of the thesis is to bring in mechatronic aspects to the project in order to explore new possibilities within HCI.

asplund.simon@gmail.com

Academic title: Master's student

is a Ph.D. student in “Communication, Technology and Society” at CoRiS - Department of Communication and Social Research of Sapienza University of Rome. She holds a Master's degree in Culture industry and digital communication.
She also joined User eXperience Lab in January 2014 as a junior researcher in the field of User experience and User interface design at DigiLab, an Interdepartmental research center of Sapienza University of Rome.
Her research would like to combine the sociological perspective with research in HCI and design, to create user focused services, especially in the field of urban mobility and transport.
Her current research interest is to investigate the connection between web services, social media, mobile technologies and new forms of collaborative consumption like Car Sharing and, above all, how are changing values, behaviours, habits and lifestyles of consumers/users in the urban environment.

stefania.pizza@yahoo.com

Academic title: Ph D student

<p>is an Interaction Designer/Developer with interest in games. He started at the centre as a master thesis student and explored the possibilites smart phones present for Augmented Sound Reality. Currently he is developing the Android client for a gender-aware pervasive game, Codename: Heroes. The purpose of the game is to engage and empower young women. Syed has a background in Mobile App Design/ Development. He is interested in making playful interactive games that can help educate children in developing nations.</p>

+46 70 4420611 syed@mobilelifecentre.org

is President and Business Coach for SU Innovation. Prior to joining SU Innovation in 2006, Ulf worked as the Business Coach and Interim President at the Stockholm School of Economics Business Lab for two years. Before that he served as the Senior Investment Manager at TeliaSonera. In 1999, he joined Telia Business Innovation, which cooperated with Silicon Valley-based US VC-fund Vision Capital, where Ulf worked from 2000 – 2001. From 1996 to 1999, he served as a Principal for Amerscan, a US venture capital firm focused on the Nordic countries. Ulf has during two periods worked as Vice President for IT and Services Industry at Swedish Trade Council. His background is from Swedish Startups within IT/Software/Computer Graphics/Services - for example founder and President of SweSI - Swedish Software Initiative in the second half of 1990-s - and own consultancy within Business Development Internationalization and Financing.

has joined Mobile Life in January 2014 as a research assistant to aid in software development and other technical requirements. She has a master's degree in Health Informatics from Karolinska Institutet and a bachelor's degree in Multimedia Communication Technologies, with a major in Mobile Computation from Instituto Superior da Maia in Portugal. Vanja's interest in the technical area has started since she was very young, when she always wanted to know what was inside electronic equipment and wanted find out how they work. At the age of 13, she started programming and realised that that was the area where she wants to work with, as well as the wish to get more and more experienced in the field. Most of her free time, she spends on video games, tv and music.

vania.raquel.lamas@gmail.com

is doing his master thesis in the Mobility Studio. He has joined the project of LiveNature and is focusing on development works about the SenseMixer system, which contains manipulation of input and output of video and sensor data, video streaming and mixing, data interaction with users, etc. Xiaolin has a Bachelor degree in Electronic Information Engineering from Tianjin University, China. He is currently studying in MSC program of Communication Systems (Internetworking) at KTH.

xiaolinz@kth.se

She is currently a PhD student at DSV in Stockholm University. She has backgrounds in literature, culture and fashion studies. She has joined Mobile Life Centre since 2010 working in the mFashion project. Her research covers the empirical studies of the fashion practices, such as fashion blogs and magazines, dressing in everyday life; theory of aesthetic interaction; history of mobile design and fashion theory. Her research not only aims to bring in new perspectives to both HCI and fashion theory, but also to see how fashion, especially fashion practices, could influence mobile design in the future. She is also a free lance fashion writer for the Chinese trend web fashion trend digest and a fashion blogger. +46 76 025 81 66 celia@mobilelifecentre.org

http://yanqingzh.wordpress.com/

is a Master's student in Media Technology at Royal Institute of Technology. Her main interests during her studies have been web development and programming, as well as interaction design. For her master's thesis, Zarah has joined the Homes & Cities project at Mobile Life where she explores ways to create a fun and interactive environment in a shared liminal space, such as recycling areas. The focus of her work lies in combining recycling with the swapping of useful materials in a playful manner, taking advantage of interactive technology for an enhanced experience.

zahraah(at)kth.se