Evocative Balance: Designing for Interactional Empowerment
Anna Ståhl
Mobile Life @ SICS, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Anna Ståhl is an industrial designer and researcher at SICS (Swedish Institute of Computer Science). She holds a licentiate degree from Umeå Design Institute, from where she also received her first degree. Her research interests are in the areas of design research, affective interaction and designing for somaesthetics. In particular, she is interested in bridging design research and practice. She has published some 30 peer-reviewed scientific papers. More information about Ståhl’s work is available at http://www.sics.se/people/anna-stahl.
Jonas Löwgren
http://webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo
School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden
Sweden
Jonas Löwgren is professor of interaction design and a co-founder of the School of Arts and Communication (K3), Malmö University, Sweden. He specializes in cross-media products, interactive visualization and the design theory of digital materials. Löwgren has taught interaction design in university courses and in companies since the early 1990s. In 1998, he initiated the influential two-year master’s program in interaction design at Malmö University. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers and four books, including Collaborative Media (with Bo Reimer, MIT Press) and a vast range of general-interest and pedagogical material. His design portfolio comprises some 50 projects in explorative research and professional contexts. More information on Löwgren’s work is available at webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo/.
Kristina Höök
Mobile Life @ KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Sweden
Kristina Höök is a professor in interaction design at KTH (The Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden. Höök has published more than 100 journal papers, books and book chapters, and conference papers in highly renowned venues. A frequent keynote speaker, she is known for her work on social navigation, seamfulness, mobile services, affective interaction and lately, designing for bodily engagement in interaction through somaesthetics. Her competence lies mainly in interaction design and user studies helping to form design. Höök started and currently leads the Mobile Life centre that has around 45 researchers. She has obtained numerous national and international grants, awards and fellowships, including the Cor Baayen Fellowship by ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) and the INGVAR award. She has been listed as one of the 50 most influential IT-women in Sweden every year since 2008. She is an elected member of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).