Designing to Restory the Past: Storytelling for Empowerment through a Digital Archive
Hanna Nordin
Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Sweden / Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden
Hanna Nordin is Communications Officer at the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program–Humanities and Society, a national Swedish research program on the opportunities and challenges with artificial intelligence and autonomous systems with a strong focus on the humanities and social sciences. She holds an MSc in HCI (human-computer interaction), which she obtained at Umeå University, Sweden. Nordin has freelanced as a graphic designer and web designer with clients from both academia and the business sector. She has a strong interest in digital communication and storytelling.
Teresa Almeida
Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden / Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI/LARSyS), Portugal
Sweden
Teresa Almeida is Associate Professor at Umeå University in Sweden and a researcher at the Interactive Technologies Institute in Lisbon. Her work is interdisciplinary, design-led, and interventional, and she explores Research through Design (RtD) and participatory methods to research sensitive topics and design with marginalized communities of practice. In her work, she draws from feminist theory and the social sciences as critical to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion in technology design and development. She received her PhD from Newcastle University, where her work explored HCI design approaches in women’s health and wellbeing.
Mikael Wiberg
Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden / Interaction Design and Software Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Sweden
Mikael Wiberg is a full professor in Interaction Design at Chalmers University of Technology, and full professor of Informatics at Umeå University, Sweden. He has held positions as Chaired Professor in HCI at Uppsala University, as development director for Umeå Arts Campus, Umeå University, and as Guest professor in HCI at Södertörn University. He has a PhD in informatics from 2001, and Wiberg’s main work is within the areas of interactivity, mobility, materiality, and architecture. He has published his research in top design journals including Design Issues, Design Studies, and the International Journal of Design. His most recently published book is The Materiality of Interaction.