Human-Centered Systems (HCS)

The Division of Human-Centered Systems is part of the Department of Computer and Information Science. Research and teaching at HCS is highly interdisciplinary.

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Human-Centered Computing

We do research and teaching on human-computer interaction, multimodal interfaces including natural language and augmented reality, interaction and service design, collaborative and social computing, as well as ubiquitous and mobile computing, and accessibility.

Cognitive Science

In this field, we do research and teaching on distributed and situated cognition, cognitive ethnography, learning technologies, and design cognition.

We also do research on artificial intelligence including knowledge representation, machine learning, and natural language processing.

In cognitive systems, we cover human factors, cognitive ergonomics, man-machine interaction as well as command and control, emergency and disaster management, safety management, and resilience engineering.

Information Systems

In this field, the research and teaching focuses on decision support systems, data mining, semantic web, and ontologies.

News at HCS

News and major articles

Research on exoskeletons and cleaners receives SEK 16.7 million

LiU receives SEK 16.7 million from AFA Försäkring for research in the field of work environment and health. The projects concern exoskeletons, cleaning staff, part-time managers and digital work environments in health and social care.

First researchers in the new Fenomenmagasinet

When the science centre Fenomenmagasinet opens its new premises in the Valla leisure area, it also opens the possibility of closer collaboration with LiU. Researchers Aseel and Erik Berglund will be among the first to move in.

New doctor in Cognitive Science: Emma Mainza Chilufya

On March 28, Emma Mainza Chilufya at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) successfully defended her thesis about human-computer interaction. "Being a PhD student at IDA has been eye-opening and inspiring", she says.

Research at HCS

The joy in reading – a co-design project around students’ interaction with social robots

A study investigating the ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) can contribute to students' reading. It examines how key reading activities and situations in school can be designed for interaction between a social robot and 10-year-old students.

A group of students are working sitting down by tables

Just Transitions Graduate School

The aim of Just Transitions graduate school is to build knowledge and competence around how to implement just climate transition in a local context. The graduate school is based on seven doctoral projects and a platform for knowledge exchange.

Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is an extension of the traditional Web in which interlinked data with well-described semantics has been added in a machine-processable form.

Latest publications

2026

Max Pettersson, Florian Westphal, Maria Riveiro (2026) Automated Decision-Making via Reinforcement Learning from Demonstrations MODELING DECISIONS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MDAI 2025, p. 79-90 (Conference paper)

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2025

Mina Abd Nikooie Pour, Eva Blomqvist, Pedro Giesteira Cotovio, Adrien Coulet, Lucas Ferraz, Sven Hertling, Sarika Jain, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Felix Kraus, Patrick Lambrix, Huanyu Li, Ying Li, Xianhao Liu, Pierre Monnin, Heiko Paulheim, Catia Pesquita, Abhisek Sharma, Pavel Shvaiko, Marta Silva, Guilherme Sousa, Cassia Trojahn, Jana Vataščinová, Beyza Yaman, Ondřej Zamazal, Lu Zhou (2025) Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2025 Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025) (Conference paper)

Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Cassia Trojahn, Sven Hertling, Huanyu Li, Pavel Shvaiko, Jérôme Euzenat (Editorship) (2025) Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025)

Marc Friberg, Carl-Oscar Jonson, Erik Prytz (2025) Prioritization of victims with traumatic bleeding among medical laypeople - An experimental study Human Factors in Healthcare, Vol. 8, Article 100116 (Article in journal)

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Annika Silvervarg (2025) Body types' effects on perception of virtual agents' personalities PROCEEDINGS OF THE 25TH ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS, IVA 2025, Article 36 (Conference paper)

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Barrett S. Caldwell, Jens Alfredson, Erik Prytz, Cioli Barazandeh (2025) Human-Systems Integration and Distributed Expertise Coordination for Humanitarian Operations PROCEEDINGS OF THE 22ND CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ERGONOMICS ASSOCIATION, VOL 6, IEA 2024, p. 543-548 (Conference paper)

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Erik Berglund, Filip Josefsson (2025) How to Turn a Platformer Game into a Casual Exergame for Combating Office Workers' Sedentary Behavior: An Exploratory Single-Case Pilot Study ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING-ICEC 2025, p. 32-46 (Conference paper)

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Annunziata Albano, Azeem Hamid, Agathe Malbet (2025) Exploring haunted spaces of participation through justice Proceedings of Nordes 2025: Relational Design, p. 547-554 (Conference paper)

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Aya Rizk, Daniel de Leng (2025) Applied AI: An analysis and recommendations for education

Tomas Rosberg, Freja Turén, Patrick Urassa, Birgitta Thorslund (2025) Comparing Remote and Traditional Train Driving: Effects on Behavior, Perspective, and Workload SweCog 2025 (Conference paper)

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Management

Head of Division

Head of Unit Knowledge Modelling and Cognitive Systems (KMACS)

Head of Unit Cognition and Interaction Lab (COIN)

Head of Unit Interaction and Service Design Research Group (IxS)

Head of Unit HCS Education

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Staff at HCS

All staff

Lars Ahrenberg

Professor Emeritus

Mattias Arvola

Senior Associate Professor, Head of Division

Franziska Babel

Assistant Professor

Peter Berggren

Adjunct Associate Professor, Docent

Principal Research Engineer

Anton Björnqvist

Johan Blomkvist

Associate Professor, Docent

Eva Blomqvist

Professor, Head of Unit

Head of Department, Professor, Head of Division

Vanessa Esperance Rodrigues

Lecturer, Head of Unit

Professor, Head of Unit

Associate Professor, Docent

Mikael Christer Öyvind Lindekrans

Adjunct Assistant Lecturer

Max Pettersson

Erik Prytz

Senior Associate Professor

Senior Associate Professor

Katarina Wetter-Edman

Adjunct Associate Professor, Docent

Tom Ziemke

Professor, Head of Unit

About the department

Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

The Department of Computer and Information Science is one of the largest departments in northern Europe in its field. Research activity covers artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, software and computer systems, and data science.

Human-Centered Systems (HCS)

Photo credit Jonas JärmenResearch and Teaching

Human-Centered Computing

Cognitive Science

Information Systems

News at HCS

News and major articles

Research on exoskeletons and cleaners receives SEK 16.7 million

First researchers in the new Fenomenmagasinet

New doctor in Cognitive Science: Emma Mainza Chilufya

Machine Psychology – a bridge to general AI

Best student paper award to Riley Capshaw

Robots are common in the care of older adults

Game at work – for your health

Studying whether a robot can awaken children’s interest in reading

Where to place lifesaving bleeding control first aid equipment

LiU Game Awards 2023: finalists announced

SEK 39 million for graduate school on just climate transition

SEK 4.1 million awarded to the ERASMUS project Women STEM-UP

Minister for Energy and Digital Development visits IDA

Projects focussing on sustainable industry receive EU funding

SEK 9 million for research into a sustainable energy megagame

AI creates texts for people with reading difficulties

A rude robot designed by students

Laypeople have difficulty estimating severity of blood loss

"Curiosity, passion, and excitement"

Sofia Thunberg: "The AI systems we use today are often extremely specific"

AI can predict septic shock

First master’s graduates in design

Exploring Designing for Nomadic Welfare

People´s adaptability makes systems safer

Research at HCS

The joy in reading – a co-design project around students’ interaction with social robots

Just Transitions Graduate School

Semantic Web

Changing the game of consumption

Switching the Current

Women STEM-UP

Nomadic Welfare

Digital inclusion in the networked society for groups with special needs

Language technology tools for digital inclusion

Design and Policy

WASP at Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

Latest publications

2026

2025

Contact us

Management

Head of Division

Head of Unit Knowledge Modelling and Cognitive Systems (KMACS)

Head of Unit Cognition and Interaction Lab (COIN)

Head of Unit Interaction and Service Design Research Group (IxS)

Head of Unit HCS Education

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Staff at HCS

All staff

About the department

Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

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