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.

A woman is walking in a corridor together with a service robot Photo credit Jonas JärmenResearch and Teaching

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

Aseel Berglund researches movement at work.

Game at work – for your health

Humans are hunters and gatherers. But in today’s modern society, we are sitting more than ever, which is bad for our Stone Age body. Researchers Aseel and Erik Berglund want to change this with the help of computer games at work.

Researchers interact with a reading robot.

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

Researchers at Linköping University are studying whether a reading robot can increase fourth graders’ interest in reading. The interdisciplinary project brings together researchers in technology, cognition and pedagogy.

Demonstration of a mass injury incident and application of pressure to fictive bleeding.

Where to place lifesaving bleeding control first aid equipment

Where should bleeding control equipment be located to save as many lives as possible? Researchers have found the answer to this through computer simulations of a bomb exploding in a shopping centre.

Research at HCS

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.

Gameboard with chips

Changing the game of consumption

The game is a research communication project that uses large-scale social simulations, megagames, to help groups explore different interests and ideas about transformations towards sustainable consumption related to food, vacations and furnishings.

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 projeccts and a platform for knowledge exchange.

Latest publications

2024

Wanjun Chu, Johan Blomkvist, Ludwig Halvorsen (2024) Experience prototyping with an educational robot platform: development and pedagogical reflection from an interaction design course
Birgitta Thorslund, Lina Hertzberg, Helena Selander, Björn Lidestam (2024) Experiences from the driving license process test for Adolescents with ADHD and ASD: Pre-driver education issues and test situations PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH SWECOG CONFERENCE, p. 120-124 (Conference paper)
Birgitta Thorslund, Sam Thellman, Helena Selander (2024) An Evaluation of Driver Education Goal Fulfillment in a Simulator-Based Driver Screening Test PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH SWECOG CONFERENCE, p. 155-160 (Conference paper)
Kajsa Weibull (2024) Emergency Vehicle Approaching: Warning Drivers Using Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems
Kajsa Weibull, Björn Lidestam, Johanna Holm, Erik Prytz (2024) Alternative Emergency Vehicle Lighting Affects Traffic Behaviors Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Emily Hofstetter, Ola Leifler, Björn Johansson, Peter Berggren (2024) Facilitating systems thinking in serious game design by highlighting inter-player relationships ECCE '24: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2024, Article 23 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Robert Johansson (2024) Empirical Studies in Machine Psychology
Franziska Babel, Robin Welsch, Linda Miller, Philipp Hock, Sam Thellman, Tom Ziemke (2024) A Robot Jumping the Queue: Expectations About Politeness and Power During Conflicts in Everyday Human-Robot Encounters PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2024 CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYTEMS, CHI 2024 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Aseel Berglund, Leonie Klompstra, Helena Orädd, Johan Fällström, Anna Strömberg, Tiny Jaarsma, Erik Berglund (2024) The Rationale Behind the Design Decisions in an Augmented Reality Mobile eHealth Exergame to Increase Physical Activity for Inactive Older People With Heart Failure JMIR Serious Games, Vol. 12, Article e50066 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Bo Fu, Patrick Lambrix, Huanyu Li, Susana Nunes, Catia Pesquita (Editorship) (2024) Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on the Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies, Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs: co-located with the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024)

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