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.

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News and major articles

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Machine Psychology – a bridge to general AI

AI that is as intelligent as humans may become possible thanks to psychological learning models, combined with certain types of AI. This is the conclusion of Robert Johansson, who in his dissertation has developed the concept of Machine Psychology.

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Best student paper award to Riley Capshaw

Riley Capshaw, PhD student at the Department of Computer and Information Science, has won the Best student paper award at EKAW-24, the 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management.

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Robots are common in the care of older adults

More than half of Sweden’s municipalities have purchased companion robots in the form of dogs or cats for their dementia care homes. This is the conclusion of a doctoral thesis from Linköping University.

Research at HCS

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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.

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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.

Latest publications

2025

Wilhelm Brodin, Carl-Oscar Jonson, Mikael Johansson, Erik Prytz (2025) Exploring teamwork, trust, and emergency response competence in emergent ad-hoc immediate responder groups: an experimental simulation study Ergonomics (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Tomas Rosberg, Birgitta Thorslund (2025) Effects of European Rail Traffic Management System Onboard Version on Running Time, Driver Target Braking, and Driver Workload Transportation Research Record (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Elsa Andersson, Johan Falkenjack, Arne Jönsson (2025) Applying and Optimising a Multi-Scale Probit Model for Cross-Source Text Complexity Classification and Ranking in Swedish Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025) (Conference paper)
Emma Mainza Chilufya (2025) Human-Centred Design of Socially Interactive Virtual Agents
Oscar Bjurling (2025) Designing Human-Swarm Interaction Systems
Maike Jansen, Eva Blomqvist, Robin Keskisärkkä, Huanyu Li, Mikael Lindecrantz, Karin Wannerberg, André Pomp, Tobias Meisen, Holger Berg (2025) Designing an Ontology Network for Digital Product Passports The Semantic Web: ESWC 2024 Satellite Events (ESWC 2024) (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Anton Björnqvist, Carl-Oscar Jonson, Erik Prytz, Björn J. E. Johansson, Peter Berggren (2025) Assessing the impact of evaluations of crisis management efforts International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Vol. 118, Article 105226 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Cecilia Enberg, Anders Jidesjö, Ola Leifler, Donatella Puglisi (2025) Case Study Three: Challenge-Based Learning for Sustainability Education A Practical Guide to Understanding and Implementing Challenge-Based Learning, p. 131-139 (Chapter in book)
Mina Abd Nikooie Pour, Alsayed Algergawy, Eva Blomqvist, Patrice Buche, Jiaoyan Chen, Pedro Giesteira Cotovio, Adrien Coulet, Julien Cufi, Hang Dong, Daniel Faria, Lucas Ferraz, Sven Hertling, Yuan He, Ian Horrocks, Liliana Ibanescu, Sarika Jain, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Naouel Karam, Felix Kraus, Patrick Lambrix, Huanyu Li, Ying Li, 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 2024 Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Ontology Matchingco-located with the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024) (Conference paper)
Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Cássia Trojahn, Sven Hertling, Huanyu Li, Pavel Shvaiko, Jérôme Euzenat (Editorship) (2025) Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Ontology Matchingco-located with the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024)

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