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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

2025

Kajsa Weibull, Björn Lidestam, Erik Prytz (2025) Driver's gaze behavior when approached by an emergency vehicle - The effects of in-car warnings and system introduction Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, Vol. 109, p. 137-146 (Article in journal)

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2024

Kajsa Weibull, Tereza Kunclová, Björn Lidestam, Erik Prytz (2024) Geofencing to prevent collisions in drivers' interactions with emergency vehicles Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Vol. 28, Article 101297 (Article in journal)

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Sofie Pilemalm, Anna Follin, Erik Prytz (2024) Digitalized co-production of emergency response: ICT-enabled dispatch and coordination of volunteers at the emergency site Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Article in journal)

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Marie Hindorf, Denise Bäckström, Carl-Oscar Jonson, Anders Jonsson, Peter Berggren (2024) Decision-making during training of a Swedish navy command and control team: a quantitative study of workload effects Cognitive Processing (Article in journal)

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Franziska Babel, Sam Thellman, Hannah Pelikan, Hatice Sahin Ippoliti, Tom Ziemke (2024) 2nd Workshop on Cars As Social Agents (CarSA): Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human-Vehicle Interaction ADJUNCT PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH NORDIC CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, NORDICHI 2024, Article 45 (Conference paper)

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Lars Taxén (2024) Theorizing project management from a dialectical perspective

Patrick Ebel, Pavlo Bazilinskyy, Mark Colley, Courtney Goodridge, Philipp Hock, Christian P. Janssen, Hauke Sandhaus, Aravinda Ramakrishnan Srinivasan, Philipp Wintersberger (2024) Changing Lanes Toward Open Science: Openness and Transparency in Automotive User Research PROCEEDINGS OF THE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMOTIVE USER INTERFACES AND INTERACTIVE VEHICULAR APPLICATIONS, AUTOMOTIVEUI 2024, p. 94-105 (Conference paper)

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Magnus Nylin, Jonas Lundberg, Magnus Bång, Kostiantyn Kucher (2024) Glyph Design for Communication Initiation in Real-Time Human-Automation Collaboration Visual Informatics, Vol. 8, p. 23-35 (Article in journal)

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Md Fahim Sikder, Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Daniel de Leng, Fredrik Heintz (2024) FairX: A comprehensive benchmarking tool for model analysis using fairness, utility, and explainability Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Fairness and Bias in AI, co-located with 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024), Article 16 (Conference paper)

Wanjun Chu, Johan Blomkvist, Ludwig Halvorsen (2024) Experience prototyping with an educational robot platform: development and pedagogical reflection from an interaction design course

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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

Research administration and economy

Staff at HCS

All staff

Senior Associate Professor, Head of Division

Franziska Babel

Postdoc

Peter Berggren

Adjunct Associate Professor, Docent

Senior Associate Professor

Wilhelm Brodin

PhD student

Magnus Bång

Senior Associate Professor

Head of Department, Professor

Vanessa Esperance Rodrigues

Professor, Head of Unit

Professor Emeritus, Head of Unit

Robin Keskisärkkä

Assistant Professor

Rita Kovordanyi

Associate Professor, Docent

Mikael Christer Öyvind Lindekrans

Agathe Malbet

PhD student

Jalal Maleki

Lecturer, Head of Unit

Adjunct Assistant Lecturer

Max Pettersson

Ture Pontén

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

Machine Psychology – a bridge to general AI

Best student paper award to Riley Capshaw

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

Designing urban service futures

Design a new strong profile

Simplified language on the Web

Research at HCS

Semantic Web

Changing the game of consumption

Just Transitions Graduate School

Switching the Current

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

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

2025

2024

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

Research administration and economy

Staff at HCS

All staff

About the department

Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

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