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

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.

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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.

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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.

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

Huanyu Li, Jana Vataščinová, Ondřej Zamazal, Ying Li, Patrick Lambrix, Eva Blomqvist (2025) Development and Outlook of the Circular Economy Track at the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative
Åsa Elwér, Evelina Rennes, Karin Nilsson, Lina Cederborg, Daniel Holmer, Arne Jönsson (2025) Including people in the automatic text adaptation process: empirical findings from students with intellectual disability Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, p. 1-19 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Erik Marsja, Sam Thellman, Anna Anund (2025) Trust in automated shuttle buses predicts intention to use and behavioral expectations Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Anna Martín Bylund, Linnéa Stenliden, Mattias Arvola (2025) Slow Torture, Magic Books or Potentially Worth Further Exploring: Mapping Young Students' Thoughts About Reading and Creative Alternatives PCE2025 Conference Proceedings (Conference paper)
Valentina Fantasia, Katie Winkle, Katherine Harrison, Tom Ziemke, Dominika Lisy, Anna Dobrosovestnova (2025) Rethinking (Human) Bodies in HRI: Embodied Interactions Every Day Social Robots with AI: Prospects, Risks, and Responsible Methods: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2024, 19–23 August 2024, Aarhus University, Denmark, and online, p. 703-707 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Huanyu Li, Jana Vataščinová, Ondřej Zamazal, Ying Li, Patrick Lambrix, Eva Blomqvist (2025) Results and Discussions from Aligning Ontologies in the Circular Economy Domain Proceedings of The 3rd International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Sustainability (KG4S 2025) co-located with the 22nd Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2025), p. 13-24 (Conference paper)
Ana Moreira, Patricia Lago, Rogardt Heldal, Stefanie Betz, Ian Brooks, Rafael Capilla, Vlad Constantin, Leticia Duboc, Joao Paulo Fernandes, Ola Leifler, Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen, Shola Oyedeji, Birgit Penzenstadler, Anne-Kathrin Peters, Jari Porras, Colin C. Venters (2025) A Roadmap for Integrating Sustainability into Software Engineering Education ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 34, Article 139 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Marcus Jessen, Mattias Arvola, Sam Thellman, Tom Ziemke (2025) Reading with Robots: A Research-through-Design Study International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 17, p. 1381-1394 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Tom Ziemke (2025) The role of intentionality in human-robot interaction How that robot made me feel, p. 37-62 (Chapter in book)
Lina Hertzberg, Birgitta Thorslund (2025) Teaching Driving Skills to Learners with ASD: The Role of Effective Communication Teaching Driving Skills to Learners with ASD: The Role of Effective Communication (Conference paper)

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