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.

Photo credit Jonas J盲rmenResearch 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

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Machine Psychology 鈥� 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.

Robots are common in the care of older adults

More than half of Sweden鈥檚 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 91视频.

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.

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

Emma Mainza Chilufya, Mattias Arvola, Susanne Severinsson, Anna Martín Bylund, Linnéa Stenliden, Arezou Mortazavi, Tom Ziemke (2025) Chatbots and Human-Centered AI: 8th International Workshop, CONVERSATIONS 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece, December 4鈥�5, 2024, Revised Selected Papers, p. 132-149 (Conference paper)

Lina Hertzberg, Elin Ejdetjärn, Fredrik Grén, Madelene Holm, Lucas Kronstad, Kalle Källman, Gustav Markholm, Birgitta Thorslund (2025) Human Factors and Ergonomics Society European Chapter: Annual Meeting 2025, Bologna, 2025 (Conference paper)

Hilda Nääs, Sam Thellman, Tom Ziemke (2025) Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Vol. 12 (Article in journal)

Birgitta Thorslund, Dora Krznaric, Sam Thellman (2025) Human Factors and Ergonomics Society European Chapter: Annual Meeting 2025 (Conference paper)

Henrietta Palmer, Merritt Polk, Elena Raviola (2025) GLOBAL SOCIAL CHALLENGES JOURNAL, Vol. 4, p. 20-45 (Article in journal)

Hilda Nääs, Sam Thellman, Tom Ziemke (2025) Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Vol. 12, Article 1511549 (Article in journal)

Maria Andreassen, Nuria Santaularia, Aseel Berglund, Erik Berglund, Helena Orädd, Anna Strömberg, Tiny Jaarsma, Leonie Klompstra (2025) Games for Health Journal (Article in journal)

Wilhelm Brodin, Carl-Oscar Jonson, Mikael Johansson, Erik Prytz (2025) Ergonomics (Article in journal)

Tomas Rosberg, Birgitta Thorslund (2025) Transportation Research Record (Article in journal)

Elsa Andersson, Johan Falkenjack, Arne Jönsson (2025) Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025) (Conference paper)

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

Senior Associate Professor, Head of Division

Franziska Babel

Postdoc

Peter Berggren

Adjunct Associate Professor, Docent

Associate Professor, Docent

Eva Blomqvist

Senior Associate Professor, Head of Unit

Head of Department, Professor

Vanessa Esperance Rodrigues

Professor, Head of Unit

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.

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