Professor of Cognitive Systems at Linköping University, where I lead the Cognition & Interaction Lab, an interdisciplinary group of about 20 people working at the intersection of cognitive science and human-machine interaction, including research in social robotics, human factors and cognitive systems engineering. We are part of the Human-Centered Systems division at IDA, the Department of Computer & Information Science.
My main research interests are in embodied/situated cognition and social interaction, and in particular people’s interactions with social robots, automated vehicles, and other types of interactive AI. As both a cognitive scientist and a computer scientist, I also have long-standing research interest in the relation between computation and human cognition — and the misconceptions thereof that characterize current discussions of AI.
Some recent work
- short paper on “Ironies of Social Robotics” in Science Robotics
- our Alt.HRI 2024 paper on “The Human Behind the Robot”
- our CHI 2024 paper on power & politeness: “A Robot Jumping the Queue”
Funding
My research is currently supported by two grants from the Swedish Research Council (VR), a grant from Norrköpingsfonden, and long-term funding from ELLIIT.