Professor of Cognitive Systems at Linköping University, where I lead the Cognition & Interaction Lab, an interdisciplinary research 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 cognition and social interaction, with a current focus on people’s interactions with social robots, automated vehicles, and other types of “AI” (in a broad sense). 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: “A Robot Jumping the Queue”
- our first BookBot paper (Conversations 2024)
- “Understanding Social Robots” (Artificial Life journal 2023)
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.