Throughout my work in academia, there is a consistent element of collaboration with external partners for mutual learning and benefit.
This page is a list of profession-oriented activities, including external teaching projects, formal networks and trade-oriented projects, and talks and other dissemination activities.
My general-interest publications are listed on the publications page.
2007
Developing and teaching a one-day workshop on Physical interaction and mixed-media interfaces at Sony Ericsson, 18 participants from the Accessories department.
2006–07
Developing and teaching two one-day workshops on Sketching techniques and Use qualities at TeliaSonera, 11 participants from Design and Usability specialist group. Followed by structured coaching on specific design projects.
1999
Co-organizing workshop on interactive media and TV for professional producers. With tv-skolen, Copenhagen.
1998
Developing and teaching a two-day specialist seminar on Explorative design at Enator, 12 participants.
1997
Developing and facilitating a six-month specialist development program in Usability at Ericsson Radio Systems, 10 participants.
1997
Co-developing and co-teaching a graduate course on Human-computer interaction for CelsiusTech Systems, Järfälla (with Stefan Holmlid and Martin Howard).
1997
Developing and teaching a three-day module on Navigation and usability in virtual worlds for netExpress 24, Västervik, 20 participants.
1995
Developing and teaching a three-day course on Human-computer interaction for Telub, Växjö, 13 participants.
1994
Developing and teaching a one-day Human-computer interaction module in the System School development initiative at Celsius Tech, 15 participants.
1992
Developing and teaching a one-week course on User-centered development of interactive systems at IDA, 13 industry participants.
Recent networks and trade-oriented projects
2009–now
Area manager for Collaborative Crossmedia within Medea, a national research and co-production environment in new media. External collaboration partners include media, telecom and ICT companies as well as NGOs and activist organizations. Co-manager of the
Substrate project within CCM.
2008–now
Expert advisor for Tibco Spotfire on innovation in information visualization.
2008
Invited by Nokia as expert participant in co-creation session on mobile devices in social contexts.
2008
Invited by Ericsson as expert participant in workshop on scenarios for future communication.
2007–09
Co-organizing From Business To Buttons, an annual trade conference on usability and interaction design. 300 participants, mainly from ICT and telecom industries. With Micke Svedemar and others, and with InUse and other industrial partners.
2005–08
Co-organizing Moving Images, an annual trade conference on the future of audiovisual media. 250–350 participants from the Scandinavian media industry. With Swedish Television and Media Mötesplats Malmö.
2005–08
Responsible for research and academic liaison in the New Media Center consortium, involving 20 companies and four research and commercialization organizations in the media industry.
Recent talks and »dissemination activities«
2011
Medier av oss, för oss. [Media by us, for us.] General-interest talk at the Malmö City Library, February 2011. Watch
full talk (21 minutes, in Swedish) or
two-minute summary (in English).
2009
Teknikinformation 2.1. [Technical information 2.1.] Invited presentation at trade seminar on new trends in technical information, Malmö, November 2009. (Repeated in Göteborg in February 2010 and in Stockholm in April 2010.)
Synopsis and slide show available. April 2010 version of
the talk itself (in Swedish), slightly edited, available.
2009
Sociala medier: Hur funkar det? [Social media: How does it work?] Panelist at
trade seminar on social media in politics and business, Norrköping, November 2009.
2009
Att hitta sådant som man redan borde ha vetat. [Finding things you should already have known.] Invited presentation at trade seminar on Visualization and planning, ProNova, Norrköping, September 2009.
2009
Företagets dolda strukturer. [The hidden structures of the company.] Invited presentation of the
Pinpoint project at Visual Forum, Göteborg, March 2009.
2008
Experiential qualities in interactive visualizations. Keynote talk at the SIGRAD conference on visualization and computer graphics, November 2008.
Annotated slides available.
2008
Sketching in interaction design. Talk at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, November 2008.
Annotated slides available.
2008
Designing for collaborative crossmedia creation. Keynote talk at the 2nd Int. DREAM Conf., Odense, September 2008.
Annotated slides available.
2008
Varför deltar folk i deltagande medier? [Why do people participate in participatory media?] Invited talk at trade seminar on mobile marketing, Malmö, May 2008.
Annotated slides in Swedish available.
2008
Interaktionsdesign: Några observationer om designprocesser, designförmåga och deltagare. [Interaction design: Some observations on design processes, design ability and participants.] Invited talk at Alenio, Stockholm, May 2008.
Annotated slides in Swedish available (low resolution images).
2007
An interaction designer's sense of quality. Keynote talk at the 7th Danish HCI Research Symposium, Copenhagen, November 2007.
Annotated slides available.
2007
Data on your fingertips: Designing captivating interactive visualizations. Invited talk at the developers' conference Øredev, Malmö, November 2007.
Annotated slides and a
video of the talk are available.
2007
Interaction experience: Pliability, fluency and other experiential qualities. An invited talk at the trade conference From Business To Buttons, Malmö, June 2007.
2006
Organizing and introducing the seminar Can design be research? for RIFO (the Swedish association of parliament members and researchers).
2006
Interaction design. Aesthetics. A talk at IxDA Stockholm, December 2006, on aesthetic experiential qualities in interaction design. Pliability and fluency are covered in some depth.
Annotated slides available.
2005
Vetandets Värld: Gränstrakter. Om interaktionsdesign, böcker och berättande. [National radio program on science.] A conversation between Johan Svedjedal, sociologist of literature, and myself about interaction design and narrativity. Sveriges Radio P1, February 4, 2005. In Swedish.
Introduction to the program.
The broadcast (Real Media, 2.4 MB.)
2001
Hackerkultur och kunskapssyn. [Hacker cultures and perspectives on knowledge.] Invited talk at ITU What's next, Oslo, September 26, 2001. In Swedish.
2000
Interaktionsdesignerns ABC. [The interaction designer's ABC.] Lecture on the foundations of interaction design. (
Lecture notes, in Swedish.)
1989–now
Invited speaker (seminars and keynotes) in conferences, universities and companies, in Sweden and abroad. Some examples include the Swedish IT Commission; George Washington University, US; Microsoft, Redmond, US; GMD, Bonn, DE; Technical University, Vienna, AT; Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, AT; University of Bremen, DE; Åbo Akademi Vasa, FI; University of Art and Design Helsinki, FI; the Culture Council of Bergen, NO; ITU conference at Oslo University, NO; The IT University, Copenhagen, DK; Ericsson Design Manager European Workshop; Ericsson Customer Support; Ericsson Communicating Worlds 2020 Workshop; Enator; CelsiusTech; Sigma; FMV; Swedish Institute for Computer Science (SICS); Swedish Institute for Systems Development (SISU); IxDA Sweden; Kulturhuset, Nässjö; Øredev 2007, Malmö, Sweden; From business to buttons 2007, Malmö, Sweden; KVIT 2005, Linköping, Sweden; Stimdi 2001, Stockholm, Sweden; Linköping Usability Professionals Association; Umeå Institute of Design; universities of Kalmar, Södertörn, Umeå, Stockholm, Linköping, Borås, Göteborg, Jönköping, Växjö, Lund.
