Human-Machine Interaction: The interplay between people and machines
Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) studies the interplay between people and machines (e.g., information technology, automation, robots and intelligent interfaces).
Overview
From a global perspective, it aims to improve the relationship between people and technology and foster positive social change through technology.
Research topics
- Social robotics (SR): human-robot interaction, socially intelligent robots, social artificial intelligence, multimodal interaction
- Human-Technology-Organsation (HTO) and workplace technology (WT): user-centred technology development, workplace user experience (UX), cognitive work analysis, transportation, health care, sustainable technology management
- Technology ethics (TE): relations with automation and AI, safety, design ethics, human-in-the-loop development, expertise, mutual shaping of society and technology, (gender) diversity, equity and inclusion
- Sustainability (S): how digital devices and online services affect our everyday lives, energy demand and carbon emissions
Research entities
- Human Technology and organisation research group (HTO)
- Uppsala Social Robotics Lab: SR, TE
- Cyber-physical Systems Lab: S, SR, TE
- Digital Ecologies Lab: S, TE
- Ethics group: TE
Faculty members
- Anders Arweström Jansson: WT, TE applications
- Åsa Cajander (also see her homepage): WT, S, TE applications
- Ginevra Castellano (also see her homepage): SR, TE applications
- Rebecca Cort: WT applications
- Didem Gurdur Broo (also see her homepage): SR, TE, S applications
- Mike Hazas: S applications
- Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos: TE applications
- Mikael Laaksoharju: WT, S, TE applications
- Jessica Lindblom: WT, SR, S applications
- Lars Oestreicher (also see his homepage): WT, S applications
- Sofia Ouhbi: WT, S applications
- Katie Winkle (also see her homepage): SR, TE applications
- Rebecca Cort
Research awards
- Ginevra Castellano: Outstanding Associate Editor Award by Frontiers Robotics and AI, 2021
- Anders Arweström Jansson and HTO-colleagues: Recognition for previous research with impact. Ten year funding grant - Excellence for further research - 2021-2030. [1] 2021
- Mike Hazas: 2021 Ubicomp/Pervasive 10-Year Impact Award for the paper “PreHeat: Controlling Home Heating using Occupancy Prediction” published in 2011, 2021
- Ginevra Castellano: 10-Year Technical Impact Award in 2019 at the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2019.
- Jessica Lindblom: Best Demonstrator Award at the 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, for the paper "Operators’ Experience of Trust in Manual Assembly with a Collaborative Robot", published in 2018, 2018*
- Katie Winkle: Best Paper Award at the 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, for the paper "Social Robots for Engagement in Rehabilitative Therapies: Design Implications from a Study with Therapists" 2018
- Åsa Cajander: Best paper award “Cancer Patients’ Attitudes and Experiences of Online Medical Records” at the 17th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2015) in York, UK.
- Åsa Cajander: Best paper award for “Evolution of an International Collaborative Student Project” at the Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE) conference where it was presented.
- Åsa Cajander: In 2013 a bachelor thesis work that I supervised was appointed the best thesis of the year by Jusek (Jusek systemvetarpris 2013). The thesis was called "Patient Empowerment and User Experience in eHealth Services" and was written by Viktor Kjerrman and Johan Andersson.
Education
- 1MD032: Intelligent Interactive Systems (5 credits): SR
- 1MD039: Intelligent Interactive Systems (7.5 credits): SR
- 1MD300: Social robotics and human-robot interaction (7.5 credits): SR
- 1MD016: Human-Computer Interaction (5 credits): WT
- 1MD001: Advanced Interaction Design (5 credits): WT
- 1MD031: Interface Programming with a User Perspective (5 credits): WT
- 1MD002: User Interface programming I (5 credits): WT
- 1MD003: User Interface programming II (5 credits): WT
- 1MD034: System Design with a User Perspective (5 credits): WT
- 1MD200: Requirements in Agile Development (5 credits): WT
- 1DL630: Complex IT Systems in large Organizations (5 credits): WT
- 1IMD033: Non-Excluding Design and Evaluation (15 credits): WT, S
- 1MD017: IT Systems and Human Factors (5 credits): WT
- 1FA455: Complex Systems in Technology and Society - Technology (10 credits): WT
- 1MD004: IT, Ethics and Organization (5 credits): TE
- 1DL002: Data, Ethics and Law (5 credits): TE
- 1DL008: IT, Sustainability and Social Responsibility (5 credits): S