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Best paper-Honourable Mention award DIS2025: “Searching for the Words that ‘Feel Right’: Resonating with our Bodies and Felt Senses Through Haiku and Large Language Models (LLMs)”
I am pleased to announce that our paper has received an Honourable Mention award at the ACM DIS 2025 Conference in Funchal, Portugal. ⭐ Our article is titled “Searching for the Words that ‘Feel Right’: Resonating with our Bodies and Felt Senses Through Haiku and Large Language Models (LLMs)”. In our research, we explore how…
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Crafoordska Stiftelsen Research Grant awarded- Towards Repurposing LLMs as Tools for Embodied Introspection.
In this one-year project, Towards Repurposing LLMs as Tools for Embodied Introspection, I, along with Pedro Sanches (co-PI, Umeå University), will investigate how large language models (LLMs) can be used to create novel journaling and writing-based tools that support embodied introspective practices. We will continue our research on how searching for words that feel right can help us care…
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ICF Seed funding – Bodies that Move
I am pleased and grateful to have been awarded a seed funding grant by the Imagining and Co-Creating Futures (ICF) Research Centre at Malmö University. These grants are intended to support project initiation and foster new collaborations between ICF researchers, scholars from other universities, and societal actors. In particular, this award will fund 20% of research time until the end of…
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Master’s student research paper presented at CHI2025
The paper “Identifying Critical Points of Departure for the Design of Self-Fashioning Technologies” expands on Rebeca’s master’s thesis, which I supervised during my time at KTH. Taking the concept of self-fashioning, we invited other colleagues to take this research one step further, contributing with their experiences and ideas about the future of actualising the self: Rachael…
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Participation in the 2025 Workshop on Design for Tactile and Embodied Learning at Georgia Tech
I had the pleasure of attending the Workshop on Design for Tactile and Embodied Learning in Atlanta, US, organised by Abigale Stangl and colleagues. She is the Director of MultiSense Studio and an Assistant Professor at the College of Industrial Design at Georgia Tech. The workshop opened up a caring and open space to critically discuss the…
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Master’s student research paper presented at HttF2024
I am very happy to announce that the paper Designerly Ways of Knowing—Soma Design Meets Industrial Design Thinking has been published at the ACM Digital Library. This paper is particularly special not only because it reveals the tensions between soma design practice and industrial design in the wild but also because it derives from Alice Borg’s…
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Best paper-Honourable Mention award DIS2024: “Articulating Felt Senses for More-Than-Human Design: A Viewpoint for Noticing”
I am thrilled to announce that our paper “Articulating Felt Senses for More-Than-Human Design: A Viewpoint for Noticing” co-authored with Anton Poikolainen Rosén, has been awarded an Honorable Mention at DIS2024! Our paper was recognised as part of the top 5% in an already very competitive conference. In our paper, we introduce felt sense as…
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DIS2024 workshop: “Designing [Im]Material Inventories of Nomadic Belongings”
Calling the nomads, migrants and foreign designers. We are excited to extend a warm invitation to our upcoming workshop “Designing [Im]Material Inventories of Nomadic Belongings”, where we will engage with and problematise nomadism and impermanence as a possibility for resilience and growth. Through the use of various design methods –including collaborative inventorying, somatic noticing and…
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Opponent in PhD Public defense at EKA: Candidate Dila Demir
On 19 December 2023, Arife Dila Demir successfully defended her PhD thesis “Extended [Textile] Soma: Somaesthetics of Bodily Discomforts”. Arife Dila Demir was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Supervisors: Prof. Nithikul Nimkulrat (OCAD University), Dr. Kristi Kuusk (Estonian Academy of Arts)External reviewers: Prof. Kristina Höök (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Dr. Vasiliki Tsaknaki (IT…
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