Swedich HCI network

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a broad topic in itself. HCI is also a topic within related fields such as informatics and design. Sweden is a small country but fairly strong in HCI, where PhD education in HCI and related fields are offered by several universities, each within their own area of excellence.

We could, and should, collaborate and learn from each other. In the wake of the pandemic, distance learning and teaching has made a ten-year leap in Swedish academia, including forms of PhD studies. All the pieces are now in place for informal national collaboration on PhD studies in HCI.

Our aim is to offer Swedish PhD students in HCI and related fields a selection of PhD courses and seminars from universities around the country.

• Courses and seminars are offered nationally on a voluntary basis. The course leader is responsible for admission as well as for teaching and examining the course. Please note that the number of participants may be restricted.
  
  
• If you find an interesting course here, get approval from your supervisor and then get in touch with the course leader for more information on how to apply and how the course works. 
  
  
• Once you complete the course, you will obtain a diploma from your course organiser. Take the diploma to your supervisor to get the course credited into your PhD program.

INTERACTION DESIGN RESEACH

7.5 credits

Spring 2023 (start in Dec -22 or Jan -23)

THE COURSE addresses design research methodology within HCI and interaction design. It is based on reading seminars, mainly remote.

Click here to view the full syllabus

Course supervisor:

KRISTINA HÖÖK

Professor in Interaction Design at KTH

Send your application here:

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CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON AI

6 credits

Sept 2023 -- Jan 2024

THE COURSE aims to familiarize students with critical perspectives addressing limitations, risks, misperceptions, etc. of AI research and technology. The course consists of (a) one introductory seminar that goes through classical criticisms of AI (e.g., frame problem, common sense problem, symbol grounding problem), and (b) 5-7 seminars discussing recent books (2019-2023) that address critical perspectives on AI.

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Course supervisor:

TOM ZIEMKE

Professor of Cognitive Systems at LiU

Send your application here:

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Research ethics in social sciences

7.5 credits

Sept 2023 -- Jan 2024

THE COURSE covers topics related to research ethics in the social sciences, with a strong focus
on ethics in qualitative empirics. It is taught entirely online.

Course supervisor:

Annika Waern

Uppsala University

Questions and applications:

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THIS WEBPAGE This webpage and its contents are managed informally by a group of PhD supervisors in HCI and related areas at Swedish universities.

If you are teaching or planning a PhD course that you think might be appropriate to announce here, please get in touch with the steering group.

Current network partners

• Department of informatics and media, Uppsala.
• Department of information technology, Uppsala.
• Division of media technology and interaction design, KTH.
• Department of computer and information science, Linköping.
• Division of media and information technology, Linköping.
• Department of informatics, Umeå.
• Department of applied IT, Göteborg.
• Division of interaction design, Chalmers.
  

If your department is offering courses that are suitable for the network and if you are interested in joining, please contact the steering group.

Current steering group

Annika Waern, Uppsala University
main contact: annika.waern@im.uu.se

Jonas Löwgren, Linköping University

Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander, KTH