On June 4 I’ll be one of the panelists in the Big Urban Data session at the New Cities Summit 2013 conference (June 4–6) in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The theme for the conference is “The Human City”, and the Big Urban Data session [ Read more ]

During 2012 a group of people from the Mobile Life centre (www.mobile-life.org) and some of its partners (including yours truly) decided to put together a collection of writings as well as presentations of interesting projects that illustrate the importance of playfulness in all kinds of domains. As a consequence my thoughts on the role of playfulness [ Read more ]

On Sunday October 14th, I will together with my Ericsson colleagues Didier Chincholle and Johanna Hasslöf, and my former UX Lab colleague Caroline Hägglund (now at MTO Safety), offer a full-day tutorial at NordiCHI 2012. The conference, this year hosted by the IT University of Copenhagen, is the main Nordic forum for human-computer interaction research. And the event is a meeting place [ Read more ]

Last week, I was appointed member of ”Användningsforum”, a group created by the Swedish government with the assignment to maintain a continuos dialogue regarding strategies for accessibility and usability for ICT (read press release, unfortunately only in Swedish).

This engagement is really interesting seen from an user experience point of view. Without trying to make UX sound more complex than [ Read more ]

Hello world! Greetings earthlings! This is the premiere post by which we jump into the cyberpond and join the global muttering over the digital ether.

We, the User Experience Lab at Ericsson Research, have been entrusted this piece of corporate html to share things that we are passionate about. And as the informed reader would rightly assume, that would be anything related to the making and [ Read more ]