The Human-Centered Technology Group at CSI focuses on designing, developing, and evaluating technologies that make our lives easier and better, with people in mind. We are a multidisciplinary team teaching and carrying out fundamental and applied research in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), visualization, human-centered design and human-centered AI.

To facilitate the research, the group hosts the HCILab Opens in new window., a well-equipped environment with tools that can be utilized to gain deeper user insights (e.g., eye-tracking, EEG) and create innovative solutions (e.g., virtual and augmented reality).


Research projects

XPECT Opens in new window. - How to Tailor Explanations from AI Systems to Users' Expectations, funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Consolidator Grant.

XAAI - Explainable and Adaptable Artificial Intelligence, funded by The Knowledge Foundation (2025-2028). With Thule and Husqvarna. Departments CSI and DV.

AI4QAM External link, opens in new window. - (End-to-End) AI for Quality Assurance in Manufacturing. Project funded by VINNOVA 2024-2027. We create user-friendly End-to-End AI for automated quality control of manufactured components that can adapt to different environmental conditions and product designs, with RISE, Husqvarna, Thule, Scania, Enodo Robotics and PVI Hydroforming. Departments: PPD, CSI and DV.

MAIN - Managing AI integration, funded by The Knowledge Foundation (Jan 2025- Dec 2027). With SCOM dept. and Bufab, Fagerhults Belysning, Husqvarna Group, Electrolux Professional, Siemens Energy, etc.

SIP-DP Supporting Individual Prosthetic Design Preferences. Development and evaluation of an AI-based patient decision aid, funded by The Knowledge Foundation (2025-2028). Collaboration with School of Health and Welfare.

Research school Smart Industry Sweden with ITAB AB, Tobias Pettersson and Siemens Energy, Nils-Erik Ohlson. Departments CSI, DV and SCOM. https://smartindustrysweden.se/

Earlier projects:

XAI-Pro Opens in new window. - Explainable AI for product and service development; project under AFAIR Opens in new window. (a multidisciplinary research project with a focus on applied AI; funded by The Knowledge Foundation).

EXPLAIN Opens in new window. - Evaluation of Explainable AI. EXplAIn tackles the challenge of evaluating users interacting with Machine Learning -systems, aiming at developing a generic and integrative framework for evaluating human ML-system collaboration. Funded by The Swedish Research Council (Etableringsbidrag, Vetenskapsrådet).

OptiPro Opens in new window. – Optimization of prosthesis design according to Kansei Engineering and Machine Learning. This project brings together experts in prosthetics, industrial product development and machine learning to improve the quality of prosthetic services and products for people who have undergone a lower-limb amputation. Partner companies: TeamOlmed, Avtik Ortopedteknik, UNYQ. Funded by The Knowledge Foundation (KK-Stiftelsen).

Skara Guardian Angel. This project develops an innovative solution to increase the safety and comfort for cyclists during the darker periods of the year, so that people can continue to use their bicycle. Funded by VINNOVA and coordinated by Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE).

Education

New Media Design

User Experience Design

Group

Neziha Akalin

Bruce Ferwerda External link, opens in new window.

Linus Holmberg External link, opens in new window.

Eveline Ingesson External link, opens in new window.

Aga Kitkowska External link, opens in new window.

Martin Lindh External link, opens in new window.

Mira Pop External link, opens in new window.

Patrick Riehmann

Maria Riveiro External link, opens in new window.


Marcus Gullstrand External link, opens in new window. (PhD-student, Subnetworks, Concepts and Visualization, Explainable AI, XAI-Pro, XAAI projects)
Max Pettersson External link, opens in new window. (PhD-student, Inverse Reinforcement Learning, Explainable AI, XAI-Pro, XAAI projects)
Shuai Wu (PhD-student, Defect detection, AI4QAM project)
Tobias Pettersson (PhD-student, Automatic Product Recognition, ITAB AB, Smart Industry)
Nils-Erik Ohlson (PhD-student, Sales and Operation Planning in an engineer-to-order context with ML, Siemens Energy, Smart Industry)


Contact Maria Riveiro External link, opens in new window. for more information.