MobileLife

Enforced socializing at Mobile Life :-)

The weekly Wednesday coffee, October 27th, in the centre. Jarmo Laaksolahti is giving a farewell and good luck speach to Helena Mentis. Helena has spent the last 12 months as an ERCIM postdoctoral fellow in the centre. She has contributed to the Supple project as well as put in work in the General Interaction Models group. Good Luck on your future work and at Microsoft research, Cambridge, Helena.

The building stones of Mobile Life Centre

Photo by: Karl-Petter Åkesson

Researchers working in the Mobile Life Centre are attracted from various research areas such as computer and systems sciences, sociology, design, media studies and media technology.

The inter-disciplinary research collaboration is performed within computer supported collaborative work, human computer interaction and ubiquitous computing.

People
Alexandra Weilenmann
Visiting researcher

Anna Ståhl
Ph. Lic.

Anna Karlsson
Senior Industrial designer

Annika Waern
Professor

Arvid Engström
Ph.D. Student

Barry Brown
Associate Professor

Bin (Tina) Zhu
Ph. D. Student

Celia Yanqing Zhang
PhD student

Deniz Akkaya
Master Student

Elena Márquez Segura
Ph.D. student

Elin Önnevall
Ph.D. student

Elisa Chiodo
Ph.D. student

Elsa Kosmack Vaara
Ph.D Student

Fani Athina Papadogoula
M.Sc. thesis student

Gail Johnsson Tabtim
Intern

Goranka Zoric
PhD

Hannah Shi
M.Sc. student

Henriette Cramer
PhD

Jakob Tholander
Ph.D.

Jannecke Schulman
Communicator

Jarmo Laaksolahti
Ph.D.

Johanna Mercurio
Research assistant

Jon Back
Ph. D. Student

Jordi Solsona Belenguer
Ph D. student KTH

Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila
Visiting professor

Kim Nevelsteen
Ph.D. Student

Kristina Höök
Professor

Louise Barkhuus
Ph.D.

Lucian Leahu
Ercim Post doc

Maria Holm
Coordinator

Maria Normark
PhD

Maria Lindström
Master student

Marie Denward
Ph.D.

Mattias Rost
Ph. D. Student

Mattias Jacobsson
Ph. D. Student

Miguel Pais
Master student

Mudassir Ahmad Mughal
Ph.D. student

Oskar Juhlin
Professor

Pedro Ferreira
Ph.D. Student

Petra Sundström
PhD

Sara Ljungblad
Ph.D.

Stina Nylander
Ph. D.

Ylva Fernaeus
PhD

Youle Chong
Interaction designer

Louise Barkhuus
Louise Louise Barkhuus, Ph.D.
Visiting researcher

barkuus@mobilelifecentre.org
http://cse.ucsd.edu/~barkhuus

Louise Barkhuus is a visiting research scientist at the Mobile Life Centre. Her research focuses on social interaction through and around mobile and ubiquitous technologies, particular in relation to issues of privacy, friendship maintenance, location-reporting and game playing Her recent work includes studies of social media as facilitators of ad-hoc socializing and analyses of privacy issues within ubiquitous computing research.    

Before coming to the Mobile Life Centre Louise Barkhuus was working as a research scientist at University of California, San Diego.  

Louise Barkhuus gained her Ph.D from the IT University of Copenhagen in 2004; her dissertation focused on context-aware computing and its complications for implementation in a social world.