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.

Alexandra Weilenmann
Visiting researcher

Anna Ståhl
Ph. D. Student

Annika Waern
Professor

Arvid Engström
Ph.D. Student

Barry Brown
Associate Professor

Can Kilicbay
Intern

Carolina Johansson
Research assistant

Celia Yanqing Zhang
PhD student

Cristine Sundbom
Industrial designer MFA

Deniz Akkaya
Master Student

Elena Márquez Segura
Ph.D. student

Elin Önnevall
Ph.D. student

Elsa Kosmack Vaara
Ph.D Student

Fani Athina Papadogoula
M.Sc. thesis student

Goranka Zoric
PhD

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

Marcus Lundén
MSc student, BSSc

Maria Holm
Coordinator

Maria Normark
PhD

Maria Lindström
Master student

Marie Denward
Ph.D.

Markus Westerlund
Ph. D. student

Matthias Korn
Ph. D. Student

Mattias Rost
Ph. D. Student

Mattias Jacobsson
Ph. D. Student

Miguel Pais
Master student

Morvarid Kashanipour
Master student

Mudassir Ahmed Mughal
Ph D student

Oskar Juhlin
Professor

Pedro Ferreira
Ph.D. Student

Petra Sundström
PhD

Sara Ljungblad
Ph.D.

Stina Nylander
Ph. D.

Tina (Bin) Zhu
Ph. D. Student

Ylva Fernaeus
PhD

Youle Chong
Interaction designer

Zeynep Ahmet
Msc

Alexandra Weilenmann, Visiting researcher
Ph.D., Associate Professor (Docent)
+46 70 303 29 53
alexandra.weilenmann@ituniv.se

Alexandra Weilenmann has since the late 90s studies the use of mobile technology. Drawing upon methods from social science, she investigates the use of mobile technologies in a range of very different settings. She has studied the use of radio and awareness technology at Arlanda airport, radio use at London underground, teenagers’ and seniors’ use of mobile phones, and mobile phones and driving. Weilenmann’s studies on mobile phone use is extensively cited and used internationally, in both research and industry. She has published in such venues as International Journal of Human Computer Interaction, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, and Environment and Planning A. Weilenmann’s research has also been widely recognized in media, including all major Swedish news media, as well as several international, e.g. CNN International and Times.

During 2010-2013 Weilenmann is working as a VinnMer Fellow with a research grant from Vinnova’s (Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems). The project is titled Mobile services for interaction, communication and learning and involves Mobile Life at Stockholm University and LinCS as partners.

Weilenmann holds a PhD in informatics, and is Associate Professor (“docent”) in Applied Information Technology. She is employed at the Department of Applied Information Technology, Göteborg University/Chalmers.

Selected publications:

1.     Weilenmann, A. 2010, Learning to Text: An Interaction-Analytic Study of How Seniors Learn to Enter Text on Mobile Phones. Accepted to CHI’10 (Conference on Human Computer Interaction) Atlanta, USA.

2.     Arminen, I. and Weilenmann, 2008, Mobile Presence and Intimacy: Reshaping Social Actions in Mobile Contextual Configuration. In Journal of Pragmatics, Special issue on Communicating Space and Place, (eds) Paul McIvenny et al. Elsevier.

3.     Juhlin, O. and A. Weilenmann, 2008, Hunting for Fun: Solitude and Attentiveness in Collaboration. In Proceedings of CSCW '08 (Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work), San Diego, USA.

4.     Esbjörnsson, M., Juhlin, O. and Weilenmann, A. 2007. Drivers Using Mobile Phones in Traffic: An Ethnographic Study of Interactional Adaptation. International Journal of Human Computer Interaction, Special issue on: In-Use, In-Situ: Extending Field Research Methods. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 39-60.

5.     Esbjörnsson, M., Juhlin, O. and Weilenmann, A. 2007. Olycksriskerna överdrivna med mobilprat i trafiken. DN Debatt, 2007-11-07.