Sara Ljungblad
Sara Ljungblad is an associate professor in interaction design at University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research interests concern understanding user needs and experiences of robots and other digital artefacts. She is also interested of design processes and inclusive design as a methodology in research and practice. She mostly conducts her research in the field of Human-Robot Interaction and Human-Computer Interaction, where she has done several qualitative studies of people’s experiences and use of robotic products and other technology. In 2021 she was a guest editor for a Special Issue on the topic of Critical Robotics Research published in AI&Society (2021). Her most recent research is about drones and their use in society. Together with Morten Fjeld she is managing the Social Drones project, part of the WASP-HS program, founded by the Wallenberg Foundation. She is the main supervisor for Mafalda Samuelsson Gamboa and co-supervisor for Ziming Wang at Chalmers University of Technology. She has also been a co-supervisor for Sara Ekström at West University, who finished her Ph.D. thesis 2023 “Teaching with social robots”. Another Ph.D student she has been supervising is Kristina Knaving (2016-2018) in the area of visualization. Sara Ljungblad has a background in Cognitive Science, Informatics and Human-Machine Interaction (Ph.D degree 2008). She also has experience from industrial and interaction design practice, after spending three years working closely with industrial designers and interaction designers at LOTS Design, a Design and Innovation Agency (2011-2014). She was funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, to be an in-house researcher, also applying for and receiving funding to be a project leader in a project on inclusive design. At LOTS Design she also conducted qualitative user studies at hospitals in Sweden and the US to gather data in an interaction design project. Sara Ljungblad has presented her work at various research conferences (such as CHI, CSCW, TEI, DIS, RoMan, HRI) and for the public at Robotdagen (2018), and Vetenskapsfestivalen (2021).
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Ethnography for HRI: Embodied, Embedded, Messy and Everyday
Wisp: Drones as Companions for Breathing
Conversational Composites: A Method for Illustration Layering
Is There a Need for Critical Robotics Research?
Championing Design Knowledge in Human-Drone Interaction Research
Ritual drones: Designing and studying critical flying companions
What Negative Space has to do with Design Fixations in HCI Research
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UAVs in the medical courier system in Västra Götaland
The Rise of Social Drones: A Constructive Research Agenda