Sara Ljungblad

Senior Lecturer at Interaction Design and Software Engineering

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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2024

Drones as Accessibility Probes in Able-Bodied Norms: Insights from People with Lived Experiences of Disabilities

Pamela Lindgren, Sara Ljungblad
DIS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, p. 2946-2957
Paper in proceeding
2024

Ethnography for HRI: Embodied, Embedded, Messy and Everyday

Anna Dobrosovestnova, Hee Rin Lee, Sara Ljungblad et al
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, p. 1314-1316
Paper in proceeding
2023

Wisp: Drones as Companions for Breathing

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa, Mehmet Aydin Baytas, Sjoerd Hendriks et al
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, p. 1-16
Paper in proceeding
2023

Conversational Composites: A Method for Illustration Layering

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa, Sara Ljungblad, Miriam Amber Sturdee
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, p. 1-13
Paper in proceeding
2023

Is There a Need for Critical Robotics Research?

Sara Ljungblad, Niamh Ní Bhroin, Sofia Serholt et al
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Vol. 366, p. 663-666
Paper in proceeding
2023

The Effects of Natural Sounds and Proxemic Distances on the Perception of a Noisy Domestic Flying Robot

Ziming Wang, Ziyi Hu, Björn Rohles et al
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. Vol. 12 (4), p. 1-32
Journal article
2023

Championing Design Knowledge in Human-Drone Interaction Research

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa, Sara Ljungblad, Wafa Johal et al
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, p. 365-368
Paper in proceeding
2022

4th Space as Smart Information Ecology with Design Requirements of Sustainability, Ethics and Inclusion

Gordana Dodig Crnkovic, Sara Ljungblad, Mohammad Obaid
Proceedings (MDPI). Vol. 81 (1), p. 124-127
Paper in proceeding
2021

What Matters in Professional Drone Pilots’ Practice? An Interview Study to Understand the Complexity of Their Work and Inform Human-Drone Interaction Research

Sara Ljungblad, Yemao Man, Mehmet Aydin Baytas et al
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Paper in proceeding
2021

Ritual drones: Designing and studying critical flying companions

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa, Mohammad Obaid, Sara Ljungblad
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, p. 562-564
Paper in proceeding
2020

Trouble and Repair in Child–Robot Interaction: A Study of Complex Interactions With a Robot Tutee in a Primary School Classroom

Sofia Serholt, Lena Pareto, Sara Ekström et al
Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Vol. 7
Journal article
2018

What Negative Space has to do with Design Fixations in HCI Research

Sara Ljungblad, Maral Babapour Chafi
Design Microconference
Paper in proceeding
2016

Are We Really Adressing the Human in Human-Robot Interaction? Adopting the Phenomenologically-Situated Paradigm

Sara Ljungblad, Sofia Serholt, Wolmet Barendregt et al
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Vol. 290, p. 99-103
Paper in proceeding

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Showing 2 research projects

2023–2023

UAVs in the medical courier system in Västra Götaland

Arion Pons Fluid Dynamics
Tomas Grönstedt Fluid Dynamics
Jens Ahrens Applied Acoustics
Ilaria Torre Interaction design
Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa Interaction design
Anna K Carlsson Vehicle Safety
Sara Ljungblad Interaction design
AoA Transport

2020–2024

The Rise of Social Drones: A Constructive Research Agenda

Morten Fjeld Interaction design
Sara Ljungblad Interaction design
Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa Interaction design
Ziming Wang Interaction design
Mohammad Obaid Interaction design
Marianne och Marcus Wallenberg Foundation

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