Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa

Doctoral Student at Interaction Design and Software Engineering

Mafalda is a doctoral candidate and design researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg. She has a Master in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at Lisbon University.

She is an avid advocate of first-person perspectives as an essential component of design research and has written a number of autoethnographies including on her experience of pregnancy. Her focus is on design sensibilities understood through practice and ethnography.

With a background in architecture, she has a strong interest in making-oriented methods such as photography, sketching, stickers, embroidery, and collages.

Currently, her research is funded by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation. Her project is centred on "The rise of social drones: A constructive design research agenda."

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2024

More Samples of One: Weaving First-Person Perspectives into Mainstream HCI Research

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa, Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Sarah Homewood et al
DIS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, p. 364-367
Paper in proceeding
2024

In Praise of Shadows: Sensibility and Somaesthetic Appreciation for Shadows in Interaction Design

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa, Sjoerd Hendriks
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2024, p. 3272-3286
Paper in proceeding
2024

Prototyping Playful Touch with a Sound-Mediating Table

David Hagberg, Nikolaos Saoulidis, Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa et al
DIS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, p. 309-313
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
2024

The Undertable: A Design Remake of the Mediated Body

Sjoerd Hendriks, Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa, Mohammad Obaid
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2024, p. 2591-2610
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

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

My Body, My Baby, and Everything Else: An Autoethnographic Illustrated Portfolio of Intra-Actions in Pregnancy and Childbirth

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa
TEI '23: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Paper in proceeding
2023

SketCHI 5.0: Diversity & Accessibility at the core of Sketching in HCI

Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, Thuong Hoang et al
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
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

Screenshots as Photography in Gamescapes: An Annotated Psychogeography of Imaginary Places

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa, Michael Heron, Miriam Amber Sturdee et al
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, p. 506-518
Paper in proceeding
2023

Doodle Away: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Doodling as a Strategy for Self-Control Strength in Online Spaces

Makayla Lewis, Miriam Amber Sturdee, Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa et al
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Paper in proceeding
2023

TTRPG UX: Requirements & Beyond

Miriam Amber Sturdee, Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa, Michael Heron
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Paper in proceeding
2023

Is it Art, is it HCI? Exploring Tensions Between Practice and Research

Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, Josh Urban Davis et al
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. Vol. CHI 2023
Paper in proceeding
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

Conversations with Myself: Sketching Workshop Experiences in Design Epistemology

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, p. 71-82
Paper in proceeding
2022

Nebula: Artistic Somaesthetic Appreciation with Biosignals in Virtual Reality

Birgir Baldursson, David Peterson, Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Paper in proceeding
2022

Living with Drones, Robots, and Young Children: Informing Research through Design with Autoethnography

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
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
2021

Collection of Metaphors for Human-Robot Interaction

Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Maria Luce Lupetti, Michal Luria et al
DIS 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Nowhere and Everywhere, p. 1366-1379
Paper in proceeding
2021

Azalea: Co-experience in remote dialog through diminished reality and somaesthetic interaction design

Sjoerd Hendriks, Simon Mare, Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa et al
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
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

DroRun: Drone visual interactions to mediate a running group

Birgir Baldursson, Tim Björk, Lisa Johansson et al
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, p. 148-152
Paper in proceeding
2020

Azalea: Co-experiencing Embodied Information in Remote Communication

Simon Mare, Sjoerd Hendriks, Mehmet Aydin Baytas et al
Extended Abstracts - 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services: Expanding the Horizon of Mobile Interaction, MobileHCI 2020
Paper in proceeding
2020

PRACTICAL USE OF OFF-THE-SHELF VIRTUAL REALITY FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION - A LOOK AT THE FEASIBILITY OF NON-EXPERT USE

Daniel Sjölie, Thommy Eriksson, Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa et al
Learning and Teaching. Vol. 2020
Paper in proceeding

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