About me

I’m a cognitive science Ph.D. candidate at the University of Skövde, Sweden (with a joint location at the University of Linköping, Sweden).

When I don't do research or teach, I enjoy playing guitar, riding my bike, swimming, and learning more about image manipulation, web page design and LaTeX. I'm also an avid follower of popular culture, including video games, music, TV shows and movies.

Research areas & interests

  • Computer game play
  • Embodied and situated cognition
  • Ecological psychology
  • Participatory culture
  • Human-computer interaction

My research integrates the area of cognitive science with research on games and game play. A main source of inspiration for my PhD work is current research in embodied and situated approaches to cognition, among them situated learning, the concept of affordance, and socio-cultural approaches to interactivity.

The main assumption is that computer gameplay is a situated activity where the physical handling of a game and players' understanding of it are inseparably interlinked. The term "situated" can mean many different things though, making a more detailed discussion of it necessary. The aim for my PhD work is to explore and discuss the different levels of situatedness and how they relate to people's playing activities.

Other research related information

I'm a member of InGaMe Lab, the Interactive Game and Media Lab, and COIN, the Cognition & Interaction research group at the University of Skövde. I'm also part of SweCog, the Swedish Graduate School in Cognitive Science.

My PhD advisors are Tom Ziemke, Tarja Susi and Ulf Wilhelmsson.

Teaching

Information about my current teaching activities can be found on my official university website (in Swedish only).

Curriculum Vitae

Employment

2005-2010
PhD student in cognitive systems at LiU, but I live and work in Skövde .
2004-2005
Project assistent and guest teacher in cognitive science at HiS

Education

  • Licentiate in cognitive systems at LiU, Sweden (2008)
  • MSc. in computer science at HiS, Sweden (2004)
  • BSc. in cognitive science at HiS, Sweden (2003)
  • Exchange year at LiU, Sweden (1999-2000)
  • Studies in book science at LMU, Germany (1997-1999)
  • Apprenticeship in bookselling, Germany (1995-1997)
  • Graduation diploma, Germany (1995)
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