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Erik Grönvall, Ph.D.
Associate Professor IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaards Vej 7 2300 Copenhagen S Denmark |
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Erik is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), Denmark. At ITU, he work in the Digital Design department,
researching the role technology have in everyday life, the notion of participation, how people appropriate technology and how technology can be designed to
better align with the capabilities and needs of diverse users. To investigate these and other aspects of technology use in everyday life,
Erik do research for example within User Driven Innovation, Participatory Design in weak, ill peoples homes, Service Design, care networks, tele-care and homecare.
Erik’s research span from designing and building specific healthcare technologies to investigate the use of such technologies and
societal effects of for example introducing healthcare IT in private people’s homes.
End-user control, participation and physical-digital design are topics also investigated from a HCI and CSCW perspective.
Also, Erik designs and constructs physical computing (e.g. shape-changing) objects and researches how people appropriate and understand such systems.
Before joining ITU, Erik worked at the 'Use, Design and Innovation' group and the 'Centre for Pervasive Healthcare' (both directed by Prof. Morten Kyng), Aarhus University. In Aarhus, he was a Project Manager for different multi-disciplinary research projects that worked with Participatory Design and User-Driven Innovation in healthcare. He was also associated with the research centre Participatory IT (PIT) at Aarhus University (directed by Prof. Susanne Bødker and Prof. Kim Halskov). Erik currently teach Service Design, Co-Design and Physical Computing at ITU and has previously taught (for example Advanced Physical Computing) both at Aarhus University and at University of Siena (both bachelor and master courses). Erik has a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies from the University of Florence, Italy (2007). Previously, Erik has also been a post-doc and lecturer (e.g. in Advanced Physical computing, Java, Web development/WEB 2.0) at Aarhus University and at the University of Siena. Before moving to Denmark and Italy, he worked in Sweden (as a consultant, as employee and within his own company) with mainly smart home development and novel solutions for elderly care. |
NEWS & EVENTS 28-08-2017: Program committee member at ECSCW 2017, Sheffield, UK. 22-06-2017: Program committee member at Infrahealth 2017, Aarhus, Denmark. 10-06-2017: Demo chair at DIS 2017, Edinburgh, UK. 10-06-2017: Associate Chair at DIS 2017, Edinburgh, UK. 23-05-2017, Program committee member at Pervasive Health 2017, Barcelona, Spain. 23-10-2016: Program committee member at NordiCHI 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden. 07-10-2016: Invited speaker at Syddjurs Municipality (DK) day on welfare technology speaking about 'Social Innovation and Care Communities'. 15-08-2016: Accepted workshop @ PDC2016 on the migration of social innovations, Aarhus, Denmark. 15-08-2016: Program committee member at PDC 2016, Aarhus, Denmark. 08-06-2016: Received a SIGCHI Honourable Mention Award at DIS 2016 (top 5% of all submissions). 24-05-2016: Panel organizer (Service Design Education) at ServDes 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark. 16-05-2016: Program committee member at Pervasive Health 2016, Cancun, Mexico. 24-08-2016: Best paper award at a workshop @ MobileHCI 2015. 17-08-2015: Program committee member and session chair at the decennial Aarhus conference - Critical alternatives 2015. 14-03-2015: Session chair at CSCW 2015, Vancouver, Canada. 19-06-2014: PC-member for the 2nd int. workshop on “Personal Health Records and patient- oriented infrastructures”. in Trento, Italy. 26-04-2014: Received a SIGCHI Best of CHI Honorable Mention Award (top 5% of all submissions). 01-11-2013: New Job! Erik start as Visiting Associate Professor at the IT University. 23-10-2013: Invited talk at the national LevVel/UNIK Conference. 21-10-2013: Invited talk at the research centre PIT (AU). Title: 'Some perspectives on designing for participation'. 21-09-2013 : Co-organizer of a WS@ECSCW 2013 on CSCW at the Boundary of Work and Life. 24-06-2013 : Program committee member at the IDC2013 WS ‘Interactive e-books for children’, New York, US. 07-05-2013 : Scientific Committee member of the Int. WS on “Smart University along with Smart City for a New Eco-systemic Glo-cal Evolution”, Florence, Italy. 15-02-2013: Part of the Editorial Advisory Board for the book ‘Pervasive Health: State-of-the-Art and Beyond’, Springer (2014). 24-11-2012 : Invited lecture: 57 National SIGG Congress (Societá Italiana di Gerontologia e Geriatria) Milano, Italy. 17-10-2012 : Panel Chair at NordiCHI 2012. 14-10-2012 : Co-organizer of a WS@NordiCHI 2012 on home-clinic differences. 28-08-2012 : programme committee member at ECCE 2012. 19-08-2012 : Co-chair of a session on AAL at NES2012. 21-05-2012 : Co-organizer of a workshop related to user-centered design and healthcare at Pervasive Health 2012. 16-11-2011 : TPC member at the International Workshop on Aesthetic Intelligence (AxI '11) at AmI2011. 11-11-2011 : I will give an invited presentation on designing for elderly people and home based rehabilitation at IDEA/ITU. 28-09-2011 : I will chair the 'Together' session at ECSCW 2011. 24-08-2011 : I will chair the 'Human-Centred Automation' session at ECCE 2011. 15-06-2011 : Invited presentation at the 4th Danish Conference on Pervasive Healthcare Engineering Aarhus School of Engineering Aarhus, Denmark. 23-05-2011 : Co-organizer of a workshop related to user-centered design and healthcare at Pervasive Health 2011. 12-05-2011 : The C-HUB project is featured on the FI website. 13-04-2011 : The C-HUB project is featured in the CS 'news' section of their website. Open pdf version here. 22-03-2011 : Some of my Physical Computing students were featured in UNIvers, the university 'newspaper' with their course project. 11-11-2010 : Physical Computing I gave an introductional lecture on Physical Computing 17-10-2010 : I co-organize Therapeutic Strategies - a Challenge for User Involvement in Design A WS @ NordiChi2010 08-10-2010 : I will give an invited Keynote at the Secondo Forum Italiano AAL 18-07-2010 : AaDP 2010 Aarhus Design Project 2010. 04-06-2010 : Site is up. Some small errors might still exist. ITU managment |