I am currently employed at the department of Computing Science, Umeå University, as assistant professor. I am working in the fields of knowledge systems and human-computer interaction with topics related to clinical decision support systems, partly financed by the Swedish Brain Power consortium and VINNOVA.
My interest in human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence is sprung from several years of practice as occupational therapist in the area of work rehabilitation. The main client group consisted of persons with various cognitive deficiencies, stress syndromes and/or physical constraints, for whom work environments were investigated and tailored using technical artefacts such as computer-based systems. My experience from clinical and rehabilitation work is highly valuable and useful in current research work. I take particular interest in theories and methods that support the development of intelligent systems for health care, which include and acknowledge the complexity of changing health care organisations and work processes in a larger perspective as well as the basic levels of cognitive and psychosocial functions. In take particular interest in the following:
- knowledge aquisition and representation
- design of interactive clinical reasoning
- user-authored and user-driven development
- argumentation and formal dialogues
- ontology
- cognitive tools and personalisation
- evaluation of tailored knowledge systems
For more information, please follow the links here or go to the Umeå University page for research on user, interaction and knowledge modelling.