Erik Grönvall

Erik is Associate Professor in the Digital Design department. Erik’s research falls within the HCI and CSCW research domains, is often co-design driven and may contain electrical prototypes that Erik design and build. Erik research the role technology has 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. Erik have done much work within the healthcare and social care domains, but have also done work in other domains. For example, Erik design and constructs physical computing (e.g. shape-changing) objects and research how people appropriate and understand such systems. Erik has managed a number of different national and international research projects (incl. partners form both academia and industry). Erik teach Co-Design and Physical Computing at ITU, where he also have taught Service Design for many years.

Selected publications

Christiansson, J., Grönvall, E., Yndigegn, L. S. (2018).

Teaching PD using Live Projects – Experiences from Four Years of Hard Work.

Accepted to PDC 2018: the Participatory Design conference 2018, ACM, Hasselt, Belgium, August 2018.

Seidelin, C., Grönvall, E., Dittrich, Y. (2018).

Data Work in a Knowledge-Broker Organization: How Cross-Organizational Data Maintenance shapes Human Data Interactions.

Accepted to BHCI 2018: the British HCI Conference 2018, ACM, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2-6 July 2018.

Dressen, K., Huybrechts, L., Grönvall, E., Hendriks, N. (2017)

Infrastructuring Multicultural Healthcare Information Systems.

In A. M. Kanstrup, A. Bygholm, P. Bertelsen & C. Nøhr, Participatory Design and Health Information Technology, IOS Press, 2017.

Smaerup, M., Larsen, SB., Grönvall, E., Laessoe, U., Henriksen, J.J., Damsgaard, E. M. S. (2017).

Exercise gaming - a potentially motivating approach for older adults with vestibular dysfunction.

InDisability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 12(2), Taylor & Francis.

Grönvall, E., Malmborg, L., Messeter, J. (2016).

Negotiation of Values as Driver in Community-based PD.

In the proceedings of PDC 2016: the Participatory Design conference 2016, ACM, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2016.

Grönvall, E., Fritsch, J., Vallgårda, A. (2016).

FeltRadio: sensing and making sense of wireless traffic.

In the proceedings of DIS 2016: the ACM SIGCHI conference on Designing Interactive Systems, ACM, Brisbane, Australia, 4-8 June 2016. AWARD: SIGCHI Honourable Mention Award (top 5% of all submissions).

Grönvall, Erik, Jonas Fritsch & Anna Vallgårda.(2016). FeltRadio: sensing and making sense of wireless traffic.In proceedings of DIS 2016: the ACM SIGCHI conference on Designing Interactive Systems, ACM, Brisbane, Australia, 4-8 June 2016.

AWARD: SIGCHI Honourable Mention Award (top 5% of all submissions).

Francisco Nunes, Nervo Verdezoto, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Morten Kyng, Erik Grönvall, Cristiano Storni (2015).

Self-care Technologies in HCI: Trends, Tensions, and Opportunities

InACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI),22(6), p. 1-45, ACM.

Grönvall, E., Verdezoto, N., Bagalkot, N., Sokoler, T. (2015).

Concordance: A Critical Participatory Alternative in Healthcare IT.

In the proceedings of Critical Alternatives. The Fifth Decennial Aarhus Conference 2015, ACM, Aarhus, Denmark, 17-21 August 2015.

Bossen, C, Grönvall, E.(2015).

Collaboration in-between: The Care Hotel and Designing for Flexible Use.

In the proceedings of CSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 14-18 March, 2015.

Grönvall, E., Lundberg, S. (2014)

On challenges designing the home as a place for care

In A. Holzinger, M. Ziefle, et al., Pervasive Health: State of the art and beyond, Human–Computer Interaction Series, Springer London, 2014.

Grönvall, E., Kinch, S., Petersen, M.G., Rasmussen, M.K. (2014).

Causing Commotion with a Shape-changing Bench - Experiencing Shape-Changing Interfaces in Use.

In the proceedings of CHI 2014: the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, 26 April – 1 May, 2014.AWARD: SIGCHI Best of CHI Honorable Mention Award (top 5% of all submissions).

Bødker, S., Grönvall, E. (2013).

Calendars: Time coordination and overview in families and beyond.

In the proceedings of ECSCW 2013: the European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2013, Paphos, Cyprus, 21-25 September, 2013.

Bossen C., Christensen L.R., Grönvall E., Vestergaard L. (2013).

CareCoor: Augmenting the Coordination of Cooperative Home Care Work.

Inthe International Journal of Medical Informatics, 82(5): 189-199, Elsevier.

Grönvall, E., Verdezoto, N. (2013).

Beyond Self-Monitoring: Understanding Non-functional Aspects of Home-based Healthcare Technology.

In the proceedings of UbiComp 2013, The 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Zurich, Switzerland, 8-12 September, 2013