Elina Eriksson

I am an associate professor at the department of Media Technology and Interaction Design (MID)at the school of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I am also affiliated with Green Leap, Digital Futures and KTH Climate Action Center. My areas of interest are sustainability and human-computer interaction (S-HCI),  and ICT for sustainability.

I am co-leading the research group Sustainable Futures Lab, together with Daniel Pargman, see what we have been up to on our team blog.

I am programme responsible for a new 2 year international master's programme, Sustainable Digitalisation, starting autumn 2024

If you want to get a short pitch of what research I do and why, watch this video:

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Technology and its interplay with society have always fascinated me, and I am driven in my research to explore how technology in general, and computing in particular can aid in the transition to a more sustainable world. Hence change, and change of practice, has been a focal point in my research, from my doctoral studies up until now.

I defended my thesis Situated Reflexive Change - User-centred Design in(to) Practice in February 2013 at KTH, but have also been working at Uppsala University during my PhD-studies.

Currently I am the project manager in the project Beyond the event horizon: tools to explore local energy transformations, and I also work in the projects Decreased CO2-emissions in flight-intensive organisations: from data to practice, and HabitWise - Creating Sustainable Everyday Habits.