Minna Laurell Thorslund

I joined the Department of Media Technology and Interaction Design (MID) at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)as a PhD student in spring 2020. Being a member of the MID Sustainable Futures Lab, my research is within the area of socio-technical transitions towards sustainable, low-carbon societies. I’m particularly interested in methods and frameworks that inspire people to take collective and individual action towards sustainable transitions, and in the role of emotions in how we respond to the interconnected unfolding crises. My supervisors are Daniel Pargman and Elina Eriksson. During 2020-2023, I was part of Event Horizon, a research project funded by the Swedish Energy Authority.

I hold an M.Sc in Human-Computer Interaction with Ergonomics from UCLIC and a B.Sc in Psychology, both from University College London, UK. My professional experience prior to joining KTH includes various positions within user experience, digital communication and content strategy – see LinkedIn for my full professional CV.

Publications

Minna Laurell Thorslund and Ola Leifler. 2025. Exploring assumptions about sustainability: Towards a constructive framework for action in Sustainable HCI. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714001

Aksel Biørn-Hansen, Elina Eriksson, Minna Laurell Thorslund, and Daniel Pargman. 2023. Using counterfactual scenarios to envision low flying academia. In DIY Methods Conference Proceedings, 2023. https://doi.org/10.17613/6hj0-5w42

Ian Brooks, Minna Laurell Thorslund, and Aksel Biørn-Hansen. 2023. Tech4Bad in the Oil and Gas Industry: Exploring Choices for ICT Professionals. In (2023 International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S)), 2023. 142–153. https://doi.org/10.1109/ict4s58814.2023.00023

Elina Eriksson, Anne-Kathrin Peters, Daniel Pargman, Björn Hedin, Minna Laurell Thorslund, and Sandra Sjöö. 2022. Addressing Students’ Eco-anxiety when Teaching Sustainability in Higher Education. In (2022 International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S)), 2022. 88–98. https://doi.org/10.1109/ict4s55073.2022.00020

Sahra Svensson-Höglund, Minna Laurell Thorslund, Jessika Luth Richter, Anna Richter Olsson, Charlotte Louise Jensen, Jaco Quist, Jennifer Russell, and Carl Dalhammar. 2022. Futures of Fixing: Exploring the life of product users in circular economy repair society scenarios. International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University. https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/25fb635d-7815-4382-bf3d-93f9caff641e

Minna Laurell Thorslund, Sahra Svensson-Hoglund, Daniel Pargman, and Elina Eriksson. 2022. From (e-)wasteland to Repair Society: Exploring ICT repair through speculative scenarios. In 2022 International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S) (2022 International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S)), 2022. IEEE, 179–189. https://doi.org/10.1109/ict4s55073.2022.00029

Supervised MSc theses

COOL grocery shopping: Swedish consumers’ perception of country of origin information and labels in an online shopping environment. Sandra Sjöö, 2022 (DiVa)

Why do we stare at our screens more than we intend?: A case study on awareness of persuasive technology among young Swedes. Elias Alkvist Cetin, 2022 (DiVa)

Privacy concerns of Indonesian Internet users: Investigating the level of concern among ecommerce users. Rusna Rusna, 2022 (DiVa)

Supervised BSc theses

Centralisation on Decentralised Online Social Networks. Martin Ryberg Laude and Markus Brewitz, 2023 (DiVa)

Young Adults' Perspectives on Publicly Funded Social Media : Potential Purposes, Functionality, and Differences compared with Commercial Platforms. Elin Lundqvist and Erik Nordmark, 2023 (DiVa)

Manipulation of frame rate and its emotional effect on viewer perception in different formats. William O'Grady and Emil Währme, 2023 (DiVa)