Lars Erik Holmquist: Homepage

• Institutions & background information:
• A short CV
• Södertörn University
  
• The Swedish Institute of Computer Science
• Interaction Design and Innovation
• Mobile Life Center
• The Future Applications Lab
  
• My docent lecture was given at the Göteborg IT University in 2004
  
• My Ph.D. thesis in Informatics, Breaking the Screen Barrier, was presented in 2000
• My Master's thesis in Computer Science, Flip Zooming: An Alernative to Distortion-Based Focus+Context Views, was presented in 1996
• My list of publications
  
• Current major projects:
• Mobile Life is a Swedish center of excellence in the area of mobile services and ubiquitous computing
  
• INGVAR is the Strategic Research Foundation's individual grant for the advancement of young research leaders - I was one of 18 to receive it, out of over 400 applicants from all fields of science
• LIREC is a European project on long-term interaction with robotic companions
  
• Some current activities:
• Associate editor for the Springer journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
• I am the member of the program committee for several forthcoming conferences, including:
  
• SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009, Yokohama, Japan - Emerging Technologies chair
• INTERACT 2009, Uppsala, Sweden
  
• Selected past activities:
• In 1998, I founded the PLAY research group at the Viktoria Institute (and later at the Interactive Institute) and led it until 2001
• I was general chair for UbiComp 2002, the premier event in Ubiquitous Computing. With almost 500 participants it was the biggest UbiComp conference thus far!
• I organized the first and second international workshop on Mobile Music Technology; I also organized a panel on Ubiquitous Music at SIGGRAPH 2005
  
• I organized the international workshop Designing Robot Applications for Everyday Use
  
• I was demonstrations chair for UbiComp 2004. When will I learn to keep my mouth shut?
• I have presented my work at many conferences, including CHI, SIGGRAPH, UIST, HUC/UbiComp, and InfoVis
• I was in the program committee for HUC 1999, UbiComp 2001, UbiComp 2002, and UbiComp 2003
  
• I was also in the program committee for UIST 2002, NordiCHI 2002, 1AD, Interact 2003, MUM 2003,  PerCom 2004, Pervasive 2004,  NordiCHI 2004, EUSAI 2004, UCS 2004, Pervasive 2005, Graphics Interface 2005, ECSCW 2005, sOc-EUSAI 2005, CHI 2006 (Notes), NIME 2006, NordiCHI 2006, TEI 07, RO-MAN 2007, CHI 2008, UCS 2007, and more.
  
• I was more than usually involved in the CHI 2007 conference:
• Co-chair for Interactivity with Tom Igoe
• Co-chair for alt.chi with Barry Brown
• I have reviewed papers for many conferences and journals including CHI, DIS, CSCW, UIST, InfoVis, HCI, Interact, ISWC, the Journal of Information Visualization and ToCHI
• I was a member of the steering group for the EU proactive research initiative The Disappearing Computer
• West Sweden CHI was the local ACM SIGCHI chapter which I had a hand in starting
• I was a regular columnist for ACM's <interactions> magazine 2005-2007, where I wrote the column On The Edge
  
• Selected past research projects:
• Smart-Its (with Lancaster, Teco, ETH, VTT & PLAY)
  
• Intelligent Environments and Intelligent Information Displays (Vinnova)
• Pin&Play
• ECAgents - Embodied Communicating Agents (integrated project funded by the European Union)
• iDeas: Integrating Mobile Devices and Interactive Workspaces for Design Thinking, a collaboration between the Göteborg IT University and Stanford Univesity

How to reach me

phone: mobile +46 (0)703 55 85 00

e-mail: leh@sics.se

Extra

Read about movie posters and more in my blog, Terror in the Midnight Sun!

• Föreningen Ny Film was the film club which no longer occupies my copious free time
• Report from the Sitges 2002 Film Festival
  
• Report from the Sitges 2003 Film Festival
• Report from the Sitges 2004 Film Festival
• Report from the Sitges 2008 Film Festival
  
• Once upon a time, I created the original Hong Kong Movies Homepage -- probably the world's first genre-specific film web page!