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RISE Interactive Göteborg

RISE Interactive Göteborg investigates and innovates theory, design, methodology, and technology practices within the areas below;

  • Future Internet
  • Social dimensions of IT
  • Hacker & Maker Culture
  • Learning
  • Game Design and Game Studies
  • Interaction Design and novel user interfaces
People

Fredrik Bergstrand
Researcher, Designer, Developer
+46 73 439 95 34
fredrik.bergstrand [at] ri.se

Erik Einebrant
Researcher, Designer and Developer
+46738351442
erik.einebrant [at] ri.se

Erik Einebrant
Researcher, Designer and Developer
+46 73 835 14 42
erik.einebrant [at] ri.se

Magnus Eriksson
Researcher
+46 70 559 4464
magnus.eriksson [at] ri.se

Anya Ernest
Coordinating Internet of Sports & Wellbeing, Research and Design
+46 703 85 00 46
anya.ernest [at] ri.se

Carl Heath
Senior Researcher
+46 70 240 20 37
carl.heath [at] ri.se

Fanny Lindh
Junior researcher

fanny.lindh [at] ri.se

Peter Ljungstrand
Studio Director and Senior Researcher
+46 702 88 97 59
peter.ljungstrand [at] ri.se

Jacob Michelsen
Researcher, designer and developer
0733706458
jacob.michelsen [at] ri.se

Gunnar Oledal
Researcher & Developer
+46 70 562 63 00
gunnar.oledal [at] ri.se

Katarina Pietrzak
Senior Project Manager
+46 73 62 23 662
katarina.pietrzak [at] ri.se

Niels Swinkels
Researcher
+46 76 411 26 70
niels.swinkels [at] ri.se

Martin Törnros
Researcher, designer and developer
+46 702 80 00 54
martin.tornros [at] ri.se

Linus Österberg Nilsson
Research Assistant
+46 70 892 60 75
linus.osterberg-nilsson [at] ri.se

Projects
Liseberg VR
RISE Interactive and Liseberg, the city of Gothenburg's amusement park, explore how emerging technologies such as virutal reality, motion simulation and accessible development platforms fit into the...
PersoCo - Personalized digital self-management services for cognitive assessment and rehabilitation
The project is developing a digital cognitive assessment and intervention service for people experiencing cognitive decline. Users get insight in their cognitive functioning and are offered solutions...
MediaDiet
MediaDiet använder maskininlärning för att skapa ett automatiserat nyhetsflöde som rekommenderar och organiserar nyhetsjournalistik på ett sätt som både är personligt och bygger på upptäckande av...
Digital Participation for the Next Generation
An overarching question of this project is how to create new arenas for public discussion online which also foster more civil and polite discussions about news and current debates. The project will...
Beta Borås
An experimental youth editorship called Beta Borås is set within the newsroom Borås Tidning to investigate new channels and formats for local social journalism. RISE Interactive supports the...
Period Booster (Menstoppa)
The project Period Booster (Menstoppa in Swedish) has its origin in the need to better understand how the menstrual cycle effect women and what it has an effect on, in order to have agency of it. ...
En Robot besöker Museum
RISE Interactive fortsätter samarbetet med Nordiska Akvarellmuseet för att möjliggöra distansbesök på museet med hjälp av en telepresence-robot. Denna gången bygger vi roboten själva med avancerad...
Interactive Riding Equipment
This project is about collecting real time data from the rider and give instant feedback to help the rider correct the body to stay in balance.  The vision is to help horseback riders maintain “the...
ENTER Mölndal
ENTER Mölndal guides the visitor around a couple of key locations near Mölndalsbro, where they stop and explore 360 panoramas. Here, a number of windows are hidden, which take the visitor to stories...
Future Remote Control Demonstrator
Införandet av fjärrstyrning inom processindustrin kan medföra förbättringar av arbetsmiljö och säkerhet. Men ofta leder implementationen till att återkopplingen till operatören begränsas, vilket kan...
Nyhetsvärderaren
In the current media landscape information about recent events is often spread through social media and other webpages on the internet. At the same time different actors use these platforms to spread...
Makerskola
The project Makerspace in School is supported by Vinnova and runs during 2015-2018. The aim is to contribute to the development of new subject matter specific methodology based on the creative use of...
Digitalisering och ledarskap i offentlig förvaltning
Projekt i samverkan med GR (Göteborgsregionens Kommunalförbund) och Kungsbacka som avser utbilda Kungsbackas samtliga chefer i digitalisering och ledarskap i offentlig sektor, i samband med att...
PlayItFair - A game for recruitment
PlayItFair is a collaboration between RISE and PlayItFair AB in which gamification methodology, virtual reality and game design is applied on human resources and recruitment processes. A digital game...
Makerspaces in Schools
Project Makerspace in school aims to contribute to innovation in Swedish schools by creating a physical and virtual test environment to systematically conduct research, test and evaluate concepts,...
InMoov Android
InMoov is an open source project and community driven effort to construct and distribute an android robot. The original design is the work of French sculptor Gaël Langevin in September 2011. A few...
Väsby Lärlabb
Väsby Lärlabb is a development environment that is driven by Upplands Väsby Education Unit which purpose is to provide public schools and teachers a creative environment for school development and...

Completed projects

Image by Michael Stenmark and Texas Olsson from LOD - the Game
Agenda GAME
Spel är en gränsöverskridande kraft som främjar både innovation och deltagande och påverkar allt fler delar av vårt samhälle. Två uppenbara områden där detta sker är teknikutveckling och utveckling...
Aj Si Ti!
Aj Si Ti! was a technology conference held in Nis, Serbia. The conference explored the democratic question of whether digital technologies are for everyone and vistors were invited to meet and...
Amplified Reality
Whereas so-called augmented reality is about enhancing impressions, enhancing the users senses for instance through specialized goggles or heading2-phones, we envision Amplified Reality to be about...
Augmented Table Tennis
The augmented table tennis project explores how technology can visualize information information that is not perceivable by players and coaches in professional sports training. Technology have...
Bronze Age Binoculars
In a joint project with Vitlycke World Heritage, the aim of Bronze Age Binoculars is to research, design, prototype and build a working concept techology for use within the World Heritage site. A...
CBRNE Learning
CBRNE Learning is a joint research project between RISE Interactive (formerly called Interactive Institute) and PKMC,  Prehospitalt och Katastrofmedicinskt Centrum. The project aims to develop a...
Children MAKE
There’s something magical about watching someone learn and experience the pride and joy when creating things and coming up with ideas with other people. This is what Children Make is all about. The...
Making a 3D printer at Collaboratory
Collaboratory
Collaboratory is a project, process and concept - a next generation maker space, a participatory DIY environment for co-creation, research and development, experimentation and innovation at the...
Common Shores
Common Shores was a Nordic collaboration in which filmmakers, developers and museums together for a hackathon at the fortress of Bohus in Kungälv, western Sweden. RISE Interactive led the workshop,...
Demo of KOL project at Karolinska
COPD - Home Treatment of Patients with Chronic Respiratory Insufficiency
Demonstration of the solution at Karolinska University Hospital June 15, 2016. SICS leads a project making a telemedicine solution for treatment of Chronic Respiratory Insufficiency (COPD) patients...
Digital Balance Board
For many, rehabilitation exercises are essential to regaining a healthy and active life style. However, such exercises are often repetitive and improvement over time is hard to appreciate due to slow...
Digitalverkstan
Digitalverkstan is a project financed by the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth and aims at engaging young people aged 18-30 in digital literacy, creation, innovation and...
weaving colors
DigiVäv
In order to preserve, develop and pass on the available knowledge of weaving into the future, we are developing an interactive, participatory, digital platform in cooperation with Studieförbundet...
Electricity Innovation Challenge
Electricity Innovation Challenge 2015 is an open innovation challenge that will take place in Gothenburg, between the 18th of September and the 21st of October. The purpose is to discover innovations...
ElectriCity Innovation Platform
The project aims to develop and implement an open digital infrastructure for software development and service innovation within the joint project ElectriCity. The purpose isto contribute to the...
EXPERIMEDIA
How can we understand the future of the internet from a user perspective? Which new services can we expect? The EU-funded research project Experimedia uses three venues – in Spain, Austria and Greece...
The robot owl Flax, mounted on its shoulder strap in Almedalen 2014.
Flax the Owl
Flax the Owl is a project that deals with raising questions about accessibility in society. In Almedalen political parties, non-profit organizations, government agencies, companies and others meet...
Framtidskikaren
Urban city planning present several challenges such as engaging and informing affected citizens. Framtidskikare, "The future binochulars" is a collaboration between RISE Interactive and Lundby...
telepresence robotics
Funktek
Funktek is a co-creative design project targeting museums and people with special needs, funded by The Swedish Inheritance Fund Commission. The aim of the project is to design and develop new forms...
FörskoleVis
FörskoleVis is a joint venture project between SP and the Interactive Institute Swedish ICT together with the Swedish municipalities of Göteborg, Härryda, Kungälv, Oskarshamn och Trollhättan about...
role play dice
Gameplay Design Patterns
How can we understand the possibilities of game design? Having a language to talk about existing or potential features of gameplay is a fundamental requirement for this. The gameplay design patterns...
Hackerklubben
Hackerklubben is more of a quest than a project, an ambition to educate and inspire children in science and technology in general and programming more specifically. Hackerklubben first appeared at...
Human and Machine
Human and Machine is a psycho-technological theater experiment at the crossroads between man and machine, where the aim is to explore the encounter between man and machine in a context where they are...
Hybrid Art Walk
Are you traveling to, from or through Gothenburg towards a better life? Who is following you on the road?   The Hybrid Art Walk is a mixed media experience that runs on smartphones and takes the...
In a Coded Reality
Stories and sagas have been a means to reflect and share knowledge since the dawn of humanity. In our digital age, technology around us take on living and sentient forms. Our experience of the...
Interaction Design MSc Program
The Interaction Design program was founded as a collaboration between the Interaction Design Group at Chalmers University of Technology and RISE Interactive in 2001. It has since grown into a popular...
IPerG
IPerG is a EU-FP6 project on Pervasive Gaming - games that integrate the technical approaches of computer gaming with emerging interface, wireless and positioning technologies to create game...
Interactive pillow
IT + Textiles
IT+Textiles experiments with the design possibilities as computation and textiles converge in new forms. As technology is increasingly integrated in everyday life, research attention has tended to...
Kulturum Partille
Together with the municipality of Partille and Changemaker AB this project aims at strengthening the ongoing work of designing the mixed learning environment of Kulturum. The space is to be a joint...
Maker Apprentice
The Apprentice project aims to offer a complete innovation space for young people. As an apprentice at RISE Interactive (formerly called Interactive Institute) 12-16 year olds get the opportunity to...
Monki R&D
Monki R&D is a pilot study which aims to develop concepts for fashion company Monki. With this project they want to explore technology and design methodology that better meet individualized...
Musical Cubes
Musical Cubes is an interactive sound installation for public spaces.      Our installation works like a collaborative step sequencer as it consists of eight interactive translucent cubes (2x4...
Musikjakten
Vad är forskning? Hur forskar man? Och är det verkligen kul att forska? Musikjakten är ett samarbete med Nobelmuseet, forskaren Palle Dahlstedt på Chalmers/GU samt högstadieelever och skolor runt om...
Neuro Games Platform
Within a multitude of areas the possibility of tapping into data from the human brain in sought after, from medicine to psychology, education and entertainment. The development over recent years in...
Next to you at Korsvägen
Next to you at Korsvägen is a collaboration with the artist Marika Hedemyr. It is a site-specific multi media walk being created for Korsvägen in Gothenburg, charged by an app for smartphones. The...
PetCast
Swedish animal health care is a growing industry which accounted for more than 3 billion SEK in 2014. The industry is in strong growth and today, every other household in Sweden owns a pet. The...
Public Play Spaces
Public Play Spaces was a platform for exploring the playful, emotive, and critical incorporation of technology in everyday public life. Drawing on art, architecture and activism, focus was on...
REHAB 360
In the health and medical care, new services are developed based on a holistic view of the patient's situation and living conditions to understand how care and rehabilitation can best be achieved....
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SIDD
Some of the world's leading digital diplomats gathered in Stockholm on 16-17 January 2014 for the Stockholm Initiative on Digital Diplomacy (#sidd) meeting. Interactive Institute Swedish ICT lead a...
Slow Technology
Slow Technology is a series of experiments done at the PLAY studio at the Interactive Institute 1999-2002   ...to design for reflection ...slow technology can be technology where the aesthetics of...
Smart-Its
Smart-Its is a technology platform for creating intelligent products and environments. The size of Post-Its®, Smart-Its are small, generic, and cheap computational devices that can be used for post-...
Sonic City
Sonic City explored mobile interaction and wearable technology for generating music in everyday life. The Sonic City prototype created electronic music based on sensing bodily and local factors....
STATIC! - ENERGY AS A DESIGN MATERIAL
STATIC! is a research project at the Interactive Institute that investigates interaction and product design as a way of increasing our awareness of energy in everyday life. The Static! design...
Swedish ICT Technology Enhanced Learning
The Swedish ICT Technology Enhanced Learning innovation area will leverage the unique combination of expertise within Swedish ICT to achieve real and tangible improvements in technology enhanced...
Creative Commons Wade Morgen "Android is better" on Flickr.
TELL US
In many respects learning has been overtaken by the fundamental changes introduced by the information society and many Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) innovations have yet to make their way into...
The Emperor's Temple
The emperor's temple was a live action role-playing game (LARP) with around 350 players participating and 120 structures erected for the event. Special equipment and services were built and...
The Maker Movies
The Maker Movies is a series of short introductory films for those who want to get started creating IT as material, regardless of age. The Maker Movies are created by RISE Interactive and are made in...
Together Anywhere, Together Anytime (TA2)
How can technology help to nurture family-to-family relationships? This is the question asked by the collaborative project “Together Anywhere, Together Anytime” (TA2). For many people, families form...
Traveur- We Run Free
The project develops a mobile community service for the city-based sports Freerunning and Parkour. The project has two main purposes. One is to develop a completely new form of community services...
TRIBE - Training Behaviours towards Energy efficiency: Play it!
TRIBE project aims to contribute to a citizens’ behaviour change towards energy efficiency in public buildings, through their engagement in the experience of playing a social game, linked by ICT to...
A morph of citizens in Gotheburgs people and buildings.
Urbanum
Urbanum is an exhibition which was created by the city museum of Gothenburg in collboration with RISE Interactive. The exhibition portrays the history of the city but from the perspective of both...
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2017-05-11 13:00 Växjö Carl Heath föreläser på Biblioteksdagarna i Växsjö
2017-05-10 Göteborg RISE Interactive deltar på Vetenskapsfestivalen i Göteborg
2017-03-16 18:00 Stockholm Anya Ernest pratar om gamification och UX
2016-11-30 Karlstad Makerskola - Service Convention Sweden 2016
2016-11-16 10:00 Skövde Skola för ett Interaktionssamhälle - Novadagarna
2016-11-14 08:30 Stockholm interaktivitet och kreativt lärande - Berättarministeriets Lärardag
2016-11-02 Malmö Skola för ett Interaktionssamhälle - SETT SYD
2016-10-31 10:00 Älvsjö Makerspace i skolan - Skolforum
2016-10-05 08:30 Göteborg MakerDays
2016-07-08 13:30 Visby Kulturlivet har funktionshinder - inte människorna
2016-04-26 10:00 Carl Heath keynote på SETT
2014-02-20 14:00 Seminarium i Spel och Lärande
2014-02-19 17:30 Göteborg Hackerklubben startar
2013-12-19 11:30 Göteborg Julmingel på Visual Arena med presentation av Monki R&D
2013-12-05 16:00 Göteborg Spelvetenskapligt Kollegium
2013-11-14 10:00 Göteborg Agera Digitalt
2013-11-13 10:00 Göteborg Agera Digitalt
2013-11-12 09:00 Göteborg Lecture at Visual Forum
2013-11-10 10:00 Göteborg Hackerklubben at FSCONS
2013-11-07 16:00 Göteborg Spelvetenskapligt Kollegium
2013-11-05 15:00 Varberg Introduction to games and learning
2013-10-28 11:00 Göteborg Introduction to games and learning
2013-10-10 16:00 Göteborg Spelvetenskapligt Kollegium
2013-09-20 09:00 Göteborg Internet as an arena of innovation in school
2013-08-15 16:00 Partille Internet as an arena of innovation in education
2013-08-14 09:00 Göteborg Hackerklubben
2013-08-13 08:30 Öckerö Internet as an arena of innovation in education
2013-06-28 13:00 Mariestad Kultur, bildning och internet
2013-03-04 08:00 Göteborg Scandinavian Developer Conference 2013