Publications
Research Profile on Google Scholar
Ph.D Thesis
Mattias Jacobsson, ‘Tinkering with Interactive Materials : Studies, Concepts and Prototypes’, PhD dissertation, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2013. diva-urn pdf
Research Papers
Some may be provided with pre-prints where appropriate.
Normark, M., Hansson, K. and Jacobsson, M. (2026). “Civil data disobedience: Navigating data interaction challenges in human rights defense organizations.” In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26). ACM. Best Paper Award. doi
Rossitto, C., Comber, R., Tholander, J., Lindrup, M. V. A., Solsona Belenguer, J. and Jacobsson, M. (2025). “The collaborative work of stewardship in waste management in multi-tenant apartment buildings.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, (CSCW), Vol 9, Issue 7, Article CSCW488, pp. 1–30. doipdf
Lindrup, M. V. A., Tholander, J., Rossitto, C., Comber, R. and Jacobsson, M. (2023). “Designing for digital environmental stewardship in waste management.” In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1581–1594. doi pdf
Rossitto, C., Comber, R., Tholander, J. and Jacobsson, M. (2022). “Towards digital environmental stewardship: the work of caring for the environment in waste management.” In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22). ACM, Article 335, pp. 1–16. doi pdf
Murer, M., Jacobsson, M., Skillgate, S. and Sundström, P. (2014). “Taking things apart: reaching common ground and shared material understanding.” In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 469–472. doi pdf
Tholander, J. and Jacobsson, M. (2013). “Ecofriends: designing for critical reflection using social voices.” interactions, 20(1), pp. 58–62. ACM. doi pdf
Jacobsson, M., Fernaeus, Y. and Nylander, S. (2012). “Mobile ActDresses: programming mobile devices by accessorizing.” In CHI ’12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’12). ACM, pp. 1071–1074. doi pdf
Ljungblad, S., Kotrbova, J., Jacobsson, M., Cramer, H. and Niechwiadowicz, K. (2012). “Hospital robot at work: something alien or an intelligent colleague?” In Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ’12). ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, pp. 177–186. doi pdf
Solsona Belenguer, J., Jacobsson, M., Laaksolahti, J. and Murer, M. (2012). “Exploring the design space of Proxessories.” In Solsona Belenguer, J., Engineering through Designerly Conversations with the Digital Material [Doctoral thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology], pp. 205–212. diva-urn
Tholander, J., Ståhl, A., Jacobsson, M., Schultz, L., Borgström, S., Normark, M. and Kosmack-Vaara, E. (2012). “But i don’t trust my friends: Ecofriends—an application for reflective grocery shopping.” In Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services (MobileHCI ’12). ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, pp. 143–146. doi pdf
Vargas, P. A., Fernaeus, Y., Lim, M. Y., Jacobsson, M. and Dautenhahn, K. (2011). “Advocating an ethical memory model for artificial companions from a human-centred perspective.” AI & SOCIETY, 26(4), pp. 329–337. doi pdf
Fernaeus, Y., Håkansson, M., Jacobsson, M. and Ljungblad, S. (2010). “How do you play with a robotic toy animal? A long-term study of Pleo.” In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’10). ACM, pp. 39–48. doi pdf
Jacobsson, M., Fernaeus, Y. and Tieben, R. (2010). “The look, the feel and the action: Making sets of ActDresses for robotic movement.” In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’10). ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, p. 132. doi pdf
Fernaeus, Y., Jacobsson, M., Ljungblad, S. and Holmquist, L. E. (2009). “Are we living in a robot cargo cult?” In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction (HRI ’09). ACM, pp. 279–280. doi pdf
Fernaeus, Y. and Jacobsson, M. (2009). “Comics, robots, fashion and programming: outlining the concept of ActDresses.” In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI ’09). ACM, pp. 3–8. doi pdf
Fernaeus, Y., Ljungblad, S., Jacobsson, M. and Taylor, A. (2009). “Where third wave HCI meets HRI: report from a workshop on user-centred design of robots.” In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction (HRI ’09). ACM, pp. 293–294. doi pdf
Jacobsson, M. (2009). “Play, belief and stories about robots: A case study of a Pleo blogging community.” In RO-MAN 2009 – The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. IEEE, pp. 232–237. doi pdf
Jacobsson, M., Bodin, J. and Holmquist, L. E. (2008). “The see-Puck: a platform for exploring human-robot relationships.” In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’08). ACM, pp. 141–144. doi pdf
Jacobsson, M., Fernaeus, Y. and Holmquist, L. E. (2008). “GlowBots: Designing and implementing engaging human-robot interaction.” Journal of Physical Agents, 2(2), ISSN 1888-0258, pp. 51–60. doi pdf
Håkansson, M., Rost, M., Jacobsson, M. and Holmquist, L. E. (2007). “Facilitating mobile music sharing and social interaction with Push!Music.” In 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS ’07). IEEE, pp. 87–87. doi pdf
Jacobsson, M., Ljungblad, S., Bodin, J., Knurek, J. and Holmquist, L. E. (2007). “GlowBots: robots that evolve relationships.” In ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Emerging Technologies (SIGGRAPH ’07). ACM, p. 7. doi pdf
Jacobsson, M., Rost, M. and Holmquist, L. E. (2006). “When media gets wise: collaborative filtering with mobile media agents.” In Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (IUI ’06). ACM, pp. 291–293. doi pdf
Ljungblad, S., Walter, K., Jacobsson, M. and Holmquist, L. E. (2006). “Designing personal embodied agents with personas.” In ROMAN 2006 – The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. IEEE, pp. 575–580. doi pdf
Håkansson, M., Jacobsson, M. and Holmquist, L. E. (2005). “Designing a mobile music sharing system based on emergent properties.” In Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2005). IEEE, pp. 129–132. doi pdf
Pedagogical Publications
Josefsson, P., Jacobsson, M., Hüttenrauch, H. and Magnusson, J. (2026). “Between instruction and practice: How students understand and negotiate writing and AI in teacher education.” In Proceedings of INTED2026: 20th International Technology, Education and Development Conference. IATED, Valencia, Spain. doipdf
Josefsson, P., Hüttenrauch, H. and Jacobsson, M. (2023). “AI-driven plagiarism in Higher Education: Impact on learning and examination.” In Forskning om högre utbildning: Konferensabstrakt (FoHU2023), pp. 54–55. Stockholms universitet. diva-urn
Workshops, Posters and Exhibitions
Fernaeus, Y., Jacobsson, M., Ljungblad, S., Håkansson, M., and Holmquist, L.E. (2009). Contrasting Perspectives on Robots: a study among artists, researchers and the general public. Presented at the HRI 2009 workshop on “Societal Impact: How Socially Accepted Robots Can be Integrated in our Society”, San Diego, USA. pdf
Jacobsson, M., (2005). Active Recommendations of Media Agents in Evolving Mobile Social Networks, In Proceedings of European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS ’05), (poster presentation). pdf
Jacobsson, M. (2008). “Fragments of Companionship – Design Insights From a Blog Study”. In “The reign of catz and dogz” workshop at CHI ’09, Boston, USA. pdf
Jacobsson, M., (2015). “IoT Crafting”, Workshop at Internetdagarna 2015. ppt ws-pdf
Jacobsson, M., and Cramer, H., 2011. Universal robots as ‘solutions’ to wicked problems: debunking a robotic myth. In Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction (HRI ’11). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 153–154. doi pdf
Jacobsson, M. and Nylander, S., 2012. Always-On + Adoption – a method for longitudinal studies. In CHI 2012 Workshop on Theories, methods and case studies of longitudinal HCI research. Austin, Texas: ACM. pdf
Jacobsson, M., Rost, M., Håkansson, M., & Holmquist, L.E. (2005). Push! music: Intelligent music sharing on mobile devices. In Adjunct Proceedings of UbiComp 2005. pdf
Jacobsson, M. (2013). Sports on the Fringe: Running in Darkness. In CHI 2014 Workshop on HCI and Sports. doi pdf
Nylander, S., Jacobsson, M., and Tholander, J., 2014. Runright: real-time visual and audio feedback on running. In CHI ’14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 583–586. doi pdf mp4
Rossitto, C., Lindrup, M. V. A., Comber, R., Tholander, J., Jacobsson, M., Cabral, A., & Jensen, R. H. (2023). Data-Enabled Sustainability: The Collective Work of Turning Data into Actions for Environmental Care. In The 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW ’23). ACM. doi pdf
Rost, M., Jacobsson, M., and Holmquist, L.E. (2006). Push!Photo: Informal Photo Sharing in Ad-Hoc Networks. In _Adjunct Proceedings of UbiComp 200_6. pdf
Tieben, R., Fernaeus, Y., and Mattias Jacobsson. 2010. ActDresses: interacting with robotic devices - fashion and comics. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction (HRI ’10). IEEE Press, 353–354. doi doi2 mov
Unsorted
Jacobsson, M., (2008). GlowBots - a Love Story, In Video Program of HRI 2008, Third International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 12-15 March 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. video
Jacobsson, M., (2010), “Poster: LIREC”, Submitted to NordiCHI 2010, pdf
Ubiquitous Graphics (by Johan Sanneblad and Lars Erik Holmquist) showcased at SIGGRAPH 2005(?).
Ubiquitous Graphics (by Johan Sanneblad and Lars Erik Holmquist) showcased at AVI 2006 in Venice.
GlowBots on show at SIGGRAPH 2007. video article
GlowBots at WIRED NextFest 2008. archive
Digital Flowerwall at LOVE 2010 Stockholm Festival. web
Mobile ActDresses at Mobilmässan 2010.
Media Coverage
2006-01-04, New Scientist, “MP3 players swap songs with strangers”. article
(The Inquirer and Slashdot followed suit…)
2006-03-16, The Guardian, “Alarm bells ring as music downloads go mobile”. article
2007-08-10, New Scientist Blog, “An exotic pet? No, a Glowbot”. article
2010-03-23, Metro Teknik, “Roboten som somnar när den får pyjamas”, article
2019-08-22, Forskning.se, “Ny app upptäcker risk för att utveckla Alzheimer”. article
2019-08-28, Dagens Medicin, “Kritik mot ny app som ger råd mot demens”. article
2023-05-11, sh.se nyhetssida, “IVA 100: Södertörnforskare hyllas för forskning med stor potential”, article main