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, to appear). ”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.

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. [doi][pdf]

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. [doi][pdf]

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. [doi] [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. [doi] [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 2006. [doi] [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] [pdf] [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.

Jacobsson, M., (2010), ”Poster: LIREC”, Submitted to NordiCHI 2010, [pdf]

Ubiquitous Graphics (by Johan Sanneblad and Lars Erik Holmquist) showcased at SIGGRAPH 2005(?). [archive]

Ubiquitous Graphics (by Johan Sanneblad and Lars Erik Holmquist) showcased at AVI 2006 in Venice. [archive]

GlowBots on show at SIGGRAPH 2007. [article]

GlowBots at WIRED NextFest 2008. [archive]

Digital Flowerwall at LOVE 2010 Stockholm Festival. [web]

Mobile ActDresses at Mobilmässan 2010. [archive]

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]