Kristina Höök
Kristina Höök (born 1964) is a Swedish computer scientist specializing in human–computer interaction and known for her work in somaesthetics. She is a professor in interaction design at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.[1]
Education and career
[edit]Höök earned a bachelor's degree in 1987 from Uppsala University, completed a Ph.D. in 1996 at Stockholm University, and earned a habilitation in 2002 from Stockholm University.[2]
She has been a researcher for the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) since 1990, and became a professor at Stockholm University in 2003. She moved to KTH in 2012.[2]
She served as the Editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction from 2018 until 2024.
Books
[edit]Höök is the author of the book Designing with the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction Design, published in 2018 by the MIT Press.
Her edited volumes include Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach (with David Benyon and Alan J. Munro, Springer, 2003)[3] and Social Navigation of Information Space (with Munro and Benyon, Springer, 1999).
Recognition
[edit]Höök was the 1997 winner of the ERCIM Cor Baayen Award.[1][2][4] In 2005, she was named to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.[1] In 2020 she was elected to the CHI Academy.[5] In 2022, Höök received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg's IT Faculty.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Dr. Kristina Höök", ACM Distinguished Speakers, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2020-08-09
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae (PDF), August 2019, retrieved 2020-08-09
- ^ Paolucci, Peter (October 2003), "Review of Designing Information Spaces", Educational Technology & Society, 6 (4): 166–168, JSTOR jeductechsoci.6.4.166
- ^ Launberg, Janusz (January 1998), "Kristina Höök selected Cor Baayen Fellow of the Year", ERCIM News, vol. 32
- ^ 2020 SIGCHI Awards, ACM SIGCHI, retrieved 2020-08-09
- ^ "Professor Kristina Höök got her insignia as honorary doctor | University of Gothenburg". www.gu.se. 27 March 2023. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
External links
[edit]- Home page
- Kristina Höök publications indexed by Google Scholar
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
| Other | |
