I am a PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology. I care about many things, from education to design philosophy, and I am curious about everything.
I grew up in Portugal and moved to Sweden when I had finished my master's degree in Architecture. I worked as an architect for many years, and still do on occasion.
But I found another passion: I have been teaching Human-Computer Interaction, Design Methodology, Graphical Interfaces, and Designing User Experience since 2016.
In 2020 I started a PhD supervised by Sara Ljungblad. Our project is about Social Drones and my heart is with design approaches and methods in HCI and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
Topics that speak to me: design education, games, critical and speculative design, art in HCI, soma design, illustration, architecture, and many, many more. Most of all, tell me what you care about.
I grew up in Portugal and moved to Sweden when I had finished my master's degree in Architecture. I worked as an architect for many years, and still do on occasion.
But I found another passion: I have been teaching Human-Computer Interaction, Design Methodology, Graphical Interfaces, and Designing User Experience since 2016.
In 2020 I started a PhD supervised by Sara Ljungblad. Our project is about Social Drones and my heart is with design approaches and methods in HCI and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
Topics that speak to me: design education, games, critical and speculative design, art in HCI, soma design, illustration, architecture, and many, many more. Most of all, tell me what you care about.
Publications
Mafalda Gamboa
TEI '23, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2023
Wisp: Drones as Companions for Breathing
Mafalda Gamboa, Mehmet Aydın Baytaş, Sjoerd Hendriks, Sara Ljungblad
TEI '23, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2023
Conversational Composites: A Method for Illustration Layering
Mafalda Gamboa, Sara Ljungblad, Miriam Sturdee
TEI '23, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2023
Nebula: Artistic Somaesthetic Appreciation with Biosignals in Virtual Reality
Birgir Rafn Baldursson, David Peterson, Mafalda Gamboa
NordiCHI '22, Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2022
Mafalda Gamboa
NordiCHI '22, Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2022
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Projects
Posts
Just Presented at TEI'23!
I just had a great time at TEI'23: Tangible, Embodied and Embedded Interaction. I presented three papers there: one paper and two pictorials. They are all very different and covering varying aspects of my research. Surprisingly -- I was awarded a Div...
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Just presented at NordiCHI 2022!
This week I have been at NordiCHI 2022. Met a lot of amazing people, and realised how lucky I am to be part of this nordic community. I presented a single authored paper and a demo with my brilliant master students. More on the topic as soon as I have ... (Link)
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Partially on Parental Leave
As some of you know, we have welcomed our third child into this beautiful (and yet terrifying) world on the 21st of December 2021. I am therefore on partial parental leave until September. You should still be able to get a hold of me, but I may be slow...
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Best Pictorial at C&C 2022
I am so happy to let you know that I have won the Best Pictorial award at C&C 2022! I am really honoured to receive this award, particularly from the excellent Pictorial Chairs Eli Blevis and Miriam Sturdee. The pictorial is Open Access! I presented ... (Link)
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