Mafalda

PhD Student


Curriculum vitae


Interaction Design and Software Engineering

Chalmers University of Technology



Mafalda

PhD Student


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Mafalda

PhD Student


Curriculum vitae


Interaction Design and Software Engineering

Chalmers University of Technology




Welcome!


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. My work is focused on first-person perspectives and understanding design sensibilities in the context of interaction design. I am an interrogator and activist, trying my best to be on the side of the oppressed, actively working on my ability to advocate for worlds beyond mine.

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.

I found another disciplinary field since: I have been teaching Human-Computer Interaction, Design Methodology, Graphical Interfaces, and Concept-Driven Design since 2016.

In 2020 I started a PhD in Design Research supervised by Sara Ljungblad and Kristina Höök.


Topics that speak to me: design education, games, fabulations, art, illustration, architecture, and many, many more. Most of all, the topics that others love immediately speak to me.

Publications


In Praise of Shadows: Sensibility and Somaesthetic Appreciation for Shadows in Interaction Design


Mafalda Gamboa, Sjoerd Hendriks

DIS '24, Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2024, pp. 3272–3286


More Samples of One: Weaving First-Person Perspectives into Mainstream HCI Research


Mafalda Gamboa, Claudia Nuñez-Pacheco, Sarah Homewood, Andrés Lucero, Janne Mascha Beuthel, Audrey Desjardins, Karey Helms, William Gaver, Kristina Höök, Laura Forlano

DIS '24 Companion, Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2024, pp. 364–367


The Undertable: A Design Remake of the Mediated Body


Sjoerd Hendriks, Mafalda Gamboa, Mohammad Obaid

DIS '24, Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2024, pp. 2591–2610


My Body, My Baby, and Everything Else: An Autoethnographic Illustrated Portfolio of Intra-Actions in Pregnancy and Childbirth


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


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Courses


Concept-Driven Design

A course in fringe design approaches at Master's Level


Graphical Interfaces

A course in Designing Graphical Interfaces at Master's Level


Interaction Design Methodology

A course in Design Methodology at Master's Level

Posts


Mar 14, 2023

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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Oct 13, 2022

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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May 9, 2022

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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May 9, 2022

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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