Associate Professor (Docent) in the Stockholm Technology Interaction Research (STIR) group at Stockholm University.
CAI-BLUE investigates how collaborative AI agents - adaptive, interactive systems that work alongside human teams - can support communication, learning, and shared understanding in blue-collar workplaces. CAI-BLUE advances the field of Responsible AI by promoting AI systems that align with Nordic traditions of participation and inclusivity. Rather than replacing human activities, AI agents are designed to support workers' communication, collaboration, shared cognition, and wellbeing - ensuring that technological progress can empower all kinds of workers.
The aim of the grant is to support a constellation of researchers in preparing a future large scale application to establish world leading excellence clusters.
The name AnthroTech reflects the recognition that we are living in the Anthropocene. Technological systems are deeply entangled with human activity and increasingly shape the social, political, and ecological conditions of life. As intelligent systems become embedded in homes, transport, education, hospitals and governance, the consequences of their design and deployment become more significant. AnthroTech adopts a relational understanding of intelligent systems. Success is not defined solely by computational performance. Instead, it depends on the capacity of these systems to be socially legible, culturally responsive, and procedurally accountable. These qualities cannot be engineered in isolation. They emerge through interaction in real contexts, which raises important questions of control, responsibility, and relationality that current frameworks of design and governance struggle to address.
Most people can easily form visual images in their minds, allowing them to recollect and reimagine familiar environments, pasts, and futures; to engage in meditation or relaxation; and to lose themselves in worlds created in response to music, literature, art, and film. Almost 4% of people lack this visual mental imagery (a condition called aphantasia), requiring them to adopt alternative cognitive strategies to accomplish these tasks.
This project examines how immersive extended reality (XR) technologies (i.e., augmented and virtual reality) can be used to understand and enhance aphantasics' cognitive strategies on different tasks, supporting them to create vivid visual representations. Exploratory work will be used to develop a portfolio of research directions for larger grant applications around cognitive augmentation and inclusive design for aphantasia. Human participants' empirical work with immersion and visual imagery ability as independent variables will be used as proof-of-concept, producing a publishable paper and dataset.
This project is focused on the development of socially assistive robots in people's homes, education or health-care settings, as well as robots working alongside workers in small-scale manufacturing environments.
The proposed project can be seen as an example of Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) or Intelligence Augmentation (IA). The aim is to develop adaptive social robots that can understand humans’ communicative behaviour and task-related physical actions, and adapt their interaction to suit. We aim to investigate and demonstrate fluid and seamless adaptation of intelligent systems to users’ context, needs or preferences.
This project is focused around understanding non-system directed audio (such as ordinary conversation and environmental, ambient audio) as well as not only what the user says to the system, but HOW they say it in order to design new user interfaces with more interesting interactions.
While this audio is much less constrained than dialogic speech directed at a device, and as a consequence, extremely challenging to recognise and model, it offers a rich potential resource for system input and human computer interaction that has been almost entirely neglected. Indeed, while speech research has been an active area of computer research, human-computer interaction research on speech has been given much less focus - potentially limiting the opportunities for applications of speech, but also for research understandings of how speech systems can fit with user activity and system use. We hope to open up new opportunities for human computer interaction using audio detection and processing.
In this project we are developing and testing voice assistants able to track, respond to, and reciprocate the gaze of the users interacting with it. We hope that this line of research will not only provide a more fluid interaction with such assistants, but will also help them better fit into the busy, messy, everyday contexts that define real work use.
With the growth in ubiquitous- and IoT-based systems there is now the opportunity to make significant improvements in how technology benefits everyday life. Yet existing systems are beset with manifest human interaction problems. Each individual system has been designed with a particular, limited, interaction model: the smart lighting system in your apartment has not been designed for the sharing economy, the lawn mower robot might run off and leave your garden. Different parts of your entertainment system turn the volume up and down and fail to work together. Each smart object comes with its own form of interaction, its own mobile app, its own upgrade requirements and its own manner of calling for users' attention. Interaction models have been inherited from the desktop-metaphor, and sometimes mobile interaction have their own apps that use non-standardised, icons, sounds or notification frameworks. When put together, the current forms of smart technology do not blend, they cannot interface one-another, and most importantly, as end-users we have to learn how to interact with them each time, one by one.
This project is built around developing a new interface paradigm that we call smart implicit interaction. Implicit interactions stay in the background, thriving on data analysis of speech, movements, and other contextual data, avoiding unnecessarily disturbing us or grabbing our attention. When we turn to them, depending on context and functionality, they either shift into an explicit interaction - engaging us in a classical interaction dialogue (but starting from analysis of the context at hand) - or they continue to engage us implicitly using entirely different modalities that do not require an explicit dialogue - that is through the ways we move or engage in other tasks, the smart objects responds to us.
by K Karlgren, N Soltani, A Rostami, D McMillan
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media …
by N Petersson, D McMillan, H Verhagen, J Solsona Belenguer
Proceedings of the 28th International Academic Mindtrek Conference, 143-154
by K Dudeja, D McMillan, L Quintero
Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Information Technology …
by A Andersen, A Rostami, M Glöss, D McMillan
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 3-16
by E Malakhatka, C Gkoumas, A Rostami, D McMillan, S Sateei, K Avetisova
Human-Technology Interaction: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives …
by E Malakhatka, C Gkoumas, A Rostami, D McMillan, S Sateei, K Avetisova
Human-Technology Interaction: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives …
by A Rostami, D McMillan, S Raviselvam, S Chan
ACM SIGMultimedia Records 17 (1), 1-1
by DMM Sanna Kuoppamäki, Mikaela Hellstrand
Digital Repertoires: Embedded and everyday technologies in later life, 139-164
by R Jaber, S Zhong, S Kuoppamäki, A Hosseini, I Gessinger, DP Brumby, ...
Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems …
by D Yadav, K Karlgren, R Shaikh, K Helms, D Mcmillan, B Brown, ...
Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems …
by K Berns, K Karlgren, AR Menon, C Rossitto, J Tholander, D McMillan
Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 1-15
by M Lee, D McMillan, I Torre, JE Fischer, Y Ruitenburg
Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 1-4
by A Rostami, D McMillan, J Hook, I Viola, J Nishida, HT Maddali, A Clay
ACM
by A Rostami, D McMillan, J Gutiérrez, C Jost
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
by A Rostami, D McMillan, J Hook, I Viola, J Nishida, H Teja Maddali, A Clay
IMX'24: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences …
by A Rostami, D McMillan, J Gutiérrez, C Jost
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
by K Winkle, D McMillan, M Arnelid, K Harrison, M Balaam, E Johnson, ...
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE international conference on human-robot …
by S Kuoppamäki, R Jaberibraheem, M Hellstrand, D McMillan
International Journal of Social Robotics 15 (9), 1507-1523
by K Karlgren, D Mcmillan
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems …
by D McMillan, R Jaber, BR Cowan, JE Fischer, B Irfan, R Cumbal, ...
Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot …
by PR Peña, PR Doyle, EY Ip, G Di Liberto, D Higgins, R Mcdonnell, ...
Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing …
by MP Aylett, É Székely, D McMillan, G Skantze, M Romeo, J Fischer, ...
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction …
by K Karlgren, B Brown, D McMillan
Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction 6 (CSCW2), 1-26
by Y Zhao, R Jaber, D McMillan, C Munteanu
Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems …
by K Karlgren, D McMillan
Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference, 1-17
by A Rostami, D McMillan
Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems …
by A Rostami, K Karlgren, D McMillan
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media …
by R Jaberibraheem, D McMillan
CUI 2022: 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Glasgow, United …
by K Winkle, GI Melsión, D McMillan, I Leite
Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE international conference on human-robot …
by S Kuoppamäki, S Tuncer, S Eriksson, D McMillan
Proceedings of the ACM on interactive, mobile, wearable and ubiquitous …
by D McMillan, R Jaber
Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 1-4
by R Jaber, D McMillan
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 1-11
by D McMillan, B Brown, I Kawaguchi, R Jaber, J Solsona Belenguer, ...
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 3 (CSCW), 1-26
by D McMillan, B Brown
Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019, 1-3
by R Jaber, D McMillan, JS Belenguer, B Brown
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Conversational User …
by I Kawaguchi, H Kuzuoka, D McMillan
The Transactions of Human Interface Society 29 (3), 269-278
by S Reeves, M Porcheron, JE Fischer, H Candello, D McMillan, M McGregor, ...
Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing …
by B Brown, K O'hara, M McGregor, D Mcmillan
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 24 (6), 1-25
by C Rossitto, A Rostami, J Tholander, D McMillan, L Barkhuus, C Fischione, ...
Proceedings of the 10th nordic conference on human-computer interaction, 13-24
by Y Fernaeus, D McMillan, A Girouard, J Tholander
TEI'18, Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied …
by M Sahlgren, E Ylipää, BAT Brown, K Helms, A Lampinen, D McMillan, ...
AAAI Spring Symposia
by D McMillan, B Brown, A Lampinen, M McGregor, E Hoggan, S Pizza
Proceedings of the 2017 chi conference on human factors in computing systems …
by A Rostami, D McMillan, E Márquez Segura, C Rossito, L Barkhuus
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded …
by A Lampinen, D McMillan, B Brown, Z Faraj, DN Cambazoglu, C Virtala
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and …
by D McMillan
International Conference on Internet Science, 119-131
by D McMillan
International Conference on Internet Science, 352-358
by A Rostami, C Rossitto, L Barkhuus, J Hook, J Laaksolahti, R Taylor, ...
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI conference extended abstracts on human factors …
by D McMillan
International Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability, 275-287
by I Kompatsiaris, J Cave, A Satsiou, G Carle, A Passani, E Kontopoulos, ...
Springer
by A Rostami, C Rossitto, D McMillan, J Spence, R Taylor, J Hook, ...
interactions 25 (1), 46-51
by I Kompatsiaris, J Cave, A Satsiou, G Carle, A Passani, E Kontopoulos, ...
Springer International Publishing
by I Kompatsiaris, J Cave, A Satsiou, G Carle, A Passani, E Kontopoulos, ...
4th International Conference, INSCI 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 22 …
by S Pizza, B Brown, D McMillan, A Lampinen
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems …
by B Brown, A Weilenmann, D McMillan, A Lampinen
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems …
by B Brown, J Bleecker, M D'adamo, P Ferreira, J Formo, M Glöss, M Holm, ...
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group …
by D McMillan, A Engström, A Lampinen, B Brown
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems …
by B Brown, M McGregor, D McMillan
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative …
by D McMillan, M McGregor, B Brown
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer …
by D McMillan, A Loriette, B Brown
Proceedings of the 33rd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing …
by D McMillan, B Brown, A Sellen, S Lindley, R Martens
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous …
by D McMillan, A Loriette
International Conference on Internet Science, 100-109
by B Brown, M McGregor, D McMillan
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Human-computer …
by A Morrison, D McMillan, M Chalmers
Proceedings of the 8th Nordic conference on human-computer interaction: Fun …
by M McGregor, B Brown, D McMillan
CHI'14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2335-2340
by D McMillan, A Morrison, M Chalmers
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems …
by C Marsden, T David Barrett, E Pavan, M Ciurcina, G Arata, A Mantelero, ...
EINS Consortium
by C Marsden, B Zevenbergen, T David-Barrett, E Pavan, M Ciurcine, ...
Unknown
by A Morrison, D McMillan, S Reeves, S Sherwood, M Chalmers
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems …
by M Chalmers, D McMillan, A Morrison, H Cramer, M Rost, W Mackay
CHI'11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2421-2424
by A Morrison, O Brown, D McMillan, M Chalmers
CHI'11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1501-1506
by D McMillan, A Morrison, M Chalmers
International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI) 3 (4), 17
by M Chalmers, D McMillan, A Morrison, H Cramer, M Rost, W Mackay
CHI'11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
by M Chalmers, D McMillan, A Morrison, H Cramer, M Rost, W Mackay
by D McMillan, A Morrison, O Brown, M Hall, M Chalmers
International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 210-227
by A Morrison, S Reeves, D McMillan, M Chalmers
Proceedings of the Workshop on Research in the Large
by D McMillan
Ubicomp’10 workshop on Research in the large: Using App Stores, Markets and …
by Alistair Morrison, Stuart Reeves, Donald McMillan, Scott Sherwood, Owain ...
Proceedings of Digital Futures
by M Bell, S Reeves, B Brown, S Sherwood, D McMillan, J Ferguson, ...
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems …