I am a PhD candidate in Language and Culture at Linköping University in Sweden supervised by Professor Leelo Keevallik and Professor Mathias Broth, and recently was a visiting scholar in Information Science at Cornell University, USA working with Associate Professor Malte Jung.

My research explores how robot sound can support coordination of humans and robots. I work at the intersection of conversation analysis and human-computer/human-robot interaction and study robots in everyday interaction with humans.

About me

Hannah is a PhD candidate in language and culture at the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS) at Linköping University in Sweden. Her thesis on sound in human-robot coordination is part of the Non-Lexical Vocalizations project, funded by the Swedish Research Council. Hannah has a Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science from University of Osnabrück and a Master of Science cum laude in Interaction Technology from University of Twente. She won the graduation award of the University of Twente faculty for electrical engineering, mathematics and computer science for her master thesis on the impact of robots on teamwork in the surgical operating room. She has published at prestigious international venues such as HRI, CSCW and CHI. Hannah gave a featured talk at CUI 2021 and has been an invited speaker at the Mixed Reality Lab in Nottingham, at EPFL Lausanne and at University of Chicago. During spring 2022 she was a visiting scholar in Malte Jung’s Robots in Groups lab at Cornell University, NY, USA funded by Vinnova.