Helena Lindgren

Helena Lindgren has a multidisciplinary background as authorized occupational therapist, work consultant in work rehabilitation and ergonomics, and computer science. She is Professor in Computer Science, primarily operating in the intersection between artificial intelligence, interaction design and cognitive science. What she is actually doing, and has been doing throughout her working life, is to develop her understanding of humans, find conditions for development of ability, match ability to the environment and build the environment social, intelligent, adaptive and inspiring.

Helena Lindgren takes particular interest in theories and methods that support the development of intelligent and autonomous systems for health care, which include and acknowledge the complexity of changing health care organisations and work processes in a larger perspective as well as the basic levels of cognitive and psychosocial functions. She takes particular interest in the following related to interacting with socially intelligent and autonomous systems and environments:

• human-AI collaboration
• socially intelligent agents and social norms
• knowledge aquisition and representation
• design of interactive and situated clinical reasoning
• user-authored and user-driven development
• formal argumentation and dialogues
• cognitive tools and personalisation
• person-adapted digital coaching
• evaluation of tailored, adaptive knowledge-based systems

Research group and environment

Helena Lindgren established in 2010 the research group on user, interaction and knowledge modelling, renamed to Interactive Intelligent Systems, and in 2011 the laboratory for experimenting on topics related to interactive, intelligent, assistive and social environments.

Research is conducted in collaboration with research groups mainly in the medical and health domains and with organisations in the local, national and interational society. The ACKTUS platform for knowledge engineering and interaction design developed by the research group functions as the research infrastructure in the applied collaborative projects, in addition to platform for experimenting on new solutions for user modelling and adaptive and personalised systems.

Commissions of Trust
National / International

• Member of the management team for Wallenberg Autonomous Systems, AI and Software Program - Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) (2020- )
• Member of the program committee PM-AI/MLX for Wallenberg Autonomous Systems, AI and Software Program (WASP) (2018- )
• Cluster leader for for AI & ML in the Wallenberg Autonomous Systems, AI and Software Program (WASP) (2018-2020)
• Board member of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS) (2011- )
• The Research Council of Norway: Panel member for evaluating research applications 2015, 2016, 2020
• Member of the VINNOVA HORIZON 2020 LEIT-ICT reference group (2014- )
• Member of the VINNOVA HORIZON 2020 HEALTH reference group (2015- )
• Board member and scientific secretary of the Swedish Association for Medical Informatics (SFMI) (2014-2018)
• Sweden's representative in the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) (2015-2018)
• Member of Local Organisation Committee for:
  • Social Chair: IJCAI/ECAI 2018 co-located with ICML 2018 and AAMAS 2018 July 2018 in Stockholm
  • MIE 2018 in Gothenburg The European conference on Medical and Health Informatics celebrates 40 years 2018 co-located in April with VITALIS
  • ECCE 2017 The European Confefence on Cognitive Ergonomics, held in Sliperiet Umeå Sept 20-22, 2017

Local

• Coordinator of Umeå University's participation in the national initiative "AI Competence for Sweden"
• Member of the council for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems at Umeå University (RAI) (2020- )
• Member of the council for eHealth at Umeå University (2020- )
• Member of the advisory group for research at Department of Computing Science (2020- )
• Chair for the advisory group for research studies at the Department of Computing Science (2018-2020)
• Project group member for the development of Sliperiet (UMU)
• Project group member for developing the Focus environment in the MIT-Building (UMU)
• Advisory Board member for Research and Research Studies at the the Department of Computing Science (2009-2017)

UMeHealth - An Infrastructure for eHealth Research, Education and Collaboration

Helena Lindgren is coordinating UMeHealth, a research environment eHealth-related topics at Umeå University. This is done in collaboration with researchers at the Medical Faculty and the Västerbotten County Council.

Education

Helena Lindgren has been actively involved in the development of courses and education since 2002. She has developed a collaboration between computer science education and education at the medical and social science faculties on e-health and interactive intelligent environment topics. This effort is partly funded by Vice-Chanchellor's strategic funds. Student projects are conducted in collaboration with industry and societal organisations since 2015.