Nils Dahlbäck

Professor in Cognitive Science

I am a member of
The Cognition, Interaction and Language Technology Lab (CILT-lab)
Previously known as The Natural Language Processing Laboratory
Division of Human Centered Systems (HCS)
Department of Computer and Information Science
Linköping University.

Office Hours

Spring 2013: By appointment only

Cognition and Interaction

I am group manager of the Cognition and Interaction research group. Please visit our web pages for mor information on our research.

Cognitive Science seminars

The cogntive science seminar meets bi-weekly.It is open to all faculty, ph d and masters students interested in theoretical issues in cognitive science.The schedule and program can be found here (in Swedish).

Cognitive Science at Linköping University

For an overview of Cognitive Science research and education at Linköping University, please visit our Cognitive Science web pages.

SweCog (The Swedish Graduate School in Cognitive Science)

I am director of SweCog (The Swedish National Graduate School in Cognitive Science), a national network for researchers and graduate students in Cognitive Science, funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)

Research

My primary research interest is on the interface between cognition and communication, including similarities and differences in cognition and communication between natural and artificial agents, as well as, but to a lesser extent, similarities and differences between acting and communicating in real and virtual environments.

My work on various aspects of human-computer interaction has been motivated both by wanting to contribute to the development of new forms of human-computer interaction, including the use of natural language dialogue, and by using lessons learned from working with these often restricted forms of communication and cognition to gain a deeper understanding of human communication and cognition.

Over the years, I have been working in the following areas:
  • Distributed cognition in everyday environments.
  • Social and emotional responses to voice interfaces
  • Cultural differences in social responses to media. This is joint work with Cliff Nass at the Department of Communication, Stanford University.
  • Natural Language Processing, especially dialogue management for natural language interfaces. Most of this is joint work with Arne Jönsson.
  • Hypermedia navigation and individual differences cognitive styles and abilities.
  • Human Computer Interaction, especially intelligent interfaces. This work was done primarily during my period as a member of the PERSONA and PUSH projects at the HUMLE group at SICS, the Swedish Institute for Computer Science 1997-1999.
  • E-learning. The focus of my early work was on the interplay between variation in two areas, the pupil's or student's learning styles on the one hand, and on variation in content types or kinds of knowledge on the other, and how these influence the design and use of e-learning. A short literature review written in 2001 as part of this work can be found here. I now participate when time permits in the research in our lab on virtual pedagogical agents led by Agneta Gulz.

Publications

Here is a list of my publications. Most of them can be downloaded from there.

You can also find (most of) them on my pages on Google Scholar.

Supervision

I am currently supervising the following Ph D students

Primary supervisor

Secondary supervisor (biträdande handledare)

Teaching

I will teach in the following courses on Bachelor's and Master's level during 2012/2013

All these courses are parts of the Cognitive Science Master's Program or Cognitive Science Undergraduate Program, Linköping University.

The development of undergraduate and graduate education in cognitive science has always been an interest of mine. I participated in a session on Undergraduate Education in Cognitive Science at CogSci 2000. My talk was based on a paper called Cognitive Science as Three Methodological Cultures. You can also look at the slides for the talk.

Professional services

  • Director of SweCog, the Swedish National Graduate School in Cogntive Science.
  • Member of the board of the the Cognitive Science study program.
  • Member of the Cognitive Science Society's ad hoc group for strengthening Cognitive Science in Europe

Previous affiliations and professional services

 

Miscellaneous

An interview with me in the Swedish daily Östgöta Correspondenten (In Swedish).

For the Cognitive Science students' magazine På Tvären #2, 1999, I wrote a short article (in Swedish) on the early history of the Cognitive Science Master's program in Linköping. The entire issue of the magazine can be found here.

Contact information

Email: nils.dahlback@liu.se
Mail: Nils Dahlbäck, Dept. of Computer and Information Science,
Linköping University, SE-581 83 LINKÖPING, SWEDEN
Phone: +46 13 28 16 64
Fax: +46 13 14 22 31 (Att: Nils Dahlbäck)
Visitors: Room F.472, Department of Computer and Information Science,
Linköping University
Nils Dahlbäck

Page responsible: Webmaster
Last updated: 2013-02-26