Andreas Almqvist
Interaction Designer & Researcher
2020 - 2021
Philosophy | Södertörn University | Stockholm, Sweden
Philosophy student.
2019
MScEng (Civilingengörsexamen) in Media Technology | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Stockholm, Sweden
Thesis explores the design space of enriching a neighbourhood’s
social and communal affordances, resisting capital-driven design’s atomization
and passivation.
2015
Audio Engineering | SAE Institute | Stockholm, Sweden
Professional sound and music recorder, editer, mixer, masterer.
2019 nov - 2020 june
Associate Scientist | ABB, Corporate Research, UX | Västerås, Sweden
Leading the team's first Service Design project. Master thesis supervisor. Responsible for integrating sustainability in the UX teams' research strategy.
2019
Reviewer | CHI Conference | Virtual
Case Study paper reviewer.
2019
Poster Presenter | CHI Conference | Glasgow, Scotland
Presented Ways Into the Design Space of Butterflies in the Stomach. Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
2018 june - sep
Research Engineer | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Stockholm, Sweden
Research Engineer in Somaesthetic Interaction Design for home appliances, in an industrial collaboration with Electrolux.
2017 - 2018
Audio Engineer | Self-employed | Stockholm, Sweden
Edited, mixed and mastered 11 songs on album In Memory for chamber music group Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic.
2017
Expert Listener | Dolby | Stockholm, Sweden
Employed as an external expert listener in research project to judge sound quality of compression in surround system Dolby Atmos.
Digital fabrication & prototyping
Electronic circuits, sensors, actuators, 3D printing and modeling, laser cutting, woodwork
Research methods
Sketching, cultural probes, workshops, autoethnography
Programming
Arduino, Unity3D, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and frameworks, Processing, p5.js, PureData , Oculus
Other
Sound design, Adobe Creative Suite, LaTeX
Conference Papers
Master's Thesis
2020
Volunteer at STREAMS, conference for Environmental Humanities at KTH.
2019
Reviwer of Case Study paper at CHI2019.
2019
Student Volunteer at CHI 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the premier international HCI conference.
2018
Student Volunteer at IDC 2018, Trondheim, Norway, the international ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children.
2018
Student Volunteer at TEI 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, the international ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions.
2014 - 2016
Music room administrator in my neighbourhood at my local tenant association LOm. Responsible for memberships, finance, equipment and maintenance of the room and gear.
2012
Volunteer worker at the American Conservation Experience in Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, USA. Making and repairing hike trails in national parks and fences for livestock.
2020
Supervisor of master thesis at ABB, service design project.
2019
Invitation to collaboratively publish master's thesis. Awarded an invitation to the department's writing camp to elaborate and collaborate on my master's thesis Sites of Encounter with associate professors Rob Comber and Anders Hedman, and lecturer Jarmo Laaksolahti.