I am a PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology. I care about many things, from education to design philosophy, and I am curious about everything. My work is focused on first-person perspectives and understanding design sensibilities in the context of interaction design. I am an interrogator and activist, trying my best to be on the side of the oppressed, actively working on my ability to advocate for worlds beyond mine.
I grew up in Portugal and moved to Sweden when I had finished my master's degree in Architecture. I worked as an architect for many years, and still do on occasion.
I found another disciplinary field since: I have been teaching Human-Computer Interaction, Design Methodology, Graphical Interfaces, and Concept-Driven Design since 2016.
In 2020 I started a PhD in Design Research supervised by Sara Ljungblad and Kristina Höök.
Topics that speak to me: design education, games, fabulations, art, illustration, architecture, and many, many more. Most of all, the topics that others love immediately speak to me.
I grew up in Portugal and moved to Sweden when I had finished my master's degree in Architecture. I worked as an architect for many years, and still do on occasion.
I found another disciplinary field since: I have been teaching Human-Computer Interaction, Design Methodology, Graphical Interfaces, and Concept-Driven Design since 2016.
In 2020 I started a PhD in Design Research supervised by Sara Ljungblad and Kristina Höök.
Topics that speak to me: design education, games, fabulations, art, illustration, architecture, and many, many more. Most of all, the topics that others love immediately speak to me.
Publications
In Praise of Shadows: Sensibility and Somaesthetic Appreciation for Shadows in Interaction Design
Mafalda Gamboa, Sjoerd Hendriks
DIS '24, Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2024, pp. 3272–3286
More Samples of One: Weaving First-Person Perspectives into Mainstream HCI Research
Mafalda Gamboa, Claudia Nuñez-Pacheco, Sarah Homewood, Andrés Lucero, Janne Mascha Beuthel, Audrey Desjardins, Karey Helms, William Gaver, Kristina Höök, Laura Forlano
DIS '24 Companion, Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2024, pp. 364–367
The Undertable: A Design Remake of the Mediated Body
Sjoerd Hendriks, Mafalda Gamboa, Mohammad Obaid
DIS '24, Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2024, pp. 2591–2610
Mafalda Gamboa
TEI '23, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2023
Wisp: Drones as Companions for Breathing
Mafalda Gamboa, Mehmet Aydın Baytaş, Sjoerd Hendriks, Sara Ljungblad
TEI '23, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2023
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Posts
Just Presented at TEI'23!
I just had a great time at TEI'23: Tangible, Embodied and Embedded Interaction. I presented three papers there: one paper and two pictorials. They are all very different and covering varying aspects of my research. Surprisingly -- I was awarded a Div...
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Just presented at NordiCHI 2022!
This week I have been at NordiCHI 2022. Met a lot of amazing people, and realised how lucky I am to be part of this nordic community. I presented a single authored paper and a demo with my brilliant master students. More on the topic as soon as I have ... (Link)
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Partially on Parental Leave
As some of you know, we have welcomed our third child into this beautiful (and yet terrifying) world on the 21st of December 2021. I am therefore on partial parental leave until September. You should still be able to get a hold of me, but I may be slow...
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Best Pictorial at C&C 2022
I am so happy to let you know that I have won the Best Pictorial award at C&C 2022! I am really honoured to receive this award, particularly from the excellent Pictorial Chairs Eli Blevis and Miriam Sturdee. The pictorial is Open Access! I presented ... (Link)
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