Welcome!

I am Nicolai Brodersen Hansen, an Interaction Design and Human-Computer Interaction researcher, working on empowerment through tools, platforms and design processes. I hold a PhD from Aarhus University, have previously worked at the TU Eindhoven, and am currently enjoying life as an assistant professor at the department of Computer Science, Aalborg University. On site you will find a bit more about me, my research publications, current and past projects and my views on various things. In short, its a professional website so you know, the stuff you expect to find on one of those.

• What I teach this fall

  Prototyping and supervision

  Posted on February 3, 2024

  

  

  Today I officially joined the GIRAF project. GIRAF is a Giraf is a tablet environment aimed at autistic children with little or no verbal communication. It can be used for daily schedules, games and education. [Read More]

• New PACM paper - Surfacecast!

  with Florian Echtler, Raphael Vimmer and Vitus Maier

  Posted on October 13, 2023

  

  

  SurfaceCast is a super-flexible open-source streaming toolkit that lets you create shared interactive surfaces from a huge variety of devices, merging up to four separate locations into one shared mixed reality space. [Read More]

• Joining the GIRAF project

  A tablet environment for autistic children with little or no verbal communication

  Posted on January 18, 2023

  

  

  Today I officially joined the GIRAF project. GIRAF is a Giraf is a tablet environment aimed at autistic children with little or no verbal communication. It can be used for daily schedules, games and education. [Read More]

• CHI 2023 Workshop

  Posted on December 11, 2022

  

  

  One of my core interests is civic technology, especially designing for, with and by for instance digital platforms or novel design tools with non-experts. I have been lucky enough to have a workshop at the CHI 2023 conference accepted together with a very nice group of people. Here is the teaser: [Read More]

• What do Hackathons Do?

  New (best) paper out @ CHI 2021

  Posted on May 13, 2021

  

  

  I have long had an interest in program theory a specific approach to evaluation the mechanisms and effects of different design activities. See for instance this paper from OZCHI 2019 [Read More]

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