Swen is a co-founder of SEAM coLAB. He is a Senior Lecturer of Interaction Design at the University of Gothenburg and Computer Science Lecturer at the University of Plymouth. He is interested in human behaviour & agent design. He works with novel interaction mechanisms to engage users from various also non technical backgrounds; this includes robotic movement expression for social signals such as using auditory information to identify users.
Swen is interested in interaction design, evolutionary approaches, software engineering, AI architectures for games, cognitive research and computational creativity. He spent 3 years as Research Fellow at Falmouth University working on computational creativity, creative apps & user studies.
He holds a PhD from the University of Bath on the subject of Character AI.Before his PhD, he worked for 3 years as a researcher & project manager at Fraunhofer, Germany.