Vasiliki Mylonopoulou, PhD

Vasiliki is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie alumna, focusing on Digital Health and Inclusion. She works with and for people with chronic conditions to support them to live independently and remain connected to loved ones and healthcare professionals without compromising their privacy and autonomy. She has worked with healthcare professionals and other stakeholders to support person-centric care services from a design perspective. Her vision is to create an inclusive digital society where the inequalities of the physical world in accessing, understanding, and receiving healthcare are absent. 

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She conducted her PhD in CHESS and focused on ways to design social features that support people in changing their behaviour into a healthier one. The thesis resulted in a design tool for health-related behavior change. Her post-doc was part of the project Digital Seniors, which focuses on creating design tools for designing technology for our older selves (casual technology users). She is part of the More Stamina app science team, which aims to support people experiencing multiple sclerosis to manage their energy. 

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Currently, she develops courses and teaches at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate levels around technology design for health and wellness by utilizing a user-centered perspective, and People and Patient Involvement in research and Innovation (PPI). She works as a senior lecturer/associate professor at the Applied IT department at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and she is a visiting scholar at the University of Oulu (Finland), Jönköpning University (Sweden), and Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden).​ Her research is published in Human-Computer Interaction forums and interdisciplinary journals, e.g., JMIR Human Factors, and she is part of international and national networks related to inclusion, such as INCLUDE  and NORM.

 

Vasiliki is interested in raising awareness for invisible conditions, such as developmental learning disorders in adulthood (work integration) and related mental health. She gave and is giving several talks on the subject, and she initiated and organised the international event A Different Way of Working and Studying for three years. In 2019, Vasiliki received the Equality and Diversity Award from the University of Oulu, and her event received financial support from the University of Gothenburg. Her interest in developmental disorders in combination with her academic skills and interest towards an inclusive digital society led her to be part of the Research Council for the Swedish Agency for Accessible Media (MTM)​