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ABOUT ME

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Vasiliki Mylonopoulou, Ph.D.

Vasiliki is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie alumna, focusing on communicating requirements and designing technology related to health and wellness. She works with and for people with chronic conditions to support them live independently and remaining 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 technological perspective. Her vision is to create an inclusive digital society where the inequalities of the physical world to access, understand, and receive healthcare, are not present. 

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.

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. She works as a senior lecturer 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).

 

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)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Design and Evaluation of Technology

Design Frameworks, Models, and Tools

Inclusive Design Methods

Disability Theory

Social Comparison and Behaviour Change Theories

People and Patient Involvement in research and innovation (PPI)

Health & Wellbeing

Developmental Learning Disorders

Mental Health

EXPERTISE

Design, facilitate, and analyze results from participatory workshops with single/multistakeholder stakeholders (e.g., Patients, healthcare professionals, family members) to investigate their needs, and support them in co-designing technology or digital services.

User research, analysis, and visualization of qualitative user data, and initial design ideas.

Interpretations of behaviour change theories in design features.

GET IN TOUCH

Tel 0046 702 517 497

University Email: Vasiliki.mylonopoulou@gu.se 

Email vassiliki.my@gmail.com

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Goteborg University

Applied IT Department

Human-Computer Interaction Division

Forskningsgången 6,

417 56 Göteborg,

Sweden 

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