Dr. Swen E. Gaudl is a Senior Lecturer for Interaction Design at the Department of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He teaches on interaction design, ai and programming. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bath, on advancing the development tools and approaches for creating better character AI. His main research interests are to broaden the available knowledge on the understanding and replication of human behaviour/interaction and agent design with the aim to create something applicable beyond the confines of academia. This includes creating novel robotic concepts, AI, approaches for connecting people and playful artefacts, testing the limits of the current state-of-the-art. Until 2022, he spent 3 years at the University of Plymouth, teaching programming, games and robotics both in the UK and abroad. Besides teaching he contributed to numerous research projects including writing applications to funding bodies mainly in the domains of eHealth and technology. He spent 3 years as a Research Fellow Falmouth, UK, working on computational creativity, creative app development, software design and user studies. Before his PhD, he worked for 3 years as a researcher at Fraunhofer, Germany. His main work was in areas related to digital games, software, and project management. Beyond traditional computing research, he enjoys working in interdisciplinary teams, where he explores new concepts which could benefit the creative expression of writers, designers and dancers.
