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Karin Danielsson is an Associate Professor of Informatics at Umeå University's Faculty of Social Sciences and has directed Humlab at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities since 2001. Humlab serves as a premier competence center for digital humanities, providing advanced technical infrastructure and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration between humanities, culture, and digitalization across research, postgraduate education, and teaching.
Her research centers on co-creative and participatory methods for designing and evaluating digital systems, with dual emphases on AI development and healthcare digitalization. She investigates how Participatory Design approaches can address representativeness, co-creation, and social change in AI systems through critical theory and feminist technoscience frameworks. Concurrently, she examines digital transformation in healthcare, particularly dietitians' evolving practices and experiences with telepresence tools, developing methods to support innovation in clinical settings.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a decisive shift toward ethical AI frameworks, with groundbreaking work on queering AI to transcend binary systems, analyzing ChatGPT's impact on humanities education, and exploring child-AI interactions. Her scholarship consistently bridges technical implementation with social implications, emphasizing inclusive design and norm-creative methodologies across healthcare, education, and digital cultural contexts.
Her scientific recognition includes:
- Excellent Teacher Award (2016)
- Distinguished University Teacher title
As Humlab Director, she spearheads national initiatives including InfraVis (National Research Infrastructure for Visualization) and TAIGA, while serving on Umeå University's Council for Research Infrastructures. Her leadership cultivates cross-disciplinary dialogues that position digital humanities at the forefront of societal transformation through technology.
