Maria Nilsson

Doktorand inom kognitionsvetenskap, inriktnnig Information Fusion

Research

 I am a PhD student within the Information fusion program, and a member of the Cognition & Interaction Lab, working on the development of a method which captures the interaction between humans and the technology they use to support their decision-making within the domain of Information Fusion.

Teaching

Decision Support- A User-Centred Perspective  - IS513G, Basic-Level (Course coordinator, Lecturer)

Decision Support- A User-Centred Perspective -IS714A, Advanced level (Course coordinator, Lecturer)

Information Fusion, Advanced Level (Lecturer)

Interaction, Design and Usability,- KB111G, Basic Level (Lecturer)

CV

2004 MSc HCI with Ergonomics, University College London

2002 BSc. Cognitive Science, University of Skövde 

Publications

Nilsson, M. Laere, J., Susi, T., and Ziemke. T. (submitted) On the active role of the user in Information Fusion: A distributed cognition perspective. Draft paper submitted for journal publication (International Journal of Information Fusion).

Alenjung, B. & Nilsson, M (submitted) Beslutstöd. (in Swedish) To be published in 2008/2009 as a book chapter in a Swedish cognitive science hand book. Lund: Studentlitteratur

Alenjung, B. & Nilsson, M (submitted) Människa-datainteraktion. (in Swedish) To be published in 2008/2009 as a book chapter in a Swedish cognitive science hand book. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Nilsson, M. van Laere, J. (2009)  Experts’ Views on User Activities in Information Fusion System Development Processes. In: Proceedings of SWIFT 2009, Skövde workshop on information fusion topics, Skövde, Sweden. ¨ (http://www.his.se/infofusion/workshops)

Andler, S. A., Fredin, M. Gustavsson, P. M., van Laere, J., Nilsson, M. & Svenson, P  (2009) SMARTracIn: a concept for spoof resistant tracking of vessels and detection of adverse intentions. Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 7305: Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense VIII. (www.spie.org)

Blasch, E., Valin, P., Bossé, E., Nilsson, M., van Laere, J. Shahbazian, E. (2009) Implications of culture: users role in information fusion for enhanced situational understanding. In: Proceeding of the 12th International Information Fusion Conference, Seattle, USA, July 6-9. (www.isif.org)

van Leare, J., and Nilsson, M (2009). Evaluation of a workshop to capture knowledge from subject matter experts in maritime surveillance. In: Proceeding of the 12th International Information Fusion Conference, Seattle, USA, July 6-9. (www.isif.org)

Nilsson, M. (2008) Mind the gap: Human decision making and information fusion. Licentiate Thesis, Örebro University. (www.oru.se/PageFiles/15214/Maria%20Nilsson%20nr%2034.pdf )

Nilsson, M., Susi, T., Laere, J. v., & Ziemke, T. (2008). Formulising Distributed Cognition into a Tool to Capture Information Fusion Processes. Proceedings of Skövde Workshop of Information Fusion Topics (SWIFT 2008), Skövde, Sweden. http://www.his.se/infofusion/workshops

van Laere,  J. Nilsson, M., Ujvari, S., & Hilletofth, P. (2008) Reflections on Fusion Systems Requirements Analysis for Maintenance Planning. Proceedings of Skövde Workshop of Information Fusion Topics Workshop of Information Fusion Topics (SWIFT 2008), Skövde, Sweden. http://www.his.se/infofusion/workshops

Nilsson, M. (2008) Towards a distributed cognition perspective on decision making to inform information fusion based decision support. In: Proceedings of Workshop on Information Technology, Halmstad, Sweden, 10-12 March. (www.hh.se)

Nilsson, M., Riveiro, M. and Ziemke, T. (2008) Investigating human-computer interaction issues in information-fusion-based decision support. Technical Report: HS-IKI -TR-08-002, School of humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde.

Nilsson, M., van Laere, J., Ziemke, T., Berggren, P., and Kylesten, B. (2008) A user study of the Impact Matrix, a fusion based decision support for enhanced situation awareness.  In: Proceedings of the 11th International Information Fusion Conference, Cologne, Germany, June 30- 3 July. (www.isif.org)

Nilsson, M., van Laere, J., Ziemke, T. & Edlund, J. (2008) Extracting rules from expert operators to support situation awareness in maritime surveillance. In Proceedings of the 11th International Information Fusion Conference.  Cologne, Germany, June 30- 3 July. (www.isif.org)

Nilsson, M. (2008) Characterising User Interaction to Inform Information-Fusion-Driven Decision Support. In Proceedings of European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Madeira, Portugal, 16-19 September. (http://portal.acm.org)

Nilsson, M. (2007) Human decision making and information fusion: extending the concept of decision support. In: Technical Report: IDE0727, Workshop on Information Technology, Halmstad University.

Nilsson, M. and Ziemke, T. (2007) Information Fusion: A decision support Perspective. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Fusion, Québec, Canada, 9-12 July. (www.isif.org)

van Laere, J., Nilsson, M. & Ziemke, T. (2007) Implications of Weickan perspective on decision making for information fusion research and practice. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Fusion, Québec, Canada, 9-12 July. (www.isif.org)

Boström, H., Andler, S. F., Brohede, M., Johansson, R., Karlsson, A., van Laere, J., Niklasson, L., Nilsson, M., Persson, A., & Ziemke, T. (2007) On the Definition of Information Fusion as a Field of Research. Technical Report: HS-IKI -TR-07-006, School of humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde. ( http://his.diva-portal.org)

Nilsson, M. (2007) Information Fusion: a new requirement for effective decision making? (My PhD) Interfaces 70, p. 11.(www.bcs-hci.org.uk )

Nilsson, M and Ziemke, T. (2006) Rethinking Level 5: Distributed Cognition and Information Fusion. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Fusion, Florence, Italy, 10-13 July. (www.isif.org)

Nilsson, M. (2006) Rethinking HCI for Information Fusion and Decision Support. In: Proceedings of the 20th BCS-HCI British HCI 2006 Group Conference (HCI 2006), vol. 2, pp. 225-227. (www.bcs-hci.org.uk)

Nilsson, M., Adams, A., Herd, S. (2005) Building security and trust in online banking. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Human- Computer Interaction (CHI 2005), pp. 1701 – 1704.  (http://portal.acm.org)