Elsa Vaara

Senior Researcher at RISE SICS

Elsa Vaara

Senior Researcher at RISE SICS

Biography

Elsa is working at RISE SICS Västerås focusing on user experience design in process industry digitalization. She holds a PhD in Human Computer Interaction from the KTH Royal Academy of Technology in Stockholm 2017 researching aesthetics of felt temporal interaction through music, Sourdough Baking, and interactive technology. Elsa is a classical and baroque violist who extended her profession through studies in the product- and Interaction Design at Umeå Design School, Sweden. She started her design research in 2010 as a research assistant at the Mobile Life VINN Excellence Centre in a project dealing with stress, biosensor technology, and interactional empowerment