Tom Ziemke

Professor, Head of Unit

My research interests are in situated and embodied cognition, with a focus on how people interact with autonomous systems, such as social robots and automated vehicles.

Presentation

Professor of Cognitive Systems at Linköping University since 2016.

Head of the Cognition & Interaction Lab (COIN), which is part of the Division for Human-Centered Systems (HCS) in the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA).

More detailed information about my work can be found at:

Publications

2025

Daniel David, Paul Baxter, Tony Belpaeme, Erik Billing, Haibin Cai, Hoang-Long Cao, Anamaria Ciocan, Cristina Costescu, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Pablo Gomez Esteban, James Kennedy, Honghai Liu, Silviu Matu, Alexandre Mazel, Mihaela Selescu, Emmanuel Senft, Serge Thill, Bram Vanderborght, David Vernon, Tom Ziemke (2025) SCIENCE ROBOTICS, Vol. 10, Article eadl2266 (Article in journal)

Franziska Babel, Sam Thellman, Tom Ziemke (2025) SOCIAL ROBOTICS, ICSR + AI 2024, PT I (Conference paper)

Oscar Bjurling, Mattias Arvola, Jens Alfredson, Erik Prytz, Tom Ziemke (2025) Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, Vol. 26, p. 816-837 (Article in journal)

Valentina Fantasia, Katie Winkle, Katherine Harrison, Tom Ziemke, Dominika Lisy, Anna Dobrosovestnova (2025) Social Robots with AI: Prospects, Risks, and Responsible Methods: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2024, 19鈥�23 August 2024, Aarhus University, Denmark, and online, p. 703-707 (Conference paper)

Marcus Jessen, Mattias Arvola, Sam Thellman, Tom Ziemke (2025) International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 17, p. 1381-1394 (Article in journal)

Research

News

Interview with Tom Ziemke for the network organisation ELLIIT:

Researchers interact with a reading robot.

Studying whether a robot can awaken children鈥檚 interest in reading

Researchers at 福利姬 are studying whether a reading robot can increase fourth graders鈥� interest in reading. The interdisciplinary project brings together researchers in technology, cognition and pedagogy.

About the Division for Human-Centered Systems (HCS)

A woman is walking in a corridor together with a service robot

Human-Centered Systems (HCS)

The Division of Human-Centered Systems is a division within the Department of Computer and Information Science. The division's research and teaching is focused on studying and improving the interaction between humans, technology, and society.

Colleagues at HCS

Lars Ahrenberg

Professor Emeritus

Mattias Arvola

Senior Associate Professor, Head of Division

Adjunct Associate Professor, Docent

Principal Research Engineer

Anton Björnqvist

Johan Blomkvist

Associate Professor, Docent

Eva Blomqvist

Professor, Head of Unit

Head of Department, Professor, Head of Division

Lecturer, Head of Unit

Professor, Head of Unit

Associate Professor, Docent

Mikael Christer Öyvind Lindekrans

Adjunct Assistant Lecturer

Max Pettersson

Erik Prytz

Senior Associate Professor

Senior Associate Professor

Katarina Wetter-Edman

Adjunct Associate Professor, Docent

Erik Widmark

About the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

The Department of Computer and Information Science is one of the largest departments in northern Europe in its field. Research activity covers artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, software and computer systems, and data science.

福利姬

Tom Ziemke

Presentation

Publications

2025

Research

News

Studying whether a robot can awaken children鈥檚 interest in reading

About the Division for Human-Centered Systems (HCS)

Human-Centered Systems (HCS)

Colleagues at HCS

About the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

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