Laia Turmo Vidal

My research is concerned with Interaction Design for health and wellbeing. I specialize in designing and implementing interactive sensorimotor technologies. These technologies enrich people's sensory and motor abilities through digital innovation, facilitating new and unique engagements with oneself, others, and the world.

As the technologies and interactions we design deeply influence our bodily experiences, my research also involves carefully exploring and designing the integration of these technologies into people's everyday lives. The overarching aim of my research is to promote people's physical, emotional, and social wellbeing - all of which ultimately contribute to people's overall quality of life.

I have designed, deployed and evaluated sensorimotor technologies in multiple domains of health and wellbeing, such as sports, fitness practices, rehabilitation, exergames, physical inactivity, or professional dance. In those, the interactive experiences I have designed have promoted performance training, intercorporeal communications between bodies, playful engagements with physical activity, and new relations to one's body through perceptual transformations. Most of my research focuses on wearable technology with tight sensing-actuating feedback loops, but I have also explored XR exergaming technology and ML approaches to personalization of movement data. My research interests include wearable computing, personalization, material interactions, participatory design and soma design methods.

I hold a PhD and MSc in Human Computer Interaction (Uppsala University, Sweden) and a BDes in Multimedia Technologies (Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Spain). I am currently a Digital Future’s Postdoc Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden). Previously, I was a postdoc in an ERC-CoG grant at i_mBODY Lab (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) and a research visitor at University College London Interaction Center (UK).

Are you a Master student at KTH?

If you are interested in soma design, wearable computing or sensory technologies for health and wellbeing applications, feel free to contact me via email for the possibility of master thesis supervision.