Gustav Taxén

Ph.D. Human-Computer Interaction
Lic. Human-Computer Interaction
M.Sc. Computer Science

Human-Computer Interaction Department at the School of Computer Science and Communication

Contact Information

Visitors

Room 4450 ('Voljären')
Lindstedtsvägen 5, floor 4

Snail mail address

HCI Department
School of Computer Science and Communication
KTH
Lindstedtsvägen 5
100 44 Stockholm
Sweden

Telephone

+46 73 673 71 91

E-mail

gustavt 'at' nada.kth.se

Publications

Ph.D. Thesis

Taxén, G. (2005). Participatory Design in Museums - Visitor-oriented Perspectives on Exhibition Design. Ph.D. thesis in human-computer interaction. TRITA-NA-0516, School of Computer Science and Communication, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, May 2005. [Abstract]

Licentiate Thesis

Taxén, G. (2003). Towards Living Exhibitions. Licentiate thesis in human-computer interaction. TRITA-NA-0311, Department of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, May 2003.

Journal articles

Taxén, G. (2004). Teaching computer graphics constructively. Computers & Graphics, 28(3), 393-399. [PDF]
Taxén, G., and Naeve, A. (2002). A system for exploring open issues in VR-based education. Computers & Graphics, 26(4), 593-598. [PDF]
Taxén, G., Druin, A., Fast, C. and Kjellin, M. (2001). KidStory: a technology design partnership with children. Behaviour & Information Technology, 20(2), 119-125. [PDF]

Conference papers

Taxén, G., and Frécon, E. (2005). The Extended Museum Visit: Documenting and Exhibiting Post-visit Learning Experiences. In J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds.). Museums and the Web 2005: Proceedings, Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics. April 13-16 2005, Vancouver, Canada. CD-ROM Proceedings. [HTTP]
Taxén, G. (2004). Introducing Participatory Design in Museums. In Proceedings of the 8th Biennal Participatory Design Conference (PDC 2004), July 27-31 2004, Toronto, Canada, 204-213. [PDF]
Taxén, G., Bowers, J., Hellström, S.-O. and Tobiasson, H. (2004). Designing Mixed Media Artefacts for Public Settings. In Darses, F., Dieng, R., Simone, C., and Zacklad, M. (Eds.) Cooperative Systems Design. Scenario-Based Design of Collaborative Systems. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 195-210. (Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, May 11-14 2004, Hyères, France). [PDF]
Taxén, G., Hellström, S.-O., Tobiasson, T., Back, M. and Bowers, J. (2003). The Well of Inventions - Learning, Interaction and Participatory Design in Museum Installations. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ICHIM 2003), September 8-12, 2003, Paris. CD-ROM Proceedings. [PDF]
Taxén, G. (2003). Teaching Computer Graphics Constructively. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2003 Educators Program. CD-ROM Proceedings. [PDF]
Taxén, G., and Naeve, A. (2001). CyberMath: Exploring Open Issues in VR-Based Education. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2001 Educators Program, SIGGRAPH 2001 Conference Abstracts & Applications, August 12-17 2001, 49-51.[PDF]
Taxén, G. and Naeve, A. (2001). CyberMath: A Shared Virtual Environment for Mathematics Exploration. In Proceedings of the ICDE 20th World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education, Düsseldorf, April 1-5 2001. CD-ROM Proceedings. [PDF]

Conference papers (co-author)

Fraser, M., Bowers, J., Brundell, P., O'Malley, C., Reeves, S., Benford, S., Ciolfi, L., Ferris, K., Gallagher, P., Hall, T., Bannon, L., Taxén, G., and Hellström, S-O. (2004). Re-tracing the Past: Mixing Realities in Museum Settings. In Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment (ACE 2004), ACM Press, April 2004.
Tobiasson, H., Taxén, G. and Bowers, J. (2003). Scaffolding Visitors Experience of Technology. In Proceedings of the 2003 CIDOC/ADIT Conference, September 1-5, St. Petersburg, Russia. [PDF]
Fraser M., Stanton, D., Ng, K. H., Benford, S., O'Malley, C., Bowers, J., Taxén, G., Ferris, K., Hindmarsh, J. (2003). Assembling History: Achieving Coherent Experiences with Diverse Technologies. In Proceedings of ECSCW 2003, September 14-18 2003, 179-198.
Hourcade, J.P., Bederson, B.B., Druin, A., Taxen, G. (2002). KidPad: Collaborative Storytelling for Children. In ACM 2002 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '02), Minneapolis, April 20-25 2002, 500-501. [PDF]
Alborzi, H., Druin, A., Montemayor, J., Platner, M., Porteous, J., Sherman, L., Boltman, A., Taxén, G., Best, J., Hammer, J., Kruskal, A., Lal, A., Plaisant Schwenn, T., Sumida, L., Wagner, R., and Hendler, J. (2000). Designing StoryRooms: Interactive Storytelling Spaces for Children. In ACM Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '00), August 17-19 2000, New York, 95-104. [HTML]
Benford, S., Bederson, B. B., Åkesson, K.-P., Bayon, V., Druin, A., Hansson, P., Hourcade, J. P., Ingram, R., Neale, H., O'Malley, C., Simsarian, K. Y., Stanton, D., Sundblad, Y., and Taxén, G. (2000). Designing Storytelling Technologies to Encourage Collaboration Between Young Children. In Proceedings of CHI 2000, the Hague, the Netherlands, 556-563. [PDF]

Technical reports

Taxén, G. (2002). Guilds: Communities in Ultima Online. TRITA-NA-D0208, Centre for User Oriented IT Design, February 2002. [PDF]

Technical reports (co-author)

Rosén, A., Sundblad, Y., Johansson, S., Santesson, P., Hellström, S.-O., and Taxén, G. (2003). Redovisning av projektinitiering och förstudie. Tyst ljudskulptur - Konstnärsdriven forskning. TRITA-NA-D0303, Centre for User Oriented IT Design, August 2003. [PDF]

Workshops (co-author)

Hedman, A., Bäckström, P., and Taxén, G. (2002). Learning and Engagement in a 3D Environment - Teaching Philosophy through the Art of Memory. In Proceedings of The 1st International Workshop On 3D Virtual Heritage, October 2-3, 2002, Geneva, Switzerland.

Presentations (co-author)

Back, M., and Taxén, G. (2005). Learning about visitors through collaboration between museum and research institution. Talk given at the 2005 Annual Conference of the European Network of Science Centres and Museums (ECSITE '05), Vantaa, Finland, 10 June, 2005.