The CHI is a research centre at the University of Southern Denmark. It pursues a groundbreaking view This is what we call human interactivity.
Pursuing an understanding of the human condition leads researchers at CHI to study how human events are shaped by what people think, feel and do in highly complex settings, and how the results of their actions and coactions contribute to the wider ecology. When people begin with cognitive science, they usually focus on hardware, tasks and information processing. When they begin with the humanities
22/03/2026
CHI has hosted an exciting research visit this week. Matt Miller-Dicks is a sports psychologist at Portsmouth University - as well as an experienced football coach - and over the week, we explored the use of cognitive ethnography in sports science and models of expertise across domains. More will come of this - stay tuned!
18/11/2025
Last week, Centre for Human Interactivity hosted two exciting ecolinguistic events!
First, Martin Döring (University of Hamburg) presented his work on the usage of ecolinguistic methods in coastal protection in the Wadden Sea.
Second, we hosted a virtual book launch for two recent volumes on ecolinguistics, edited by Sune Vork Steffensen, Martin Döring and Stephen Cowley.
If you are interested in ecolinguistics, feel free to reach out to us!
13/06/2024
CHI Week. With guests, talks, coffee and cognition.
08/02/2024
The Centre for Human Interactivity is always welcoming new talents to work with us at Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark! Therefore, we are currently hiring Ph.D. students.
First, we have a fully funded scholarship in the area of "Embodied cognition in language and social interaction" (to be supervised by Ed Baggs and Sune Vork Steffensen).
Application deadline: 7 March 2024. Find it here: https://fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/da/sites/CX_1001/job/1404?lastSelectedFacet=CATEGORIES&selectedCategoriesFacet=300000002425892
Second, we also welcome young talents interested in applying for the "Carlsberg Foundation Humanities PhD Fellowships" at SDU. To apply for this, you must have a master's degree from a Danish university.
Application deadline: 4 March 2024. Find it in ENGLISH here: https://fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/1360 - and in DANISH here: https://fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/da/sites/CX_1001/job/1360
Carlsberg Foundation Humanities PhD Fellowships at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Southern Denmark The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) hereby announces three 3-year Carlsberg PhD Fellowships starting September 1, 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. The fellowships are available in all subject areas covered by the Department of Culture and Language or the Depa...
20/09/2023
Yesterday, CHI hosted a seminar on "Language, Landscape, and Behaviour." Our two invited speakers were Magnus Pharao Hansen (Copenhagen University, Denmark) and Laurits Stapput Knudsen (University of Newcastle, Australia).
A huge thanks to the two speakers, and to all the participants in the event!
16/06/2023
Earlier this year, CHI member and Ph.D. student Lotte Abildgren and others (including her supervisor, Sune Vork Steffensen) published the review article, "The effectiveness of improving healthcare teams’ human factor skills using simulation-based training: a systematic review" in BMC Advances in Simulation.
At this year's SESAM conference on medical Simulation, the keeynote speaker, Gabriel Reedy (King's College London), highligted the article as a promising line of research in the field!!
Congratulations, Lotte!
23/03/2023
Carlsbergfondet har yderst gavmildt givet de danske humanistiske miljøer midler til at opslå en række åbne Ph.D.-opslag - en mangelvare i et underfinansieret dansk forskningslandskab.
Hvis der sidder nogle talentfulde kandidater derude, som kunne tænke sig at skrive Ph.D. om sprog, interaktion og/eller kognition - fx ud fra socialantropologiske, økologiske eller 'embodied' perspektiver - i samarbejde med en forsker fra CHI, så tag fat i os! Der er i år opslået tre stipendier på SDU, og der vil ligeledes blive opslået tre i 2024 og 2025.
Læs mere her:
Opslag af Carlsberg Foundation Humanities PhD Fellowships ved Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Syddansk Universitet - SDU Det Humanistiske Fakultet på Syddansk Universitet opslår hermed tre 3-årige Carlsberg PhD Fellowship-stipendier med ansættelse fra den 1. september 2023. Stipendierne kan søges inden for alle fagområder, der dækkes af Institut for Sprog, Kultur, Historie og Kommunikation
03/03/2023
We're happy to announce that Dr David Karlander will give a CHI talk on the intellectual history of 'semilinguialism' on Friday 17 March, 12.15.
Join us if you can! Details below!
01/12/2022
Today Sarah Bro Trasmundi starts up a new research project "The Imaginative Power of Reading" which is funded by the Danish Independent Research Council. It is a novel perspective compared to that in the on-going project "Embodied Reading" that runs until March 2023.
Kan pauser gøre os mere kreative? Nyt studie støttet af Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond dykker ned i et ukendt hjørne af læseforskningen: Pauserne. De kan gemme på nøglen til, hvordan vi understøtter kreativitet, kritisk tankegang og ideskabelse.
21/11/2022
Last week, CHI had a wonderful visit by Professor John Sutton (Macquarie University, Sydney). John gave an exciting lecture in the "Minds in the Anthropocene" series at the Danish Insititute for Advanced Study, and he took part in a CHI seminar on “Interaction and Cognition: Pragmatics and beyond."
29/06/2022
CHI member Daria Schwalbe joined us in January 2020 on an exciting two years cognitive ethnographic study on communication dynamics in clinical practice. In the spring, Daria got a position as postdoc at Copenhagen University, but next year she will return to SDU as part a trans-disciplinary team that has received six million Kroner from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for a four year project on “Non-attendant or not invited? A cross-disciplinary study about why healthcare appointments fail and how this can be prevented.”
The project addresses structural, relational, and pragmatic dimensions of failed appointments in Danish hospitals through 4 sub-projects: (1) Analysis of non-attendance patterns based on a regional patient population. (2) Patient knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour. (3) Decision-making and management of hospital appointments. (4) (Mis)Communication.
The project goal is to provide more comprehensive picture of problems and intervention opportunities that (1) can partly be used to make predictions about non-attendances, (2) can identify interventions grounded in specific causes that trigger failures at hospital appointments, and (3) can identify patient perspectives and strategies that can lead to interventions in healthcare interaction with vulnerable patients where the risk of misunderstandings and failed appointments is high.
The project is part of a recent Research Portfolio on Human Factors and Patient Safety, established as a collaboration between CHI and the Center for Research in Patient Communication (CFPK) at the Odense University Hospital. The portfolio is led by Professor Sune Vork Steffensen (CHI) and Professor Jette Ammentorp (CFPK).
Congratulations to the project team and to the portfolio members on getting the funding for this important project!