Kristina Höök (born 1964) is a Swedish computer scientist specializing in human–computer interaction and known for her work in somaesthetics. She is a professor in interaction design at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. [1]
Höök earned a bachelor's degree in 1987 from Uppsala University, completed a Ph.D. in 1996 at Stockholm University, and earned a habilitation in 2002 from Stockholm University. [2]
She has been a researcher for the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) since 1990, and became a professor at Stockholm University in 2003. She moved to KTH in 2012. [2]
Höök is the author of the book Designing with the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction Design, published in 2018 by the MIT Press.
Her edited volumes include Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach (with David Benyon and Alan J. Munro, Springer, 2003) [3] and Social Navigation of Information Space (with Munro and Benyon, Springer, 1999).
Höök was the 1997 winner of the ERCIM Cor Baayen Award. [1] [2] [4] In 2005, she was named to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. [1] In 2020 she was elected to the CHI Academy. [5] In 2022, Höök received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg's IT Faculty. [6]