The group conducts participant-driven qualitative research using video ethnography and micro-analysis of social interaction in natural settings. Working with users and public partners, it co-develops and tests practical solutions, refining methods through iterative real-world inquiry.

Danarc – development of a robot for echocardiographic scans
An interdisciplinary effort to build a medical robot that performs heart ultrasound (echocardiography) and uses AI to analyse images, aiming to reduce waiting times and improve diagnosis. Clinicians, engineers, designers and other experts work together to shape the robot’s appearance, movement, interaction and dialog to ensure positive patient experiences and acceptance by healthcare staff.

The project uses ethnographic studies and co-design workshops to understand current clinical practices and patient types, and iteratively tests robot behaviors in controlled experiments and real-world hospital settings for trust, transparency and predictability.

L2W - (Second) language learning in the wild
Studies and advances experiential second-language learning initiatives that use real social life outside traditional classrooms. It focuses on how newcomers harness everyday encounters with the local language to learn and participate more fully in society, combining interaction research, usage-based acquisition theory, and co-design with learners and practitioners.

Founded on a preceding network across Nordic countries, it creates new pedagogical practices, tools and materials that connect language use “in the wild” with formal learning contexts, aiming to make second language learning more meaningful, social and inclusive.

Social Interaction – Video-based studies of human sociality 
A ground-breaking, peer-reviewed online journal enabling embedding of playable video data directly in publications.

EMCA Bootcamp 
An intensive 5-day PhD seminar on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, combining lectures, discussions and hands-on work with interaction data to build advanced analytic skill.

ICOP_L2 
Seminar on interactional competence in the Scandinavian languages as L2s. A three-day course onsite followed by online teaching designed for MA and PhD students. To be held in Spring 2026. 

EPICUR 
Co-teaching and co-supervision of student projects with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and University of Strasbourg. Unites SDU, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & Strasbourg to jointly teach and mentor student projects across institutions.