Eva Petersson

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Eva Petersson is a pioneering researcher whose work sits at the intersection of technology, rehabilitation, and non-formal learning. Her scholarship focuses on how interactive and adaptive environments can transform therapeutic experiences for children with severe disabilities, reimagining rehabilitation not as a clinical burden but as an engaging, playful process. Petersson's most influential contribution, "Non-formal Learning through Ludic Engagement within Interactive Environments" (2006), has garnered 55 citations and established her as a key voice in exploring how responsive environments can stimulate both physical and cognitive development through play. By harnessing the natural human inclination toward ludic activity, she demonstrated that repetitive physical therapy could be meaningfully redesigned to sustain motivation and foster genuine learning outcomes. Her subsequent work extended these ideas into gesture-based and robotic interaction, investigating how synchronized movement between humans and robots might open new therapeutic pathways. Her research on "stillness design attributes" further refined understanding of how non-invasive sensor technology can capture movement data to drive virtual rehabilitation environments. Collectively, Petersson's contributions have helped lay conceptual and practical groundwork for technology-enhanced, child-centered rehabilitation — an area of growing significance as digital tools become increasingly integrated into healthcare and special education settings.