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Lone Malmborg is an Associate Professor and Head of Digital Design Department at the IT University of Copenhagen. She holds a MSc in Computer Science and Danish Literature and Language, and a PhD in Computer Science / Informatics.

Her latest research explores how co-design, interaction design and social innovation can change the research agenda in design and ageing, and more specifically design related to social aspects of ageing. 2014 to 2017 she was the scientific coordinator of the EU project Give&Take – Designing a reciprocal exchange service for a good and engaged senior life. She also participated in two research projects SeniorInteraction, and LevVel Mødestedet both focusing on design in ageing. She has more than 100 publications in areas related to interaction design, co-design and social innovation.

She co-edited Digital Creativity 1998-2015. Further, she was an appointed member of the Danish Disability Council 2011-2015 working for an inclusion and participation agenda.

Before joining ITU, she developed an interaction design study program at Malmö University, K3, and headed the research group Creative Environment at K3.