2009 Uppsala University, Licentiate of Philosophy in Computer Science
           with specialization in Human-Computer Interaction
1996 University of Copenhagen, Master of Computer Science
1989 University of Iceland, BSc. Computer Science

1996-2001  EJS Ltd., project manager and usability expert
1995-1996  The State Social Security Institute, usability expert
1987-1992  Data Analysis, data analyst and programmer

2007 Grant from RANNÍS (the Icelandic Centre for Research) for the project: "Humanoid agents in social game environments. Co-applicant, the project amanger is Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Reykjavik University. Duration: 2 years, grant: 9,9 m.kr. 
2005 Grant from RANNÍS for the project: “Towards the Maturation of IT Usability Evaluation”. Co-applicant with Ebba Þóra Hvannberg at the University of Iceland.
2004 A pre-project grant from RANNÍS for the project: “Definition of measurements for comparison of software processes”.

Evaluation of how easy it is for users to use the computer system. Furthermore, reseach on how user are involved in developing software. 

Professional memberships

A member of a new  COST-network of excellence, called Twintide (IC0904) that the European Science Foundation (ESF) has accepted under the COST framework. The network of excellence included experts from various European countries. The COST-IC0904 action will start in November 2009 and will be running for four years.

A chair for the IT women society in Iceland since May 2009. The goal of the society is two strenghten the relations of women in the IT sector and to inspire more young women to join the profession. I have been in the board of the society since 2006.

The representative for Iceland in the IFIP (International Federation on Iformation Processing) Technical Committee 13 on Human-Computer Interaction since April 2008.

A member of a network of excellence, called MAUSE (COST 294) that the European Science Foundation (ESF) has accepted under the COST framework. The network of excellence includes experts from nineteen European countries.

Professional service 
 Refereeing
- Reviewer for the Journal: Behavior and Information Technology, May and September 2009.
- Reviewer for the Interact conference in Uppsala Sweden, April, 2009. 
- Reviewer for COST294-MAUSE Open Workshop in the COST-298 conference Participation in the Broadband Society’  in Copenhagen, January, 2009.
- Reviewer for the journal: Interacting with Computers, June, 2008.
- Reviewer for the Nordichi 2008 conference held in Lund, April 2008.
- Reviewer for the conference: HCI Educators 2008: Architecting the future, Rome, Italy, January, 2008.
- Reviewer for the conference: HCI Educators 2007: Creativity3: Experiencing to educate and design, Aveiro, Portugal, 2007
- Reviewer, Nordichi 2006, Oslo, Norway, 2006
- Reviewer for the conference: “HCIEd.2006-1 inventivity: Teaching theory, design and innovation in HCI” in Limrick in Ireland, 2006.
- Reviewer for book chapter proposals, for the COST294-MAUSE book named: Maturing Usability: Quality in Software, Interaction and Value, editors: Effie Law, Ebba Hvannberg, Gilbert Cockton, Jean Vanderdonckt, 2006
- Reviewer, Nordichi 2004, Tampere, Finland, 2004.
- Reviewer, CHI’04: Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria, 2003.
- Reviewer; The Second International Conference on Usage-Centered Design, Porthsmouth, USA, 2002
- Reviewer, CHI’03: Human Factors in Computing Systems, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, 2002
- Reviewer, Nordichi 2002, Aarhus, Danmark, 2002.
- Reviewer, Nordichi 2000, Nordichi 2000, Stockholm, 2000.

Membership of Programme Committees
- Will be general Co-chair of Nordichi 2010, Reykjavik, 2010
- Program committee member, INTERACT, Sweden, 2009
- Program committee member, Nordichi 2008, Lund, Sweden, 2008
- International program committee member for the conference: HCI Educators 2007: Creativity3: Experiencing to educate and design, Aveiro, Portugal, 2007.
- Program committee member, Nordichi 2006, Oslo, Norway, 2006.
- Program committee member, International Conference on Software Development, University of Iceland, 2005.
- Program committee member, Nordichi 2004, Tampere, Finland, 2004.
- Program committee member, Nordichi 2002, Aarhus, Danmark, 2002.
- Program committee member, Nordichi 2000, Stockholm, 2000.

Licentiate thesis
- Larusdottir, M. K. "Listen to Your Users - The Effect of Usability Evaluation on Software Development Practice", Licentiate thesis, Uppsala University, October, 2009. 

Book chapters
- Larusdottir, M. K., 2009,  “A Case Study - Hindrances and Success Factors in Student Projects”  in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 289, 2009; Creativity and HCI (Boston: Springer) pp. 189 – 202. From Experience to Design in Education; Paula Kotzé, William Wong, Joaquim Jorge, Alan Dix, Paula Alexandra Silva. Can be accessed at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89022-7_13

Journal papers
- Hvannberg, E., Lai-Chong Law, E., Larusdottir, M. K.: Heuristic evaluation: Comparing ways of finding and reporting usability problems, Interacting with Computers, available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2006.10.001

Refereed conference proceedings
- Larusdottir, M. K., Bjarnadottir, E., Gulliksen, J. "The Focus on Usability in Testing Practices in Industry" accepted for the Human Computer Interaction Symposium at the World Computer Congress 2010, Brisbane, September, 2010.
- Larusdottir, M. K. and Ármannsdóttir, S. E. “A Case Study of Software Replacement”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Development, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 2005.
- Hvannberg, E. Þ. and Larusdottir, M. K. “Usability Testing of Interactive Multimedia Services”, Proceedings of the 1st Nordic conference of Computer-Human Interaction, Stockholm, 2000. 
-  Frökjær, E. and Larusdottir, M. K., “Prediction of Usability: Comparing Method Combinations”, Procedings of “Managing Information Technology Resources in Organizations in the Next Millennium”, Idea group publishing, Hershey, 1999.

Short papers, workshop papers and posters
- Larusdottir, M. K., Haraldsdottir, O. and Mikkelsen, B.: “User Involvement in Icelandic Software Industry.  Proceedings for the 2nd international workshop on the interplay between usability evaluation and software development - I-Used 2009, at the Interact conference, Sweden, 2009.
- Isleifsdottir, J and Larusdottir, M. K: “Measuring the User Experience of a Task Oriented Software”. Proceedings for the COST-294 open workshop named: Meaningful Measures: Valid Useful User Measurement, Reykjavik, June, 18th, 2008.
- Thorgeirsson, T. and Larusdottir, M. K.: “Case study: Are CUP attributes useful to developers?”. Proceedings for the COST-294 open Workshop, Downstream Utility: The good, the bad and the utterly useless usability feedback, Toulouse, November, 6th, 2007.
- Larusdottir, M. K. short paper and poster named “Success factors in practical student projects”. Proceedings of  the conference: HCI Educators 2007: Creativity3: Experiencing to educate and design, Aveiro, Portugal, March, 29 – 30, 2007.
- Larusdottir, M. K. “Using the Think-Aloud method – A Case Study” accepted for the COST294-MAUSE International workshop "Review, Report and Refine Usability Evaluation Methods (R3-UEM)", Athens, 2007.
- Larusdottir, M. K.: “Food and groceries delivery service”, accepted to the workshop HCI Educators´ Yellow Book Workshop at the HCI 2006 conference: The 20th BCS group conference in co-operation with ACM, London, 2006
- Larusdottir, M. K. “Reducing the gap between HCI research and software development teams in Iceland” accepted to the workshop named: Improving the Relationship between Research and Practice in Interaction Design at Nordchi 2006, Oslo, 2006.
- Larusdottir, M. K. "Using Rapid Contextual Design at Reykjavik University", accepted paper for the workshop named "HCIEd.2006-1 inventivity: Teaching theory, design and innovation in HCI" held by British Computer Society HCI Group (BHCIG), the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) WG13.1 Education, and the Irish Computer Society" in Limrick in Ireland, 2006.
- Larusdottir, M. K. "The Usability of a User Centered Design approach", accepted as a paper for a workshop named “Improving the Interplay between Usability Evaluation and User Interface Design” at Nordichi 2004, Tampere, 2004.
- Larusdottir, M. K. "Student-centered HCI teaching", In conference supplement to the Proceedings of the second Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, AArhus, 2002. 
 
Other publications
- Larusdottir, M. K og Hvannberg, E. Þ. "Supporting One Task with Many Devices", Proceedings of the first International Conference on Usage-Centered, Task-Centered, and performance-Centered design, Portsmouth, 2002. 
- Larusdottir, M. K. "Teaching HCI at Reykjavik University", Proceedings of the first International Conference on Usage-Centered, Task-Centered, and performance-Centered design, Portsmouth, 2002.