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]

She served as the Editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction from 2018 until 2024.

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]

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