Licentiat Theses / Licentiatavhandlingar
https://hdl.handle.net/2077/838
2024-03-19T04:16:44ZDesigning for Local Mobility
https://hdl.handle.net/2077/2961
Designing for Local Mobility
Bergqvist, Jens
This thesis investigates the characteristics of local mobility from a CSCW perspective using ethnographically informed workplace studies and presents a framework for designing IT support. In this thesis local mobility is defined as a work related situation where workers move
within a specified physical area while performing their tasks. The research is presented in an introductory chapter and four research papers. The overall research question is: what are the characteristics of local mobility and how can we design IT support for it?
The main contributions are a set of characteristics of local mobility and a framework for design composed of a set of design dimensions. The identified characteristics are co-ordination (managing interdependent tasks), exceptions management (handling situations not covered by co-ordination tools), problem solving (the need to solve work related problems) and information sharing (sharing information perceived as relevant for others). The design dimensions are relevance (how important a task is in relation to the overall work performed), dependence (whether a task is carried out autonomously or collaboratively) and reach (the type of interaction workers engage in to accomplish a task, either local between co-located persons or remote when interacting with off-site persons).
2002-01-01T00:00:00ZMobile Newsmaking
https://hdl.handle.net/2077/2962
Mobile Newsmaking
Forsberg, Kerstin
The research reported in this thesis concerns the design of new and innovative IT support for mobile news journalism. News journalists often have to report events on topics that they do not know very well and with little time for preparation. News reporting is often conducted in the field, away from the stationary IT support.
The scope of this research is limited to the early phase of newsmaking when journalists transform everyday occurrences and happenings into newsworthy stories, discuss news events and formulate news tasks, do background research and frame news stories. The research question addressed is: How to provide reporters with contextual information relevant for news tasks in mobile situations? Contextual information reminds the reporter of the context for the task at hand. Helps the reporter to ask relevant and interesting questions and to properly frame the news story.
The thesis contains field studies, design implications and applications of mobile technologies. The following theoretical and practical results are described: 1) NewsSpace, a design model describing new ways of using IT in news journalism, 2) NewsMate, a prototype of an IT service for mobile reporters, 3) FieldWise, a generalised architecture for mobile knowledge management, 4) A description of the newsmaking process focusing on the early phase of articulation and contextualisation of news tasks, and 5) A news task structure, called Localising News, and
proposals of how the utilisation of task structures could improve the IT support for mobile news journalism.
2001-01-01T00:00:00Z