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Making sense of sensing: Learning through Maker-based Civic Engagement
(2022-03-02)In the last decade or two, initiatives engaging the public in scientific activities have become increasingly popular. For example, in air pollution monitoring with Do-it-Yourself (DIY) low-cost sensors. It is a relatively ... -
Maternal Healthcare in Low-Resource Settings: Investigations of IT as a resource
(2020-05-15)Maternal mortality is a major problem especially in developing countries. Maternal deaths are partly attributed to the limited access to healthcare and a shortage of medically trained health professionals who can provide ... -
Mobile phones in school: From disturbing objects to infrastructure for learning
(2017-09-06)Amid digitalisation, the mobile phone has pervaded society and become one of the most widespread digital technologies. In school, the mobile phone has stirred up conflicts and tensions visible in public debate as well as ... -
Narrativer i förändringsarbete – Från projekt till Athenas plan
(2014-09-24)Planned changes occur constantly in organizations. Most of these change management projects fail to reach decided goals and have limited impact within the organization. An important prerequisite for anchoring changes is ... -
OPEN LEARNING IN LIFE SCIENCES – Studies of open educational resources in animal welfare and work-based learning in food science.
(2015-10-05)The aim of this thesis is to explore ways of organising and supporting open learning in food science, food quality and animal welfare at the boundary between society, the university and other academic institutions. Two ... -
Platformization: Digital Materiality at the Limits of Discourse
(2023-04-13)The digital platform has served us well as a metaphor for an imaginary ‘something’ made comprehensible through theories such as matchmaking, externalities, and network effects. But as much as metaphors and theories can ... -
Playing for Togetherness - Designing for Interaction Rituals through Gaming
(2012-04-11)can design facilitate togetherness through games? Seeing the outcomes of a successful interaction ritual – positive emotional energy and a sense of group solidarity – as the main components of the togetherness of games, ... -
Plug & Play? Stakeholders’ co-meaningmaking of gamification implementations in workplace learning environments
(2023-01-12)This dissertation discusses the implementation process of gamification in organisations’ workplace learning environments, focusing on four stakeholder groups: Administrators, Leaders, Providers and Users. These stakeholder ... -
Positive Persuasion - Designing enjoyable energy feedback experiences in the home
(2010-05-21)The world currently faces huge challenges in terms of our excessive use of energy. Energy conservation – a topic that has been on the agenda since the energy crisis in the 1970s – has for this reason once again become a ... -
A professional community goes online - a study of an online learning community in general medicine
(2010-05-12)The aim of the study is to investigate how an e-mailing list, organised and managed by a Swedish professional association of general medicine, functions as an online learning ommunity (OLC). In a contemporary networked society, ... -
Reasoning with Bounded Cognitive Resources
(2015-10-05)Reasoning is an essential element of intelligence. Automated reasoning in formal and symbolic systems is a major topic in computer science and artificial intelligence (AI). Programs for computer-assisted and automated ... -
Reproducing Traditional Discourses of Teaching and Learning Mathematics: Studies of Mathematics and ICT in Teaching and Teacher Education
(2012-04-16)This thesis is primarily concerned with the effects of education for future teachers in the context of the Swedish teacher training (Government Bill 1999/2000:135 2000). It belongs to a theoretical tradition in which the ... -
Service Logic in Digitalized Product Platforms—A Study of Digital Service Innovation in the Vehicle Industry
(2015-09-07)The digitalization of products has become an important driver for service innovation in manufacturing firms. The embedding of digital technology in previously non-digital products creates digitalized product platforms that ... -
Shared Platform Evolution: An Imbrication Analysis of Coopetition and Architecture
(2018-02-13)Shared platforms are a stable foundation for the integration of digital components by heterogeneous actors. These platforms are an emergent organizational form whose members seek interoperability of their IT systems through ... -
Spelet om musiken - Unga musiker spelar digitala musikspel
(2020-11-04)Under de senaste årtiondena har många spelutvecklare, utbildare och forskare argumenterat för att digitala spel bör användas som miljöer för lärande. Vanliga argument har varit att spel är säkra zoner där misslyckanden ... -
Teaching with Digital Mathematics Textbooks - Activity Theoretical Studies of Data-Driven Technology in Classroom Practices
(2021-09-24)The introduction of digital textbooks, with data-driven functionalities, is a recent trend in mathematics education challenging established teaching practices. This new technology represents a key shift as student datasets ... -
THE CONSENSING APPROACH TO STRATEGIZING: The Dynamics of Dialogue in Public Sector Digital Transformation
(2024-04-10)This thesis explores the role of consensing, a process of cognitive consensus-building through the mechanisms of sensing and synthesizing, in digital transformation strategy formulation within the Swedish public sector. ... -
The Emergence of Digital Institutions
(2019-10-04)Pervasive digitalization reshapes identities and processes of public sector providers, ranging from healthcare to education and justice. Recently, significant research attention has been given to such transformations, but ... -
The Value of Social Media: What Social Networking Sites Afford Organizations
(2018-05-21)Social media are a phenomenon that has quickly become deeply rooted in the mechanics of our everyday lives, dramatically changing how we interact and collaborate with family, peers, and society. Meanwhile, organizations ... -
Understanding in Real-Time Communication
(2018-05-22)Human communication is profoundly social. In social activities, it is not uncommon that people are understood in many different ways, which may have various consequences for social and interpersonal communication. This ...