Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi by Title
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Enacting ambidextrous IT governance in healthcare
(2020-05-20)With digitalization, Information Technology (IT) has become an integral part of digital business strategies and future solutions and this calls for organizations to prioritize the governance of IT if they are to succeed ... -
Evaluating as designing. Towards a Balanced IT investements Approach
(2011-02-25)The evaluation of information technology (IT) investments continues to present challenges to many organizations. While the emergence of new technologies complicates this activity, business value from IT typically resides ... -
EXPERIENCES OF SPEAKING WITH CONVERSATIONAL AI IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION
(2023-08-17)This thesis explores the application of digital tools in Swedish language education, specifically in relation to speaking skills. It focuses on dialogue- based, computer-assisted language learning, which enables students ... -
Frame Shifting and Frame Blending in Digital Transformation
(2023-05-04)As organizations embrace digital technologies in new ways, they experience a process known as digital transformation. This process is not just about technological changes – digital transformation also involves ... -
Health Information Systems Interoperability: Towards a Managing as Designing Approach
(2021-10-08)Integrated digital healthcare systems promise improved quality public healthcare and patient continued care among others. However, these have been hampered by various challenges including limited data exchanges between ... -
Heterogeneous IT Innovation. Developing Industrial Architectural Knowledge
(2007)Multiple information technologies are converging. Crucial to organizations’ relentless struggle to remain competitive, IT innovation processes must now increasingly take into consideration a multitude of stationary, ... -
Instructional technologies in science education: Student´s scientific reasoning in collaborative classroom activities
(2012-03-08)This study originates from an interest in how students interpret scientific con-cepts demonstrated with animated instructional technologies. Currently, science education makes use of diverse kinds of instructional methods. ... -
Kritiskt digitalt textarbete i klassrummet
(2020-03-13)Increasingly sophisticated technologies are expanding opportunities to create, use and share digital and multimodal texts based on different perspectives and motives. Among the prerequisites for participating actively in ... -
Kunskapsintegrering med informationssystem i professionsorienterade praktiker
(2012-06-01)Den här avhandlingen utgår ifrån ett professionsorienterat perspektiv på användning av informationssystem. Informationssystem för kunskapsintegrering i professionsorienterade arbetspraktiker innebär en dynamik för styrning ... -
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 ...