Search for dissertations about: "Toolkits"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the word Toolkits.
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1. Opening Up Design : Engaging the Layperson in the Design of Everyday Products
Abstract : This dissertation in industrial design focuses on the gap between the context of design and the context of use. It aims to open up design to the layperson and investigate an active role for the layperson in the design of everyday products. READ MORE
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2. Fudgets : graphical user interfaces and I/O in lazy functional languages
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3. Architecture and Applications of a Geovisual Analytics Framework
Abstract : The large and ever-increasing amounts of multi-dimensional, multivariate, multi-source, spatio-temporal data represent a major challenge for the future. The need to analyse and make decisions based on these data streams, often in time-critical situations, demands integrated, automatic and sophisticated interactive tools that aid the user to manage, process, visualize and interact with large data spaces. READ MORE
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4. Who is the Active Consumer? : Insight into Contemporary Innovation and Marketing Practices
Abstract : There are consumers who engage in innovation and who cocreate value together with other consumers, and with producers, in relation to products. This thesis has the purpose of exploring the nature of this ‘active consumer’ from a firm perspective, and thereby providing an answer to the thesis-level research question: ‘What are the implications of the active consumer on innovation and marketing practices?’ Four papers, drawing on research in the fields of consumer innovation and value cocreation, are presented that contain findings about the knowledge of the active consumer (Paper I), support (Paper II) and management (Paper III) of the active consumer, and challenges with the active consumer (Paper IV). READ MORE
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5. Toward Industrialized Retrofitting : Accelerating the Transformation of the Residential Building Stock in Sweden
Abstract : Energy utilization issues are becoming increasingly important around the world. Existing residential and building service sectors represent a large part of total energy utilization, and the corresponding operational costs and environmental impacts are high. READ MORE