Search for dissertations about: "common ground"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 160 swedish dissertations containing the words common ground.
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1. Un-common Sociality Thinking Sociality with Levinas
University dissertation from Huddinge : Södertörns högskolaAbstract : The present investigation develops the notion of sociality based on Emmanuel Levinas’s thought, and proposes an understanding of sociality that resists becoming a common foundation: an un-common sociality which interrupts the reciprocal shared common, and thereby, paradoxically, makes it possible. By engaging in the larger debate on community, this work gives voice to Levinas on the question of community without a common ground, a topic and a debate where he has previously been underestimated. READ MORE
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2. Capacity-controlled Ground Source Heat Pump Systems for Swedish single-family dwellings
University dissertation from Stockholm : KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyAbstract : The overall objective of this thesis is to develop a structured method to approach the challenge of better understanding the techniques and potential for capacity control in Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) systems used in Swedish single-family dwellings. This thesis aims at development of a generic model of the system that can be used for comparative, descriptive, and predictive analysis of capacity controlled GSHP systems in single-family dwellings. READ MORE
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3. Talk through IT : Using Common Ground to build Bridges with Weak Ties in the Design of Online Psychosocial Support
University dissertation from Uppsala : Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala UniversityAbstract : There is growing interest in applying information and communication technology (ICT) in healthcare. The attention to ICT stems from several factors: costs of healthcare, high prevalence of somatic diseases, longer life expectancy and technological advancements. READ MORE
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4. Clefts in English and Swedish: A contrastive study of IT-clefts and WH-clefts in original texts and translations
University dissertation from Department of English, Lund UniversityAbstract : This study investigates the use of cleft constructions in English and Swedish on the basis of a bidirectional translation corpus consisting of original English and Swedish texts and their translations into the other language. This design minimizes the problems inherent in corpora of original texts alone, viz. READ MORE
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5. Framing Social Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments: The Influence of Technical and Social Factors
University dissertation from Chalmers University of TechnologyAbstract : Virtual Reality (VR) for multiple users is a new technology which is increasingly used for diverse purposes such as distributed collaborative work, visualization, and entertainment. Despite this, little is yet known about what kind of social interaction the technology generates. READ MORE
