Search for dissertations about: "situated"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 775 swedish dissertations containing the word situated.
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1. Situated Freedom : Exploring the Aesthetic Practice of Rem Koolhaas/OMA
Abstract : The thesis advocates that architecture can, as an operative medium, situate freedom. Following the work of Michel Foucault, the thesis develops an argument for an emancipatory endeavor, termed “situated freedom in architecture. READ MORE
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2. Situated Play
Abstract : This thesis addresses computer game play activities from the perspective of embodied and situated cognition. From such a perspective, game play can be divided into the physical handling of the game and the players' understanding of it. READ MORE
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3. Situated Embodiment : Studies in the emergence of spatial meaning
Abstract : What does it mean to know a language? How do children acquire language, seemingly spontaneously? How is intersubjective linguistic meaning made possible? How are people able to understand utterances which they have not heard before? General questions such as these are of primal concern for modem theoretical linguistics. At the same time the dominant theoretical approach to answering them, generativism, has given rise to persistent anomalies and confusions. READ MORE
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4. Situated Reflexive Change : User-Centred Design in(to) Practice
Abstract : Technology used in the Swedish workplace is perceived to be controlling, gener- ally still difficult to use, and with a low degree of usability. Even though the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has been concerned with researching different ways of developing usable systems for at least half a century, there seem to be problems with the diffusion of the results into practice. READ MORE
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5. Designing Situated Capability Viewpoints : Adapting the general concept of capability to work practices
Abstract : Capability is a long-established term and concept that has found its way to be used to describe organisations. It provides the basis for a genre of analysis, design and planning methods used in several fields. In enterprise architecture frameworks, capability has become a central architectural and fundamental element. READ MORE