Search for dissertations about: "Jakob Tholander"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words Jakob Tholander.
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1. Constructing to learn, learning to construct : studies on computational tools for learning
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2. Designing Community Economies : Exploring Alternatives for Infrastructuring Food Waste Activism
Abstract : By drawing on past CSCW and SHCI scholarship engaged with how technology can support the collaborative work of organising activism and empowering people to respond to diverse sustainability challenges– my research contributes to the emerging field of digital civics by introducing the human geography concept ‘community economies’ as a new way to frame and determine the scope of the design of digital technologies for infrastructuring food waste activism. Using a combination of ethnographic research and participatory action research (PAR), the empirical data were collected through two long-term collaborations with food-sharing communities in Denmark and Sweden and through a collaboration with researchers on a related project that focused on a food-sharing community in Germany. READ MORE
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3. Let's Make a Digital Patchwork : Designing for Childrens Creative Play with Programming Materials
Abstract : This thesis explores new approaches to making and playing with programming materials, especially the forms provided with screen-based digital media. Designing with these media expressions can be very attractive to children, but they are usually not made available to them in the same degree as are physical materials. READ MORE
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4. Makers, Materials and Machines : Understanding Experience and Situated Embodied Practice in the Makerspace
Abstract : This thesis explores interaction between humans, materials, and machines, in the context of makerspaces. The concept of making describes a practice that deals with new technologies in combination with craft to create artifacts in physical, digital and hybrid forms. READ MORE
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5. Interweaving Technology : Understanding the Design and Experience of Interactive Performances
Abstract : This thesis builds on the growing interest in studying interactive performances within the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design (IxD). The overarching goal of this research is to investigate how creative teams and artists can incorporate interactive technologies into their artistic productions. READ MORE