Search for dissertations about: "Outdoor studies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 180 swedish dissertations containing the words Outdoor studies.

2. 1. Children's outdoor environment : a study of children's outdoor activities on two housing estates from the perspective of environmental and developmental psychology

   Author : Pia Björklid; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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4. 2. Turning Work Inside Out : Exploring Outdoor Office Work

   Author : Charlotte Petersson Troije; Lena Wiklund; David Redmalm; Ebba Lisberg Jensen; Andreas Wallo; Mälardalens universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Outdoor office work; Interactive Research; Human-nature relation; Sustainable work life; Work norms; Urban greenspace; Working Life Studies; arbetslivsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Why don't we usually work outdoors? While some professions require it, most white-collar workers remain indoors, sedentary, and screen-bound. Yet, the potential benefits of outdoor work on health, well-being, learning, and creativity are significant and underexplored, especially given the demands of today's knowledge-intensive work life. READ MORE

5. 3. Mobile Robot Traversability Mapping : For Outdoor Navigation

   Author : Peter Nordin; Petter Krus; Jonas Nygårds; Nils Axel Andersen; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : Traversability; Laser; Roughness; Mapping; Planning; Mobile robot; Navigation; Implementation;

   Abstract : To avoid getting stuck or causing damage to a vehicle or its surroundings a driver must be able to identify obstacles and adapt speed to ground conditions. An automatically controlled vehicle must be able to handle these identifications and adjustments by itself using sensors, actuators and control software. READ MORE

6. 4. Customer-focused product development : An outdoor industry perspective

   Author : Petter Stenmark; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : Product development; innovation; quality; customer focus; outdoor industry;

   Abstract : Being customer‐focused is often considered to be a key success factor inproduct‐ or service development. This kind of approach may comprise manythings in practice, such as formal or informal methods and activities that arecarried out to identify and meet, or preferably exceed, customer needs andexpectations. READ MORE

7. 5. Text, Place and Mobility : Investigations of Outdoor Education, Ecocriticism and Environmental Meaning Making

   Author : Petra Hansson; Leif Östman; Johan Öhman; Marcia McKenzie; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Pragmatism; text analysis; environmental meaning making; outdoor education; Ecocriticism; Curriculum Studies; Didaktik;

   Abstract : The overall ambition of this thesis is to investigate the approaches taken to environmental and sustainability education in outdoor education and ecocriticism in a Swedish and in an international context, to investigate environmental meaning making and to conduce to the development of analytical methods for empirical investigations of environmental meaning making. Four objectives are formulated. READ MORE