Search for dissertations about: "Resourceful interaction"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Resourceful interaction.

  2. 1. Designing Energy-Sensitive Interactions : Conceptualising Energy from the Perspective of Electric Cars

    Author : Anders Lundström; Jan Gulliksen; Kristina Höök; Cristi Bogdan; Ron Wakkary; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Interaction design; Electric vehicles; Range anxiety; Energy management; Battery management; Intergy; Exergy; Anergy; Energy-Sensitive Interactions; Energy dynamics; Energy compromises; Empowerment; Resourceful interaction; Människa-datorinteraktion; Human-computer Interaction;

    Abstract : As technology is increasingly used in mobile settings, energy and battery management is becoming a part of everyday life. Many have experienced how quickly a battery can be depleted in a smartphone, laptop or electric cars, sometimes causing much distress. READ MORE

  4. 2. Making Preciousness : Interaction Design Through Studio Crafts

    Author : Vasiliki Tsaknaki; Ylva Fernaeus; Ron Wakkary; KTH; []
    Keywords : Interaction design; materials; making preciousness; studio crafts; resourceful composition; material sensuality; mattering artefacts; impermanence; incompleteness; imperfection; Human-computer Interaction; Människa-datorinteraktion;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores value-creation in interaction design through practical collaborations with studio craftspersons. A focus is on the meaning of “preciousness” from a design perspective – what I refer to as Making Preciousness –  which highlights aspects of material properties, design processes, and the attitude to the design space. READ MORE

  5. 3. Essays on the interaction between regulation and technology : Understanding agency and context through multiple levels of inquiry

    Author : Rasmus Nykvist; Christina Öberg; Mirko Ernkvist; Christian Sandström; Lars Engwall; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Institutional Entrepreneurship; Technological Transformation; Regulation; Historical Methods; Stockholm Stock Exchange;

    Abstract : A key challenge for implementing pioneering regulatory and technological change includes overcoming regulatory constraints and resistance from vested interest groups in favor of the status quo. This is a compilation dissertation comprising five papers and one covering paper that aims to describe and explain the interaction between agency and context under conditions of combined technological and regulatory change through multiple levels of inquiry. READ MORE

  6. 4. Leisure in late life : patterns of participation and relationship with health

    Author : Neda Agahi; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Leisure activities; participation; middle age; old age; Sweden; longitudinal;

    Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate aspects of leisure participation in late life. More specifically, differences in participation rates between two cohorts of older adults and changes in leisure activities from middle age to old age were examined, as well as the association between leisure activities and survival. READ MORE

  7. 5. Discovery of Chemical Probes through Structure-based Virtual Screening of Vast Compound Databases

    Author : Andreas Luttens; Jens Carlsson; Vsevolod Katritch; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Bioactive molecules have traditionally been discovered through labor-intensive screening methods in which individual compounds are tested against specific protein targets or cells to identify those that produce the desired biological effect. However, these approaches have significant limitations. READ MORE