Search for dissertations about: "User participation"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 113 swedish dissertations containing the words User participation.

  2. 6. A Socio-Material Study of User Involvement : Interrogating the practices of technology development for older people in a digitalised world

    Author : Björn Fischer; Britt Östlund; Alexander Peine; Steve Woolgar; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; User involvement; Older People; Participation; Socio-material Conditions; Enactment; Ontology; Configuring; Ageing and Technology; Ethnography; Method and Design Practice; Användarinvolvering; Äldre Människor; Delaktighet; Sociomateriella förhållanden; Enactment; Ontologi; Konfigurering; Åldrande och Teknik; Etnografi; Metod och Designpraktik; Technology and Health; Teknik och hälsa;

    Abstract : Population ageing and increased digitalization each constitute an ongoing and profound transformation within contemporary modes of living, as growing advances in technological development mix and intermingle with the lived realities of older people as the final recipients. It is against the backdrop of this interplay that user involvement has enjoyed ever-rising advocacy to an almost normative degree. READ MORE

  4. 7. Distributed Immersive Participation : Realising Multi-Criteria Context-Centric Relationships on an Internet of Things

    Author : Jamie Walters; Theo Kanter; Roch Glitho; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; pervasive computing; ubiquitous computing; mediasense; context; context awareness; context centric; peer-to-peer; immersive participation; multi-criteria context; context proximity; context distance; evolving context; context-aware query languages; publish.subscribe; distributed context awareness; sensor information; context information; context models; context relationships; context relations; Computer and Systems Sciences; data- och systemvetenskap;

    Abstract : Advances in Internet-of-Things integrate sensors and actuators in everyday items or even people transforming our society at an accelerated pace. This occurs in areas such as agriculture, logistics, transport, healthcare, and smart cities and has created new ways to interact with and experience entertainment, (serious) games, education, etc. READ MORE

  5. 8. Ethics of User Involvement in Sensitive Design Situations

    Author : Susanne Lindberg; Magnus Bergquist; Maria Åkesson; Maja van der Velden; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; ethics; participatory design; user involvement; design research; children; schizophrenia; cancer; sensitive; vulnerable; design; participation; principles; digital peer support;

    Abstract : While this era of digital technology brings great possibilities for improving the lives of many people with digital healthcare services, the design of these services in turn present challenges that are ethical in nature. Participatory Design (PD) values user involvement in design from a democratic, empowerment and ethical perspective. READ MORE

  6. 9. Making Questions and Answers Work : Negotiating Participation in Interview Interaction

    Author : Clara Iversen; Maria Eriksson; Tora Holmberg; Elizabeth Stokoe; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Interviews; participation; epistemics; institutional-talk-in-interaction; questions and answers; social studies of childhood; sociology of scientific knowledge; discursive psychology; conversation analysis;

    Abstract : The current thesis explores conditions for participation in interview interaction. Drawing on the ethnomethodological idea that knowledge is central to participation in social situations, it examines how interview participants navigate knowledge and competence claims and the institutional and moral implications of these claims. READ MORE

  7. 10. Designing for Online Youth Counselling : Empowerment through Design and Participation

    Author : Sofia Lundmark; Ann-Carita Evaldsson; Gustav Lymer; Åsa Mäkitalo; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Empowerment; Participation; Design practice; Participatory design projects; Norm-critical design; Norms in design; Ethnography; Ethnomethodology; Online youth counselling; Pedagogik; Education; Patologi; Pathology; Patologi; Pathology;

    Abstract : More and more people are using the internet to access various societal functions. In recent years, municipalities and private enterprises have increasingly begun to explore and develop internet-based services to support public health in general and to disseminate health information in particular. READ MORE