Search for dissertations about: "context distance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 177 swedish dissertations containing the words context distance.

2. 1. 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

4. 2. Islands of Togetherness : Rewriting Context Analysis

   Author : Minna Räsänen; Ann Lantz; Per-Anders Forstorp; James M. Nyce; Paul Dourish; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Human-Computer Interaction; call-centre organization; ethnography; togetherness; socio-cultural context; Technology and culture; Teknik och kultur;

   Abstract : A continuing debate within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research is how to elucidate, improve, and optimize the relationship between social context and technology use. Social context is conventionally understood as immediate use context while an understanding informed by social science suggests a wider scope, involving actors and structures. READ MORE

5. 3. The accessibility paradox : Everyday geographies of proximity, distance and mobility

   Author : Katarina Haugen; Kerstin Westin; Einar Holm; Örjan Pettersson; David Banister; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Accessibility; proximity; distance; daily mobility; everyday life; residential conditions; spatial structure;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to explore the importance of proximity and mobility, respectively, for individuals’ accessibility, as well as the relationship between these two key spatial dimensions of accessibility in the context of everyday life. The thesis is based upon three empirical research papers which focus on accessibility-related preferences, actual accessibility conditions, and travel patterns. READ MORE

6. 4. Feeling Across Distance : Transnational Migration, Emotions, and Family Life Between Bolivia and Spain

   Author : Tania González-Fernández; Shahram Khosravi; Erik Olsson; Ninna Nyberg Sørensen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; migration; transnational families; emotion; affect; care; gender; life course; multi-sited ethnography; Bolivia; Spain; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Abstract : What are the relational dynamics of family life as it is lived across vast distances and over time? What underpins these relations, practices, and experiences of being apart and yet together? Based on a long-term multi-sited fieldwork carried out in Spain and Bolivia from 2013 to 2015, this study sets out to address these questions by investigating caring practices, mediated connections, (non)material exchanges, and lived experiences of “doing” and “feeling” family across borders. It conveys the story of ten families divided between Madrid and the Bolivian urban areas of Cochabamba, Sucre, and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. READ MORE

7. 5. Video letters, mediation and (proper) distance : A qualitative study of international development communication in practice

   Author : Florencia Enghel; Miyase Christensen; Karin Wilkins; Robin Mansell; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; development communication; mediation; proper distance; international; video letters; Media and Communication Studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

   Abstract : This study scrutinizes the trajectory of an international development communication intervention aimed at mediating, rendering public and mobilizing processes of reconnection among estranged citizens across the former Yugoslavia. The intervention, which took place between 2000 and 2005 in the wider context of post-conflict international development assistance and peacebuilding operations in the region, was known as the Videoletters project. READ MORE