Search for dissertations about: "embodied work"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 119 swedish dissertations containing the words embodied work.

2. 1. Illusions of freedom: Practice and contradictions in the work of construction site managers

   Author : Rikard Sandberg; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; entrapment; autonomy; coupling work; construction site managers; organizational control; managerial work; embodied work; overwork;

   Abstract : Over the past few decades, scholars have paid increasing attention to the work of site managers in the construction industry. Their work has been portrayed in rather contradictory terms as, on the one hand, one of the most powerful and influential roles in the industry, and on the other, one of the most pressured and constrained roles. READ MORE

4. 2. The work of construction site managers: problematizing perceptions of embodied work practices

   Author : Rikard Sandberg; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; construction work; autonomy; embodiment; masculinity; workaholism; work practices;

   Abstract : Over the past few decades, scholars have paid increasing attention to work of site managers in the construction industry. In particular, the work situations of site managers have been increasingly depicted as demanding and stressful. READ MORE

5. 3. Unpacking Online Retailing : The Organization of Warehouse Work and Inequality

   Author : Klara Rydström; Lena Abrahamsson; Kristina Johansson; Fredrik Sjögren; Kristina Boréus; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Work organization; gender; race ethnicity; warehousing; e-commerce; Arbetsvetenskap; Human Work Sciences;

   Abstract : This dissertation studies the organization of warehouse work and inequality in Swedish online retailing. Online retailing relocates the work of providing service to individual customers, usually performed by frontline workers in retail stores, to warehouses backstage. READ MORE

6. 4. Embodied Core Mechanics : Designing for movement-based co-located play

   Author : Elena Márquez Segura; Annika Waern; Kristina Höök; Barry Brown; Helena Mentis; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Embodied core mechanics; embodied sketching; movement-based interaction; phenomenology; embodied interaction; play; play design; research through design; social play; co-located; movement; technology-supported; interactive toy; robot; playification; Människa-dator interaktion; Human-Computer Interaction;

   Abstract : Movement-based interactive systems for play came into the spotlight over a decade ago, and were met with enthusiasm by the general public as well as the Human-Computer Interaction research community. Yet a decade of research and practice has not fully addressed the challenge of designing for the moving body and play. READ MORE

7. 5. Avhandling / Av_handling (Dissertation / Through_action)

   Author : Malin Arnell; Anna Koch; Hanna Hallgren; Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; duration space-time-language matter ; knowledge production tacit; embodied; experiential ; performance art body art; live art; happenings ; choreography diffractive methods and techniques ; performativity human and non-human agentiality ; embodiment vulnerability; intimacy; force; power ; participation mutual co-constitutiveness ; invitation contractual engagement and accountability ; environment void; fullness ; embodied affinities human and more-than-human ; orientation; posthumanities; agential realism; feminism; artistic research; expositional strategies; enactment re-enactments ; live dissertation through live act ion s ; documentation affective; embodied ; Hannah Arendt; Karen Barad; Gina Pane; YES! Association Föreningen JA!; Duration; Koreografi; Kunskapsproduktion; Performativ konst; Förkroppsligande; Delaktighet; Invitation; Konstnärlig forskning...; Performativa och mediala praktiker; Performative and media based practices; duration space-time-language matter ; knowledge production tacit; embodied; experiential ; performance art body art; live art; happenings ; choreography diffractive methods and techniques ; performativity human and non-human agentiality ; embodiment vulnerability; intimacy; force; power ; participation mutual co-constitutiveness ; invitation contractual engagement and accountability ; environment void; fullness ; embodied affinities human and more-than-human ; orientation; posthumanities; agential realism; feminism; artistic research; expositional strategies; enactment re-enactments ; live dissertation through live act ion s ; documentation affective; embodied ; Hannah Arendt; Karen Barad; Gina Pane; YES! Association Föreningen JA!;

   Abstract : If we are being-of-the-world, how can we ever avoid participation? From this question Avhandling / Av_handling (Dissertation / Through_ action) unfolds. It invites to engage in an ongoing continuum of entanglements, where the moment of connection is unavoidable. READ MORE