Search for dissertations about: "material agency"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 167 swedish dissertations containing the words material agency.

2. 1. Agency and Artefacts : A cognitive semiotic exploration of design

   Author : Juan Mendoza-Collazos; Kognitiv semiotik; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Agency; enhanced agency; agency hierarchy; derived agency; material agency; intentionality; prior intentions; intentions in action; pictorial representations; artefacts; tool-making; design theory; design semiotics; design research; phenomenology; cognitive semiotics; agentive semiotics; semiotic hierarchy; 4E cognition; bio-cultural evolution; philosophy of design; philosophy of technology;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the role of artefacts in relation to human agency and design within a cognitive semiotics framework. It deals with questions such as What is agency? What are artefacts and how does agency relate to them? What kind of intentions are involved in the activity of designing? What is human-specific with respect to agency and design? How can the origins and evolution of design be explained? Addressing these questions, the thesis proposes a layered model of agency for explaining the relations between different grades of agentive complexity. READ MORE

4. 2. Tracing Smartphone-Enabled Customer Journeys : A Socio-Material Approach

   Author : Patrik Stoopendahl; Jens Hultman; Högskolan i Borås; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Customer journey; Socio-material perspectives; Trace ethnography; Agency; Smartphone; Textil och mode generell ; Textiles and Fashion General ;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis delves into the transformation of the customer journey—that is, the direct and indirect interactions between a customer and retailer over time—in the smartphone era. Using a socio-material perspective, it goes beyond current visions of the customer journey, which often focus on emotions and experiences, and instead explores how agency is distributed across elements that include consumers and their relationship with their smartphone as a device and a gateway to a digital market infrastructure. READ MORE

5. 3. “The World at Your Fingertips if You Know the Computer”: Agency, Information and Communication Technologies and Disability

   Author : Rebecka Näslund; Elisabeth Berg; Åsa Gardelli; Sisse Finken; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Agency; Disability; Information and Communication Technologies; Intra-action; Material-discursive; Material Semiotics; Modes of ordering; Situated knowledges; Arbetsvetenskap; Human Work Science;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on the relationships between agency, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and people with disability (in various ages). The aim has been to create an understanding by describing and analysing, and as such, to develop knowledge of how people with disabilities experience agency, ICT, and disability in their everyday lives. READ MORE

6. 4. Swahili Social Landscapes : Material expressions of identity, agency, and labour in Zanzibar, 1000–1400 CE

   Author : Henriette Rødland; Neil Price; Stephanie Wynne-Jones; Paul Lane; Thomas Vernet-Habasque; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swahili; social composition; agency; production; inequality; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the social and productive landscapes of Tumbatu and Mkokotoni, two neighbouring Swahili sites in the Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania, which are dated to the 11th to 15th centuries CE. Emerging on the East African coast around the 7th century CE, the Swahili culture has traditionally been associated with vast Indian Ocean trade networks, stone towns, and a cosmopolitan hierarchical Islamic society, within which social status was negotiated through imported prestige goods and stone architecture. READ MORE

7. 5. Simultaneous Topology and Material Optimization of Composite Structures under Uncertainty

   Author : Dženan Hozić; Carl-Johan Thore; François-Xavier Irisarri; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Structural Optimization; Composite Structures; Topology Optimization; Multi-material Optimization; Material Uncertainty; Robust Optimization; Composite Structure Optimization; Design Optimization; Composite Material;

   Abstract : Composite materials are known to have superior stiffness and strength properties per unit weight compared to metallic materials. These properties and the ability to tailor the mechanical properties of composites is the main motivation for choosing composite materials for structural components. READ MORE