Search for dissertations about: "representationer"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 79 swedish dissertations containing the word representationer.
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1. Representing Future Situations of Service : Prototyping in Service Design
Abstract : This thesis describes prototyping in service design through the theoretical lens of situated cognition. The research questions are what a service prototype is, what the benefits of service prototyping are, and how prototypes aid in the process of designing services. Four papers are included. READ MORE
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2. Linking Programming to Representations : Understanding meaning-making in physics education through semiotic resources
Abstract : Programming is investigated with a social semiotic lens to study how programming can contribute to meaning-making in physics. The analysis focuses on how new and dynamic representations can be created with the help of programming and how programming allows students to investigate and create their own models of physical phenomena. READ MORE
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3. Ageism in the Media : Online Representations of Older People
Abstract : Ageism is a social problem that has harmful effects on the wellbeing of older people and needs to be tackled. It is pervasive and evident in the media (e.g., films, television, print and social media). READ MORE
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4. The constitutive power of maps in the Arctic
Abstract : As maps are widely used, circulated, and recognised, they have consequences for how people view and understand the world. They mediate political meaning-making and frame the conditions for political alternatives to emerge or to be silenced. READ MORE
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5. Representing sounds and spellings : Phonological decline and compensatory working memory in acquired hearing impairment
Abstract : This thesis examined phonological processing in adults with postlingually acquired moderate-to-severe hearing impairment (HI) and whether explicit working memory processing of phonology and individual working memory capacity (WMC) can compensate for degraded phonological representations in this group (papers I-III). A second aim was to provide reference data for a test of WMC, the reading span test, and to examine the relation between reading span test performance and speech recognition in noise in a larger sample of 50-89 year olds with HI (paper IV). READ MORE