Search for dissertations about: "user appropriation."

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words user appropriation..

2. 1. Managing beyond firm boundaries: Leveraging user innovation networks

   Author : Linus Dahlander; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; community; free and open source software; commercialization; appropriation; network; innovation management; user innovation; user innovation network;

   Abstract : Because innovations change and transform industries, they pose challenges for managers that have to make decisions to cope with a continuously changing competitive landscape. Firms need to develop new innovations to compete by releasing better products and services and at the same time be able to appropriate them to make money and survive. READ MORE

4. 2. Architecture and Ageing : On the Interaction between Frail Older People and the Built Environment

   Author : Jonas E Andersson; Magnus Rönn; Eva Henriksen; Benyamin Scwarz; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; residential care home architecture; architecture competition; user values and planning considerations; appropriate space for ageing; homelikeness; societal building;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis deals with the type of architecture that materializes when age-related problems become a long-term condition (LTC) and gradually restrain the individual’s ability to perform activities in daily life (ADL). Their life situation necessitates a support from relatives or municipal eldercare staff in order for them to continue to participate in everyday living. READ MORE

5. 3. Co-Construction of Hybrid Spaces

   Author : Åsa Rudström; Kristina Höök; Mikael Wiberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; HCI; MMI; social computing; mobile computing; co-construction; seamfulness; awareness; hybrid space; Computer and systems science; Data- och systemvetenskap;

   Abstract : When computational systems become increasingly mobile and ubiquitous, digital information and the use of computational systems may increasingly be immersed into the physical and social world of objects, people and practices. However, the digital, physical and social materials that make up these hybrid spaces have different characteristics and are hard to understand for users. READ MORE

6. 4. Collaborative Process Change by Inscription - a Contested Terrain for Interaction Designers

   Author : Pär-Ola Zander; Institutionen för informatik; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Activity Theory; CSCL; Representation; Collaborative writing; Interaction Design; Dialectical Materialism; Inscription;

   Abstract : Inscriptions, i.e. the result of how users write, draw, sketch, model or paint or otherwise create persistent content are an important object of study in interaction design. READ MORE

7. 5. Engaging in Urban Living Lab Co-design

   Author : Esbjörn Ebbesson; Vaike Fors; Jesper Lund; Johan Lundin; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Urban Living Labs; Participatory Design; CoDesign;

   Abstract : Urban Living Labs (ULL) have become a common way to address wicked design challenges within the future mobility, and smart city context. The move toward ULL is part of a paradigm shift away from focusing purely on the IT-artifact, innovation, and user-centeredness toward focusing on the urban context and the construction of a place as a social context rather than implementation of a product or service in isolation. READ MORE