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- Arnkil, Harald, et al.
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PERCIFAL: Visual analysis of space, light and colour
- 2011
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Ingår i: AIC 2011, Interaction of Colour & Light in the Arts and Sciences, Midterm Meeting of the International Colour Association, Zurich, Switzerland, 7–10 June 2011: Conference Proceedings, CD. - Zurich : pro/colore, 2011. ; , s. 229-232
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses the need for better and more accurate methods of recording and analyzing the visual experience of architectural space. PERCIFAL (Perceptive Spatial Analysis of Colour and Light) is an ongoing project that aims at developing a method of analysis that can capture coherent spatial experiences of colour and light. The starting point for PERCIFAL is a method of visual evaluation of space and light, developed by Professor Anders Liljefors at the former department of architectural lighting at KTH Architecture. PERCIFAL is based on direct visual observations and the recording of these observations by verbal-semantic descriptions using a questionnaire. It has been developed primarily as an educational tool, but we see in it potential for a design tool for professionals as well as for an analytical method for research. The first test results, conducted in Sweden, Norway and Finland, show that the method has significant pedagogical merits and that it allows interesting comparisons between physical measurements and visual experiences of space, light and colour.
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- Axelsson, Östen, et al.
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A field experiment on the impact of sounds from a jet-and-basin fountain on soundscape quality in an urban park
- 2014
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Ingår i: Landscape and Urban Planning. - : Elsevier BV. - 0169-2046 .- 1872-6062. ; 123, s. 49-60
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A field experiment was conducted to explore whether water sounds from a fountain had a positive impact on soundscape quality in a downtown park. In total, 405 visitors were recruited to answer a questionnaire on how they perceived the park, including its acoustic environment. Meanwhile the fountain was turned on or off, at irregular hours. Water sounds from the fountain were not directly associated with ratings of soundscape quality. Rather, the predictors of soundscape quality were the variables “Road-traffic noise” and “Other natural sounds”. The former had a negative and the latter a positive impact. However, water sounds may have had an indirect impact on soundscape quality by affecting the audibility of road-traffic and natural sounds. The present results, obtained in situ, agree with previous results in soundscape research that the sounds perceived—particularly roadtraffic and natural sounds—explain soundscape quality. They also agree with the results from laboratory studies that water sounds may mask road-traffic sounds, but that this is not simple and straight forward. Thus sound should be brought into the design scheme when introducing water features in urban open spaces, and their environmental impact must be thoroughly assessed empirically.
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- Bengtsson, Elias, 1976-, et al.
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Motivation, Learning Strategies and Performance among Business Undergraduates at University Colleges in Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Business, Management and Education. - Vilnius : Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press. - 2029-7491 .- 2029-6169. ; 17:2, s. 111-133
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – This paper brings new material to the understanding of interlinkages between motivation, learning and performance in academic contexts. By investigating these interlinkages in a new context – students of business and management at a Swedish university college – it seeks to answer the following research questions: How do students’ degree and type of motivation relate to their learning strategies?; how do students’ degree and type of motivation and learning strategies relate to their academic success?; and how do student characteristics in terms of experience and gender influence the nature and strength of these relationships?Research methodology – The data used in this paper is based on student surveys and a centralised system of reporting and archiving academic results. The latter contains information on the academic performance of individual students, whereas the surveys gathered information on the students’ background characteristics (experience and gender), their motivation for pursuing academic studies and their learning strategies. The difference in proportion tests and OLS regressions were then applied to investigate differences between student groups and relationships between the different variables.Findings – The findings reveal that business students are more extrinsically than intrinsically motivated; that deep learning approaches lead to higher grades for particular examination forms, and that female students are typically more intrinsically motivated, engage more in deep learning approaches and perform better than their male counterparts.Practical implications – The findings suggest that practitioners in higher education involved with the business and/or university college students have good reasons to stimulate motivation generally, and intrinsic motivation in particular. However, this must be accompanied by examination forms that promote deep learning.Originality/Value – In contrast to most research, this paper focuses on the interlinkages between motivation, learning and performance among business students in a university college setting. This contrasts most research on this topic which tends to be focused on university students, particularly in the US, in other fields of study or accounting. Moreover, this paper also takes student characteristics into account and uses a variety of measures to operationalise academic performance. Copyright © 2019 Bengtsson & Teleman. Published by VGTU Press
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- Berríos-Negrón, Luis
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Tropical Pedagogy : the collapsing interior and exterior of spatial production
- 2016
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Ingår i: The Metropolitan Laboratory. - Berlin, DE : Aedes Network Campus Berlin. - 9783944083032 ; , s. 44-47
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is a text contribution that briefly explores the political, spatial, and pedagogical dimensions of Tropical Modernism in the Caribbean and Latin America.
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- Björkvall, Anders, et al.
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Connecting analogue and digital literacy practices? : On uses and semiotic potentials of digital pencils in Swedish middle school and high school
- 2023
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Ingår i: The 11th International Conference on Multimodality: Desiging Futures. - London : University College London. ; , s. 30-30
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A dichotomization of the resources used for contemporary teaching, learning, and meaningmaking may result in a simplified division of such processes as either ‘digital’ or ‘analogue’. Our presentation addresses this dichotomy, and our understanding of semiotic technologies more broadly, by analyzing the potential of the digital pencil for connecting ‘analogue’ meaning-making to ‘digital’ meaning-making in the subject of Swedish in middle school and high school. Based on data from two pilot studies, each carried out for two months, our analysis focuses on how digital pencils can be used as tools for multimodal text creation in ways that draw on how this is typically done in analogue genres. This way, the analysis will provide knowledge of the semiotic potentials, affordances and actual uses of digital pencils in school, something which is lacking in previous research, with the exception of a few recent studies (e.g. Riche et al., 2017). Two main results stand out. First, digital pencils can actually be effectively used to draw on analogue literacy practices in the classroom. Second, digital pencils have other affordances (Lindstrand, 2022) than just functioning as “digital ink”: they are multifunctional in the sense that they can be used as tools for an array of multimodal tasks that analogue pencils cannot. Thus, the analysis concludes that not only can digital pencils be used to resemiotize analogue practices, but they also afford new ways of creating texts.
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- Björkvall, Anders, 1972-, et al.
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Designing with and for digital pencils : On the potentials of writing and shapiong by hand in digitalized middle schools and high schools
- 2024
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Ingår i: Designs for Learning 2024: Conceptualizing design. - Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, IPD. ; , s. 11-12
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This presentation reports on results from two studies of uses and potentials of digital pencils in grade 4 and 8 in Sweden. Digital pencils were provided to the students and their teachers and the teachers integrated the pencils in a number of projects. The didactic design of teaching and learning were performed by teachers and their students, without direct involvement by us as researchers.The broader background to these studies is a dichotomization of the resources used for contemporary teaching, learning, and meaning making that is present in many schools today, but also in the public debate. In this discourse, a simplified division of learning tools prevail: they are either “digital” or “analogue”. Our presentation addresses this dichotomy, and understandings of semiotic technologies more broadly, by analyzing the potentials of the digital pencil for connecting “analogue” meaning making to “digital” meaning making in middle school and high school. We look at how writing and shaping by hand – still to be considered fundamental skills and competences in society today and with a history that goes back thousands of years – can be performed in digitalized Swedish classrooms.Based on data from the two studies carried out in 2022 through 2024, our analysis provides knowledge of the semiotic potentials and actual uses of digital pencils in school, something which is lacking in previous research, with the exception of a few recent studies (Riche et al, 2017). The overall methodological framework is multimodal ethnography (Björkvall, 2012). This methodology combines tools and techniques from ethnography with those from semiotics and designs for learning.Two main results stand out. First, the digital pencils can actually be effectively used to draw on analogue practices in the classroom. We will provide examples. Second, the digital pencils have other affordances (Lindstrand, 2022) than just functioning as “digital ink”: they are multifunctional in the sense that they can be used as tools for an array of tasks that analogue pencils cannot. Thus, the analysis concludes that not only can the digital pencils be used to resemiotize analogue practices; they also afford new ways of writing and shaping by hand. These latter need to be further integrated in the didactic practices of Swedish classrooms.
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- Bodén, Linnea, 1981-, et al.
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Editorial : Posthuman Conceptions of Change in Empirical Educational Research
- 2021
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Ingår i: Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology. - : OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. - 1892-042X. ; 12:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this special issue of Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology the focus is on posthuman conceptions of change in empirical educational research. In the six included papers, the authors address and challenge different aspects of change in different educational settings –ranging from preschools, to universities and public pedagogies. Through activating posthuman perspectives, the papers invite the reader to a wide range of understandings of the concept of change. A conclusion drawn from the papers is that when working with posthuman change in empirical educational research, change becomes highlighted as a methodological endeavour while simultaneously being engaged with as processes of transformations in the educational practice. What is specifically emphasized is that through posthuman conceptions, change is not something out there to be found, but an emergent phenomenon that unfolds as we explore it.
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- Broms, Loove, et al.
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Coffee Maker Patterns and the Design of Energy Feedback Artefacts
- 2010
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Ingår i: DIS '10 Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. - 9781450301039 ; , s. 93-102
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Smart electricity meters and home displays are being installed in people’s homes with the assumption that households will make the necessary efforts to reduce their electricity consumption. However, present solutions do not sufficiently account for the social implications of design. There is a potential for greater savings if we can better understand how such designs affect behaviour. In this paper, we describe our design of an energy awareness artefact – the Energy AWARE Clock – and discuss it in relation to behavioural processes in the home. A user study is carried out to study the deployment of the prototype in real domestic contexts for three months. Results indicate that the Energy AWARE Clock played a significant role in drawing households’ attention to their electricity use. It became a natural part of the household and conceptions of electricity became naturalized into informants’ everyday language.
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