| 1. |
- Amoson, Jonas, 1973-
(author)
-
Building complex GUIs in Plan 9
- 2009
-
In: Proceedings 4th International Workshop on Plan9. - Athens, GA : University of Georgia. ; , s. 15-21
-
Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- How can non-trivial graphical user interfaces be designed in Plan 9 without them losing their minimalistic style? Different toolkits are discussed, and a proposal for a tabbed toolbar is suggested as a way to add functionality without cluttering the interface and avoiding the use of pop-up dialog boxes. A hypothetical port to the GUI in LyX is used as an example.
|
|
| 2. |
- Köhler, Veronica, 1974-
(author)
-
Co-Creators of Scope of Action : An exploration of the dynamic relationship between people, IT, and work in a nursing context
- 2006
-
Licentiate thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Information Technology (IT) is today widespread in our work places, in our spare time and in our society overall. Implementations of IT in organizations come with high expectations on effectiveness, revenue, smoother work processes and so on. However, this simplified view on IT ignores the fact that it is the IT usage rather than the IT artifact per se that in the end decides the effect of an implementation of IT. Although the IT artifact certainly has been designed to support certain tasks and processes, the success or failure of the Information System (IS) in the end depends on the individuals' actions, which ultimately depend on their perceptions and interpretations of the IS. Thus, when technology is being implemented and becomes an IS in use, it becomes a part of work, and as such more of a social system than a technological one.The actual result of a design process does not solely consist of things or artifacts, but above all changed action patterns for the users. From this follows that we must consider design of artifacts as something more than merely the constructing of actual objects with functions and properties that are easily measured. Rather, a large part of all design activities has to do with design of conceivable social milieus, not artifacts. Thus, design may be defined as the suggesting and establishing of scope of action. The concept scope of action aims at describing the fact that the design of, and consequently the implementation of, a specific IT artifact always aims at creating a certain scope of action; some actions are made easier, others are made more difficult or even impossible. This scope of action has to some extent been deliberately designed, but these changes may on the other hand also be undesired and not predicted in advance. The complexity of this phenomenon is great and hard to grasp in advance. However, this does not mean that we can allow ourselves to ignore exploring this phenomenon more deeply. On the contrary, with a usage perspective on IS success or failure, scope of action becomes very important.Although the term scope of action may seem a rather intuitive concept, we need more concrete knowledge about its character in order to be able to understand IT usage, both when designing a new IT artifact and when studying or evaluating IT. Thus, our intuitive understanding of the concept needs to be complemented with theory on the ‘constituents’ and effects of this phenomenon. For this purpose, in this thesis nurses’ use of the Electronic Patient record (EPR) is being explored in order to gain an empirically derived understanding of the character of scope of action.The research findings highlight the emergent character of scope of action. It is obvious that an individual’s scope of action is not being created on one occasion, and above all not only by the IT artifact. Various co- creators such as the IT artifact, the usage and the social context create and re-create scope of action. Also, how the individual interprets and understands the IT artifact in IT usage will influence her scope of action. This since sensemaking and learning processes on both a personal and organizational level take place that are co-creators of the individual’s scope of action, at the same time as the individual’s knowledge and previous sensemaking and learning influences her use of the IT artifact.Thus, reasoning, thinking, learning, and the IT artifact co-evolve over time in adaptation and appropriation processes. This means that IT as a mediational means constitutes an important co-creator of scope of action. From this also follows that work integrated learning is an important co- creator of scope of action when using IT in a work setting, at the same time as work integrated learning is being influenced by the individual’s scope of action.Finally, in order to understand how scope of action emerges in use, merely focusing on structures is insufficient. Scope of action emerges as a product of interplay between complex processes involving artifacts, usage and context. This means that the user’s scope of action is co-created by both static structures as well as dynamic processes relating to the IT artifact, the organization, and the work practice. Thus, the IT artifact, and subsequently scope of action, must be must be understood in relation to the multi-aspectual context of which it is a part instead of merely in relation to the properties of the IT artifact per se.
|
|
| 3. |
- Öberg, Johanna
(author)
-
Deltagandets förutsättningar och digitala resursers påverkan : - ur ett elev- och lärarperspektiv
- 2024
-
Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Denna avhandling undersöker potentialen hos digitala resurser för att stödja elevers deltagande i formella lärmiljöer. Forskningsfrågningar är inriktade på att förstå användarperspektiv, förhållningssätt och krav som är relevanta för att möjliggöra elevers deltagande i skolan. Fyra deltagandebaserade studier undersöker ur ett sociokulturellt perspektiv elevers och lärares syn på teknikförstärkt lärandes roll för att underlätta de betydande interaktioner som främjar deltagande i lärandemiljöer. Elever uttrycker brist på digitala resurser som aktivt stödjer deras deltagande, som till stor del utgår ifrån användandet i deras privatliv. De betonar behovet av ökad användning av digitala resurser i informationshantering, social interaktion och i utbytet med undervisningsinnehåll. Lärare betonar vikten av att kunna ge aktuell och snabb feedback till eleverna via digitala plattformar. Lärarna understryker behovet av att visualisera elevernas resonemang samt kunna sammanställa och ha uppdaterade resultat på både individ- och gruppnivå. Båda lärarna och eleverna identifierar potentialen hos digitala resurser för att öka elevernas deltagande. Det råder enighet om nödvändigheten av att utveckla flexibla digitala resurser som kan hantera informationsflöden och tillhandahålla gemensamma utrymmen för interaktion och samarbete. Resultat från studierna indikerar att lärare och elever har olika uppfattningar om hur mycket digitala resurser används för att stödja elevdeltagandet. Denna slutsats anses grundad i skillnaden mellan elevers och lärares perspektiv på innebörden av elevdeltagande, samt vilka förutsättningar av användningen av digitala resurser som det utgås ifrån (det hemmet erbjuder eller det skolan kan erbjuda). Det sociokulturella perspektivet betonar att lärande underlättas och stärks av ett meningsfullt socialt deltagande, vilket behöver relateras till den pågående utvecklingen av lärmiljöer i det snabbt föränderliga digitala landskapet. Avhandlingen presenterar principer för effektiv användning av teknik med fokus på tillgänglighet, anpassningsförmåga till individuella lärstilar och att stärka en gemensam känsla av bidrag och tillhörighet. Dessa principer, som härrör från lärarnas erfarenheter, tros stödja lärares pedagogiska praktiker i målet att öka elevernas deltagande i lärandeprocessen.
|
|
| 4. |
|
|
| 5. |
|
|
| 6. |
- Amoson, Jonas, 1973-, et al.
(author)
-
A light-weigh non-hierarchical file system navigation extension
- 2012
-
In: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Plan 9. - Dublin, Ireland. ; , s. 11-13
-
Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Drawbacks in organising and finding files in hierarchies have led researchers to explorenon-hierarchical and search-based filesystems, where file identity and belonging is pred-icated by tagging files to categories. We have implemented a chdir() shell extension en-abling navigation to a directory using a search expression. Our extension is light-weightand avoids modifying the file system to guarantee backwards compatibility for applicationsrelying on normal hierarchical file namespaces.
|
|
| 7. |
|
|
| 8. |
- Boklund, Andreas, 1975-, et al.
(author)
-
The Story Behind Midnight, a Part Time High Performance Cluster
- 2003
-
In: International conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. - Las Vegas : CSREA Press. - 1892512424 ; , s. 173-178
-
Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this paper, we present the creation process andthe purpose behind the Midnight cluster. It isdisguised as a computer laboratory during the day,but turns into a high performance compute clusterduring the night.The main focus of this paper is on the basic issueswith creating a part time compute cluster. TheMidnight cluster was constructed to serve both as aCPU harvester and as a platform for further studies.The main goal of our upcoming research is toev aluate different methods for handling shapechangeand process management on the cluster, andhow these factors affect running processes, stabilityand performance.
|
|
| 9. |
|
|
| 10. |
- Calås, Göran, et al.
(author)
-
A First Draft of RATF : A Method Combining Robustness Analysis and Technology Forecasting
- 2006
-
In: Information Technology: New Generations, 2006. ITNG 2006. Third International Conference on. - 0769524974 ; , s. 72-77
-
Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper is based on an extensive study performed on a large software suite for over a decade. From the experiences derived from this study we created a first draft of a method combining an extended robustness analysis (RA) method with the future oriented method of technology forecasting (TF). In this method TF provides information about the systems future evolution to the RA which then generates the software design. The RA and TF methods then form a feedback loop, which results in an improved reusable and robust software design. The purpose of the RATF method is to predict the evolutional path of the software system, thus making preparations for (example) functionality that will be needed in future generations, i.e. utilizing the power-of-prediction to implement the base of tomorrow's functions today
|
|
