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- Arvola, Mattias
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Assessment criteria for interaction design projects : Fostering professional perspectives on the design process
- 2010
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Ingår i: When Design Education and Design Research Meet. - Wiltshire : Institution of Engineering Designers, The Design Society. - 9781904670193 ; , s. 432-437
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Quite often the product of design is assessed in interaction design education, but we need to develop criteria also for courses that focus on learning to conduct and manage the design process. An earlier approach to set grading criteria has been grounded in the SOLO (Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome) taxonomy. Students need, however, to learn practitioners' criteria, rather than teachers' criteria, to make a successful transfer to practice. One way of achieving that is to align criteria with the conceptions of design process quality used by professional interaction designers. The question is then what those conceptions are, and how they can be accounted for in assessment criteria for projects in interaction design education. A phenomenographic research method was used, and interviews were conducted with ten experienced interaction designers. The interviews were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The results show that professional interaction designers see design process quality as inspiration, a well-grounded rationale, employment of established methods, and constraints management. These conceptions are mapped to a criteria-referenced grading scale. The criteria should, with careful transfer, be applicable also in other design disciplines.
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- Arvola, Mattias
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Interaction design qualities : Theory and practice
- 2010
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Ingår i: NordiCHI 2010. - New York : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 9781605589343 ; , s. 595-598
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper reports the results of an action research project investigating the articulation of interaction design qualities for a web portal for urban planning and development. A framework for analyzing interaction design qualities is presented. The framework consists of the practical, the social, the aesthetic, the structural and the ethical quality dimensions, and it was tried out in practice with developers and designers of the portal. This provided experiences used to revise the framework. The results indicate that the framework can be improved by splitting the social quality dimension into a communicational dimension and an organizational dimension. The structural dimension is also renamed to the technical dimension.
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- Beckman, Svante, 1945-, et al.
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Vision: Kulturpolitik för Västra Götaland : Utvärderingsrapport
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I den skriftliga rapporten ska utvärderarna inledningsvis ge en bakgrund till visionsdokumentets roll och betydelse för den regionala kulturpolitiken samt sätta dokumentet i relation till likartade dokument i ett nationellt perspektiv. Utvärderarna ska även i ett avslutande kapitel eller avsnitt ge rekommendationer och riktlinjer inför Kulturnämndens fortsatta arbete med en ny regional kulturvision. Har Kulturvisionen inspirerat till ett större engagemang för kultur blandmedborgarna? Har Kulturvisionens mål uppnåtts och/eller har målvärdena i ökad grad realiserats ikulturlivet? Har Kulturvisionens tankesätt, värderingar, policyprinciper och mål slagit igenom - blivit bekanta och omfattade hos beslutsfattare/handläggare/utförare/brukare/medborgare Har Kulturvisionen kommit till användning i policyprocessen? Har Kulturvisionen bidragit till att utveckla policyområdet?
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- Berggren, Christian, 1950-, et al.
(författare)
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Mobile communications in Turkey : from first mover advantages to management capabilities
- 2011
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Ingår i: Info. - Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.. - 1463-6697 .- 1465-9840. ; 13:2, s. 72-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – Several studies of the telecommunications industry have focused on government regulation and structural conditions, suggesting that initial order of entry and network effects create strong first-mover advantages for GSM companies. This paper seeks to change the focus to managerial capabilities and to investigate how an early mover on the Turkish market manages the phase of vigorous competition following the early-regulated period. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a case study of one leading firm in the context of the Turkish telecommunications market development. The most important sources for data are Telepati Telekom Journal, Turkcell Annual Reports, Telecommunications Authority of Turkey's publications, the reports of investment institutions, web pages of operators, and previous publications about the Turkish telecom industry. Findings – The paper finds that the early mover, Turkcell, has used a mix of differentiated marketing strategies, innovative and diversified product development and increased service quality to defend its position in an era of increased competition with new operators, a high number of pre-paid customers and number portability. Originality/value – On the basis of this case, the paper argues that studies of the telecommunications industry need to expand their analyses of industry structures to also include firm-specific strategies and management capabilities.
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- Fornäs, Johan, 1952-, et al.
(författare)
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Culture Unbound Vol. 2 Editorial
- 2010
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Ingår i: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 2000-1525 .- 2000-1525. ; 2:1, s. 4-8
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Fornäs, Johan, 1952-, et al.
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Culture Unbound Vol. 3 Editorial
- 2011
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Ingår i: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 2000-1525 .- 2000-1525. ; 3, s. 5-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Gullberg, Cecilia, et al.
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Backbone or helping hand? On the role of information systems and non-systematic information in managers’ work
- 2011
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Ingår i: Informing Science. - : Informing Science Institute. - 1547-9684 .- 1521-4672. ; 14, s. 139-160
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Information systems are often described as horizontal integrators, supporting and integrating core processes and providing vast amounts of real-time data in organisations. However, previous research indicates that managers use an “information mosaic” – a variety of pieces of information and information sources, rather than one centrally planned and unified information system – to control their work. In this paper, we explore recurring work activities among a number of managers with different responsibilities and the use of information associated with these activities. The purpose is to put the formal computerised information system into the context of the information mosaic, thereby providing insight into how formal information systems support and do not support these managers’ work. Personnel responsibility is a uniting factor in the way these managers handle information and is an area where information systems seem to mainly support minor activities. Furthermore, the use of formal and informal information sources appears to be intertwined. The main contribution of this paper lies in charting managerial information behaviour in the light of technological development.
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- Gullberg, Cecilia
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Puzzle or Mosaic? : On Managerial Information Patterns
- 2011
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Managers and information are key components in most management control literature, and a range of tools and concepts have been developed to better accommodate the information needs of managers so as to ensure efficient action and intelligent decisions. At the same time, the managerial work is often described as highly fragmented, unstructured and interpersonal, with little time for planning and isolated reflection. It is therefore relevant to explore how and to what extent new technologies come into play in managerial information patterns. Furthermore, new management concepts and tools could potentially give rise to new control practices, resulting from e.g. novel relations between managers and other actors, new influential roles, and alternative forms of information flows.These issues are addressed in three papers. The first paper examines the portfolio of information that managers use in their daily work, thereby putting formal information systems into the context of less formal sources. The study is based on interviews with a variety of managers in different organisations. The second paper discusses the interplay between formally designed information-based practices, and the individual perceptions and habits that emerge in relation to the formalised. People at different levels in two public-sector organisations form the basis of the second paper. The third paper explores how various control practices operate together in a government agency, thereby providing new perspectives on how management control is exercised in a knowledge-intensive organisation.It is suggested that managerial information patterns evolve slowly compared to the technological development. Obtaining an overview of one’s area of responsibility is mainly achieved through dialogue and interaction with others. However, new technologies have influenced the more routine exchange of information, thereby causing increased dispersion among users and creating new roles. Subordinates constitute a vital influence on the managerial role and on how managers reason concerning their use of information. This people-oriented type of management results in the use of a multitude of pieces of information that is sometimes very subtle and retrieved in spontaneous interaction. The multidimensional and emerging nature of information provides insight into both the strengths and the limitations of formalising managerial information patterns. Furthermore, various information patterns are interrelated, e.g., they complement each other, substitute each other, or serve different purposes at different times. In total, managerial information patterns resemble a mosaic rather than a puzzle that can be solved by specific pieces. Management information should therefore be viewed from a broader perspective in order to better understand managers’ information needs, how control practices emerge and how information systems come into play.
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- Hübinette, Tobias, et al.
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Den svenska vithetens melankoli
- 2011
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Ingår i: Glänta. - Göteborg : Glänta. - 1104-5205. ; 2:19, s. 28-35:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Juslin, Patrik N, 1969-, et al.
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Emotional reactions to music in a nationally representative sample of Swedish adults : Prevalence and causal influences
- 2011
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Ingår i: Musicae scientiae. - : SAGE Publications. - 1029-8649 .- 2045-4147. ; 15:2, s. 174-207
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Empirical studies have indicated that listeners value music primarily for its ability to arouse emotions. Yet little is known about which emotions listeners normally experience when listening to music, or about the causes of these emotions. The goal of this study was therefore to explore the prevalence of emotional reactions to music in everyday life and how this is influenced by various factors in the listener, the music, and the situation. A self-administered mail questionnaire was sent to a random and nationally representative sample of 1,500 Swedish citizens between the ages of 18 and 65, and 762 participants (51%) responded to the questionnaire. Thirty-two items explored both musical emotions in general (semantic estimates) and the most recent emotion episode featuring music for each participant (episodic estimates). The results revealed several variables (e.g., personality, age, gender, listener activity) that were correlated with particular emotions. A multiple discriminant analysis indicated that three of the most common emotion categories in a set of musical episodes (i.e., happiness, sadness, nostalgia) could be predicted with a mean accuracy of 70% correct based on data obtained from the questionnaire. The results may inform theorizing about musical emotions and guide the selection of causal variables for manipulation in future experiments.
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