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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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- Jönsson, Li, et al.
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Watt-Lite; energy statistics made tangible
- 2010
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Ingår i: DIS 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. - 9781450301039 ; , s. 240-243
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Increasing our knowledge of how design affects behaviour in the workplace has a large potential for reducing electricity consumption. This would be beneficial for the environment as well as for industry and society at large. In Western society energy use is hidden and for the great mass of consumers its consequences are poorly understood. In order to better understand how we can use design to increase awareness of electricity consumption in everyday life, we will discuss the design of Watt-Lite, a set of three oversized torches projecting real time energy statistics of a factory in the physical environments of its employees. The design of Watt-Lite is meant to explore ways of representing, understanding and interacting with electricity in industrial workspaces. We discuss three design inquiries and their implications for the design of Watt-Lite: the use of tangible statistics; exploratory interaction and transferred connotations. © 2010 ACM.
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- Lundén, P., et al.
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Psychoacoustic evaluation as a tool for optimization in the development of an urban soundscape simulator
- 2010
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 5th Audio Mostly - A Conference on Interaction With Sound, AM '10. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. - 9781450300469 ; , s. 1859802-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper will discuss the use of psychoacoustic evaluation as a tool for optimization of the soundscape simulator developed in the Listen project. The listen project is a three-year research project focused around developing a demonstrator, which auralizes the sound environment produced by road and railway traffic. The resolution of the parameter space of the simulator heavily influences the performance of the simulator. The perceptual resolution of the parameter space is investigated and the resolution is adjusted accordingly. The most important parameter is velocity. Adjustments of the resolution of this parameter alone gives a 60% reduction of the usage of memory.
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- Avila, Martin, et al.
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3Ecologies: Visualizing sustainability factors and futures
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- ‘3Ecologies’ makes visible factors affecting the sustainability of consumer products. Within engineering and economics, there are a variety of models for analyzing and ‘predicting’ the environmental factors such as energy, emissions and waste involved during production, consumption and disposal. We develop an expanded model, which emphasizes human impact and choices as well as potential consequences and futures. Psychological, sociological and environmental factors are mapped over time – throughout the lifespan (production, purchase, use, and disposal) and the extended lifecycle(s) of products. Case studies of familiar products in everyday life are developed to demonstrate the conceptual model, and three applications are proposed to reach designers, consumers and the general public. 3Ecologies uses diagrams and narratives to visualize the history and possible futures of products, including natural disintegration, active recycling and unexpected adaptations – an alternative view upon the ‘life’ of things that we might ordinarily take for granted.
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- Hjalmarsson, Jan, 1963-
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Wikipedia – ett verktyg för lärande och bildning?
- 2010
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Ingår i: NU2010 Dialog för lärande. - Stockholm : SUHF. ; , s. 160-
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hur kan lärare och bibliotekarier tillsammans arbeta med att integrera kritisk informationssökning iämnesundervisningen inom högre utbildning? Hur kan uppslagsverket Wikipedia användas som ettverktyg för lärande? Kan kritisk informationssökning och nya fenomen som Wikipedia även relateras tillbildningsbegreppet idag?Syftet med detta utvecklingsprojekt var att undersöka hur Wikipedia kan användas som ett verktyg i undervisning för att integrera källkritisk träning inom högre utbildning på grundnivå. Från höstterminen 2007 och framåt har jag, iegenskap av undervisande bibliotekarie på Södertörns högskola, samarbeta med ämnet etnologi kring engruppuppgift som går ut på att söka information om vetenskapliga begrepp. Uppgiften har ingått i den förstadelkursen ”Kulturella perspektiv” som ger en allmän presentation av ämnet och studiet av kulturell mångfald. Detetnologiska forskningsfältet presenteras och aktuella vetenskapliga perspektiv och begrepp diskuteras med särskild hänsyn till kulturell mångfald och med fokus på genus, klass och etnicitet. I kursvärderingarna har flera studenter betonat uppgiftens betydelse för en fördjupad kunskap om källkritiskt tänkande när det gäller olika webbaserade sökverktyg och informationskällor. En text som beskriver arbetet finns redovisad i antologin: Pedagogiskt arbete i teori och praktik: om bibliotekens roll för studenters och doktoranders lärande. Birgitta Hansson & Anna Lyngfelt (red.) 2009. För de allra flesta unga människor i Sverige är datorn, Internet och mobiltelefonen en självklar del av vardagen. Nya kunskaper och färdigheter betonas i samhället idag: förmågan att sortera, värdera, välja ut information och kunna sätta in information och informationskällor i meningsfulla sammanhang. Dessa till kunskaper och färdigheter kopplas ofta samman med begrepp såsom datorkunskap, informationskompetens eller digital kompetens. Begreppen har lanserats inom olika sammanhang för att beskriva en slags nyckelkompetens som anses vara central för en aktiv medborgare i ett samhälle som präglas av globalisering, snabb teknisk förändring och tillgängligheten till information. Wikipedia är ett relativt nytt fenomen inom informationsvärlden och har fått ett stort genomslag. Användningen av Wikipedia är en högst aktuell och omdebatterad fråga både i media och inom högre utbildning. Inte bara på Södertörns högskola, utan på flera andra lärosäten, används detta uppslagsverk i undervisningen för examinationsuppgifter eller som ett verktyg för att träna kritiskt tänkande hos studenter. Kan kritisk informationssökning och nya fenomen som Wikipedia även relateras till bildningsbegreppet idag?
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- Lindstrand, Fredrik, 1973-
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A design oriented approach to learning in multimodal text production practices
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents results from a Swedish research project about filmmaking as a site for transformative processes (Lindstrand, 2006; 2009). The scope of the paper is twofold, as it both presents results regarding multimodal learning in the production of moving images and aims at contributing more generally to the development of multimodal, design oriented approaches to the analysis of learning. The text is anchored in examples from collaborative filmmaking processes which serve as a background for elaborating on questions of various kinds: How can learning be grasped analytically and methodologically in processes of multimodal semiotic production? What is learnt and what characterizes the learning process in this type of semiotic work? How – and why – does the multimodal nature of these endeavours contribute to the learning process?Filmmaking consists of a number of processes characterized by different objectives and the production of different kinds of texts, within different genres, with different tools, in different media and different modes. All of these differences contribute to changes – related to issues of transformation and transduction – in the overall process and present the filmmakers with new challenges, new perspectives and new sets of meaning potentials. The paper brings attention to how the filmmakers reflect upon various aspects of the films during their work, and shows how they gradually become aware of aspects of their films that relate to the ideational, interpersonal and textual metafunctions of texts. Their widened attention affects the process itself, since it guides them towards new choices. A cyclic motion is thereby implied, since the new choices will lead to new reflections and so on.The presented results are summed up in the form of an additional version of the Learning Design Sequence model presented by Staffan Selander (2008), aimed at mapping learning processes in creative multimodal text production and emphasizing the role of design in the learning process.ReferencesLindstrand, F (2006) Att göra skillnad. Representation, identitet och lärande i ungdomars arbete och berättande med film [Making difference. Representation, identity and learning in teenagers’ work and communication with film] Doctoral thesis. Stockholm: HLS Förlag.Lindstrand, F (2009) ”Lärprocesser i den rörliga bildens gränsland” [”Learning processes at the crossroads of filmmaking”]. In Lindstrand, F & Selander, S (eds)Estetiska lärprocesser [Aesthetic learning processes]. Lund: Studentlitteratur.Selander, S (2008) “Designs for learning – a theoretical perspective”. In Designs for Learning, vol 1, no 1.
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