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- Dittmar, Jakob, 1971-, et al.
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Teaching Methods for Drawing and Visual Narratives
- 2021
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Due to Covid19, all teaching on our comics courses has been moved online, including workshops and exercises on drawing, image composition, and development of visual narratives. As the focus is on sketching and sequence composition processes, as critique and reflection is closely connected to work-in-progress, the move to distance teaching has removed the partners in these processes and conversations from one another. With tight budgets, no dedicated software-licences are bought, but the idea is to use what we have and add as little necessary freeware as needed / possible. While lecturing on and introducing to theoretical backgrounds, techniques, and examples on distance has continued to work quite well, the need to optimise student learning on online design assignments and workshops has been a challenge. It was understood before we had to move all teaching online that developing drawing skills as well as advancing the understanding of pictorial sequential narratives depends on continuous feedback between teachers and students as well as peer-learning between the students. But in practice, this has been the biggest challenge. We have been forced to develop alternative strategies and methods for teaching visual composition processes, showcasing as well as exercising comics-production processes. Didactic strategies have been developed to overcome the restrictions caused by online low-resolution visuals, the inability to unobtrusively observe and participate in design processes, to involve all students actively in critique-sessions, etc. In due consequence, we are putting together a kind of tool-box for teaching and workshopping on visual gestaltung online. We would like to present the results and invite the participants of this workshop to play through and discuss them to help us understand what is needed to make them work for other teachers on other courses that teach visualising / drawing / visual narratives.
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- Hansson, Kristofer, et al.
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Att ta plats med hjälp av rullstol : Ungdomar utarbetar strategier för att övervinna hinder
- 2010
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In: Allt om hjälpmedel. - 1103-8063. ; :3, s. 20-21
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- För många unga är det självklart att kunna gå på bio, sitta och hänga hemma hos kompisen eller traska runt i staden och shoppa kläder. För ungdomar som använder rullstol är aktiviteterna förknippade med hinder som de måste överkomma om de ska kunna ta plats. Hindren klaras ofta av med hjälp av olika stategier.
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- Jõgi, Nils Oskar, et al.
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Device comparison study to measure nasal nitric oxide in relation to primary ciliary dyskinesia
- 2024
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In: Journal of Breath Research. - : Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP). - 1752-7155 .- 1752-7163. ; 18:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a genetic respiratory disease characterized by chronic cough, recurrent respiratory infections, and rhinosinusitis. The measurement of nasal nitric oxide (nNO) against resistance has been suggested as a sensitive screening method. However, current recommendations argue for the use of expensive, chemiluminescence devices to measure nNO. This study aimed to compare nNO measurement using three different devices in distinguishing PCD patients from healthy controls and cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and to evaluate their diagnostic precision. The study included 16 controls, 16 PCD patients, and 12 CF patients matched for age and sex. nNO measurements were performed using a chemiluminescence device (Eco Medics CLD 88sp), and two devices based on electrochemical sensors (Medisoft FeNO+ and NIOX Vero) following standardized guidelines. Correlation estimation, Bland-Altman, ROC curve, and one-way ANOVA were used to assess device differences and diagnostic performance. Significantly lower nNO output values were observed in PCD and CF patients compared to controls during exhalation against resistance. The correlation analysis showed high agreement among the three devices. ROC curve analysis demonstrated 100% sensitivity and specificity at different cut-off values for all devices in distinguishing PCD patients from controls (optimal cut-offs: EcoMedics 73, Medisoft 92 and NIOX 87 (nl min-1)). Higher nNO output values were obtained with the Medisoft and NIOX devices as compared to the EcoMedics device, with a bias of-19 nl min-1(95% CI: -73-35) and -21 nl min-1(-73-31) accordingly. These findings indicate that all three tested devices can potentially serve as diagnostic tools for PCD if device specific cut-off values are used. This last-mentioned aspect warrants further studies and consideration in defining optimal cut-offs for individual device.
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- Krantz, Oskar
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ADEL : En modell för att förstå användning av hjälpmedel
- 2012
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This theoretical study proposes a framework of understanding a user perspective of assistive devices utilisation in everyday life. Utilising the MPT model (Matching Person and Technology) and the ValMO model (Values and Meaning in Human Occupations), a framework of understanding is proposed. Main components in the proposed framework are person, assistive device, and activity, connected by the person’s expectations and experiences concerning the doability/doworthiness (possible to do/worth doing) of an activity, and the usability/useworthiness (possible to use/worth using) of an assistive device. Expectations may differ based on not only earlier experiences (habitus), but also situational and environmental variations, and result in differing experiences. In general, the purpose of an assistive device is to increase a person’s repertoire of doable activities. For a person, this can be a function of the evaluation of possible gains, in terms of correlation between investments (in terms of time and energy), and the (expected) result of the activity. Concluding, the only person able to estimate the useworthiness/usability of a device and the doworthiness/doability of an activity is the user her/himself, assessing the degree at which a specific assistive device enhances the value of an activity, in turn affecting the habitus of the (presumptive) user.
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- Krantz, Oskar
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Assistive devices utilisation in activities of everyday life : a proposed framework of understanding a user perspective
- 2012
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In: Disability and Rehabilitation. - : Informa Healthcare. - 1748-3107 .- 1748-3115. ; 7:3, s. 189-198
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Purpose: This theoretical article proposes a framework of understanding a user perspective of assistive devices utilisation in everyday life. Method: Utilising the MPT model (Matching Person and Technology) and the ValMO model (Values and Meaning in Human Occupations), a framework of understanding is proposed. Results: Main components are person, assistive device, and activity, connected by the person’s expectations and experiences concerning the doability/doworthiness (possible to do/worth doing) of an activity, and the usability/useworthiness (possible to use/worth using) of an assistive device. Expectations may differ based on not only earlier experiences (habitus), but also situational and environmental variations, and result in differing experiences. In general, the purpose of an assistive device is to increase a person’s repertoire of doable activities. For a person, this can be a function of the evaluation of possible gains, in terms of correlation between investments (in terms of time and energy), and the (expected) result of the activity. Conclusions: The only person able to estimate the useworthiness/usability of a device and the doworthiness/doability of an activity is the user her/himself, assessing the degree at which a specific assistive device enhances the value of an activity, in turn affecting the habitus of the (presumptive) user.
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- Krantz, Oskar
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Experiences of municipal information on assistive devices and provision
- 2015
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Aims: Research concerning assistive devices supply in Sweden has focused the matching of person and device from the time of the first meeting between a client and a prescriber and onwards. Howev-er, research concerning the time period before the actual prescription process, seems scarce. The aim of this paper is to describe initial parts of an ongoing analysis concerning the experience among per-sons, who, for the first time, are seeking information on assistive devices and provision from munic-ipal web-pages and prescribers. Methods: Due to obvious methodological problems locating persons who have not yet began seeking information; an alternative approach had to be taken. The focus being how information is perceived, subjects were not limited by reasons for seeking this information, e.g. personal needs. Instead, 36 students contacted two municipalities each, and took notes on the experience thereof. These were analysed by means of a thematic content analysis. Results: Web-pages and prescribers were both perceived as focusing information of the process of assistive devices provision, rather than assistive devices per se. In occasions, a county council sub-page of a national web-page (“1177 Vårdguiden”) was recommended concerning information on specific devices. Furthermore, municipal web-pages varied in labelling information. Language and layout were perceived as less than accessible. Some pages lacked accessible information. Contacting municipal prescribers, short telephone hours caused problems. Conclusions: In sum, information was perceived as less than sufficient concerning assistive devices, despite: (1) The Swedish parliament have established information as a key factor in increasing socie-tal participation (explicitly concerning health care and assistive devices); and (2) a significant rela-tionship exists between access to sufficient information and satisfaction with an assistive device. A theoretical analysis concerning the perceived divergence between function and intention of the sys-tem can include the perspective of Max Weber and civil servant decision-making, and Michael Lipsky’s Street-level Bureaucrat. However, as this paper concerns an ongoing analysis, theoretical perspectives remains to be developed.
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