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- Eriksson, Elina, et al.
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HCI and UN's Sustainable Development Goals : Responsibilities, Barriers and Opportunities
- 2016
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In: NordiCHI '16. - New York, NY, USA : ACM Digital Library. - 9781450347631
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Despite increasing interest, Sustainable HCI has been critiqued for doing too little, and perhaps also at times for doing the wrong things. Still, a field like Human-Computer Interaction should aim at being part of transforming our society into a more sustainable one. But how do we do that, and, what are we aiming for?With this workshop, we propose that HCI should start working with the new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that were formally adopted by the UN in September 2015. How can Sustainable HCI be inspired by, and contribute to these goals? What should we in the field of HCI do more of, and what should we perhaps do less of? In what areas should we form partnerships in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals and with whom should we partner?
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- Hagberg, Johan, 1973, et al.
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From basket to shopping bag: retailers' role in the transformation of consumer mobility in Sweden, 1941-1970
- 2015
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In: Journal of Historical Research in Marketing. - 1755-750X .- 1755-7518. ; 7:4, s. 452-475
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to follow the gradual transformation of consumer mobility in mid-20th-century Sweden in connection with the introduction of self-service retailing. The paper is based on an analysis of the magazine ICA-Tidningen, published by the major Swedish retailer ICA, for the period from 1941 to 1970. The paper describes the transformation of consumer mobility as a set of interrelated changes that involved both retailers and consumers; the interrelationship between modes of transport and container technologies; and how self-service not only transformed the interior of retail stores but also had more far-reaching implications. When attempting to understand the reconfiguration of shopping practices in the 20th century, there is a tendency to focus on large infrastructural changes. These studies tend to overlook gradual, mundane, everyday translations. This paper contributes methodological tools and analyses that account for such mundane transformations.
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- Nelson, Maria, 1979-
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Host responses to malaria and bacterial co-infections
- 2015
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The two main causes of child mortality and morbidity in Africa are malaria and invasive bacterial diseases. In addition, co-infections in sub-Saharan Africa are the rule rather than the exception. However, not much is known about the host-pathogen interaction during a concomitant infection or how it affects the outcome of disease.In order to study the immunological responses during malaria and bacterial co-infections, we established a co-infection mouse model. In these studies we used two pathogenic bacteria found in malaria co-infected patients: Streptococcus pneumoniae and Relapsing fever Borrelia duttonii.Hosts co-infected with malaria and Borrelia showed greatly increased spirochetal growth but low parasite densities. In addition, the co-infected hosts presented symptoms of experimental-cerebral malaria, in an otherwise unsusceptible mouse model. This was found to be a consequence of a dysregulated immune response due to loss of timing and control over regulatory mechanisms in antigen presenting cells thus locking the host in an inflammatory response. This results in inflammation, severe anemia, internal organ damage and pathology of experimental cerebral malaria.On the other hand, in the malaria - S. pneumoniae co-infection model we found that co-infected hosts cleared the bacterium much more efficiently than the single infected counterpart. This efficiency of clearance showed to be neutrophil dependent. Furthermore, in vitro studies revealed that neutrophils isolated from malaria-infected hosts present an altered migratory effect together with a significantly increased capacity to kill S. pneumoniae. This suggests that a malaria infection primes neutrophils to kill S. pneumoniae more efficiently.Furthermore, a study was carried out on plasma samples from Rwandan children under the age of five, on which a full metabolomics profile was performed. We showed that these children could be divided in different disease categories based on their metabolomics profile and independent of clinical information. Additionally, the mild malaria group could further be divided in two sub-groups, in which one had a metabolomic profile resembling that of severe malaria infected patients. Based on this, metabolite profiling could be used as a diagnostic tool to determine the distinct phase, or severity of a malaria infection, identify risk patients and provide helpful and correct therapy.
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- Normark, Daniel, 1974-, et al.
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Funny bikes: a symmetrical study of urban space, vehicular units and mobility through the voyeuristic spokesperson of a video lens
- 2019
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In: Visual Studies. - 1472-586X .- 1472-5878. ; 34:1, s. 13-27
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents methodological considerations from a comparative, symmetrical video analysis of cyclist practices in Gothenburg and Toulouse. Video recording pays as much attention to the properties of bicycles as to the characteristics of people; it takes into account the pragmatic and situated dimension and, thus, allows a generalised symmetry. From there, visual methods enable us to submit the collected material to a double treatment of a quantitative analysis of observed bicycles and a qualitative ethnomethodological analysis of bike rental sequences. To better understand the logic and challenges of our method, we present it alongside an analogy with a famous film equivalent–the strategy used by the film-maker Michael Haneke in his heuristic film(s), Funny Games. Despite objectives and content that are obviously completely at odds to one another, the Funny Games film(s) and our own videos share at least five interesting features: twin films, static shots, photomontage, silent films, and rewinding.
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- Normark, Daniel, 1974, et al.
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Mundane intermodality: a comparative analysis of bike-renting practices
- 2018
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In: Mobilities. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1745-0101 .- 1745-011X. ; 13:6, s. 791-807
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Bike rental systems have been introduced as a sustainable urban mobility alternative. This paper analyses the social practices that emerge as part of these systems. We specifically focus on the interactions and street-level performances at a bike rental station. We argue that the bike-sharing service is a pivotal device that enables its users to transform (to re-configure from pedestrians to cyclists and vice versa), hence creating intermodality. The bike rental system ensures the technical standardization of behaviour while simultaneously revealing differences between those familiar with the system and those who are not. Thus, competences and meanings of the station are not subordinate to materials – they are interdependent, entwined and enacted in and through the practice itself.
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- Normark, Johan, 1969
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Causeway/sacbe
- 2016
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In: Encyclopedia of the Ancient Maya / edited by Walter R. T. Witschey. - Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield. - 9780759122840 ; , s. 64-65
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Normark, Johan, 1969
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Going against the flow: Reaction to Veronica Strang
- 2015
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In: Archaeological Dialogues. - 1380-2038 .- 1478-2294. ; 22:2, s. 199-206
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In her discussion article Fluid consistencies. Material relationality in human engagements with water', Veronica Strang argues that water provides a useful focus for thinking about relationships between things and persons and between material properties and meanings' (Strang 2014, 133, emphasis added). Water permeates organic things and flows and connects in a multi-scalar way. Therefore her article emphasizes how material and social processes combine to provide both fluidity and consistency at every level of human-non-human engagement' (ibid., 133). Ontologically speaking, the emphasis on fluid relations and processes makes her a relationist, i.e. objects emerge from their internal or external relations (Harman 2009). I will summarize my reactions to her article in three major points.
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