News and events
| Invitation to PhD Summer School on Social Networking |
(June 2, 10)
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Announcement of PhD summer school on the Political Economy of Information and Communication Technologies. Topic of 2010: Social Networking Deadline for registration: 1 July 2010 Lecturers: William Melody, Charles Steinfield, Ramjee Prasad, Knud Erik Skouby, Anders Henten, Reza Tadayoni Dates: 22-27 August 2010 Organizer: Center for Communication, Media and Information technologies Information and registration: http://phdsummerschool.nordict.aau.dk/ |
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| HumanIT 10 years celebrations |
(May 27, 10)
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HumanIT 10years celebration has been postponed til autumn semester
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| Call for PhD Positions at IN3 |
(May 27, 10)
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The Internet Interdisciplinary Institute at the Open University of Catalonia (IN3), has opened the call for the selection of Ph D students. Next year there will be the option of a full-time 3 years scholarship grant and a part time possibility. Deadline for applications is June 13th |
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| HumanIT welcomes students from India |
(May 19, 10)
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In May HumanIT welcomes four students from Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, for intership at Kau. The students will be placed in Computer Science and Information Systems. You can meet the students in the HumanIT monter at Compares 10 years celebration 24-25th May. Below you find the presentation from two students.
I am Durga Prasad, I am pursuing my Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. As a student of computer science I have grown to love networks, algorithms, graphics etc. Being in Karlstad University has been a great experience as I have never
I am Ankit Bhatnagar, a BTech student in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati(India). As an undergraduate student, I have developed interest in the fields of Databases, Operating Systems and Nerworks. I hail from the city of Bhopal in central part of
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| HumanIT now on FaceBook and Twitter |
(May 13, 10)
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Join HumanIT on FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=102738079772690 Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/Centre4HumanIT
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| New Book Published: The Music Industry - Music in the Cloud |
(May 1, 10)
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HumanIT researcher Patrik Wikström has published a book discussing how new technique changes business models and organization of music. For more information in swedish click here
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| Media and Communication invites to colloquium on Online Territories |
(April 29, 10)
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11th of May 2010, 9.30-1730 Uppsala University, Biksopsgatan 3, room 4 Speakers: Johan Fornäs, Shaun Moores, Maren Hartmann, Charlotte Krolokke, Myria Georgiou, Thomas Tufte
No registration, no fee supported by Riksbanken Jubileumsfond
contact: andre.jansson@kau.se, miyase.christensen@kau.se, christian.christensen@im.uu.se
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| Compare 10 years celebration |
(April 28, 10)
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Compare Karlstad will celebrate its 10 years with a ICT-festival 24-25 May, ICT-seminars 26-28 May and a ICT party the 27th at Pitchers.
HumanIT will of course participate read more abou the celebrations here
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| Call for Papers: PrimeLife Summer School 2010 |
(April 27, 10)
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Sixth International Summer School organised jointly by the EU FP7 project PrimeLife and the IFIP Working Groups 9.2, 9.6/11.7 11.4, 11.6
Privacy and Identity Management for Life (PrimeLife/IFIP Summer School 2010)
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| Invitation to CS colloguium "How anonymous is anonymous" |
(April 19, 10)
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Invitation to the Computer Sciene Colloguium
Mark Battersby, senior Security Consultant, Omegapoint/Stockholm will talk about "How anonymous is anonymous"
Thursday 22nd April 13.15-14.30, Karlstad University, room 21D 416
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| E-CLIC invites to a seminar on Flash content in PDF publications |
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| HumanIT starts cooperation on issues och climate, security and crisis communication |
(April 13, 10)
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| HumanIT invites applications for Ph.D. candidate positions |
(April 9, 10)
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HumanIT invites applications for Ph.D. candidate positions.
One in ICT4D, Information Technology for Development within Media and Communcation Studies,Computer Science or Informations Systems. Click here for more information. One in Law with the topic "Digital Privacy". click here for more information
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| HumanIT will speak on Social Media the 16th of April |
(Mar 29, 10)
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HumanITs director Jakob Svensson will speak on social media and political participation. 9-12, friday the 16th at Metso Fiber, Rosenborgsgatan 50, Karlstad. 200 kr cost to participate. contact Sven Carlsson at compare sven.carlsson@compare.se for more information
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| HumanIT will participate in the Chamber of Commerce Business Trip |
(Mar 19, 10)
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HumanIT will participate, together with the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT, in the Wermland Chamber of Commerce Business Trip 21 - 22 March. See you on the Baltic Sea |
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| Human IT: Technology in Social Context |
(Mar 05, 10)
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing state that the book will be released at the end of the summer. HumanIt is working to speed up the process. |
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| HumanIT-scholarships to students interested in studying ICT use in developing countries. |
(Feb 26, 10)
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The Centre for HumanIT will support theses for bachelor's as well as master's degree at Karlstad University for minor fields studies adressing issues concerning ICT (Information and Communication Technology), needs and uses within developing countries. To be awarded a scholarship the study must be conducted in a developing country and the study must adress issues of ICT. Interested students are asked to send their essay synopsis, a short budget and a statement of support from the supervisor
Send the application to: Questions regarding the scholarships may be directed to jakob.svensson@kau.se |
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| M4D 2010 - new conference on mobile telecom in developing regions |
(Feb 12, 10)
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M4D 2010 is the second international conference in M4D - "Mobile The conference will be located in Kampala, Uganda in early November 2010. M4D2010 aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and all those M4D2010 will combine two days of plenary peer-reviewed paper sessions, with M4D2010 will be one of the most exciting m4d events of 2010! Important dates: Conference Coordinator: Gudrun Wicander <Gudrun.wicander@kau.se> |
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| Jakob Svensson new Director of HumanIT |
(Feb 01, 10)
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The assistant professor in Media and Communication Science, Jakob Svensson, |
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| World Usability Day, November 12, in Karlstad |
(Oct 29, 09)
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Compare, STIMDI/Karlstad, and ID-lab will arrange this years World Usability From www.worldusabilityday.org: |
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| Data Inspection Board magazine about Karlstad research |
(Oct 23, 09)
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The Swedish Data Inspection Board publishes a magazine called "DIrect". |
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| HumanIT Sponsors Seminar in October on Participation in the Digital Age |
(Aug 14, 09)
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Environment, Civic Participation and Responsabilisation in the Digital Age Social, communicative and cultural perspectives on political action for sustainable development Karlstad Seminar on Studying Political Action (KSSPA) 5 “Participation” and “responsibility taking” are increasingly important ideas within politics, government and academic research. Making citizens participate is considered as a universal method solving all different kinds of problems within many different areas today. Not least is Internet considered as an emerging and promising new public sphere for civic participation and political action. Problematic areas may be illuminated from different perspectives through processes of participation, and at the same time decisions are supposed to be anchored among broader segments of the population. In this way citizen participation is considered to legitimize political and administrative decision making. A welcomed side effect of this is citizens becoming more engaged in political issues when being educated to be increasingly responsible for issues before being more or less exclusively on the table of politicians and public authorities. For HumanIT's part, contact Christian.Christensen@kau.se Contact seminar manager: Jakob.Svensson@kau.se |
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| Summer School "IPID 4th Annual Conference 2009" in September |
(Aug 14, 09)
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The 2009 Annual Conference of the International Network for Postgraduate Students in the Area of ICT4D will be held at Royal Holloway, University of London on 11th and 12th September 2009, hosted by the ICT4D Collective and UNESCO Chair in ICT4D. |
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| Summer School "IPID 4th Annual Conference 2009" in September |
(Aug 14, 09)
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Fifth International Summer School organised jointly by the PrimeLife EU project in cooperation with the IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7 11.4, 11.6. "Privacy and Identity Management for Life" (PrimeLife/IFIP Summer School 2009) to be held in Nice, France, 7th – 11th September 2009. |
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| Electronic publication of M4D 2008, General Tracks |
(Mar 19, 09)
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The electronic version is now ready and can be downloaded as a PDF file from: |
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| The proceedings M4D 2008, WIRELESS4D'08 is now printed |
(Mar 16, 09)
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The workshop WIRELESS4D'08 has now published its proceedings in paper format. Editor is workshop organizer Andreas Kassler (@kau.se). Soon an electronic version will be available from http://kau.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=2&pid=diva2:133075 |
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| HumanIT researchers presenters at faculty's Open House May 28 |
(Mar 11, 09)
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Karlstad University is celebrating its 10th anniversary 2009 with a series of Open Houses. Each faculty will take care of one event. The Centre for HumanIT belongs to the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication, and IT, and this faculty will open the university's gates for the public May 28. Besides a host of mini lectures of all disciplines at the Faculty, the research centres CTF and HumanIT will arranged exhibitions with researchers discussing their projects with any curious person showing up this day! |
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| Books and articles about digital privacy |
(Feb 12, 09)
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Referring to project VINNOVA and its final seminar where Karen Lawrence Oqvist participated, we note that Karen now published "Virtual Shadows - Your Privacy in the Information Society" (British Computer Society). See interview: http://blogg.idg.se/magnuspenker/entry.jsp?messid=8242 HumanIT's John Sören Pettersson presented a VINNOVA pre-study at the final symposium of the CNRS project "La sécurité de l'individu numérisé" in Paris November 2007; now published under the same name by L'Harmattan. Pettersson's contribution is entitled "Little brother is watching you - commercialisation of personal data through 'webification'." |
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| HumanIT Director Awarded Best Teacher |
(Feb 10, 09)
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HumanIT director Christian Christensen, Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies has received the “Teacher of the Year” award from the student association Inferno at the anual Communication Officers Day ("Informatörsdagen"). See (in Swedish): http://www.kau.se/aktuellt/artikel.lasso?artikel_id=6793 |
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| M4D 2008 - conference on mobile telecom in developing regions |
(Dec 13, 08)
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December 11-12 the international conference M4D 2008 was held at Karlstad University; Mobile communication technology for Development (m4d.humanit.org ) with three keynote presenters – Adam Denton from GSMA headquarters in London, Richard Heeks from University of Manchester, and Victor Bahl from Microsoft Research in the US – and many presenters. With 133 registered participants, this conference surely surpassed our expectations. When we started planning this conference it was a smaller event we had in mind. It would be a "1st" conference, one of those fumbling starters to gradually build up to something larger. The Centre for HumanIT wished to create something which would support research in the M4D arena by both encouraging academic discourse and feeding into and disseminating practitioners’ experiences. With the help of all who have registered for this conference, coming from more than 30 different nations, we already have a flying ‘something’. HumanIT is also happy to announce contributions from several sponsors: SPIDER for financing the workshop on Collaboration in East Africa, the E-CLIC project for supporting the workshop WIRELESS4D, LifeAcademy and Tieto for sponsoring our two lunches, the Ericsson corporation for sponsoring our conference dinner (and also for providing a history lesson during the dinner on the company founder Lars Magnus Ericsson), and Microsoft Research India as well as the network for post graduate students, IPID, for travel grants supporting scholars and research students attending this conference. |
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| Extend deadline for presentations to M4D 2008: 10 November |
(Nov 01, 08)
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Extend deadline for presentations to M4D 2008: 10 November! See the Conference website http://m4d.humanit.org |
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| Keynote speakers M4D 2008: Adam Denton, Victor Bahl, and Richard Heeks |
(Oct 27, 08)
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M4D 2008 has very interesting presenters, not least are the keynote-speakers very interesting for all researchers or operating companies in the mobile industry: Adam Denton, GSMA, Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, and Richard Heeks, the University of Manchester. |
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| World Usability Day in Karlstad 11 November. Oguzhan Özcan and others ... |
(Oct 14, 08)
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World Usability Day is celebrated to draw attention to usability problem in the IT and ways to tackle them. This year we have a guest lecture from design faculty at Yildiz Technical University. about 17 Professor Dr. Oguzhan Özcan, Yildiz Technical University, Instanbul, talking and discussing about "Opportunities for design studies and usability studies cross-fertilization". Already at 15:30 Maria Lindstrom and Ninni Danielsson are talking about how the user requirements are handled in the requirement specifications and why it is so difficult to get the specifications right. (This part is held in Swedish.) The university, room 21A 342 (Plan 3, opposite the large screen of the egg). |
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| HumanIT full and associate professors |
(Sep 18, 08)
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On 18 September, 2008 John Sören Pettersson, a founding member of HumanIT, made his installation lecture as professor of informatics at Karlstad University. The title of the lecture was "Who takes your personal information and what you can do about it?" More HumanIT members should be mentioned: Stephen Lindskog and HumanIT current director Christian Christensen held their docent lectures the day before, as did Rodney Clarke, from the University of Wollongong, Australia, whom was World Usability Day-speakers in Karlstad, 2006. Of HumanIT interest is the installation lecture in Media and Communication that professor André Jansson held, "Mobile belongings: About media use among people living overseas".
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| 1st International Conference on Mobile for Development, Karlstad University, 11-12 December, 2008 |
(Jul 01, 08)
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The 1st International Conference on "M4D" (Mobile Communication Technology For Development) will be held at Karlstad University on 11-12 December, 2008. The event is co-organized by HumanIT, IPID (The International Network of Post-Graduate Students in ICT4D) and SPIDER. The call for papers and posters closes on October 31, 2008. Please see http://m4d.humanit.org
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| eGovernment and eLearning for social change and development |
(Jun 05, 08)
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HumanIT anordnade ett seminarium eGovernment and eLearning for social change and development Tisdagen den 15 april 2008 Professor Åke Grönlund, Informatik, Örebro universitet presenterade tillsammans med sina doktorander Annika Andersson och Mathias Hatakka tre Sida-finansierade projekt i Bangladesh. eGovernment och eLearning projekt i Bangladesh Seminariet behandlade tre utvecklingsprojekt baserat på mobil teknik som Örebro universitet bedriver i Bangladesh. Syftet med samtliga projekt är att genom att använda befintlig och tillgänglig teknik skapa möjligheter för utveckling i ett av världens fattigaste länder. 1. Bangladesh Virtual Classroom – Mobiltelefoner (i huvudsak SMS) används i kombination med TV sändningar för att göra distansutbildningar mer interaktiva. Kopplat till dessa projekt bedrivs en hel del forskning så seminariet behandlade även olika forskningsstrategier i utvecklingsländer – lärdomar, svårigheter och möjligheter. |
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| Informationsmöte om Sidas Helpdeskfunktion för IT och kommunikation i utvecklingsländer |
(Jun 05, 08)
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Informationsmöte om Sidas Helpdeskfunktion för IT och kommunikation i utvecklingsländer hölls den 10 april 2008. Två representanter från det Sida-finansierade programmet SPIDER (the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions) besökte Karlstads universitet torsdagen den 10 april för att presentera den nya 'helpdesk'-funktionen som är förlagd till Sidas huvudkontor i Stockholm. Tanken är att SPIDERS 14 partneruniversitet, varav Kau är ett, ska bidra med kompetensen till en expertpool inom området IT och kommunikation i utvecklingsländer. Uppdragen kan komma både från Sida i Sverige och från svenska ambassader utomlands. Experter behövs bl.a. inom områden såsom distansundervisning, telemedicin, säkerhet m.m. |
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| Security, Privacy, and Trust in Distributed Systems |
(Jun 02, 08)
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Computer Science Colloquium at Karlstad University Monday, 2nd June 2008, 15:00- 16:30, in room 12A 424 Prof. Bharat Bhargava
This talk will cover a variety of research ideas that contribute to security, privacy, trust in distributed database and systems. Topics include: Trust in P2P Systems, P2D2: A Mechanism for Privacy Preserving Data Dissemination, Private and Trusted Interactions, Detecting Service Violations in Internet & Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, and Vulnerabilities and Threats in Distributed Systems. |
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| June 3, 2008: HumanIT Symposium on Media, Technology and Social Change |
(May 30, 08)
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HumanIT Symposium on Media, Technology and Social Change 0900-0915: Introduction (Christian Christensen) 0915-1015: Session I: Online Media and Social Change Digital Music Services and Social Network Sites Remediations of Transnationalism: Online Territories and Virtual Diaspora 15 Million Hits: Social Networking, Video Sharing and New Political Activism 1015-1045: Discussion 1045-1100: Coffee Break 1100-1140: Session II: Media, Technology and Development IKT-centers och social rehabilitering av nödlidande gatubarn i utvecklingsländer: Aktion och forskning i samspel Education Management Information Systems (EMIS): The Case of Tanzania 1140-1200: Discussion |
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| International Symposium: ICT4D |
(Aug 22, 07)
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An international symposium for doctoral and master's students within the ICT4D field: the use of IT in developing nations, arranged by Karlstad University (30-31 August). The symposium offers a venue for the presentation of research, discussion, networking and knowledge development. Datum: 2007-08-30 - 2007-08-31
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| KAU Summer School: |
(Jul 14, 07)
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Third International Summer School "The Future of Identity in the Information Society" to be held at Karlstad University, Sweden, 6th – 10th August 2007 The increasing diversity of Information Communication Technologies and their equally diverse range of uses in personal, professional and official capacities raise challenging questions of identity in a variety of contexts. Each communication exchange contains an identifier which may, or may not, be intended by the parties involved. What constitutes an identity, how do new technologies affect identity, how do we manage identities in a globally networked information society? The theme of this Summer School will be on Identity Management in relation to current and future technologies in a variety of contexts. IFIP takes a holistic approach to technology. FIDIS supports interdisciplinary exchange. For the conference description and program, see http://www.cs.kau.se/IFIP-summerschool
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| Ph.D. for Erik Wästlund |
(Mar 08, 07)
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On February 23, 2007, HumanIT member Erik Wästlund (Department of Psychology at Göteborg University) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled, "Experimental Studies of Human-Computer Interaction: Working memory and mental workload in complex cognition". |
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| Privacy technology in the framework of consumer support infrastructure |
(Jan 23, 07)
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New project: The pilot study aims to identify the interfaces between technology-based trust systems and other trust systems, specifically in order to identify possibilities to develop more complete user side privacy-enhancing identity management systems. |
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| NordCHI Presentation (Oslo) |
(Sep 11, 06)
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"How Ordinary Internet Users can Have a Chance to Influence Privacy Policies" by John Sören Pettersson, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Marco Casassa Mont, Siani Pearson. Fourth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Oct 14-18 Oslo. |
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| Presentation at the International Design and Engagability Conference 2006 |
(Sep 11, 06)
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MKV Ph.D. student Vanessa Ware (together with Cecilia Katzeff) will present their paper ("Video storytelling as an experiential database for volunteer festival workers") at the "International Design and Engagability Conference" (IDEC) on October 15, 2006. NordiCHI Oslo. |
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| Karlstad researcher host for Ph.D candidate consortium |
(Aug 07, 06)
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Simone Fischer-Hübner, professor in Computer Science, is hosting a "camp for Ph.D students" 9-13 augusti in Långholmen, Stockholm, which is arranged as a part of the EU project FIDIS - Future of Identity in the Information Society. The Ph.D students Christer Andersson and Leonardo Martucci from Karlstad help to arrange the meeting where guest speakers as Jan Camenich from IBM Zürich and Caspar Bowden from Microsoft (London) will be lecturing and discussing with the Ph.D students. |
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| Conference: Yet another Human Values track |
(Aug 02, 06)
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This years (hungarian) ISD conference, 31 augusti - 2 september, includes a "Human Values of IT" track, exactly as last year's conference in Karlstad did. John Sören Pettersson will be talking about "Privacy-friendly Data Maintenance for End-users", a presentation he has written together with Simone Fischer-Hübner (Karlstad) and Mike Bergmann (Dresden)as part of the PRIME project. Four additional Karlstad researchers will present their papers: Peter Bellström, Odd Fredriksson, Lars Jaksobsson och Anders G. Nilsson. Also the former guest researcher at HumanIT, William Song, will come to Budapest. He will present his paper "An Internal Structure of Virtual Organizations in Grid" (co-author Xiaoming Li). |
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| Eyetracking seminar together with Compare |
(May 12, 06)
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Friday May 12 at 1.30 pm, building 12, two bachelor students at Karlstad University will have a seminar about the technique behind eye tracking. The Centre for HumanIT is interested of letting companies test the technique in joint pilot projects. |
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| PRIME project received high marks in evaluation |
(May 01, 06)
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The PRIME project received high marks in a mid-project evaluation in April that was iniated by the EU commission. Several members in the PRIME project were gathered in Bristol to present results from their working groups and to answer questions from the evaluaters. |
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| SPIDER supports ICT4D network for Ph.D students |
(Jan 03, 06)
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As part of HumanITs "Bridging the Digital Divide" the Ph.D student Gudrun Wicander has now taken an initiative to a network for Ph.D students working in "ICT for Development". SPIDER has now granted means for building a website and for seminars. Contact Gudrun.Wicander@kau.se |
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| Joint project concerning broadband in developing countries |
(Dec 20, 05)
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HumanIT and researchers at KTH and Lund University have received a grant from SPIDER - Swedish Program for Information and Communication Technology in Developing Regions to the project "Towards Sustainable Broadband Communication Markets in Rural Areas". For Karlstad, it will mean that a Ph.D student is going to participate in field studies in Tanzania during a month this spring. The purpose is to investigate possibilities for broadband communication in rural areas, from both organisational, technical and regulation political views. |
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| Security and privacy in dynamic environments, SEC 2006, May 2006 |
(Oct 29, 05)
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21st IFIP International Information Security Conference, "Security and Privacy in Dynamic Environments", May 22 - May 24, 2006, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden. For more information, see http://www.sec2006.org. |
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| Experimental systems development methods for informationdesign |
(Sep 12, 05)
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Funding for eye tracking equipment for analysis of how people react to computer screen layout and texts has been granted by Sparbanksstiftelsen Alfa. The grant also includes some resources during autumn 2005 for demonstrations and introduction to Karlstad University researchers, research students, exam workers, and also some companies. The project is meant to support building up competence in the region by providing means for the HumanIT researchers to guide students and companies in using this kind of technology which is now becoming more reliable and less cumbersome to use. |
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| Description of research area DigiCom - Digital Communication Society |
(Aug 31, 05)
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Computer Science, Information Systems, and Media and Communication Science at Karlstad University have joined in a proposal for studying mobility, usabiltiy and identity aspects of the digital communication society, DigiCom. For more information, see our research page. |
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| HumanITforum: Search Engine Characteristics - Why is Google Better? |
(Jul 14, 05)
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Friday, August 19, 13.15-15.00, room 12B151. |
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| HumanIT folder updated |
(Apr 22, 05)
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HumanIT now has produced an updated leaflet for 2005. |
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| PhD theses defences |
(Apr 15, 05)
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PhD candidates Lennart Molin and Albin Zuccato will defend their theses in June 3 and 16, respectively, at Karlstad University. Stefan Lindskog defends his thesis at Chalmers Institute of Technology April 20. |
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| Good example from HumanIT |
(Apr 14, 05)
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HumanIT's BDD are included among the "Good examples of internationalising" that the Swedish board for higher education (HSV) recently published (in Swedish http://web2.hsv.se/publikationer/rapporter/2005/0506R.pdf). |
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| HumanITforum: The design perspective on IT systems development |
(Feb 01, 05)
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Tuesday, March 8, 13.15-15.30, room 12B152. |
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| International computer conference in Karlstad August 2005 |
(Dec 01, 04)
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"14th International Conference on Information Systems Development" will be held in Karlstad, August 15-17, 2005. The theme is Bridging the Gap between Academia and Practice and indeed there will be a special industry track: "Integration of Information Technology in Practice". HumanIT also has a track, among the scientific presentations, called "Human Values of Information Technology" with four areas planned: The ISD 2005 conference proceedings will be published by Springer. For more information, see www.it.kau.se/isd2005. |
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| International computer conference in Karlstad August 2005 |
(Dec 01, 04)
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"14th International Conference on Information Systems Development" will be held in Karlstad, August 15-17, 2005. The theme is Bridging the Gap between Academia and Practice and indeed there will be a special industry track: "Integration of Information Technology in Practice". HumanIT also has a track, among the scientific presentations, called "Human Values of Information Technology" with four areas planned: The ISD 2005 conference proceedings will be published by Springer. For more information, see www.it.kau.se/isd2005. |
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| Gender identity on the net |
(Nov 23, 04)
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Lunarstorm is a chat site which many Swedish children and teenagers use. According to its managers, as many as 88% of all swedes aged 15-20 visit Lunarstorm at least once a week. Malin Sveningsson has received funding from the Swedish Research Council for a project investigating how gender identity is developed among Lunarstorm users. Malin started as a HumanIT guest researcher and has nowadays a full-time lectureship in Media and Communication. |
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| International Development and HumanIT |
(Nov 18, 04)
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The Swedish International Development Agency, SIDA, has awarded HumanIT a grant for the two-year research project. A locally oriented perspective on ICTs in rural Africa - Tracing key factors for successful ICT usage. Susanne Sundén will work as a research student within the project headed by HumanIT director Dr. John Sören Pettersson. HumanIT did also last year receive SIDA funding for field studies, which also involve Gudrun Wicander. The three are active within the HumanIT programme Bridging the Digital Divide and co-operates with the Swedish national programme for ICT in developing regions SPIDER. |
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| HumanIT Vison and Mission Workshop 2004 |
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HumanIT will have a workshop on the theme Vison and Mission the 5th of October, afternoon. The number of participants is limited. HumanIT Vision and Mission Workshop 2004, October 5, in short:
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| HumanITforum: Semantic Web, May 25 |
(May 18, 04)
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Former HumanIT guest researcher William Song is visiting us for some days. On Tuesday, May 25, in 12B152, 1 o'clock he will be presenting at a seminar on "Semantic issues in Web Services and Grid Services". (Contact Prof. Remigijus Gustas.) |
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| FIDIS - Future of Identity in the Information Society |
(Apr 01, 04)
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This is another EU-project within the sixth framework where HumanIT takes an active part. It is a "Network of Excellence" with Goethe University, Frankfurt, as co-ordinator. The network project will be running for five years and HumanIT researchers from computer science department will working within its framework. Europe requires technologies which address trust and security yet also preserve the privacy of individuals. As Europe develops as an "information society", the increasingly digital representation of personal characteristics changes our ways of identifying individuals, and supplementary digital identities, so-called virtual identities, embodying concepts such as pseudonymity and anonymity, are being created for security, profit, convenience or even for fun. These new identities are feeding back into the world of social and business affairs, offering a mix of plural identities and challenging traditional notions of identity. At the same time, European states manage identities in very different ways. This complex picture will be addressed by the FIDIS network. For more information, contact Professor Simone Fischer-Hübner. see also www.fidis.net |
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| PRIME: Large EU6FP integrated project about privacy protection |
(Feb 24, 04)
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The 10.1 MEuro project PRIME - Privacy and Identity Management for Europe - will include HumanIT researchers for defining usability aspects of privacy protecting technologies. For more information, contact either Simone Fischer-Hübner or John Sören Pettersson; see also www.prime-project.eu.org |
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| "Rally seminar" about Arenas of the Future |
(Dec 16, 03)
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The 5th of February we will have a seminar in connection with the start of Uddehol Swedich Rally. Hockey hero Håkan Loob will be speaking, delegates from ISC will be presenting the World Rally Championship concept, the local IT industry will discuss their on-going Arena efforts, and HumanIT researchers make various presentations and demonstrations. See invitation in Swedish. |
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| HumanITforum spring 2004 |
(Dec 10, 03)
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HumanITforum will have a joint series within the University's Core Curriculum series together with HELP, "IT Bridging Distances -- Technology for Social and Economical Development"; see Core's web pages in Swedish. |
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| HumanITforum 12 November |
(Nov 11, 03)
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13:15 "Internet Research Ethics: Emerging Guidelines and Current Issues" by Charles Ess from Drury University, presently Visiting Professor at the Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication (DIAC), The IT University of Copenhagen. |
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| Grants for field studies in the Third World |
(Oct 30, 03)
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The Swedish International Development Agency has granted money for field studies during 2004 and 2005 in the Third World for a project within HumanIT's program Bridging the Digital Divide. However, a proposal for funding a doctoral candiadate during the same period was not approved (SIDA refers to lack of resources). |
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| Research volume from HumanIT |
(Aug 15, 03)
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Boken "HumanIT 2003" består av bidrag från sjutton forskare och forskarstudenter inblandade i HumanITs verksamhet under de senaste tre åren. Vissa kapitel handlar om HumanITs tidigare verksamheter, en del inriktar sig på framtida forskningsområden. Bidragen spänner från språkbruk i internet "chat" via IT-relaterad stress och integritetsrisk-hantering till användandet av IT för att bekämpa fattigdom i delar av världen där ingen har använt någon form av IT-redskap. Boken innehåller även en presentation av centret självt. KK-stiftelsen har stött HumanIT med ett särskillt plattformsanslag till Karlstads |
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| Book on methodology for Internet research |
(Jun 30, 03)
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*Att fånga nätet* -- *Catching the Web* -- is a book about how research methodologies are effected when the researchr is using Internet to conduct his/her studies. Authors are, inter alia, HumanIT researcher Malin Sveningsson. The publishers website |
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| EU-funding of Medical technology in Värmland |
(May 27, 03)
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The EU structure fund "Innovativa Åtgärder" will give 3.4 million Swedish kronor to HumanIT and its partners within medical technology. The funding concerns a project "Medicinsk Teknik i Värmland" where the companies Aiolos, Fyrplus, Medical Robotics, WermTec, and EDC in Munkfors are included together with Landstinget i Värmland (public health service in the county) and Karlstad University (project owner). The County Council as well as the Association of Municipalities, Region Värmland, also contributes economically to this project, which in total runs around 6,7 million kronor. Few areas are as complex as medical technology. Small and medium sized companies might therefore have problems with the competence supply. The project is aming at forming a cluster for co-operation between companies concerning product development and marketing, with a further goal to gain attention from and co-operation with other companies within the area of medical technology, attract company allocations and competence to Värmland. Within the area of medical technology, people and technology meet in close and sensitive situations: the user interface will therefore in many cases become the decisive for success on the market. Karlstad University is contributing with a project focusing methodologies for user-centered development of user interfaces and will be an important partner together with Landstinget i Värmland for knowledge transfer as well as for strengthening the cluster formation. |
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| Another new book... |
(Apr 17, 03)
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Another new book written by HumanIT researchers: Web Site Privacy with P3P by Helena Lindskog and Stefan Lindskog. The book deals with Platform for Privacy Preferences Protocol and is published by Wiley. See also the HumanIT project |
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| Medical IT within HumanIT |
(Feb 14, 03)
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A collaboration has been initiated with the medical technical company Medical Robotics. The company is developing a robot based direction indicator named PinTrace designed for orthopedic surgery. The system is based on a combination of robot technology and advanced image processing. The method works with input data from traditional x-ray fluoroscopy in two dimensions. Medical Robotics is building a network around medical technology in Värmland. www.medicalrobotics.se; see also the HumanIT-project on Ozlab. |
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| Two new faces at HumanIT |
(Feb 13, 03)
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Since the beginning of February HumanIT has an assistant named Gudrun Wicander employed at 20%. Gudrun works moreover at the Section for Information Technology as a doctoral candidate within the subject Information Systems and she belongs to the national research school MIT, Management and IT. Her research area concerns implementation of ICT in developing countries (see also notice December 23, 2002, below). Ylva Hård af Segerstad is a guest researcher at the Centre for HumanIT during Spring 2003. She defended her PhD thesis in December 2002 at the Depr of General Linguistics, Gothenburg University. In her research, she analyses texts from e-mail, web chat, etc. Ylva will give a seminar within the Core Curriculum series March 31 mars: "Personal communikation and IT". |
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| HumanITforum spring 2003 |
(Jan 31, 03)
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HumanITforum will have a special series within the University's Core Curriculum series; see Core's web pages in Swedish. Moreover, Göran Frödin, a well-known industrial representative in HumanIT's board, will give a speech on IT-based service and relationship development: March 20, 13.15-15.00, room 11C 121. |
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| Burnett and Marshall on web theory |
(Jan 27, 03)
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Routledge is now publishing a book by HumanIT researcher Robert Burnett and HumanIT mentor David Marshall: 'Web Theory: An Introduction'. See www.webtheory.nu for details. |
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| Bridging the Digital Divide |
(Dec 23, 02)
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Susanne Sundén is a new name within HumanIT. She has together with fellow student Gudrun Wicander, who is now accepted to the national research school Management and IT, made exam works about IT in Zambia. From January to June Susanne will co-ordinate HumanIT's Bridging the Digital Divide in co-operation with Ericsson's Third World-oriented Communication for All. This will open for interdisciplinary work within the university and possibly it will involve also other actors in the Karlstad region. |
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| Ericsson and TietoEnator |
(Dec 20, 02)
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Tieto Enator AB recently acquired Ericsson's development unit in Karlstad. Tieto Enator AB will continue the research cooperation that was initiated between the Department of Computer Science and Ericsson in Karlstad. The cooperation involves research projects in both computer networking and computer security. Ericsson Research will support the projects with competence. |
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| Two HumanITforum lectures in December |
(Nov 21, 02)
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Lars Borin "Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Language Technology: What are we doing - What can we do - What do we want to do?" Mikael Sandberg "Creativity and IT innovation in Swedish Organisations: results from a survey in 2000" |
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| Most stress from stationary telephones |
(Sep 30, 02)
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The HumanIT research project "Homo Mobile" has revealed a surprising facts about information technology and stress. The old stationary telephone appeared as the most stressing technology in a study surveying public institutions of three smaller towns in Sweden. Results show that different information and communication technologies were frequently used in participants' daily work. In general, the experience of IT use was characterized by ambivalence. Participants reported equally many advantages as disadvantages with information technologies. On the whole, no IT stress was found, but respondents who considered themselves stressed by other factors did also report IT-related stress. IT stress could then be defined as an experience of unmanageable information loads and unmanageable communication demands. No differences were found between leaders and administrative assistants regarding experienced IT stress. Out of the different IT's, the stationary telephone was considered the number one stressor, whereas a fax machine caused the lowest degree of stress. The three main sources of stress related to technology were interruptions in the daily work, lack of time, and malfunctioning technology. The organizations had not formulated specific rules or norms for facilitating or restricting use of information technologies. A majority of the respondents experienced that the amount of information and the communication demands were constantly increasing, and that the organization and its members would benefit from formulating some kind of policy regarding the use of email, Internet, and intranets etc. As things are at present, restrictions and norms for dealing with communication technologies are individually determined by each user. |
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| Most stress from stationary telephones |
(Sep 30, 02)
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The HumanIT research project "Homo Mobile" has revealed a surprising facts about information technology and stress. The old stationary telephone appeared as the most stressing technology in a study surveying public institutions of three smaller towns in Sweden. Results show that different information and communication technologies were frequently used in participants' daily work. In general, the experience of IT use was characterized by ambivalence. Participants reported equally many advantages as disadvantages with information technologies. On the whole, no IT stress was found, but respondents who considered themselves stressed by other factors did also report IT-related stress. IT stress could then be defined as an experience of unmanageable information loads and unmanageable communication demands. No differences were found between leaders and administrative assistants regarding experienced IT stress. Out of the different IT's, the stationary telephone was considered the number one stressor, whereas a fax machine caused the lowest degree of stress. The three main sources of stress related to technology were interruptions in the daily work, lack of time, and malfunctioning technology. The organizations had not formulated specific rules or norms for facilitating or restricting use of information technologies. A majority of the respondents experienced that the amount of information and the communication demands were constantly increasing, and that the organization and its members would benefit from formulating some kind of policy regarding the use of email, Internet, and intranets etc. As things are at present, restrictions and norms for dealing with communication technologies are individually determined by each user. |
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| 1.5 million SEK to IT project |
(Sep 09, 02)
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The national research project "Wireless IP" has been awarded a total of 10 million SEK from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, SSF (www.stratresearch.se), for the next three years. Karlstad University will be granted 1.5 million SEK, and participate in the project together with two other universities. The competition for the funds has been tough. Only 14 out of 144 applications to SSF within IT have been granted funds. The Wireless IP project aims at studying and developing fourth generation wireless IT systems. Three researchers at Karlstad University are involved with the project, among them Anna Brunström, senior lecturer in computer sciences. - We investigate how future mobile systems can be designed. We aim at high capacity combined with large mobility. Services available today in fixed networks will in future be available for mobile users with the same capacity as today, Anna Brunström explains. The project is a multi diciplinary cooperation between Karlstad University, Uppsala University, Chalmers University of Technology, and several corporations, among them Ericsson. - The cooperation with other universities and with corporations contributes to the overall picture. Karlstad University holds competence within datacommunication, while Uppsala University and Chalmers University of Technology hold competence within signalling and telecommunication. |
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| Lectures during the fall |
(Sep 05, 02)
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During the fall, the following lectures are planned: Jan Holvast "Political, ethical and technical considertions on 'Privacy after September 11'"
Malin Sveningsson "Creating a Sense of Community. Experiences from a Swedish Web Chat" Pär Carlshamre "Is systems development a typical engineering problem? - About the difficulties in formalising usability and connecting it to requirements handling." Lars Borin - See new announcment Nov 21 Mikael Sandberg - See announcment Nov 21 |
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| Positions as Visiting Researchers Filled |
(Jun 19, 02)
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Several researchers will be working here as visiting researchers during the fall of 2002. They will participate in different projects in the Centrum för HumanIT research program. Marit Hansen, and colleagues, from the Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig Holstein, Kiel, will be working in Professor Simone Fischer-Hübner's project about end-user understanding of security terms used in mobile telephony. Malin Svenningsson from Gothenburg will be working in Robert Burnett's project from July to October. Her main interest is music on the net - buying, exchanging, listening - from the listener's perspective rather than the established e-commerce research, which focuses on increasing revenue on e-commerce sites. Lars Borin, computer linguist, will, for three months, be working in John Sören Pettersson's project on modelling interaction automation. Borin has earlier studied whether public web pages can be used as example materials within computer based language training. The cooperation with HumanIT will consist of development of methods within the user interface area, focusing on mobile terminals. Up-dated news: Lars Borin has become the Professor of Språkdata at Gothenburg's Unniversity. Instead William Song will be working in Remigijus Gustas's project on e-commerce. |
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| Simone Fischer-Hübner new Chairman for HumanIT |
(Jun 19, 02)
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New members have been elected for the board of HumanIT. Birgitta Johansson-Hidén will hand over to Simone Fischer-Hübner. Anders Gustafsson and Anna Brunström leave the board, and Gunnel Kardemark steps in. |
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| Karlstad Researchers will simultaneously be in Karlstad and Canada |
(May 23, 02)
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Today, we will have our first live transmission with an Internet based system that creates virtual meeting places for participants all over the world. Karlstad University will be in direct contact with the University of Alberta in Canada. - They will affect our system, our virtual reality, in real time, Steve Gibson explains. Steve is lecturer in Media and Communication Sciences at both Karlstad University and University of Victoria. Several persons on both locations can participate simultaneously. The system detects where in the studio the participants are, in Karlstad and Canada respectively. In future, more Canadian universities will be online. Everone can communicate with everyone. Of course, the difference in time zones can leave one studio empty when there is activity on the other side of the Atlantic. Centrum för HumanIT at Karlstad University runs the project, which is financed by research grants from Canada. In addition to the Canadian universities, the company Acoustic Positioning Research participates in the experime |
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Author: Jakob Svensson
The page was updated on 2010-06-14 09:59
