This conference provides a forum for enthusiasts in Mobile Communication Technologies for Development (M4D) to share experiences of innovation and working with mobile technologies in development contexts.
The inaugural conference was held in Karlstad, Sweden in 2008.
The 31st International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2018, will be hosted by Karlstad University, Sweden. The symposium will take place from June 18 to 21st, 2018.
CBMS 2018 will provide an international forum to discuss the latest developments in the field of computational medicine, biomedical informatics and related fields.
We welcome Fredrik Johansson who will work full time certain months at Karlstad university during the academic year 17/18. He will teach courses in database design, programming and web.
Fredrik’s ordinary work is at the Karlstad branch of the Norwegian company Cerpus where he helps the company’s client with their web sites.
A discussion seminar with Professor Jan ”Gulan” Gulliksen, a new member of the university board, and member of the Digitalisation Council, which the Swedish government formed in March this year.
Gulan will speak and discuss the topics of politics, national IT policies and digitalisation, that is the impact of digitisation on our society, and also on digitalisation as an object for research and education.
The event is open to the public.
Bridget Kane, associate professor of Information Systems, spent three days in Copenhagen on a trip to Healthcare Denmark, and the European Headquarters of the World Health Organisation.
The field trip was organised through the Centre for Health Policy and Management at Trinity College Dublin.
Professor Remigijus Gustas and Assistant Professor Prima Gustiene from the Information Systems department at Karlstad Business School were awarded “Best Paper” at the 6th BMSD International Symposium of Business Modeling and Software Design, held in Rhodes, Greece, June 20-22, 2016.
Now, an extended version of their paper “Principles of Semantically Integrated Conceptual Modelling Method” appears as the first chapter of eleven “selected papers” in a Springer LNBIP volume,
For the second time Professor Kai Holzweissig from Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg visited the Information Systems department at Karlstad University.
Wednesday, May 3rd Chris Hieber, Lead Business Analyst, from Capgemini Stuttgart in Germany, visited the Information System department at KaU and gave a lecture in the Master course “Electronic Business and Enterprise Systems” about Business Process Model Notation (BPMN 2.0) – How to Model Business Processes.
There were many interested visitors, both students, colleagues from the Information Systems department and visiting researchers who took the chance to listen to Chri
Claes Thorén, who defended his doctoral dissertation at Karlstad University in the spring of 2014 now returns to give seminar on his recent research. Since his disputation, he has worked as a researcher and later as a senior lecturer and director of studies at Uppsala University.
Bridget Kane, senior lecturer in Information Systems at Karlstad University with a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin, will speak trends with the perspective of the conference series CBMS - Computer-Based Medical Systems.
At Karlstad University, Odd teaches classes in Management Information Systems at all levels. His high-level classes have been much appreciated by foreign students coming to Karlstad.
Now, he extended his teaching activities to Australia, as a Visiting EU Erasmus Mobility Academic.
Lotta Braunerhielm, project manager for ”Digitisation and the Tourism Industry” and assistant professor in Human Geography, informed about a new project aiming to increase the knowledge about and promoting place-related experiences through digital solutions.
ITQ is the network for girls studying IT at the university and practitioners in the IT-sector. The purpose with ITQ is to show the breadth in our educations and to highlight examples of possible professional roles.
On December 8th, the annual ITQ-bowling took place – an evening where the idea is that girls from all our IT-educations and business representatives can meet and socialise.
The former Information Systems doctoral student Julio Angulo, now at Google Research is giving a Google Talk.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible
and useful.
During the period 29/11 - 6/12 KAU was visited by Olga Novoselskaya from the Byelorussian State Technological University, Belarus.
Olga Novoselskaya is a senior lecturer at the Informatics and Web-Design Department.
During her visit she, amongst other things, met research and study coordinators from the Information System department;
Took part in lectures at one HCI courses (ISGC01 Interaction design);
presented her department and university at the Information System gro
The Information Systems department at Kau from the autumn 2016 offer an international semester on the under-graduate level.
The first international semester course delivered was the “Service Management and IT: e-Business” (ISGC07) course.
Prof. John Sören Pettersson was one of the organisers behind the fifth M4D conference, that is, the conference on mobile communication technologies for development arrange biannual by KAU’s Centre for HumanIT.
Henrik Svensson andSerge Thill, Skövde University, presents a manuscript entitled Beyond bodily anticipation: internal simulation in social interaction (to appear in Cognitive Systems Research).
"In this presentation we present a review of internal simulation mechanisms. We contrast the roles they play in human cognition, in particular in the context of social interaction, with robotic implementations.
Xin Chen ("Albee"), research student at School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, presents the main ideas and findings of her forthcoming dissertation.
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This study’s contributions to the field can be summarised as follows.
Rodney Clarke (Wollongong) presents a theorisation and design patterns for Internet-of-Things systems.
Developments in technology enable the construction of cheap and accurate emergency sensors. These sensors can provide improved ground truth for models or quantitative evidence to check against trends in social media.
