Benneth Christiansson who works not only at the univeristy but also at Redpill shares his work life experience at this seminar.
I will present the fenomenon "API MAnagement" and its importance for IoT. I will also present some examples of how we help customers understand and utlise API Management.
Presentation and dicsussion will be held in Information System's coffee room, 1A349, from 1:15PM on Wednesday December 9.
Together with the University College in Hedmark, Norway, Karlstad University has received a grant for a 3-year project about development of IT support for crisis training. Monika Magnusson and other researchers from Information System will play essential roles in this project.
Joint training is an important factor for a well-developed readiness to handle crises.
Mohammad Rajiullah explains how resons delays can be meassured and why long response times cannot be fixed by increasing bandwidth.
Students are in particular welcome!
11D257, 13-15, November 30th.
Mohammad Rajiullah recently defended his doctoral thesis in Computer Science here at Karlstad University. The presentation will not included the most advanced technical details but still explain what are the technical difficulties of lowering web sites' latency.
Anders Green, Senior Lecturer in Media Technology at Södertörn University, outlines research plans related to the game design education offered by his university. Wizard of Oz is one method among others that may play a role here. Research plans and student-level collaboration will also be discussed at the seminar.
Green's research focus includes human-machine interaction, communication, and web development for mobile services.
Joeri van Laere from Univeristy College Skövde is visiting the Information Systems group this Wednesday and will make to presentations within Centre for HumanIT's seminar series.
14:15-15:00
The first seminar has the theme "Socio-technology, socio-materiality: are we still lost?" Joeri makes an account of his search for concrete design themes in works from Ciborra, Orlikowski, Weick, Argyris, Quinn et cetera.
Robert Eklund, Linköping University (before this at Telia Sonera), about the methodology used in the development of interactive systems, in particular as regards language-based interaction.
As a language technology researcher at Telia in the beginning of the century, Robert visited us several times for guest lectures in HCI for the Multimedia programme.
"Best Practices for E-Learning in On-Campus and Distance Education – a Case Study of Karlstad University" was selected as ’best paper’ within Smart E-Learning Technologies and Systems at a conference in Lithuania.
Assistant Professors Prima Gustiené and Monika Magnusson wrote the paper “Best Practices for E-Learning in On-Campus and Distance Education-a Case Study of Karlstad University” forThe 21st International Conference
Jennifer Nilsson is one of two winners of the Karlstad Business School's best thesis award at Bachelor level. Prize cermony at the exams dinner October 2, 2015.
The stipend committe has this year decided to split the prize for best bachelor thesis into two awards:
a. 5,000 kr to Jennifer Nilsson for the Bachelor thesis in Information Systems "To choose product configurator in a manufacturing industry"
b.
Professor William Wei Song from Dalarna University on the research at his department in Information Systems including his own on trust computing.
"We are also involved in a local "big data" project - called smart city Yudu - a three layer framework: 1) business model for describing an overall situation of the city (main sources are from transport data management, weather data management, and government statistic data management), 2) data analysis (vertical versus horizont
Assoc. Prof. John Bonner from Huddersfield University is visiting us for two days. On the first day, he will give a seminar with a thought-provoking content.
As interaction designers, information scientists or HCI specialists, we are often seeking ways to improve our relationship with technology.
Research concerning process oriented business development are conducted with professionals from a range of companies and other organizations. Around 40 participants in the network PoP met in Karlstad to further the collaboration.
Marie-Therese Christiansson is the originator and leader of this network.
Tomas Gustavsson is a teacher in Project Management at Karlstad Business School at our university. He holds a degree in IS. The seminar covers how to develop quantative analyses of project work.
Tomas collaborates with a company that offers a web-based project work place that is used by companies like IKEA, ABB, but also many smaller companies and organisations. Presently it hosts 54'000 active projects and since 1998 there are database logs from 174'000 projekt.
Günter Alce, who works at Sony Mobile in Lund but also pursues doctoral studies at Lunds University, presenters two ways of prototyping for AR applications.
The age of wearable technology devices is upon us. These devices are available in many different form factors including head-mounted displays (HMDs), smartwatches and wristbands. They enable access to information at a glance.
Lucia Casap from Academy of Economic Study of Moldova visits Information Systems for three weeks in june 2015.
Lucia's research study bears the provisional title “E-Governance: Harmonization of education information systems in Moldova by implementing EMIS”. EMIS is Education Management Information Systems. For her trip to Sweden she has received a Japanese scholarship administrated by UNESCO. Next year she plans to stay for two months.
May 20 Julio Angulo will "nail" his dissertation "Designing for Usable Privacy and Transparency in Digital Transactions" which he will defend on June 10.
The defence is a public event.
Assigned by the faculty is:
Opponent: Joachim Meyer, professor, Tel Aviv University
Committee: Karin Hedström, docent, örebro University
Committee: Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, professor, Uppsala University
Committee: Marianne Grave Peter
The prototyping group at Information Systems received a so-called collaboration cheque from the university to go to Ireland and England.
May 11 Prof. John Sören Pettersson and res.ass. Malin Wik visited Ireland and May 12-13 England.
Fredrik Karlsson, Professor of Information Systems at örebro University, presents his and Karin Hedström's article "Evaluating the End User Development as a Requirements Engineering Technique for Communicating Across Social Worlds During Systems Development"; (SJIS, Vol.
At the lunch seminar April 28, John Sören Pettersson presented a literature review by him and Malin Wik and the conclusions about why the Ozlab concept has survived for 15 years.
The Wizard-of-Oz method has been around for decades, allowing researchers and practitioners to conduct prototyping without programming.
As part of Erasmus+, Kerstin Siakas, professor at the Alexander Institute of Technology, Thessaloniki, Greece, visited the department of information systems in 20-24 April.
During her visit, Prof. Siakas participated in a number of course-related activities such as Bachelor thesis supervision and gave a lecture to students in the courses Business Systems II: Development models and Business by Web and Web Analytics.
During visits to student fairs in Australia, John Sören Pettersson also keeps contact with Karlstad University "docent" Dr. Rodney Clarke at SMART lab at Wolongong University.
SMART lab seminar April 28, 2015, on the problems of creating generic Wizard-of-Oz prototyping systems.
John Sören Pettersson and Rodney Clarke at the SMART lab entrence (2015-04-17).
See also post on SMART's blog.
