13–14 November, 2018. Symposium arranged by KuFo, the Research Group for Culture Studies. Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Reg. no. F17-1392:1).
Authenticity has long been a keyword in the discourses of and surrounding popular music. What is an authentic musical expression? Who is a true fan?
Often when radical technological development happens, I gaze at it from a distance and try to understand it's impact on my life. This time I got to be a part of the revolution. I’m talking about the eye-tracking revolution, a journey that has been amazing to be a part of during the past 10 years. A journey that has just started.
Ten years ago I approached Tobii Technology with a radical suggestion, to lend me an eye-tracker.
2021-08-23
The degree of commitment and pro-active actions of all involved people and stakeholders influence how successful a digital business implementation will be. It is also directly linked to how successful the use of the new system will be perceived.
2016-04-20
IETF, the Internet Engineering Task Force, arranged its first meeting of the year on 4–9 April 2016 in Buenos Aires. Computer Science at Karlstad University participated in several activities contributing to the development and maintenance of the Internet.
IETF is an independent international organisation concerned with the development and maintenance of the Internet. The organisation creates and maintains Internet standardisation processes.
2024-12-12
On December 4, high school students, university students, doctoral candidates, senior researchers, and company representatives gathered at Karlstad University to work together in teams on current mathematical challenges presented by businesses during the The Mathematics Meets Industry Day (MiMM Day).
Rottneros, Tesa, Blue Ocean Closures, and Region Värmland presented real-world problems, seeking sustainable solutions with the participants' help.
We work within the paradigm of a circular forest based bioeconomy using a system analysis perspective.
The research group Water-Energy Nexus at Karlstad University contribute to a circular forest based bioeconomy by upgrading low-value sidestreams to raw materials, which are then used for production of useful materials and energy carriers.
Our vision
We research biomaterials using a systems perspective to enable resource efficiency.
Our mission
Research utilization
Statsvetenskapliga förbundets årsmöte 2017
» Praktisk information
The different parts of the conference such as workshops, keynote and lunch takes place at the university in fairly close proximity from each other. Nevertheless, it is probably useful for you to be able to navigate around the university.
Finding your way at the university
The university campus hosts several different buildings and these are the basic units for navigating to a particular room, corridor or lecture hall.
Research on justice in connection with disasters and sustainable development is becoming increasingly important in a world where climate change and social inequalities create new challenges.
Karlstad University’s user lab are used by different disciplines and also in collaboration with external parties. Within the research group for usability studies, there is also the development of methodologies for interaction design, especially around Ozlab which is a GUI experimental web service developed to admit easy testing, even improvisation, of ideas for interactive products. It admits non-programmers to become concept developers and interactivity testers.
There is a shift happening within service design from designing something "out there" to designing ourselves. This shift opens up questions about how we might design our "systemic-self" and what new approaches we need to do so.
In service design, there is often a focus on mapping the service systems we wish to change. We create personas, draw user journeys and plot out the different stakeholders.
2021-05-20
At least since the start of the Covid19 pandemic digitalization has reached most of us. By now we are all familiar with using digital platforms to meet and socialize. However, digitalization is much more than changing the way we connect and communicate; it also changes how information is gathered, analysed and used for decision making processes.
2022-02-09
… you were the project manager for one of the subprojects within the now completed Interregg project "Response". Can you tell us about the project?
- Yes, that’s right. Together with Nicklas Salomonson at the University of Borås, I have studied how travellers with different forms of disability experience mobility services.
2015-10-25
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.
2025-10-30
Crispin Thurlow, Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Bern, Switzerland, is the new Ander Visiting Professor at Centre for Geomedia Studies.
Crispin, tell us about your background
– In addition to my main professorship at Bern, I’m affiliate professor in our Centre for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS) and in the Centre for Diversity Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Transforming Passions
» Keynotes and invited speakers
WED 17 Sep 2025, 13.15–14.45
Arenan – Karlstad City Library/Stadsbiblioteket
Keynote with Jyoti MistryFilm Screening Loving in Between and DiscussionChair: Doris PoschPassionate Solidarities: From Queer Futurity to Transformative RecognitionInspired by the possibilities of the “not-yet-here” conceived in queer futurity (José Esteban Muñoz, 2009) this presentation coupled with a screening of Loving In Between (Jyoti Mistry, 2023) seeks to return to the expanded ideas of q
With support from the Ander Foundation, the Service Research Center (CTF) is happy to welcome Cristina Mele, professor of Service Innovation at the University of Naples Federico II, as visiting professor.
Programmet för hösten är preliminärt. Senaste uppdatering 2015-11-23.
Seminarieunderlag skickas vanligtvis ut på forskargruppens och institutionens maillistor en vecka före seminariet. Intressenter som inte nås av maillistorna får gärna kontakta oss.
Augusti
13-14 aug – KuFo. Möte under ISLIs uppstartsdagar.
September
Ons 2 sept, 13.15-14.30, 12B 545 – Eng ling.
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Isn’t it obvious that women spend more money than men in the presence of a physically fit male employee? Isn’t it obvious that viewing an opposite-sex individual with an attractive face makes people more motivated to choose healthy rather than unhealthy foods? And, isn’t it obvious that restricting product touch in a store decreases rather than increases consumer spending? After all, these are all beliefs held by consumers and even marketing professors.
2018-06-18
With the emergence of firms such as Spotify, Uber and Airbnb, the markets related to music, travel and accommodation have lately been under dramatic changes.
2021-02-26
That is the question Sara Davoudi has looked into in her doctoral thesis, “What happened with the leviathan of the Public Sector? The challenges of vertical coordination in regional public organizations and its effect on public value”.
Sara Davoudi, PhD in Business Administration, tell us about your research.
- My research is about vertical coordination, which is best described as the communication between public sector actors and the challenges associated with that.
