Through reflecting on a 10-year design-based research process involving teachers as co-designers,... more Through reflecting on a 10-year design-based research process involving teachers as co-designers, this paper develops a concept-driven approach for designing technology support for classroom dialogue. Specifically, we focus on four ‘bridging’ concepts that emerged from the research-practitioner partnerships, and on how these guided the design of Talkwall, an educational microblogging tool similar to Twitter. The four bridging concepts – a contribution, a feed, a wall, and a space for the teacher – are defined and discussed in relation to design articulations for Talkwall, the design of similar educational microblogging tools, and the role of material-dialogic spaces for classroom dialogue. A concept driven approach fosters intermediary forms of knowledge that may be significant for design-based research. This is because designers, teachers, and researchers can extend their repertoires through synergy and exchange between the researchers’ scholarly knowledge and the teachers’ craft knowledge. We exemplify this by examining how a concept driven approach enabled the exploration of new designs for material-dialogic spaces relating to Talkwall.
This paper reports on a current project exploring how wireless and mobile technologies, in this c... more This paper reports on a current project exploring how wireless and mobile technologies, in this case Personal Digital Assis- tants (PDAs) and Tablet PCs, may be useful in clinical prac- tices. In particular, the support and practices for coordination and communication among members in highly mobile health teams are focused. Their practice can be pictured as just-in-time access to information
The dominant approaches for teaching of OO programming is currently not very successful. The stud... more The dominant approaches for teaching of OO programming is currently not very successful. The students often learn imperative first/procedure first, where OO concepts are more in the background, and/or the students are drowned in implementation details or details of a ...
: In this paper some first steps are taken toward a framework for design of computer systems whic... more : In this paper some first steps are taken toward a framework for design of computer systems which are incorporated in cooperative work arrangements. The framework is later to be used in further empirical studies. The framework emphasises work, and how individual work ...
... Register and you can start organising your references online. Tags. Soft Objects Analysis, A ... more ... Register and you can start organising your references online. Tags. Soft Objects Analysis, A modelling approach for analysis of interdependent work practices. by: Ole Smørdal. edited by: Dilip Patel, Yuan Sun. RIS, Export as RIS which can be imported into most citation managers ...
There is an increasing need for analysing problematic situations and creating visions for compute... more There is an increasing need for analysing problematic situations and creating visions for computer systems that are getting used as means of communication and coordination of work in and between work practices in an organisation. In this paper an extension of object oriented frameworks with Activity Theory and elements from Soft Systems Methodology is used to develop an analysis technique that address such issues.
There is an increasing need for analysing problematic situ- ations and creating visions for compu... more There is an increasing need for analysing problematic situ- ations and creating visions for computer systems that are getting used as means of communication and coordination of work in and between work practices in an organisation. In this paper an exten- sion of object oriented frameworks with Activity Theory and ele- ments from Soft Systems Methodology is used to develop an analysis technique that address such issues.
Studies in health technology and informatics, 2006
In this paper we describe experiences from design of an informatics-based learning resource for p... more In this paper we describe experiences from design of an informatics-based learning resource for patients and relatives. The prototype, REPARERE (learning REsource for PAtients and RElatives during REcovery), aims to support patients and their family recovering from heart surgery in meeting challenges in to daily living post discharge. Using recovery experiences and patient teaching material, REPARERE includes examples of textual information, video-clips, images and illustrations relevant to the recovery trajectory and a user's digitally represented profile. The development of the prototype focuses on flexibility and usability, tailoring and sequencing resources, and inclusion of recommendations for universal access. Development of web-based learning resources allows for exploration of 'just-in-case' and 'just-in-time' strategies to information retrieval and knowledge construction in health and learning trajectories. Findings from the literature, discussions with ...
Studies in health technology and informatics, 2004
This paper reports on a current project that explores how wireless and mobile technologies, in th... more This paper reports on a current project that explores how wireless and mobile technologies, in this case Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and Tablet PCs, may be useful in clinical practices. In particular the support and practices for just-in-time coordination and communication among members in highly mobile health teams are focused. Their practice is related to just-in-time access to information for coordination of care and treatment related to, but different from, information traditionally stored in the patients' health records and clinical information systems (CIS). To facilitate discussion and participation among various stakeholders, and between organizational contexts and responsibilities, we developed four video scenarios. The paper describes how these scenarios can be used in an organizational development setting to facilitate analysis and design of tools mindful of the relationships between complex and interwoven infrastructures of communication on one hand and just-i...
In this paper we discuss some of the challenges involved in developing mobile support for CBT bas... more In this paper we discuss some of the challenges involved in developing mobile support for CBT based anxiety therapy together with phobics and therapists.
Abstract: All work needs to be articulated in terms of Who should do what, how, when and where,... more Abstract: All work needs to be articulated in terms of Who should do what, how, when and where, and this becomes more complicated as more actors are involved. The use of computers in cooperative work implies new needs for articulations due to the individual's dynamic ...
Abstract. Social software and Web 2.0 provides new opportunities for participation and collaborat... more Abstract. Social software and Web 2.0 provides new opportunities for participation and collaborative knowledge construction in peer support and self-care to live well despite transient or permanent health problems. Opportunities include many to many interactions to share and ...
Proceedings of the 8th iternational conference on Computer supported collaborative learning - CSCL'07, 2007
Aims In this poster we describe an ongoing redesign of a wiki. A wiki can be described as a colle... more Aims In this poster we describe an ongoing redesign of a wiki. A wiki can be described as a collective, networked resource where in principle, anyone can contribute, revise, and delete and where contributors' changes are immediately accessible on the web. It rests on ...
Citizen participation is often a goal of urban development. However, in reality levels of actual ... more Citizen participation is often a goal of urban development. However, in reality levels of actual participation are often low, limited to certain sets of stakeholders, and the collaboration between them often poor. In engaging with this dilemma, we have established a new research project ,
Co-constructing city futures (3C), which addresses current challenges to citizen participation in contemporary urban development. The project sets out to encourage and facilitate a shift from processes that intentionally or unintentionally exclude certain groups. Building on ideas about collective learning, it inquires and experiments with public debates and planning processes to enable citizens and other stakeholders to engage in the co-construction of ideas and visions for city futures.
Democratic design experiments focusing on green mobility and blue-green infrastructures will be carried out in selected Norwegian cities in collaboration with planners, citizens, and other actors to identify their needs, challenges and interests, and to develop, test and evaluate ideas and prototypes for digital tools that can be applied both in Norway and in other global cities. As a point of departure, we pose three critical questions regarding citizen participation in urban development, with hopes that this can invigorate discussion around this emerging research agenda.
Through reflecting on a 10-year design-based research process involving teachers as co-designers,... more Through reflecting on a 10-year design-based research process involving teachers as co-designers, this paper develops a concept-driven approach for designing technology support for classroom dialogue. Specifically, we focus on four ‘bridging’ concepts that emerged from the research-practitioner partnerships, and on how these guided the design of Talkwall, an educational microblogging tool similar to Twitter. The four bridging concepts – a contribution, a feed, a wall, and a space for the teacher – are defined and discussed in relation to design articulations for Talkwall, the design of similar educational microblogging tools, and the role of material-dialogic spaces for classroom dialogue. A concept driven approach fosters intermediary forms of knowledge that may be significant for design-based research. This is because designers, teachers, and researchers can extend their repertoires through synergy and exchange between the researchers’ scholarly knowledge and the teachers’ craft knowledge. We exemplify this by examining how a concept driven approach enabled the exploration of new designs for material-dialogic spaces relating to Talkwall.
This paper reports on a current project exploring how wireless and mobile technologies, in this c... more This paper reports on a current project exploring how wireless and mobile technologies, in this case Personal Digital Assis- tants (PDAs) and Tablet PCs, may be useful in clinical prac- tices. In particular, the support and practices for coordination and communication among members in highly mobile health teams are focused. Their practice can be pictured as just-in-time access to information
The dominant approaches for teaching of OO programming is currently not very successful. The stud... more The dominant approaches for teaching of OO programming is currently not very successful. The students often learn imperative first/procedure first, where OO concepts are more in the background, and/or the students are drowned in implementation details or details of a ...
: In this paper some first steps are taken toward a framework for design of computer systems whic... more : In this paper some first steps are taken toward a framework for design of computer systems which are incorporated in cooperative work arrangements. The framework is later to be used in further empirical studies. The framework emphasises work, and how individual work ...
... Register and you can start organising your references online. Tags. Soft Objects Analysis, A ... more ... Register and you can start organising your references online. Tags. Soft Objects Analysis, A modelling approach for analysis of interdependent work practices. by: Ole Smørdal. edited by: Dilip Patel, Yuan Sun. RIS, Export as RIS which can be imported into most citation managers ...
There is an increasing need for analysing problematic situations and creating visions for compute... more There is an increasing need for analysing problematic situations and creating visions for computer systems that are getting used as means of communication and coordination of work in and between work practices in an organisation. In this paper an extension of object oriented frameworks with Activity Theory and elements from Soft Systems Methodology is used to develop an analysis technique that address such issues.
There is an increasing need for analysing problematic situ- ations and creating visions for compu... more There is an increasing need for analysing problematic situ- ations and creating visions for computer systems that are getting used as means of communication and coordination of work in and between work practices in an organisation. In this paper an exten- sion of object oriented frameworks with Activity Theory and ele- ments from Soft Systems Methodology is used to develop an analysis technique that address such issues.
Studies in health technology and informatics, 2006
In this paper we describe experiences from design of an informatics-based learning resource for p... more In this paper we describe experiences from design of an informatics-based learning resource for patients and relatives. The prototype, REPARERE (learning REsource for PAtients and RElatives during REcovery), aims to support patients and their family recovering from heart surgery in meeting challenges in to daily living post discharge. Using recovery experiences and patient teaching material, REPARERE includes examples of textual information, video-clips, images and illustrations relevant to the recovery trajectory and a user's digitally represented profile. The development of the prototype focuses on flexibility and usability, tailoring and sequencing resources, and inclusion of recommendations for universal access. Development of web-based learning resources allows for exploration of 'just-in-case' and 'just-in-time' strategies to information retrieval and knowledge construction in health and learning trajectories. Findings from the literature, discussions with ...
Studies in health technology and informatics, 2004
This paper reports on a current project that explores how wireless and mobile technologies, in th... more This paper reports on a current project that explores how wireless and mobile technologies, in this case Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and Tablet PCs, may be useful in clinical practices. In particular the support and practices for just-in-time coordination and communication among members in highly mobile health teams are focused. Their practice is related to just-in-time access to information for coordination of care and treatment related to, but different from, information traditionally stored in the patients' health records and clinical information systems (CIS). To facilitate discussion and participation among various stakeholders, and between organizational contexts and responsibilities, we developed four video scenarios. The paper describes how these scenarios can be used in an organizational development setting to facilitate analysis and design of tools mindful of the relationships between complex and interwoven infrastructures of communication on one hand and just-i...
In this paper we discuss some of the challenges involved in developing mobile support for CBT bas... more In this paper we discuss some of the challenges involved in developing mobile support for CBT based anxiety therapy together with phobics and therapists.
Abstract: All work needs to be articulated in terms of Who should do what, how, when and where,... more Abstract: All work needs to be articulated in terms of Who should do what, how, when and where, and this becomes more complicated as more actors are involved. The use of computers in cooperative work implies new needs for articulations due to the individual's dynamic ...
Abstract. Social software and Web 2.0 provides new opportunities for participation and collaborat... more Abstract. Social software and Web 2.0 provides new opportunities for participation and collaborative knowledge construction in peer support and self-care to live well despite transient or permanent health problems. Opportunities include many to many interactions to share and ...
Proceedings of the 8th iternational conference on Computer supported collaborative learning - CSCL'07, 2007
Aims In this poster we describe an ongoing redesign of a wiki. A wiki can be described as a colle... more Aims In this poster we describe an ongoing redesign of a wiki. A wiki can be described as a collective, networked resource where in principle, anyone can contribute, revise, and delete and where contributors' changes are immediately accessible on the web. It rests on ...
Citizen participation is often a goal of urban development. However, in reality levels of actual ... more Citizen participation is often a goal of urban development. However, in reality levels of actual participation are often low, limited to certain sets of stakeholders, and the collaboration between them often poor. In engaging with this dilemma, we have established a new research project ,
Co-constructing city futures (3C), which addresses current challenges to citizen participation in contemporary urban development. The project sets out to encourage and facilitate a shift from processes that intentionally or unintentionally exclude certain groups. Building on ideas about collective learning, it inquires and experiments with public debates and planning processes to enable citizens and other stakeholders to engage in the co-construction of ideas and visions for city futures.
Democratic design experiments focusing on green mobility and blue-green infrastructures will be carried out in selected Norwegian cities in collaboration with planners, citizens, and other actors to identify their needs, challenges and interests, and to develop, test and evaluate ideas and prototypes for digital tools that can be applied both in Norway and in other global cities. As a point of departure, we pose three critical questions regarding citizen participation in urban development, with hopes that this can invigorate discussion around this emerging research agenda.
Abstract This deliverable has been produced in the context of the Knowledge-Practice Laboratory (... more Abstract This deliverable has been produced in the context of the Knowledge-Practice Laboratory (KP-Lab) project, which is aimed at facilitating innovative practices of working with knowledge in higher education, teacher training, and professional networks. This delverable is a synopsis of the first experiences encountered during the first 6 months of the work in WP10.
A matter of concern for dialogic institutions such as museums is the struggle to find appropriate... more A matter of concern for dialogic institutions such as museums is the struggle to find appropriate ways of integrating social media and digital technologies into dialogues with visitors. This paper addresses how co-creation and experimental methods may be applied in a situated, natural environment, exploring how these technologies may be shaped to support museum visitor relations. The concept 'experimental zone' is suggested as a format for a collaborative design space where digital media-based dialogues are explored in line with professional practices. This concept is discussed in relation to two design experiments undertaken in collaboration with the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.
With the advent of social media, discussions of museum participation have taken a new direction. ... more With the advent of social media, discussions of museum participation have taken a new direction. We explore social media and mobile phones to engage teens in participation during museum visits in the form of co-creation and contribution of content. In an experimental setup at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, we asked a group of 13-year olds to explore and share reflections on issues related to Viking ships with mobile phones and visitor blog. The youths' exploration of the exhibition became more engaging with the mobile phone, and we discuss how integration of the blog in the museum visit could have been more related to the teens' on-going activities outside the museum and how their communication and participation could be fostered through the museum.
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Co-constructing city futures (3C), which addresses current challenges to citizen participation in contemporary urban development. The project sets out to encourage and facilitate a shift from processes that intentionally or unintentionally exclude certain groups. Building on ideas about collective learning, it inquires and experiments with public debates and planning processes to enable citizens and other stakeholders to engage in the co-construction of ideas and visions for city futures.
Democratic design experiments focusing on green mobility and blue-green infrastructures will be carried out in selected Norwegian cities in collaboration with planners, citizens, and other actors to identify their needs, challenges and interests, and to develop, test and evaluate ideas and prototypes for digital tools that can be applied both in Norway and in other global cities. As a point of departure, we pose three critical questions regarding citizen participation in urban development, with hopes that this can invigorate discussion around this emerging research agenda.
Co-constructing city futures (3C), which addresses current challenges to citizen participation in contemporary urban development. The project sets out to encourage and facilitate a shift from processes that intentionally or unintentionally exclude certain groups. Building on ideas about collective learning, it inquires and experiments with public debates and planning processes to enable citizens and other stakeholders to engage in the co-construction of ideas and visions for city futures.
Democratic design experiments focusing on green mobility and blue-green infrastructures will be carried out in selected Norwegian cities in collaboration with planners, citizens, and other actors to identify their needs, challenges and interests, and to develop, test and evaluate ideas and prototypes for digital tools that can be applied both in Norway and in other global cities. As a point of departure, we pose three critical questions regarding citizen participation in urban development, with hopes that this can invigorate discussion around this emerging research agenda.