Living Labs är ett koncept för utveckling av innovativa produkter och tjänster på IKT-basis och utvecklades under senare delen av nittiotalet vid universitetet MIT. Inom Living Labs finns ännu inga klara metoder och riktlinjer för hur arbetsprocessen bör gå till, vår ambition var att belysa områden som vi såg som kritiska för processen. Vi fann det också intressant att studera vilka förväntningar

Autonomous Agents are usually designed to work in the background and their work is mostly hidden from the user. This causes both ethical and practical problems that can be remedied by providing feedback and control to the user (Bellotti and Sellen, 1993). This thesis presents an overview study exploreing advantages and disadvantages of four visualization techniques: colouring, pictographic symbols

This study focuses on the topic of Green IT in the IT consultant industry. Green IT is currently a hot topic but while awareness and established policies has increased in the last years, studies show that few companies are actually following their procedures or have goals or ways of measuring the effects of their green initiatives. The research area of Green IT is limited in terms of empirically f

Title: With both feet in a foreign country.Imagine yourself coming from your country to another. Sometimes because of political reasons. You can both feel welcomed and at the same time feel that you don’t belong in this new country. This study is about human identity and the ability to adjust to a new music, culture and language. This study is based on interviews in which the persons I have interv

Title: Setting music to text: Teaching methods regarding musical composition in acting education. The abundant use of musical terms as prestige words in artistic and educational theatre discourses seems to indicate that musicality – in some sense of the word – is generally considered an important quality in acting. Music is part of the curriculum of the BA programme in acting at Malmö Theatre Acad

Svensson (1997) föreslår att centralbanker på grund av implementerings- och utvärderingssvårigheter hos inflationsmål även bör ha ett mål för inflationsprognoser. Han argumenterar för detta med hjälp av en teoretisk modell som antar att den korta räntan, som centralbanken kontrollerar, påverkar BNP-gapet med en periods fördröjning, vilket sedan påverkar inflationen efter ännu en period. För att ma

This master thesis has been conducted to investigate why and how Plastal in Arendal (PAGO), Sweden have implemented RFID technology. RFID technology has become very popular in recent years (1). It is said to have potential to increase the level of automation (2), reduce the labor levels and to improve the supply chain in areas such as inventory, visibility etc. (3) (see chapter 1.2.1 for more exa

Ungdomsstilen emo är en ny subkulturell livsstil, framsprungen ur musikstilen emo. Emo är en förkortning av emotionell och anhängarna eftersträvar emotionell ärlighet. Emo-anhängarna associeras ofta med självdestruktivitet och kan av den anledningen väcka föraktfulla känslor. Syftet med studien är att tolka föraktet riktat mot anhängarna och dess sociala konsekvenser samt att tolka möjliga bakomliThe youthstyle of emo is a new subcultural lifestyle, evolved from the style of emo music. Emo is short for emotional and the supporters strive for emotional honesty. Emo-supporters are often associated with self-destructivity and may for that reason cause feelings of contempt. The aim of this study is to interpret these feelings of contempt against the supporters and their social consequences, an

The essay discusses the long-run fiscal sustainability issues for one of the EU member states – Lithuania. Investigating properties of the public debt time series for the period 1999:1-2008:2, it is concluded that past fiscal policy in the country has been sustainable. A set of econometrical procedures was employed to analyse past fiscal time series, leading to the main conclusion that a sustainab

The purpose of this thesis is to examine a Swedish investor’s possibility to diversify into Emerging markets. This is done by investigate if correlations between Sweden and 24 Emerging markets is higher in bear market than during other market conditions. In the next step a multi index model is used to check if volatility affects correlation between the markets. Finally four ex ante portfolios were

Efterhand som informationssystem av olika slag blivit allt mer komplexa har mer specialiserade kunskaper blivit allt viktigare inom systemutvecklingsområdet. Det har blivit omöjligt för en ensam systemutvecklare att tillfullo bemästra alla områden och arbetsmoment. En följd av detta är indelningen i olika roller med tillhörande ansvarsområden. Uppsatsen syftar till att utöka kunskapen angående för

Sammanfattning Uppsatsen titel: ”Söder i Förändring” – medelklassen knackar på Kurs: Kandidatuppsats, SMTX06 Författare: Amela Cizmic Sofi & Karolina Jovancic Handledare: Gustaf Kastberg & Bo Markulf Syfte: Syftet med vår undersökning är att öka förståelsen kring den roll som den kommunala projektledningsgruppen spelar i gentrifieringsprocessen. Projektledningsgruppen blir uppsatsens fokus

Problem: Svårigheten med att förmedla en image under ett evenemang, som skall gynna destinationen på sikt, menar vi är ett problem som vi finner intressant att utreda. Orsaken till att vi valt att undersöka Helsingborgsfestivalen är att för första gången på 14 år ansvarar Helsingborgs stad för all planering och drift av festivalen. Detta leder till att man kan organisera sig på ett sätt som möjlig

This study considers the small states and state like entities of Europe, defined as those with a population of fewer than 2 million, and their relationship with the EU. It focuses on Andorra, Iceland, Luxembourg, Jersey and Åland and is conducted using interviews with ‘non experts’ in each of these states. This data is supplemented with expert interviews in each state to establish the nature of th

Feminist pornography as phenomenon is used as point of departure for discussing and laying out discourses on heterosexuality, sex and sexual agency in women. From a group conversation with the board members of the (for the researcher familiar) feminist organization Selskab for Ligestilling in Copenhagen, I explore if feminist pornography has the potential of contributing to, and increase sexual ag

Syftet med undersökningen är att undersöka kvinnors egen förståelse och berättelse av att ha drabbats av utmattningssyndrom. Vi är speciellt intresserade kring kvinnors olika roller och hur dessa påverkat att de blivit sjuka. Undersökningen har både en induktiv och deduktiv ansats. Intervjuformen är semistrukturerad och tolv kvinnor som arbetar i offentliga sektorn har intervjuats. Resultatet visa

This paper establishes the difference between process and outcome differentiation, claiming that the former seems to have become reality in the European integration process. Concerning the outcome, the author claims that thus far the Union is legally defined by its actors to be a harmonisation project, serving the interests of EU citizens by means of an economic and increasingly political Union of

The aim of this study is to describe and analyze encounters between clients and social workers in a municipality in the southern part of Sweden. Our questions are, what is a social workers opinion of a good encounter; which personal characteristics clients think are most important for social workers in a good encounter; do social workers and clients have a unanimous view of which personal characte

This master’s thesis examines how the European Parliament (EP) has used its budgetary powers to influence the common foreign and security policy (CFSP) of the European Union (EU) during the legislative period 2004-2009 of the EP. Theoretically it is based on theories of power, most notably that of Keith Dowding’s including the notions of outcome power and social power. Its data consists mainly of