How can older adults actively participate in the design processes of assistive robots designed for their homes? We have organized workshops with a group of older adults who worked actively with materials and physical ...

In this chapter I give an account of the first ten years of the history of digital self-tracking (2007–2017) and bring to the fore an authoritarian dimension emerging from the current phase in its development. Adding a ...

This paper explores and conceptualises a phenomenon called platformization. The background is that the growing complexity of IT solutions is in many organizations costly and virtually impossible to adapt to changing ...

Abstract: Around the world, journalists uncover corruption, abuse of power, and financial misdealing – often at the risk of serious consequences or under financial constraints. These are also important issues in economic ...

This paper reports from the early phase of a Participatory Design (PD) process where the goal is to design technology that involves people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) and their caretakers as participants. The ...

This chapter reports a doctoral study (Brevik, 2015) that investigated the practices involved in developing reading comprehension in English as a second language in upper secondary school; focusing specifically on reading ...

Young people today, and in particular young women, report increasing levels of stress, eating disorders, feeling of depression and dissatisfaction with their bodies. This scenario comes from a generation and class of young ...