Sökning: "Things"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 1312 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Things.
1. The Significance of Things : Affective User-Artefact Relations
Sammanfattning : Products help people act, but also thrill, excite, and elicit fear, joy and anger. Artefacts are a natural part of people’s everyday lives, sometimes associated with values, dreams and aspirations. While traditional user-centred approaches have focused on efficiency and effectiveness of use, injury prevention etc. LÄS MER
2. Liv genom tingen : Människor, föremål och extrema situationer
Sammanfattning : Material culture has several meanings and has played a significant role in ethnological research. Humans are surrounded by objects, many of which are so commonplace that they are barely noticeable. Others are charged with emotions and stories that account for something important. LÄS MER
3. “Doing things together” : Towards a health promoting approach to couples’ relationships and everyday life in dementia
Sammanfattning : Background: Most people with dementia live in their own homes, often together with their partners, who become informal caregivers. Relationship quality and sense of couplehood can be threatened as a result of the transition from a mutually interdependent relationship to a caregiver-care-receiver relationship. LÄS MER
4. Data-Centric Network of Things : A Method for Exploiting the Massive Amount of Heterogeneous Data of Internet of Things in Support of Services
Sammanfattning : Internet of things (IoT) generates massive amount of heterogeneous data, which should be efficiently utilized to support services in different domains. Specifically, data need to be supplied to services by understanding the needs of services and by understanding the environment changes, so that necessary data can be provided efficiently but without overfeeding. LÄS MER
5. Babies’ engagements with everyday things : An ethnographic study of materiality, movement and participation
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores how babies (1-18 months old) engage with material things in their everyday lives. The aim is to contribute with theoretical and empirical insights into babies own practices around material things and how attending to these practices can lead to reflections on participation, material culture and everyday space. LÄS MER