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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 37 avhandlingar innehållade orden SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Övrig samhällsvetenskap Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap.
1. Connected Practice: The Dynamics of Social Interaction in Shared Virtual Environment
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the phenomenon of social interaction in shared virtual environments (SVEs), supported by virtual reality (VR) systems over time. SVEs are computer generated 3D graphical spaces where geographically distributed people can meet and interact with each other in a graphical space. LÄS MER
2. Improving the Evaluation Process for Active Safety Functions
Sammanfattning : The general aim of the present thesis was to improve key steps in the procedure for functional, formative evaluation of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Five unresolved theoretical and empirical issues were identified and addressed. LÄS MER
3. 'Getting' it Together In Joint Directed Action
Sammanfattning : This thesis is focused upon investigating how come activities in organizations are sometimes not aligned with an objective at hand, be it a project goal, safety, quality or other. When something goes wrong, where are the answers to be found? In the pursuit to examine these questions further, the aim of the thesis has been to investigate meaning making in action as this can increase an understanding of how actors may continuously align their actions, collective and/or individual, with a common goal – this process here being called Joint Directed Action (JDA). LÄS MER
4. Risk, language and discourse
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis analyses the concept of risk and how it functions as an organizing principle of discourse, paying close attention to actual linguistic practice. Article 1 analyses the concepts of risk, safety and security and their relations based on corpus data (the Corpus of Contemporary American English). LÄS MER
5. Kognitiv utveckling och låtsaslekens mysterier : Cognitive development and the mysteries of pretend play
Sammanfattning : What kind of cognitive capacity must a human child develop to be able to join pretend play? This is the main question of the dissertation. To get a fair answer a great part of the background discusses what pretend play and human cognition is. Homo sapiens sapiens seems to be the only now living animal that is capable of pretense. LÄS MER