Sökning: "Technology Adaptation"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 515 avhandlingar innehållade orden Technology Adaptation.

1. 1. Exploring Collaboration Between the Fire and Rescue Service and New Actors : Cost-efficiency and Adaptation

   Författare :Weinholt Åsa; Jan Lundgren; Tobias Andersson Granberg; Johan Holmgren; Sofie Pilemalm; Björn Sund; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Fire and rescue service; emergency services; collaboration; new actors; first responders; costefficiency; adaptation;

   Sammanfattning : The emergency services serves an important purpose in society by ensuring that people in need, regardless of their geographical location, receives help when they fall victims to undesirable incidents. Existing resources are however often limited and concentrated to urban areas making travel distances to remote areas long. LÄS MER

3. 2. Shared Virtual Environments : Technology, Social Interaction, and Adaptation over Time

   Författare :Maria Spante; Erik Stolterman; Institutionen för teknik och samhälle Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Shared virtual environments; virtual reality technology; social interaction; adaptation; collaboration; time; Informatik; Informatics;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates social interaction and adaptation over time in shared virtual environments. Shared virtual environments (SVEs) are computer generated 3D graphical spaces where geographically distributed people can meet and interact with each other in a graphical space. LÄS MER

4. 3. Environmental Technology and its Role in the Search for Urban Environmental Sustainability : The Dynamics of Adaptation

   Författare :Santiago Mejía-Dugand; Olof Hejlm; Leenard Baas; Julio Dávila; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Technology Adaptation; Governance Mechanisms; Spread of Technology; Stakeholder Involvement; Proof-of-concept; Environmental Technology Suppliers; Urban Imaginaries;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to analyze the role that environmental technology plays in the solution of environmental problems in cities, and discuss models and conditions that can facilitate the processes of selection, implementation and use of environmental technologies in and by cities.The technological component is perhaps one of the most important characteristics of modern cities. LÄS MER

5. 4. IT-adaptation as sensemaking : inventing new meaning for technology in organizations

   Författare :Ola Henfridsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; IT-adaptation; sensemaking; information systems; ambiguity; identity; meaning; interpretive case study; email and conference systems; software support systems;

   Sammanfattning : Noting how organizations today are increasingly dependent on IT for a broad range of organizational activities, the thesis starts from the observation that many IT-related endeavors nevertheless fail. In tracing part of the problem to the inability of many organizations to cope with changes in the surrounding material and social context, the emphasis is put on the processes by which IT-artifacts are adapted and re-adapted, after they have been put into daily use. LÄS MER

7. 5. Automatic Adaptation of Swedish Text for Increased Inclusion

   Författare :Evelina Rennes; Arne Jönsson; Marina Santini; Thomas François; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Automatic text adaptation; Automatic text simplification; Easy language; Automatisk textanpassning; Automatisk textförenkling; Lättläst text;

   Sammanfattning : Imagine what life would be if words did not make any sense to you. If you had to use a dictionary, or Google Translate, to check the meaning of each word. If you forgot the first part of the sentence when you got to the last word. Working would be hard, studying perhaps even more difficult. LÄS MER