Sökning: "artefacts"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 366 avhandlingar innehållade ordet artefacts.
1. Ambiguous artefacts : solar collectors in Swedish contexts : on processes of cultural modification
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2. Artefactual Intelligence: The Development and Use of Cognitively Congenial Artefacts
Sammanfattning : How can tools help structure tasks to make them cognitively easier to perform? How do artefacts, and our strategies for using them, develop over time in cognitively beneficial ways? These are two of the main questions that are explored in the five papers collected in this thesis. The first paper details an ethnographic study conducted on people cooking in their homes. LÄS MER
3. Learning and Artefacts : On the Use of Information Technology in Educational Settings
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to develop and apply an empirical approach that can be used in studies of the relationship between different expectations of, and actual use of, information technology in educational settings. The studies focus on meanings of artefacts shaped in people's talk about and/or use of technology. LÄS MER
4. Conceptions and artefacts : Children's understanding of the earth in the presence of visual representations
Sammanfattning : The studies in this thesis explore children’s understanding of the earth when presented with visual representations. The conceptual understanding is related to cognitive contexts as well as the physical and cultural state. Pictures and models, as communicative tools, are associated with both cognition and culture. LÄS MER
5. Tinget, rummet, besökaren : Om meningsskapande på museum
Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyse how museum visitors engage with and make meaning from what is being offered to them in terms of the various resources made available in two exhibitions. Yet another purpose is to describe and analyse the design of these exhibitions. LÄS MER
