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2015-09-01
Tomas Gustavsson is a teacher in Project Management at Karlstad Business School at our university. He holds a degree in IS. The seminar covers how to develop quantative analyses of project work. Tomas collaborates with a company that offers a web-based project work place that is used by companies like IKEA, ABB, but also many smaller companies and organisations. Presently it hosts 54'000 active projects and since 1998 there are database logs from 174'000 projekt.
2015-08-28
TheComputer Science department at Karlstads university co-organizes the SAEroCon workshop at the European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) in Cavtat, Croatia, 7 – 11 september.   Software is often developed and maintained for a very long time. The more complex a software system is and the longer it evolves, the more likely the structure and behavior of the system will diverge from the originally intended design.
2015-08-28
TheComputer Science department at Karlstads university co-organizes the SAEroCon workshop at the European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) in Cavtat, Croatia, 7 – 11 september.   Software is often developed and maintained for a very long time. The more complex a software system is and the longer it evolves, the more likely the structure and behavior of the system will diverge from the originally intended design.
2015-08-28

Do you know you PIN-code?

News » 2015-08-28
Now you need to enter your PIN-code in our selfcheck-stations You need to enter the PIN-code linked to your Library card when you borrow books. If you don’t know your PIN-code... Please turn to the Issue desk or the Reference desk Use the link “Forgot your PIN” on the “My loans” page
2015-08-28

Do you know you PIN-code?

News » 2015-08-28
Now you need to enter your PIN-code in our selfcheck-stations You need to enter the PIN-code linked to your Library card when you borrow books. If you don’t know your PIN-code... Please turn to the Issue desk or the Reference desk Use the link “Forgot your PIN” on the “My loans” page
2015-06-29
Anna Brunstrom, professor in Computer Science at KAU, arranges a special session on Reducing Internet Latency at the upcoming European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2015) in Paris. The special session is organized as part of the work within the EU FP7 project RITE, where KAU is one of the partners.
2015-06-29
Anna Brunstrom, professor in Computer Science at KAU, arranges a special session on Reducing Internet Latency at the upcoming European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2015) in Paris. The special session is organized as part of the work within the EU FP7 project RITE, where KAU is one of the partners.
2015-06-17

WozARd seminar in Karlstad

News » 2015-06-17
Günter Alce, who recently defended a licentiate thesis in Lund, held a seminar June 17, 2015. Günter and advisers at Sony Mobile and Lund University have developed the WozARd system and has received a couple of study visits from us earlier this academic year. In this seminar, Günter did not only speak about Wizard of Oz for development of Augmented Reality.
2015-06-17

WozARd seminar in Karlstad

News » 2015-06-17
Günter Alce, who recently defended a licentiate thesis in Lund, held a seminar June 17, 2015. Günter and advisers at Sony Mobile and Lund University have developed the WozARd system and has received a couple of study visits from us earlier this academic year. In this seminar, Günter did not only speak about Wizard of Oz for development of Augmented Reality.
2015-06-17
Günter Alce, who works at Sony Mobile in Lund but also pursues doctoral studies at Lunds University, presenters two ways of prototyping for AR applications. The age of wearable technology devices is upon us. These devices are available in many different form factors including head-mounted displays (HMDs), smartwatches and wristbands. They enable access to information at a glance.
2015-06-17
178 ideas on how health care can be better. This is the result so far from the research project “User oriented innovation in Primary Care” conducted by CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University in collaboration with the County Council of Värmland, Sweden. On May 7th, a closing seminar was held where project’s innovation group work was presented for patients and staff at the County Council and Vinnova.
2015-06-17
178 ideas on how health care can be better. This is the result so far from the research project “User oriented innovation in Primary Care” conducted by CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University in collaboration with the County Council of Värmland, Sweden. On May 7th, a closing seminar was held where project’s innovation group work was presented for patients and staff at the County Council and Vinnova.
2015-06-17
Martin Fransson, Ph. D  of Business Administration at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, has been commissioned by the European Institute of Public Administration to evaluate submitted projects competing for the 2015 EPSA Prize, the European prize is awarded to development projects in the public sector. There are a total of 264 projects from 36 European countries that are competing and this year’s theme is “The Public Sector as Partner for a Better Society”.
2015-06-17
Martin Fransson, Ph. D  of Business Administration at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, has been commissioned by the European Institute of Public Administration to evaluate submitted projects competing for the 2015 EPSA Prize, the European prize is awarded to development projects in the public sector. There are a total of 264 projects from 36 European countries that are competing and this year’s theme is “The Public Sector as Partner for a Better Society”.
2015-06-17
This year researchers at CTF and Swerea IVF will be working on a model and approach for the development and delivery of customized industrial services. The collaboration will be carried out along with three local companies from the region who have been selected in cooperation with ALMI företagspartner i Värmland.
2015-06-17
This year researchers at CTF and Swerea IVF will be working on a model and approach for the development and delivery of customized industrial services. The collaboration will be carried out along with three local companies from the region who have been selected in cooperation with ALMI företagspartner i Värmland.
2015-06-16

Hello Per Kristensson…

News » 2015-06-16
Professor in Consumer Psychology and Innovation at CTF, you have participated in Swedish radio concerning a growing trend in social media. Can you tell us about that? - I talked about why people are becoming more helpful, for example by donating money through social media.
2015-06-16

Hello Per Kristensson…

News » 2015-06-16
Professor in Consumer Psychology and Innovation at CTF, you have participated in Swedish radio concerning a growing trend in social media. Can you tell us about that? - I talked about why people are becoming more helpful, for example by donating money through social media.
2015-06-10
After some hectic years during which he has made a long series of research investiagtions and also had time to spend 4 months as an internship at Google in Zürich, did Julio, some time before the planned date, defend his doctoral thesis. Julio defended a thesis entitled "Designing for Usable Privacy and Transparency in Digital Transactions" which was based on some of his research publications.
2015-06-10
After some hectic years during which he has made a long series of research investiagtions and also had time to spend 4 months as an internship at Google in Zürich, did Julio, some time before the planned date, defend his doctoral thesis. Julio defended a thesis entitled "Designing for Usable Privacy and Transparency in Digital Transactions" which was based on some of his research publications.