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2015-06-08
Lucia Casap from Academy of Economic Study of Moldova visits Information Systems for three weeks in june 2015. Lucia's research study bears the provisional title “E-Governance: Harmonization of education information systems in Moldova by implementing EMIS”. EMIS is Education Management Information Systems. For her trip to Sweden she has received a Japanese scholarship administrated by UNESCO. Next year she plans to stay for two months.
2015-05-25

Shared library catalog

News » 2015-05-25
The library at Ingesund School of Music and Karlstad University Library now share the same library catalog. When searching, the entire catalog is the default setting, but it is easy to limit to the different libraries or scopes. Patrons from the different libraries can only request items from their home libraries. If visiting the other library is is possible to borrow books. Remember that each library have their own loan rules.
2015-05-25

Shared library catalog

News » 2015-05-25
The library at Ingesund School of Music and Karlstad University Library now share the same library catalog. When searching, the entire catalog is the default setting, but it is easy to limit to the different libraries or scopes. Patrons from the different libraries can only request items from their home libraries. If visiting the other library is is possible to borrow books. Remember that each library have their own loan rules.
2015-05-20

PhD defence June 10, 2015

News » 2015-05-20
May 20 Julio Angulo will "nail" his dissertation "Designing for Usable Privacy and Transparency in Digital Transactions" which he will defend on June 10. The defence is a public event. Assigned by the faculty is:     Opponent: Joachim Meyer, professor, Tel Aviv University     Committee: Karin Hedström, docent, örebro University     Committee: Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, professor, Uppsala University     Committee: Marianne Grave Peter
2015-05-13
Associate Professor John Bonner in Huddersfield developed several Wizard-of-Oz setup together with the then doctoral researcher Andol Li and is now interested in how lectures and other events can be developed with video and sound support.
2015-05-13
Associate Professor John Bonner in Huddersfield developed several Wizard-of-Oz setup together with the then doctoral researcher Andol Li and is now interested in how lectures and other events can be developed with video and sound support.
2015-05-13
The prototyping group at Information Systems received a so-called collaboration cheque from the university to go to Ireland and England. May 11 Prof. John Sören Pettersson and res.ass. Malin Wik visited Ireland and May 12-13 England.
2015-05-11
May 11 Prof. Pettersson and Malin Wik visited Trinity College in Dublin. Ass. prof. Gavin Doherty, one of the principle investigator of WebWOZ, showed around and presented the utilization of WebWOZ in studies of interaction design. The Irish group has developed this system for Wizard-of-Oz prototyping for language-based applications and has also made a comparative study of such prototyping for other kinds of systems.
2015-05-11
May 11 Prof. Pettersson and Malin Wik visited Trinity College in Dublin. Ass. prof. Gavin Doherty, one of the principle investigator of WebWOZ, showed around and presented the utilization of WebWOZ in studies of interaction design. The Irish group has developed this system for Wizard-of-Oz prototyping for language-based applications and has also made a comparative study of such prototyping for other kinds of systems.
2015-05-07
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2015-05-07
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2015-05-04
Fredrik Karlsson, Professor of Information Systems at örebro University, presents his and Karin Hedström's article "Evaluating the End User Development as a Requirements Engineering Technique for Communicating Across Social Worlds During Systems Development"; (SJIS, Vol.
2015-04-29

Bibliometrics and research

News » 2015-04-29
Open seminar - bibliometrics, open access & compliance to research funders requirements Issues discussed during the seminar are bibliometrics as well as open access and compliance to research funders requirements. LANGUAGE: English TIME: Tuesday 5 may, kl.10-11 LOCATION: 3C 420 SEMINAR CONTRIBUTOR: Nadja Neumann Publishing Editor Karlstad University Library Welcome! More information about GIO:s (Grants and Innovation office) open events
2015-04-29

Bibliometrics and research

News » 2015-04-29
Open seminar - bibliometrics, open access & compliance to research funders requirements Issues discussed during the seminar are bibliometrics as well as open access and compliance to research funders requirements. LANGUAGE: English TIME: Tuesday 5 may, kl.10-11 LOCATION: 3C 420 SEMINAR CONTRIBUTOR: Nadja Neumann Publishing Editor Karlstad University Library Welcome! More information about GIO:s (Grants and Innovation office) open events
2015-04-28
At the lunch seminar April 28 at SMART Infrastructure Facility, John Sören Pettersson presented a literature review by him and Malin Wik and the conclusions about why the Ozlab concept has survived for 15 years. The Wizard-of-Oz method has been around for decades, allowing researchers and practitioners to conduct prototyping without programming.
2015-04-28
At the lunch seminar April 28 at SMART Infrastructure Facility, John Sören Pettersson presented a literature review by him and Malin Wik and the conclusions about why the Ozlab concept has survived for 15 years. The Wizard-of-Oz method has been around for decades, allowing researchers and practitioners to conduct prototyping without programming.
2015-04-28
At the lunch seminar April 28, John Sören Pettersson presented a literature review by him and Malin Wik and the conclusions about why the Ozlab concept has survived for 15 years. The Wizard-of-Oz method has been around for decades, allowing researchers and practitioners to conduct prototyping without programming.
2015-04-24
As part of Erasmus+, Kerstin Siakas, professor at the Alexander Institute of Technology, Thessaloniki, Greece, visited the department of information systems in 20-24 April. During her visit, Prof. Siakas participated in a number of course-related activities such as Bachelor thesis supervision and gave a lecture to students in the courses Business Systems II: Development models and Business by Web and Web Analytics.
2015-04-24
During visits to student fairs in Australia, John Sören Pettersson also keeps contact with Karlstad University "docent" Dr. Rodney Clarke at SMART lab at Wolongong University. SMART lab seminar April 28, 2015, on the problems of creating generic Wizard-of-Oz prototyping systems.   John Sören Pettersson and Rodney Clarke at the SMART lab entrence (2015-04-17). See also post on SMART's blog.
2015-04-24
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