This paper describes a novel tool for eliciting user requirements early in the design process of mobile applications. The “Mobile Oracle”, as we have called it, is intended to help developers and designers obtain a better understanding of what the user wants at different points in space and time. It is an extension of a lo-fi version of the well-established Wizard of Oz technique, but it also adds

This dissertation studies representations of globalization by analyzing travel journalism in two magazines from 1982 to 2008. Globalization discourses are studied through an analysis of how places and identities are constructed. The aim of this study is to examine the use of globalization discourses in travel journalism as both a construction and a defense of privilege. By focusing on two magazine

Indoor positioning is recognized as one of the upcoming major applications which can be used in wide variety of applications such as indoor navigation and enterprise asset tracking. The significance of localization in indoor environments have made the use of Wi-Fi based indoor positioning so that it can utilize available current wireless infrastructure and perform positioning very easily. In this

This article suggests that the current discourses of globalization in anthropology, cultural studies and post-colonial studies are expressions and elaborations on a specific socially positioned perspective that has become a contender for a new ideological representation of the world. It is important to recognize that this representation is not so much the result of research but an immediate expres

Popular Abstract in Swedish Ämnet för avhandlingen är verkningarna av utländska förvaltningsbeslut i svensk rätt. På många offentligrättsliga områden finns regler och principer som innebär att utländska beslut skall tillmätas rättsliga verkningar i Sverige. Hit hör exempelvis körkort, yrkeskvalifikationer och produktgodkännanden. Syftet med avhandlingen är att i svenskt förvaltningsrättsligt perspThis thesis investigates the effects of foreign administrative decisions in the Swedish legal system. In several fields of public law there exist rules and principles providing that decisions emanating from other States’ administrative bodies should be recognized in Sweden, e.g. driving licences, university degrees and product certifications. The thesis examines the function of such rules and prin

Popular Abstract in Swedish Enligt vissa teorier så har individer med ångest en benägenhet att rikta sin uppmärksamhet mot negativa emotionella stimuli i omgivningen, medan de inte uppmärksammar positiva stimuli. Detta kan ta sig i uttryck i att de tittar mer på eller blir mer distraherade av till exempel arga ansikten, otäcka bilder eller negativa ord. Det övergripande syftet med avhandlingen varCognitive models of anxiety postulate that anxious individuals are inclined to pay more attention to negative than to positive emotional visual stimuli. The main aim of the present dissertation was to test this prediction, employing a measure of the direction of gaze. In studies I, II and III the participants were shown pairs of angry and happy faces on a screen. In Study IV the stimuli were pleas

This work presents ideas to underpin efforts to leverage the production of large volumes of agro-biomass and biofuels from transition economies in transition (EiTs) in Central and Eastern Europe with a key focus being co-benefits offered by agro-biofuel production. It departs in recognition of significant institutional barriers to establishment of dedicated plantings; the need for bioenergy within