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PhD-student: Per Hasvold
PhD Candidate in informatics, University of Oslo.
| Name: | Per Hasvold |
| Discipline: | Informatics |
| Education/place of study: | University of Oslo |
| Time frame: | 1999 - 2005 (leave of absence in 2000 and 2001) |
| Source of funding: | The Research Council of Norway |
| Project title: | Effective handling of discontinuities where activities are in progress - Examples of application of mobile information systems in the public health service |
| Supervisor: | Professor Ole Hanseth, Institute for Informatics, University of Oslo |
Project description:The PhD project covers three principal questions:1) Are there situations in which mobile information and communication services are accepted, and if so 2) what is it that characterizes such situations? 3) Which considerations should one take into account in the design, development and introduction of such systems? The study has the nature of a longitudinal evaluation of solutions that have been developed in the project, and therefore has similarities to action research, although this is primarily a study in design and development of systems for people who do not work in a permanent office space but have a high degree of mobility in their jobs. To obtain empirical data, the project has developed such solutions and evaluated the experience that has emerged through the development process itself as well as the introduction and use of these solutions. The development process has had a high degree of user participation and is a process based on methods from scenario-based development and user participation in design ("Participatory Design"), which means that the users take part in the development work and that the developers become observers of the users' activities and that one develops a shared understanding of problems and how these are to be solved. This has led to a process that has developed both technical solutions and organizational changes. The research is relevant for the research areas of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and draws on research results from these areas as well as results from relevant socio-technological research. Contact informationPer Hasvold, telephone +47 913 41 982 and email Per.Hasvold@telemed.no | |
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