One of the challenges in being a teacher is to set up an educational setting where the students r... more One of the challenges in being a teacher is to set up an educational setting where the students receive relevant learning opportunities for the specific course, the students' education in general, and for their future. However, efforts to create such educational settings do not always work in the way that faculty has intended. In this paper we investigate one such effort seen from a critical incident perspective. Central to the analysis in this paper is how the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) can provide explanations for the incident. The critical incident can be summarised as students refusing to take part in a non-compulsory, but from the faculty perspective highly educational, activity. We describe the incident in depth, give the background for the educational intervention, and analyse the incident from the perspective of TPB. This paper makes two major contributions to engineering education research. The first is the development of a method for analysing critical teaching and learning incidents using the TPB. The critical incident analysis illustrates how the method is used to analyse and reason about the students' behaviour. Another contribution is the development of a range of insights which deal with challenges raised by learning interventions, especially those involved with acquiring hidden or “invisible skills” not usually seen or acknowledged by students to belong to core subject area of a degree program.
This book examines the possibilities of incorporating elements of user-centred design (UCD) such ... more This book examines the possibilities of incorporating elements of user-centred design (UCD) such as user experience (UX) and usability with agile software development. It explores the difficulties and problems inherent in integrating these two practices despite their relative similarities, such as their emphasis on stakeholder collaboration. Developed from a workshop held at NordiCHI in 2014, this edited volume brings together researchers from across the software development, UCD and creative design fields to discuss the current state-of-the-art. Practical case studies of integrating UCD in Agile development across diverse contexts are presented, whilst the different futures for UCD and other design practices in the context of agile software development are identified and explored. Integrating User Centred Design in Agile Development will be ideal for researchers, designers and academics who are interested in software development, user-centred design, agile methodologies and related...
ObjectivesPatient e-services are increasingly launched globally to make healthcare more efficient... more ObjectivesPatient e-services are increasingly launched globally to make healthcare more efficient and digitalised. One area that is digitalised is medical advice, where patients asynchronously chat with nurses and physicians, with patients having filled in a form with predefined questions before the chat. This study aimed to explore how occupational professionalism and the possibility of professional judgement are affected when clinical patient contact is digitalised. The study’s overall question concerns whether and how the scope of the healthcare staff’s professional judgement and occupational professionalism are affected by digitalisation.Design and settingA qualitative study of healthcare professionals working in a pilot project with a chat programme for patients in a medical advice setting in Sweden.Participants and analysisContextual inquiries and 17 interviews with nurses (n=9) and physicians (n=8). The interviews were thematically analysed. The analysis was inductive and bas...
The IT in Society course is based on an Open Ended Group project framework that has been develope... more The IT in Society course is based on an Open Ended Group project framework that has been developed in an action research manner. It is a course where students participate in a real project, where they have the possibility to take part of an unusual learning experience where they address a complex and multifaceted real problem. A learning theory has evolved in parallel to the process of developing the course, and this paper will illustrate how the instructional procedure constructive controversy has influenced a recent development of the course and the underlying learning theory. The focus has been on the issue of creating "true collaboration" through introducing the action speed dating.
2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2018
In the modern fast changing world no formal education is able to provide learners with a complete... more In the modern fast changing world no formal education is able to provide learners with a complete set of knowledge, skills and competences that they would need to successfully compete on tomorrow’s job market. Therefore, the role of universities is increasingly shifting towards provision of an environment where students have a chance to acquire lifelong learning skills. This paper presents underlying ideas of, and practical experiences with, an innovative pedagogy that addresses the lifelong learning skills acquisition along with additional benefits for science and technology students. The proposed approach, called self-flipped classroom (SFC), is built on a synergy of two pedagogies: learning through making and flipped classroom. To unveil the construct of the SFC, we discuss each of its components individually presenting appropriate theoretical grounding. We also report on our experiences from self-flipped classroom implementations in two countries, UK and Sweden, and in three dif...
Patient accessible electronic health records have been launched in many countries, and generally,... more Patient accessible electronic health records have been launched in many countries, and generally, health-care professionals have had strong initial concerns related to the areas patient contact, documentation practices and quality of care. Especially, oncology care was discussed in media when launching patient accessible electronic health records in Sweden. However, few studies have investigated clinician-perceived effects several years after the launch. A survey covering these areas, as well as supposed effects for patients, was distributed to oncology health-care professionals 6 years after the launch of patient accessible electronic health records and answered by N = 176. Results show that patient accessible electronic health records have had small effects within the covered areas, and that the area most affected was documentation practices. Very few significant differences could be found between physicians and nurses. A comparison with results from interviews and surveys conduct...
Scrum is currently a widely used process in most areas of software development. Conversely, usabi... more Scrum is currently a widely used process in most areas of software development. Conversely, usability activities as prescribed in the area of HCI are not widely used in the software industry, especially not in agile software development projects. Through an analysis of interview and survey data from five studies we scrutinize the reasons for choosing Scrum, consequences of using Scrum, and study the challenges of integrating usability activities in Scrum projects are scrutinized. Our results show that the IT professionals appreciate the inherent values in Scrum, which are speed and communication internal to the Scrum team. Also, working in teams and focusing on a small number of tasks at a time is valued. The main challenges are that including specialists in the teams is hard and Scrum does not always match with external requirements for the organizations. Usability activities in Scrum are found to be informal and implicit, even sometimes hidden behind more fashionable concepts such as security and accessibility to increase priority. In addition, usability activities are often seen as not fitting in the pace of the project. Two of the underlying questions in the paper are: Why is Scrum so fashionable? How can usability activities be better integrated in agile projects? Answers to these questions are discussed in the chapter.
Proceedings Frontiers in Education 35th Annual Conference
1 Mats Daniels, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, matsd@docs.uu.se 2 Lecia Barker, University ... more 1 Mats Daniels, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, matsd@docs.uu.se 2 Lecia Barker, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, Lecia.J.Barker@colorado.edu 3 Åsa Cajander, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Asa.Cajander@it.uu.se 4 Cary Laxer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, laxer@rose-hulman.edu 5 Dan Moore, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, Daniel.J.Moore@rose-hulman.edu ... Abstract – This paper includes a description of a trial version of using international student ...
2009 39th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2009
Abstract This paper is based on a course run in the fall semester 2008 with students from Sweden ... more Abstract This paper is based on a course run in the fall semester 2008 with students from Sweden and USA where they addressed an open problem in the health sector. Part of the course for the students has been to review how the collaboration actually worked and with special attention to the collaboration platform used. The background to the course and process of choosing the collaborative platform, ClockingIT, is presented. The students' review was informed by engineering education research in order to understand the role of ...
Experiences and attitudes of patients reading their medical records : Differences between readers... more Experiences and attitudes of patients reading their medical records : Differences between readers and recurrent readers
Utvecklingsrådet för den statliga sektorn har tagit ett initiativ för att stödja myndigheternas a... more Utvecklingsrådet för den statliga sektorn har tagit ett initiativ för att stödja myndigheternas arbete med att förbättra arbetsmiljön och sänka sjukfrånvaron. Därför startades programmet Satsa friskt. Programmet ger stöd i form av ekonomiskt bidrag och experthjälp till olika ...
One of the challenges in being a teacher is to set up an educational setting where the students r... more One of the challenges in being a teacher is to set up an educational setting where the students receive relevant learning opportunities for the specific course, the students' education in general, and for their future. However, efforts to create such educational settings do not always work in the way that faculty has intended. In this paper we investigate one such effort seen from a critical incident perspective. Central to the analysis in this paper is how the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) can provide explanations for the incident. The critical incident can be summarised as students refusing to take part in a non-compulsory, but from the faculty perspective highly educational, activity. We describe the incident in depth, give the background for the educational intervention, and analyse the incident from the perspective of TPB. This paper makes two major contributions to engineering education research. The first is the development of a method for analysing critical teaching and learning incidents using the TPB. The critical incident analysis illustrates how the method is used to analyse and reason about the students' behaviour. Another contribution is the development of a range of insights which deal with challenges raised by learning interventions, especially those involved with acquiring hidden or “invisible skills” not usually seen or acknowledged by students to belong to core subject area of a degree program.
This book examines the possibilities of incorporating elements of user-centred design (UCD) such ... more This book examines the possibilities of incorporating elements of user-centred design (UCD) such as user experience (UX) and usability with agile software development. It explores the difficulties and problems inherent in integrating these two practices despite their relative similarities, such as their emphasis on stakeholder collaboration. Developed from a workshop held at NordiCHI in 2014, this edited volume brings together researchers from across the software development, UCD and creative design fields to discuss the current state-of-the-art. Practical case studies of integrating UCD in Agile development across diverse contexts are presented, whilst the different futures for UCD and other design practices in the context of agile software development are identified and explored. Integrating User Centred Design in Agile Development will be ideal for researchers, designers and academics who are interested in software development, user-centred design, agile methodologies and related...
ObjectivesPatient e-services are increasingly launched globally to make healthcare more efficient... more ObjectivesPatient e-services are increasingly launched globally to make healthcare more efficient and digitalised. One area that is digitalised is medical advice, where patients asynchronously chat with nurses and physicians, with patients having filled in a form with predefined questions before the chat. This study aimed to explore how occupational professionalism and the possibility of professional judgement are affected when clinical patient contact is digitalised. The study’s overall question concerns whether and how the scope of the healthcare staff’s professional judgement and occupational professionalism are affected by digitalisation.Design and settingA qualitative study of healthcare professionals working in a pilot project with a chat programme for patients in a medical advice setting in Sweden.Participants and analysisContextual inquiries and 17 interviews with nurses (n=9) and physicians (n=8). The interviews were thematically analysed. The analysis was inductive and bas...
The IT in Society course is based on an Open Ended Group project framework that has been develope... more The IT in Society course is based on an Open Ended Group project framework that has been developed in an action research manner. It is a course where students participate in a real project, where they have the possibility to take part of an unusual learning experience where they address a complex and multifaceted real problem. A learning theory has evolved in parallel to the process of developing the course, and this paper will illustrate how the instructional procedure constructive controversy has influenced a recent development of the course and the underlying learning theory. The focus has been on the issue of creating "true collaboration" through introducing the action speed dating.
2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2018
In the modern fast changing world no formal education is able to provide learners with a complete... more In the modern fast changing world no formal education is able to provide learners with a complete set of knowledge, skills and competences that they would need to successfully compete on tomorrow’s job market. Therefore, the role of universities is increasingly shifting towards provision of an environment where students have a chance to acquire lifelong learning skills. This paper presents underlying ideas of, and practical experiences with, an innovative pedagogy that addresses the lifelong learning skills acquisition along with additional benefits for science and technology students. The proposed approach, called self-flipped classroom (SFC), is built on a synergy of two pedagogies: learning through making and flipped classroom. To unveil the construct of the SFC, we discuss each of its components individually presenting appropriate theoretical grounding. We also report on our experiences from self-flipped classroom implementations in two countries, UK and Sweden, and in three dif...
Patient accessible electronic health records have been launched in many countries, and generally,... more Patient accessible electronic health records have been launched in many countries, and generally, health-care professionals have had strong initial concerns related to the areas patient contact, documentation practices and quality of care. Especially, oncology care was discussed in media when launching patient accessible electronic health records in Sweden. However, few studies have investigated clinician-perceived effects several years after the launch. A survey covering these areas, as well as supposed effects for patients, was distributed to oncology health-care professionals 6 years after the launch of patient accessible electronic health records and answered by N = 176. Results show that patient accessible electronic health records have had small effects within the covered areas, and that the area most affected was documentation practices. Very few significant differences could be found between physicians and nurses. A comparison with results from interviews and surveys conduct...
Scrum is currently a widely used process in most areas of software development. Conversely, usabi... more Scrum is currently a widely used process in most areas of software development. Conversely, usability activities as prescribed in the area of HCI are not widely used in the software industry, especially not in agile software development projects. Through an analysis of interview and survey data from five studies we scrutinize the reasons for choosing Scrum, consequences of using Scrum, and study the challenges of integrating usability activities in Scrum projects are scrutinized. Our results show that the IT professionals appreciate the inherent values in Scrum, which are speed and communication internal to the Scrum team. Also, working in teams and focusing on a small number of tasks at a time is valued. The main challenges are that including specialists in the teams is hard and Scrum does not always match with external requirements for the organizations. Usability activities in Scrum are found to be informal and implicit, even sometimes hidden behind more fashionable concepts such as security and accessibility to increase priority. In addition, usability activities are often seen as not fitting in the pace of the project. Two of the underlying questions in the paper are: Why is Scrum so fashionable? How can usability activities be better integrated in agile projects? Answers to these questions are discussed in the chapter.
Proceedings Frontiers in Education 35th Annual Conference
1 Mats Daniels, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, matsd@docs.uu.se 2 Lecia Barker, University ... more 1 Mats Daniels, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, matsd@docs.uu.se 2 Lecia Barker, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, Lecia.J.Barker@colorado.edu 3 Åsa Cajander, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Asa.Cajander@it.uu.se 4 Cary Laxer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, laxer@rose-hulman.edu 5 Dan Moore, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, Daniel.J.Moore@rose-hulman.edu ... Abstract – This paper includes a description of a trial version of using international student ...
2009 39th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2009
Abstract This paper is based on a course run in the fall semester 2008 with students from Sweden ... more Abstract This paper is based on a course run in the fall semester 2008 with students from Sweden and USA where they addressed an open problem in the health sector. Part of the course for the students has been to review how the collaboration actually worked and with special attention to the collaboration platform used. The background to the course and process of choosing the collaborative platform, ClockingIT, is presented. The students' review was informed by engineering education research in order to understand the role of ...
Experiences and attitudes of patients reading their medical records : Differences between readers... more Experiences and attitudes of patients reading their medical records : Differences between readers and recurrent readers
Utvecklingsrådet för den statliga sektorn har tagit ett initiativ för att stödja myndigheternas a... more Utvecklingsrådet för den statliga sektorn har tagit ett initiativ för att stödja myndigheternas arbete med att förbättra arbetsmiljön och sänka sjukfrånvaron. Därför startades programmet Satsa friskt. Programmet ger stöd i form av ekonomiskt bidrag och experthjälp till olika ...
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