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2015-02-20

Start of the IT mentor program

News » 2015-02-20
Roughly 50 students and professionals in the IT industry met at this year's kick-off meeting for the mentoring program on 19 February. Expectations in the air among both novices as mentors.   Katarina Groth, a teacher of informatics, holding this year's mentoring program. She informed about the framework and gave tips for a successful mentor-mentee relationship. - Being a mentor is to be an interested and good listener and be open to sharing their experiences.
2015-02-18
Researchers from örebro university held seminar and visited the lab. Achim Lilienthal and Martin Magnusson from Mobile Robotics and Olfaction Lab, örebro University, presented the research group and ongoing projects, including a just granted KK project: http://www.oru.se/Nyheter/Forskningsnyheter/Forskningsnyhet/Manniskans-interaktion-med-autonoma-robotar/ (in Swedish)       Afterwards John Sören Pettersson and Malin Wik showed them the user laboratory and the webbased
2015-02-18
Researchers from örebro university held seminar and visited the lab. Achim Lilienthal and Martin Magnusson from Mobile Robotics and Olfaction Lab, örebro University, presented the research group and ongoing projects, including a just granted KK project: http://www.oru.se/Nyheter/Forskningsnyheter/Forskningsnyhet/Manniskans-interaktion-med-autonoma-robotar/ (in Swedish)       Afterwards John Sören Pettersson and Malin Wik showed them the user laboratory and the webbased
2015-02-18
Researchers from örebro university held seminar and visited the lab. Achim Lilienthal and Martin Magnusson from Mobile Robotics and Olfaction Lab, örebro University, presented the research group and ongoing projects, including a just granted KK project: http://www.oru.se/Nyheter/Forskningsnyheter/Forskningsnyhet/Manniskans-interaktion-med-autonoma-robotar/ (in Swedish) The whole news.
2015-02-16

HÃ¥kan Frisinger Award 2014

News » 2015-02-16
The HÃ¥kan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research awarded its 2014 scholarship to Professor Margareta Friman at ¹û¶³´«Ã½. Margareta Friman will receive the scholarship of SEK 250,000 for combining behavioral science with transportation research, and thus has increased understanding of the factors that influence the decisions and choices of transport people make. The scholarship will be awarded by the HÃ¥kan Frisinger Foundation at a seminar held on Apr
2015-02-16

HÃ¥kan Frisinger Award 2014

News » 2015-02-16
The HÃ¥kan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research awarded its 2014 scholarship to Professor Margareta Friman at ¹û¶³´«Ã½. Margareta Friman will receive the scholarship of SEK 250,000 for combining behavioral science with transportation research, and thus has increased understanding of the factors that influence the decisions and choices of transport people make. The scholarship will be awarded by the HÃ¥kan Frisinger Foundation at a seminar held on Apr
2015-02-12
Communication Source replaces Communication & Mass media complete Communication Source was developed from a merger of "Communication & Mass Media Complete" and "Communication Abstracts". Communication Source offers abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from publications worldwide pertaining to Communication, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Discourse, Speech-Language Pathology, Media Studies and other fields relevant to the discipline. Search in C
2015-02-12
Communication Source replaces Communication & Mass media complete Communication Source was developed from a merger of "Communication & Mass Media Complete" and "Communication Abstracts". Communication Source offers abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from publications worldwide pertaining to Communication, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Discourse, Speech-Language Pathology, Media Studies and other fields relevant to the discipline. Search in C
2015-02-03

Welcome Kaisa!

News » 2015-02-03
We welcome Kaisa Koskela-Huotari, new Ph D Student in Business Administration at CTF. Kaisa will conduct her studies in the field of Transformative Service Research. Her main supervisor is Professor Per Skålén.
2015-02-03

Welcome Kaisa!

News » 2015-02-03
We welcome Kaisa Koskela-Huotari, new Ph D Student in Business Administration at CTF. Kaisa will conduct her studies in the field of Transformative Service Research. Her main supervisor is Professor Per Skålén.
2015-01-30

New internship in the lab

News » 2015-01-30
Oskar Kroon is our new internship. He will simplifiy some of the functions in the Shell Builder of Ozlab. Oskar received some help of internship veterans Jonatan Lidholm and Marcus Nygren the first day on the new job. In parallell with his work in the lab, Oskar attempts to write his Bachelor thesis.      
2015-01-30

New internship in the lab

News » 2015-01-30
Oskar Kroon is our new internship. He will simplifiy some of the functions in the Shell Builder of Ozlab. Oskar received some help of internship veterans Jonatan Lidholm and Marcus Nygren the first day on the new job. In parallell with his work in the lab, Oskar attempts to write his Bachelor thesis.      
2015-01-23

Hello Vasilis Charitsis...

News » 2015-01-23
… Ph D Student in Business Administration, what kind of research are you working on right now? - My current research focuses on self-tracking and self-quantification practices. Self-quantification is an increasingly popular movement that aims to monitor and measure human activities, with the help of technology, in order to allow people to get a better understanding of themselves and to enhance their mental, emotional and physical abilities.
2015-01-23

Hello Vasilis Charitsis...

News » 2015-01-23
… Ph D Student in Business Administration, what kind of research are you working on right now? - My current research focuses on self-tracking and self-quantification practices. Self-quantification is an increasingly popular movement that aims to monitor and measure human activities, with the help of technology, in order to allow people to get a better understanding of themselves and to enhance their mental, emotional and physical abilities.
2015-01-15

Psychologists visiting the lab

News » 2015-01-15
In the beginning of the new year 2015, the usability lab was visited by Jenny Friedl and Lars Eriksson from the Psychology department at ¹û¶³´«Ã½. Discussions about collaboration between Psychology and Information Systems in course assignments and students' project works. The meeting started by Prof. John Sören Pettersson and lab assistant Malin Wik visiting the psychologists' lab.        
2015-01-15

Psychologists visiting the lab

News » 2015-01-15
In the beginning of the new year 2015, the usability lab was visited by Jenny Friedl and Lars Eriksson from the Psychology department at ¹û¶³´«Ã½. Discussions about collaboration between Psychology and Information Systems in course assignments and students' project works. The meeting started by Prof. John Sören Pettersson and lab assistant Malin Wik visiting the psychologists' lab.        
2015-01-07
The library has ended the subscription of e-books from ebrary from 1 january 2015. The ebrary-collection contained approximately 118,000 titles. Instead, we now subscribe to EBSCO eBook Collection containing approximately 130,000 titles. You can search the new e-books from EBSCO in OneSearch or directly in EBSCO eBook Collection. Soon you will also be able to search them in the library catalog and in Libris. The old e-books from ebrary has been removed from the library catalog.
2015-01-07
The library has ended the subscription of e-books from ebrary from 1 january 2015. The ebrary-collection contained approximately 118,000 titles. Instead, we now subscribe to EBSCO eBook Collection containing approximately 130,000 titles. You can search the new e-books from EBSCO in OneSearch or directly in EBSCO eBook Collection. Soon you will also be able to search them in the library catalog and in Libris. The old e-books from ebrary has been removed from the library catalog.