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Dammsugare att motivera till dammsugning
(2010-11-18) Andersson, Magnus; Göteborgs universitet/HDK - Högskolan för design och konsthantverk; Göteborg University/HDK - School of Design and Crafts
How can a vacuum cleaner motivate you to use it? From a sustainability perspective, the author asked the question of how such a solution would look like? These where issues that the project tackled and devised solutions for. The project wanted to explore the physical modeling and a large part of the final result consisted of a full scale model. The project found that the problem of vacuuming largely consisted of the problem of storage the product. The project found that the motivation for the job, therefore, could be resolved by a better designed vacuum cleaner with a built-in hose, folding handles, which could be stored integrated within the vacuum cleaner. The project also found that a rechargeable energy-efficient battery could serve as a factor to motivate an everyday job when the user do not have to fuss with the cord.
Diskursanalys av FN i samhällskunskapsboken
(2010-06-08T10:14:45Z) Andersson, Magnus; Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; University of Gothenburg/Department of Political Science
Diskursanalys av FN i samhällskunskapsboken
(2010-06-09T10:30:32Z) Andersson, Magnus; Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; University of Gothenburg/Department of Political Science
Good News AI Investigating feasibility of categorizing positive sentiment in general news
(2020-07-06) Ludvigsson, Klas; Andersson, Magnus; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik; University of Gothenburg/Department of Computer Science and Engineering
In today’s society we are constantly fed information about catastrophic or sad events through media. While it is important to know about these events, it should be equally important to also see all the good things that are happening in our world. Therefore, this thesis proposes two algorithms for classifying full-length news articles to remove the non-positive articles. Traditionally these types of algorithms require a large amount of labelled data, but this thesis explores possibilities for sentiment classification with a limited amount of labelled data. The best performing algorithm presented is this thesis achieves a precision percentage of 98% with only 40 articles used for training.
Hemmet och världen. Rumsliga perspektiv på medieanvändning
(2006) Andersson, Magnus
Heterogeneous IT Innovation. Developing Industrial Architectural Knowledge
(2007) Andersson, Magnus
Multiple information technologies are converging. Crucial to organizations’ relentless struggle to remain competitive, IT innovation processes must now increasingly take into consideration a multitude of stationary, mobile, and even embedded information technologies and their associated use contexts. In assembling such ubiquitous computing environments, multiple organizations with diverging interests and capabilities are involved. Indeed, heterogeneous component technologies are frequently associated with independent markets lacking a dominant actor knowledgeable about more than fragments of the combined capabilities present. A resulting lack of architectural knowledge poses a challenge to organizations attempting to assemble innovative computing environments spanning these boundaries. In this thesis, heterogeneous IT innovation processes are conceptualized as dependent on dispersed component technologies and associated competencies bound together by boundary-spanning architectural knowledge. This perspective is formalized as a research model assessed over a five-year action research project in the Swedish transport industry. The research project involved an industry network of independent technology vendors and user organizations experiencing a mobile-stationary divide in attempts to assemble ubiquitous computing environments. Seeking to understand the role and nature of architectural knowledge in heterogeneous IT innovation processes this thesis contributes implications for both research and strategy. First, architectural knowledge in heterogeneous IT innovation is found to rely on technology capability awareness, use context sensitivity, and business model understanding. However, in order to be successfully enacted in practice, the emergence of boundary-spanning competence is crucial. It is imperative to collectively define mutual boundaries between components of an architecture with respect to technology capabilities, use contexts, and business models. Through this process, architectural knowledge emerges as actors gain an increased capability to appreciate the conditions present in other components. This creates a crucial foundation for boundary spanning innovation. However, such boundary definitions must reflect a viable common denominator. Any resulting formalized architecture should not pose an immediate threat to perceived core markets of any involved component IT base. The need for open boundaryspanning component capabilities and requirements of innovation leeway for individual firms within their core IT base pose a balancing challenge. This can be achieved by black-boxing disputed technology capabilities of the component IT bases, acknowledging the innovation prerogative of organizations within that particular component market.
Koloni Volym I. Hierakier bryts ner / Gemenskap byggs upp. Ett dokumentations - , arkiv - och utställningsarbete om en subkultur genom konsertarrangören Koloni .
(2014-03-14) Andersson, Magnus; University of Gothenburg/HDK - School of Design and Crafts; Göteborgs universitet/HDK - Högskolan för design och konsthantverk
Koloni is a concert promoter that put up shows in lots of different locations with a wide variety of music styles and artistic expressions. In this work I have collected material from Koloni’s nine years of existence to form a volume. The volume tells the story of Koloni’s work, but also shed some light and understanding on the alternative cultural scene of today. Together with Christian Pallin I have been digging through a vast amount of posters, pictures, videoand sound clips to show the different sides of what Koloni is all about. I asked myself in what form this kind of material could be best presented and how to choose what parts should be included. Could I in the same work combine the archive with documentation and exhibition? How do I find a format that is engaging to the reader of the volume? What is the role of the curator, and how can the curatorial statement help a person read this work? The result that I came up with had the shape of a box. In the box was a book with texts and photos, 10 posters folded as a newspaper, an LP with sound materials, an USB-stick with video clips and a printed paper with a curatorial statement to lead the way.
KUNSKAP I OLIKA SYSTEM, EN DOLD RESURS? En studie av Volvo Groups inköpssystem för produktionsmaterial
(2005) Svärd, Gustav; Andersson, Magnus; Göteborg University/Department of Informatics
Denna uppsats utgör en studie av Volvo Groups inköpssystem för produktionsmaterial, GPS. Den syftar till att undersöka om det studerade inköpssystemet i någon form kan betraktas som ett Knowledge Management system och därefter komma med designförslag för att förbättra dessa aspekter hos systemet. Arbetet utfördes med hjälp av kvalitativa metoder och angreppssätt. Datainsamlingen bestod i huvudsak av öppna intervjuer med användare och tekniker inom Volvo Group. Förutom undersökningen utfördes även en del teoristudier. De viktigaste teoretiska grunderna för vår uppsats är dels klassiska verk inom Knowledge Management och dels Dick Stenmarks nyare teorier om olika former av kunskap, där han kritiserar tänkandet kring implicit och explicit kunskap. Vi kom fram till att GPS på många sätt kan liknas vid ett Knowledge Management system och att det med relativt små förändringar skulle vara möjligt att ytterligare förbättra dessa aspekter av GPS.
KUNSKAP I OLIKA SYSTEM, EN DOLD RESURS? En studie av Volvo Groups inköpssystem för produktionsmaterial
(2005) Svärd, Gustav; Andersson, Magnus; Göteborg University/Department of Informatics
Denna uppsats utgör en studie av Volvo Groups inköpssystem för produktionsmaterial, GPS. Den syftar till att undersöka om det studerade inköpssystemet i någon form kan betraktas som ett Knowledge Management system och därefter komma med designförslag för att förbättra dessa aspekter hos systemet. Arbetet utfördes med hjälp av kvalitativa metoder och angreppssätt. Datainsamlingen bestod i huvudsak av öppna intervjuer med användare och tekniker inom Volvo Group. Förutom undersökningen utfördes även en del teoristudier. De viktigaste teoretiska grunderna för vår uppsats är dels klassiska verk inom Knowledge Management och dels Dick Stenmarks nyare teorier om olika former av kunskap, där han kritiserar tänkandet kring implicit och explicit kunskap. Vi kom fram till att GPS på många sätt kan liknas vid ett Knowledge Management system och att det med relativt små förändringar skulle vara möjligt att ytterligare förbättra dessa aspekter av GPS.
Omvälvningarnas tid: Handelshuset Ekman i Göteborg på en europeisk kreditmarknad 1790–1820
(2011-01-26) Andersson, Magnus
The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to chart and analyze the flow of payments and credits to and from Gothenburg for the period 1790−1820, with a special interest in the transactions involving The Merchant House Ekman & Co. Both bills of exchange transactions within Ekman & Co and protested bills of exchange for other firms are studied. Markus A. Denzel’s model of Cashless Payment is an instrument to study how bills of exchange were used to ease payments and credit relations in the European Early Modern Credit market between 1790 and 1820. European trade possibilities for the period 1790−1820 are discussed in chapter III. The period under scrutiny was rather dramatic with economic and political changes. In Great Britain there was the industrial revolution and France experienced the great political revolution, followed by the Napoleonic wars. Chapter IV explores the credit- and bill of exchange markets. Since protested bills of exchange and different ways to deal with the problems that occur are important, this dissertation examines protested bills of exchange for two periods 1798−1800 and 1811−1812. The reasons for protesting bills of exchange are either lack of acceptance or lack of payment, both of which are common in this analysis. As a consequence there were no more endorsement possibilities. Chapter V describes the business of The Merchant House Ekman for the period 1790−1800, with special interest in the bills of exchange transactions. Peter III Ekman started his business ca 1760. He realized the importance of European contacts and from early on he traded with Merchants in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Greifswald, Wolgast and Stralsund. During the period 1790−1800 he was one of the most important producers of salted herring in Gothenburg. As a return good he imported grain from Merchant houses in the Baltic Sea. He imported the important salt by using his own ships. Ekman’s credit transactions in the form of bills of exchange contracts are of central importance, but the difficulty with the bills of exchange transactions is that there are no obvious connections with the commodity transactions. Because of endorsement, it is impossible to tell exactly what bill of exchange belonged to a certain amount of traded commodity. Chapter VI examines the Ekman & Co shift from mostly trading in herring and iron to concentrate on colonial trade at the time of war. Concerning credit relations, a database has been created for bills of exchange dating from 1810, which is then used to analyze the credit relations that Ekman & Co had with other firms in the European market. The dissertation shows the benefits of discounting and how the endorsements were used, as well as the fact that the Cashless Payments system with the bills of exchange transactions worked. When the system failed there was an effective law that solved the problem. All of this is further evidence that Gothenburg was an integrated part of the European financial system.
Recension - "Han har lyft analysen upp från..."
(University of Gothenburg. Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, 2010) Andersson, Magnus
Sound Perspectives on Critical Type
(2016-01-07) Andersson, Magnus; University of Gothenburg/HDK - School of Design and Crafts; Göteborgs universitet/HDK - Högskolan för design och konsthantverk
In Sound Perspectives on Critical Type the subject of typography is approached from the perspective of “skewed” and distorted music. The project explores how diversions and glitches can add values and communicating layers to a text that the “good” typography is lacking. With small gestures the norms of typography is questioned in an infiltrating manner, aiming to open up the field and invite alternative voices to enter the stage. The investigation has been carried out in the form of interviews (with graphic designers, musicians, writers, and critics), workshops, writing of texts and producing typography with experimental methods that make the text flow behave in alternative ways than the traditional, rule-bound. The strategies and results have been documented, collected and visualized in the format of a book that can function as an introduction to, and an extended discussion of, the issues conversed within. The book gathers voices and attitudes, and makes visible a desire to approach the field of design and typography in new ways. Sound Perspectives on Critical Type is an investigating project illustrating how expressions found in alternative music can offer new ways of thinking and discussing typography today. The music perspective could in a new way contribute, open up and invite to a critical discourse of the subject of typography.
Technology Support for Performance Assessment of Road Haulage
(2004) Andersson, Magnus; Göteborg University/Department of Informatics
Recent developments in wireless technology and telecommunication have made possible new types of information systems supporting fundamental activities in transport organisations. By including previously inaccessible distributed and mobile actors and equipment, this technology is a key enabler for realising the vision of integrated enterprise systems in this context. In this thesis, I focus on a particular type of transport organisation, that of road haulage firms. The term transport information systems (TIS) is used to discuss a specific type of enterprise technology, incorporating mobile aspects as well as the relevant functionalities of present enterprise systems. To capture the typical characteristics of Swedish road haulage firms and their general understanding of TIS, a qualitative interview study including 18 road haulage firms was performed. Building on the results of the study is a number of design challenges for successful adoption of such systems in this particular type of transport organisation. A subset of these design challenges is further examined through developing a prototype integrating vehicle performance data and assignment transaction information.