Browsing by Author "Olsson, Fredrik"

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    En användarbarhetsutvärdering av Aderas Intranät
    (2001) Setterberg, Fredrik; Olsson, Fredrik; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för informatik
    This master thesis concerns usability evaluation of Intranets. The purpose of the essay was to evaluate the usability of Adera´s Intranet. In order to do this we studied the existing definitions of usability and methods of its evaluation found in the literature and on the Internet. The theories were summarized to create a scientific frame of reference. On the basis of the theories we created our own definition and method. The definition was made up of four components; information, effectiveness, functionality and subjective satisfaction. Our method involved observing eight employees at Adera´s office at Östra Hamngatan in Gothenburg, using the Intranet. We also interviewed the users and let them fill out questionnaires. The result of the evaluation became the starting point of our analysis leading to the conclusion. The conclusion showed that Adera should carry out a number of recommendations in order to improve the usability of their Intranet. For example adding information, enable user-adaptability of the frontpage, improve the navigation and adding a search engine.
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    “Me voy pal Norte”. La configuración del sujeto migrante indocumentado en ocho novelas hispanoamericanas actuales (1992-2009)
    (2015-05-13) Olsson, Fredrik
    This study explores the representation of the undocumented migrant in the contemporary Latin American novel. Clandestine crossings have long been a theme in Mexican and Chicano literature, often narrated from a highly nationalistic working-class stance, but it is here argued that recent literary production on this problematic is significantly more heterogeneous. The aim of the present work is to examine, compare and systematize the configuration of the migrant subject in a corpus of eight novels published in the 1990s and the 2000s, which focus on the current phenomenon of unauthorized Latin American migration to the United States. The study’s main concern is to scrutinize how this subject is depicted and how the different elements that comprise the affiliated identity formation suffer from transformation as the rendered characters move from one cultural setting to another. In order to achieve this, a second aim in effect becomes to inductively establish a methodology for the narrative study of the shaping of the migrant subject in and by movement as such. Drawing on the decentering of the human subject as well as positional, relational and intersectional approaches to identity in recent postcolonial and feminist theory, a model is elaborated for the study of the geographic figurations of identity and subjectivity in the novels according to four analytic stages of the process of migration: the anticipatory moment in the South; the crossings of material and metaphorical borders; the intercultural contact with the North; and the contrast between the experiences of migration and the mnemonic processes linked by close bonds to the homeland. The ensuing analyses demonstrate that there is not one migrant subject represented in the texts, but a plurality of different subjects that acquire coherence and historical continuity by being inserted into the metanarrative of the Promised Land. Situated in a dialogic exchange between continuity and change, three main directions crystallize among the novels: the tendency of a return to roots, the tendency of a rupture with the past, and the exaltation of hybridity. The stress of the material aspect of the border and the subjective accounts of the human consequences of the undocumented condition as an extended liminal position are identified as the main constituents of this literature. A tension between pro-immigrant sympathies and a ludic sensibility toward stereotyped representations of Hispanics and Anglo Americans is also displayed.
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    PLUG-IN : small scale design process
    (2009-06-30T13:35:37Z) Olsson, Fredrik; Göteborgs universitet/HDK - Högskolan för design och konsthantverk; Göteborg University/HDK - School of Design and Crafts
    This degree project is a realization of a strategy for collaboration between an industrial designer and employed workmen of a producing company. The collaboration aims to engage everyone involved in the co-authorship of a products design and manufacturing history. The realization has taken place in an open dialogue where the designer no longer owns the design process by himself. The project has been carried out in cooperation with the company Iris Hantverk. The company is owned by the Swedish body for visually impaired and has their main production facility in Stockholm. Through interventions and workshops together with the visually impaired workmen a plug-in* has been developed that transforms traditional vegetable brushes into shoe brushes. The result is a small scale design and production process where products emerge through exchange of knowledge and dexterity between designer and workmen.
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    Stockholm - Göteborg En arkitekturhistorisk jämförelse
    (2012-07-30) Olsson, Fredrik; University of Gothenburg/Department of Conservation; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård
    This essay revolves around the differences in architecture two swedish cities display by the turn of the 19th century, the capital Stockholm and the second largest city Gothenburg. By studying two of the streets in the respective cities the ambition of this essay is to highlight the fact that there are evident variances in exterior architecture. These exists despite the streets having similarities in both time of erection and economic, social and geographical conditions. By studying the charactaristics of both streets and comparing the educational background of the originators behind the buildings an attempt of finding an answer to this peculiar situation is made. Karlbergsvägen in Stockholm is a display of the neoclassical styles commonly used in European cities by the time while Linnégatan in Gotheburg show similarities to architecture used in nothern Germany and Berlin. This is more or less obvious by the use of exposed brickwork in Gothenburg as opposed to the plastered walls of Stockholm. The results show that the answer cannot be derived from one particular reason but instead there are several strong theories for these differences to exist. For example the education given for architects in Stockholm at the time focused heavily on the neo-styles of the 19th century with extensive use of plaster and classical ornaments. In Gothenburg on the other hand the courses given in the general art of housebuilding had an emphasis on construction and natural materials used in building. In a sense a more practical education whilst the students in Stockholm received a more artistic knowledge. The role of the master builder is also a possible explanation since a lot of the master builders in Sweden during this period were immigrants from Germany. In Stockholm the impact of this was not noticable since established architects was already in charge of the buildings embodiment but in Gothenburg, where architects were scarce, master builder often filled the roles of both builder and architect. Thus the conclusion that influences from Berlin and Germany were greater in Gothenburg than in Stockholm can be made alongside with several other possible explanations.