Petter Falk, defends his doctoral thesis "Assemble Care // Align Data: An Ethnographic Study of Datafication in Swedish Public Care", at Karlstad University. Abstract You sit in a quiet room at your local healthcare clinic. Tests are run, assessments made, and your data is woven into the threads of an electronic health record. Or perhaps […]
Malin Backman defends her doctoral thesis, “Essays on Women in the Labor Market: Technology, Inequality and the Future of Work,” at Uppsala University. Abstract Essay I: I study how digital skill requirements affect the gender composition of new hires in female-dominated administrative occupations in Sweden from 2006 to 2016. I track the prevalence of digital […]
Kashyap Haresamundram, defends his doctoral thesis “Interactions with Pseudo-Sapiens: User perception of anthropomorphism, mind, and trust in humanlike social agents”, at Lund University (LTH). Abstract Advancements in AI and Robotics have made it possible, at least to some extent, for technology to interact with humans in humanlike ways, such as being able to use natural […]
Maria Arnelid defends her doctoral thesis, "The Imaginaries and Politics of Welfare Technology: Renegotiating Elder Care Through Technology for an Ageing Population," at Linköping University. Click here for a link to DIVA, with more information about the dissertation. Click here for a link to the event page at Linköping University. Abstract In Sweden, a particular […]
Christian Kammler defends his doctoral thesis, “Modeling norms for social simulations: increasing realism in social simulations to support decision makers in their decision making” at Umeå University. Abstract It is very challenging for policymakers and other decision makers to make any kind of decision on a new policy, as the reaction of a person to […]
