Maria Jansson, Institutionen för Informatik, Umeå Universitet: Past, Present and Future Work

In this seminar I will present myself, past, present and future work. I will begin with a short presentation of my previous work, my doctoral thesis “Participation, Knowledges and Experiences. Design of IT-systems in e-Home Health Care”. The methodological approach for this exploration is based on qualitative methods and interpretive and hermeneutic perspectives applied in four different projects. The empirical material was conducted with focused interviews, undertaken work with focus groups, facilitated workshops, engaged in systematic observations and used the storyboard technique with personnel working in the home health care services. Thus a variety of participatory design methods and techniques have been used. The gathered data has been analysed using different methods: discourse analysis, the cyborg figure, thematic analysis, and reflective analysis. The findings from each analysis complement each other and bring forward different perspectives. After that I present work in progress such as articles and projects. Finally, I would like to discuss my plans and future work.

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Rikard Harr