Karin Danielsson Öberg
PhD-student and lecturer
Publication list
Teaching
PhD-courses I participate in during this semester:
none at this moment
Previous courses:
Research and applied methods in HCI and CSCW
History of Design
Knowledge in a commercial society
Social science in the 21st society
Academig writing
Exploring digital artefacts
Theory of science
Participatory Design - methods and practices
Ethics and research
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My main areas of interest in research are Participatory Design and Entertaining Educational Computer Games. I have been lecturing at the Department of Informatics, Umeå University, since 2001. My PhD-studies started in 2004.
Events
Call for Papers:
Special Issue on Distributed Participatory Design: Challenges and Opportunities, for the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
Please visit: www.distributedpd.com for more information.
Important dates:
First version of papers submitted: September 8, 2008
- First version reviewed: November 10th 2008
- Second version of paper submitted: January 25th 2009
- Second version reviewed: March 25th 2009
- Final, polished articles submitted: April 30th 2009
- Special Issue published: June 2009
Panel on Distributed Participatory Design at the PD Conference 2008.
More information comming soon.
Previous events:
Second Workshop on Distributed Participatory Design at CHI2008: please visit the ws web site or CHI2008 for more information.
Cross-Media Interaction Design Conference 2007 see: http://www.cmid07.org/
Workshop at NordiCHI 2006: Distributed Participatory Design, please visit the ws web site or NordiCHI for more information.
Research cases
Participation of children aged 5 to 7 in design of an educational computer game, collboration with BBC and North Kingdom. Still work in progress.
Rixdax (a game for teenagers to learn about the work by the Swedish Parliament).
His and Hers (a game in both Swedish and English, where teenagers are encouraged to reflect upon gender issues in society). The game recived second prize and the jurys honorary mention at the Basel Karlsruhe Festival: on educational television and multimedia, 2004.
In these cases, my focus is on the participation of children and teenagers, and I contribute with the design of user and evaluation sessions.
Presentations
Design av underhållande läromediespel (Design of entertaining educational computer games) at HUMlab, UMU. (11/10 2005).
Users as participants in real-life design projects: Designing educational computer games with and for teenagers, at the Learning Sciences at Penn State Talk series, during a visit at Dolcelab and IST at Penn State, State College, USA. (25/9 2005).
At the Department of Informatics
Avout the visit to Penn State (26/10 2005)
Presentation of conference paper (17/11 2004)
Entertainment (5/2 2003)
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