Recently, one of my closer relatives was taken into hospital. She was admitted to the stroke ward at a hospital in Sweden, and I found
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Author: Lars Oestreicher
Lars Oestreicher is a researcher in Human-Computer Interaction/Disability research at Uppsala University. He has a background in Computer Science, with Psychology, Linguistics and Social Science as specialisation.
Human-Computer Interaction and Security
Last week I attended a workshop on Cybersecurity at Uppsala University. So, what would I as researcher in HCI and disabilities want from that kind
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Brain-Computer Interfaces – Upptalk lunch seminar June, 2, 2020
The technology centre at Uppsala University – Upptech – has started a series of short moderated lunch seminars and panel debates on research that is
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The Most Important Task of the Leaders in Times Such as These?
One thing that seems to be repeating itself over and over, when we discuss IT-systems, is the uncertainty of their roles in emergencies and exceptional
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Gone with the phone… on information security
My wife lost her phone yesterday. The chaos that followed has really made me think about how vulnerable we are today, when literally almost everything
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You only have to…
One of my absolute favorite expressions is the phrase: “You only have to…”. Even better is when it is preceeded by the next best expression:
Read moreUppsala SciFest 2019
This is the second time visiting the Uppsala SciFest 2019, and it was an intense first day. School class after school class visited the booth
Read moreHow to separate the trees from the forest – The workplace as a Swiss army knife
Continuing on the “forests and trees” metaphor from a previous post we will now see what happens when you try to separate the trees from each other. So, let us start with one single tree (or task). One tree does not make a forest, but it can very easily be distinguished as a tree of a certain kind. A Pine tree has long needles; A fir tree has short needles. And a tree without needles is a leafy tree (unless it is a Gingko tree, but that is another story). However, once there are more trees in a lump, the categorisation becomes more difficult.
Read moreThe trees that hide in the forest
Sometimes when we make studies on a work environment, e.g., as a preparation for software development, there seems to be a tendency to overlook the
Read moreWhat we see and do not see – Some further notes on the observation studies…
Doing observation studies is not always as easy as it may seem at first glance, and Diane has already written much interesting stuff in her previous
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