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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Category: Information Systems
Podcast episode about eHealth, competence and work-related stress by ‘A Smart future’ (sv. En Smart Framtid)
During my very first day as an employee at the Information Technology Department at Uppsala University, a hot day in the middle of June, I
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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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Debate article about efforts to improve the digital work environment
Best regards The 24th of September 2020, the following debate article about incitement to improve the digital work environment was published by https://www.publikt.se A main
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A literature review about AI, robotics and the work environment at the request of Mynak
A while ago we were informed about some great news for our research group. The Swedish Agency for Work Environment Expertise (Mynak) has given prof.
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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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Interview in the Magazine Vårt Uppsala
Åsa Cajander have been interviewed for the local magazine Vårt Uppsala. The interview was about all her areas of research, and the title indicates one
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Seminar with Lina Nilsson on “Social Challenges when Implementing eHealth in Healthcare – Organisational Experiences from Research and Development Projects”
Lina Nilsson’s does research on implementation of eHealth. She is a senior lecturer at the Linneaus University and works in health informatics. She has a
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.
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