How not to measure scientific productivity
Ever since funding agencies started demanding some way to measure a return on their investment, administrators have been coming up with ways to measure scientists’ performance. And scientists have been...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Authorship: How Should Authorship Be Decided?
Assigning authorship can be a tricky business indeed. Whom should you include as an author on a paper, and in what order should you list multiple authors? via Science magazine.Read more →
View Article“Dream Good”: Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolution List, 1942
Work more and better Work by a schedule Wash teeth if any Shave Take bath Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk Drink very scant if any Write a song a day Wear clean clothes — look good Shine…Read more →
View ArticleEmpathic innovation
Are you an innovator? Did you ever make a solution that no one wanted to use? Did you ever reflect on the reason why it happened? If you did, I bet one of the reasons was you lost contact with your...
View ArticleDoing literature surveys: pointers to some resources
Many students and researchers will do a literature survey as part of their research project. Literature surveys are essential steps towards forming a good research question and clarifying your research...
View ArticleRecruiting and collaborating with users in research: Pointers to resources
Often in our research we need to recruit and collaborate with user. This can be in form of recruiting users to a usability test of a mobile app, interviewing users to understand their problems,...
View ArticleQualitative data analysis: Pointers to resources
Work in progress. Qualitative research is very common in information systems and research fields that look into the interplay between technology and the social context, such as organizations or...
View ArticleHow To Make Sourdough Bread — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn
Er det mulig? Man vet ikke før man har prøvd! Denne ukas prosjekt!Read more →
View Articlephoto album: Composition exercises
The right composition is, besides being able to take a clear, non-blurry photo, probably the most important success factor for taking a nice photo. At the same time, composing right is extremely hard...
View ArticleUsing documents in social research
Most qualitative research is concerned with oral data. But documents can be equally important in improving our understanding of phenomena. And when it comes to documents, it is not only their content...
View ArticleMy presentation at Software 2016
Yesterday I presented some of the work we (Yngve Dahl and I) did in the project FARSEEING at Software 2016 in Oslo. The slides are available at my Slideshare. The talk was about our findings from the...
View ArticleThe Discovery of Grounded Theory
I have now, after three months, finished reading this seminal work on qualitative methods by Corbin and Strauss. I have heard this is the book that defined rigor in qualitative research once and for...
View ArticleVelferdsteknologi handler om teknologi!
Helsedirektoratets Fagrapport om implementering av velferdsteknologi fra 2012 siterer Nis Peter Nissen som sier "velferdsteknologi handler ikke om teknologi... men om mennesker". Å tolke sitatet...
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Empatisk innovasjon
Har du noen gang laget en «innovasjon» som ingen hadde behov for? Det har jeg, en del ganger. I denne bloggen, som finnes på engelsk, har jeg prøvd å reflektere litt på hvorfor dette har skjedd med...
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Min presentasjon på Software 2016 i Oslo
I går presenterte jeg forskningsresultater fra EU-prosjektet FARSEEING på Software-konferansen i Oslo. Presentasjonen er tilgjengelig i Slideshare. Trykk på engelsk flagg oppe i menyen og les resten...
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Delingsøkonomi eller digital Taylorisme?
Mange beskylder deltakere i delingsøkonomier som Uber og AirBnB for skatteunndragelse og ulovlighet. Men det er en annen, mye mer truende side av delingsøkonomien som man snakker forholdsvis lite om....
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Er det en plikt å tro på evolusjonsteorien?
Interessant innlegg av Markus Lindholm i Morgenbladet denne uka om evolusjon og islam. Men jeg hadde forventet meg litt mer nyansert analyse av en som signerer sitt innlegg med tittelen «Biolog, PhD»....
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