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Søknadsfrist: 25. april 2006.

Satsningen digitalt design ledes av en styringsgruppe, som består av instituttlederne ved IFI, IMK og senterleder ved InterMedia. Det vil bli tilsatt en forskningskoordinator våren 2006.

Satsingen har en fler- og tverrfaglig profil og ligger i skjæringspunktet mellom informatikk, utdanningsvitenskap og medievitenskap. Perspektiver hentet fra ulike fagfelt (humaniora, digitale medier, utdannings - og samfunnsvitenskap) skal bidra til utvikling av bedre designprosesser og resultater. Utgangspunktet for satsingen er hvordan IKT inngår i nye produkter og tjenester. Denne tilnærmingen kjennetegnes ved et fokus på

1) bruk: på praksis, dvs. aktiviteter og prosesser der artefakter inngår,

2) kompleksitet: mange disipliner, flere nivåer – et mangfold av forskjellighet som ønskes bevart, og

3) designprosessen: på arbeidet med å lage artefakter, dvs. metoder og teknikker, designkunnskap, omsetting av faglige analyser til materielle løsninger.

Disse tre dimensjonene ved design må sees i sammenheng med de sosiale og kulturelle omgivelsene de er en del av.

Ved å integrere humanistisk, samfunnsfaglig og teknologisk forståelse av lærings- og innovasjonsprosesser vil nye digitale omgivelser utvikles for brukere i ulike sektor av samfunnet. InterMedia har læring, kommunikasjon og design som sine hovedbegrep. For denne postdoktor- stillingen vil det lagt vekt på at søkerne definerer sin forskning i forhold til lærings- og kommunikasjonsteori.

Den som tilsettes i denne stillingen vil inngå i InterMedia forskningsgruppe og i satsningen digitalt design. Her vil det bli igangsatt utviklingsprosjekter der man designer nye typer av omgivelser.

Søkere må ha doktorgrad innen relevant fagområde (se forrige avsnitt for faglig profil).

Vi viser også til programbeskrivelsen for satsningen.

Faglig kontaktpersoner:
Senterleder, professor Sten Ludvigsen, tlf 22 84 07 12, e-post: sten.ludvigsen@intermedia.uio.no,
Leder av InterMedialab, førsteamanuensis Ole Smørdal, tlf 22 84 07 07/ 930 80 473, e-post: ole.smordal@intermedia,
Førsteamanuensis Andrew Morrison, tlf 22 84 07 38, e-post: andrew.morrison@intermedia.uio.no

Knut Lundby from InterMedia is among the editors and contributors to a new book on Implications of the Sacred in (Post)Modern Media. A hot topic! The book is published by Nordicom: www.nordicom.gu.se

InterMedia lyser no ut ei stipendiatstilling innafor KP-Lab prosjektet og satsninga Digital Desgn. Du finn meir informasjon om stillinga her Denne stipendiatstillinga er den siste av dei fem stillingane UV fakultetet lyser ut. Søknadsfristen er 4. april.

Universitetet i Oslo lyser ut stillingen som prosjektleder for den strategiske satsingen Digitalt Design. Det skal knyttes flere forskere til feltet. Satsningen ledes av en styringsgruppe, som består av instituttlederne ved IFI, IMK og senterleder ved InterMedia. Satsingen har en fler- og tverrfaglig profil og ligger i skjæringpunktet mellom informatikk, utdanningsvitenskap og medievitenskap. Perspektiver hentet fra ulike fagfelt (digitale medier, læring kultur- og samfunnsvitenskap) skal bidra til utvikling av bedre designprosesser og resultater. Utgangspunktet for satsingen er hvordan IKT inngår i nye produkter og tjenester. Se programbeskrivelse for mer informasjon.

University of Oslo invites applications for the position of Project leader of new stategic programme of Digital Design. The project leader will act as a coordinator of the multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers from InterMedia, the Department of Media and Communication, and the Department of Informatics. These institutions have, for several years, carried out research and teaching – partly together – in the area “design of ICTs”. A design research initiative will strengthen the existing activities in ways that can create more synergy benefits. For more information see the attached program description.

InterMedia was responsible for this international workshop in the Calibrate project, an EU STREP project. The workshop was part of the ongoing research processes in work package 1, which InterMedia is leading. The aim was to research and define classification structures and ontologies for teachers’ search of learning resources and their connectedness to national curricula. IT-partners in Belgium, UK, Czech Republik and Norway participated.

The International Communication Association (ICA) has accepted a panel proposal on Challenging Autority in Online Environments? for its Dresden conference in June 2006. The panel was proposed by Knut Lundby from InterMedia, with Klaus Bruhn Jensen (Copenhagen), Lynn Schofield Clark (Boulder) and Maria Bakardjieva (Calgary) as other panelists. Sonia Livingstone (LSE, London and president-elect of ICA) will be the respondent.

The website for the new project MEDIATIZED STORIES. Mediation perspectives on digital storytelling among youth is now available. Go to http://www.intermedia.uio.no/projects/research/mediatized.html

New issue of Nordisk Museologi contains an article by Palmyre Pierroux about how students make sense of works by Duchamp, Malevich and Rothko in high schools and museums. “Dispensing with Formalities in Art Education Research ” argues that distinctions between schools and museums as places of formal and informal learning, respectively, are not useful analytical categories for understanding complex and situated meaning making processes.

As a representative of the InterMedia research group in Calibrate Trond Eiliv Hauge presented key ideas about curriculum mapping in the session: Searching for learning resources. The responses were quite positive and supportive for further research in the Calibrate project.

Hege-René Åsand and Ander Mørch’s paper “The Organisation of End User Development in an Accounting Company” has been accepted to the Journal of Organizational and End User Computing. The paper presents a case study following the activities of super users and local developers during the adoption of a new business application by an accounting firm in Scandinavia (referred to as the Company). The Company launched a program to train super users to help with this process because of the complexity of the new system, a generic, multi-purpose application system replacing several older, non-integrated systems. The system, Visma Business (VB) is a comprehensive financial and accounting application delivered as a set of components that need to be configured for domain-specific tasks, depending on the clients the accountants will interact with. The super users and the local end user developer (also called the application coordinator) were asked to take part in this study. We documented their activities empirically and analytically, using interviews to gather data and drawing on aspects of Activity Theory for the conceptual framework for analysis. Our findings provide insight into end-user development (EUD) activities with VB: what roles were created by the Company, what roles emerged spontaneously during the process, what the various user groups (regular users, super users, and the application coordinator) did, and how EUD was coordinated between super users and the application coordinator. Our findings show that super users fill an important niche as mediators between regular users and local developers and can make a significant contribution to the success of EUD efforts in a non-technical application domain.

The title of the seminar was ‘It must be abstract’, inspired by the poem by Wallace Stevens. The seminar was held at The Norwegian Seamens’ church. The Ph.d students presented their work, and commented each others’ presentations. Talks were given by Susan Squire, Jon Elster, Simon Critchley, Stuart Moulthrop, and Mel Bochner. The seminar also included a visit to MoMa, where Stian Grøgaard from the Art Academy of Oslo guided us through the history of modern art. Podcasts from the MoMa visit, and fron Mel Bochners talk will be published soon at kunstkritikk.no.

By the end of february 2007, my Ph.d project funding is running out, which means that 2006 will be a year of hard work! Really hard work! Merry Christmas by the way!

InterMedia deltek som ein av i alt 22 partnere i eit 5-årig “Integrated Project”, finansiert av EU’s 6 rammeprogram for forskning. Vi er igang med å planlegga InterMedias bidrag.

InterMedia er spesielt involvert i 4 arbeidspakker; teoretisk grunnlag (WP3), kunnskapsoverføring mellom lærere (WP 9), kunnskapsoverføring i profesjonelle nettverk (WP10), og i koordinering og samarbeid i prosjektet (WP2). I tillegg er vi i dialog med potensielle samarbeidspartnerne om mulige empiriske studier som kan inngå i prosjektet.

The Research Council of Norway has granted 4,4 mill NOK for the years 2006–2009 to a project on “Mediatized Stories. Mediation perspectives on digital storytelling among youth.” The project will explore how people - youth in particular - use self-representation in digital storytelling to shape and share their lives. The project will try to understand these processes through theories of mediation and mediatization across media studies and the field of education. The project will be coordinated by InterMedia. This is an international and interdisciplinary project with participants from six countries. The project brings together several departments at the University of Oslo. Project manager is professor Knut Lundby at InterMedia.

An article based on a Project COOL study has been published in the European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning. “Examining social interaction patterns for online apprenticeship learning - Object-oriented programming as the knowledge domain” is written by InterMedia researchers Annita Fjuk and Ola Berge, together with Jens Bennedsen from IT University West in Aarhus, Denmark.

The article shows and discusses social interaction patterns that developed in an online learning environment where the pedagogical design was inspired by ideas found in apprenticeship learning. The embedded study comprised a case study of an introductory online course on object-orientation and a design experiment carried out in the same course in the following semester. The case study indicates that support for the teacher’s awareness information on the learners’ level of knowledge and progression is critical for successfully developing social interaction patterns of teacher guidance. The design experiment identified that learners’ pre-prepared solution of the problem was vital means for developing productive social interaction patterns concerning collective reflections and joint problem solving.

På skolelederkonferansen ’Skolen i digital utvikling’ som ble arrangert den 17. og 18. november 2005 holdt Sten Ludvigsen, Trond Eiliv Hauge, Andreas Lund, Ingeborg Krange og Ingvill Rasmussen to sesjoner under tittelen ’IKT og læring - fra forskning til praksis’. Her ble resultater fra fire forskningsprosjekter presentert og diskutert.

I tillegg holdt Andreas Lund et plenumsforedrag med tittelen Produktive læringsformer med IKT. Trond Eiliv Hauge ledet en stor panelsesjon der Jorunn Møller fra ILS, rektorene Pål Riis fra Ullern videregående skole og Guro Kirkerud deltok. Temaet var Skoleledelse, skoleutvikling og IKT.

Ole Smørdal and Judith Gregory have contributed a chapter on “KNOWMOBILE: Mobile opportunities for medical
students” in Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators and Trainers. This book is aimed at anyone interested in an overview of the state of play in this emerging field. The book explores user experience with mobile devices, accessibility, pedagogical and institutional change, and current technology. A dozen detailed case studies report on the experiences of pioneer educators around the world who have experimented with mobile technologies in universities and colleges and in commercial training.

Edited by Agnes Kukulska-Hulme from the UK Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology and John Traxler from Wolverhampton University, UK.

Synne Skjulstad and Andrew Morrison have an article out in the latest issue of Computers and Composition (Vol. 2, No 24, 2005). Called Movement in the interface, the article argues that interface design needs to be given greater attention in the light of the emergence of dynamic and single environment screen spaces. Movement within and through these interfaces, often authored in the software Flash from Macromedia, is realised through designing relations between media types, content and underlying information architecures and systems. One of InterMedia’s experimental design and educational projects into dance and technology is presented via the case of its online mediation in the BallectroWeb. The article presents discusses the design of the interface for this web and the articulation of multimodal discourse related to different perspectives in the project and on the part of users. Characteristics of dynamic interfaces are presented in closing.

Til InterMediaLab søkes en person med kompetanse og interesse for følgende områder: Grunnleggende webteknologi (XML, XSL, HTML, CSS), objektorientert utvikling av webapplikasjoner (Java/Servlet) og tilrettelegging for streaming på web (MPEG4). Videre vil det være ønskelig med kompetanse innen standarder for ontologier (f.eks. XTM) og datamodellering.

Stillingen setter store krav til søkerens evne til å arbeide selvstendig, analytisk og konstruktivt. Evne til å samarbeide med folk med varierende bakgrunn og i fleksible kontorlandskap er også viktig. Stillingen krever høyere utdanning fra universitet eller høgskole (minimum tilsvarende bachelor-nivå). Relevant realkompetanse kan erstatte utdanningskravet.

Senteret har prosjekter med eksterne samarbeidspartnere innen både offentlig og privat sektor. Miljøet er innovativt og inspirerende og representerer både faglig og personlig utviklingspotensiale. InterMedia er lokalisert i nye lokaler i Forskningsparken i Oslo.

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Siste fredag diputert Bjørn Skaar pa Helga Engs hus (UV), Universitetet i Oslo. Avhandlingen hans hadde tittelen ‘NettCase’. Multimediale case i profesjonsutdanningen av lærere’. Bilde her er fra hans første prøveforlesning.