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Erik Stolterman
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Anna Croon Fors
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Address:
Informatics
Umeå University
901 87 Umeå
SWEDEN
Fax:
+46 (0)90 7866550
Updated
March 2004
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Our
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We are
today witnessing a dramatic change of our society. The increasing
impact of information technology in our professional and everyday
lives is probably both more radical and profound than we can
understand and envision. We label this change of the society
as the ongoing digital transformation.
The LIFE research group has as its purpose to study the mechanisms
behind, and the outcome of, this transformation. Information
technology and society are co-evolving in ways that will lead
to something we cannot yet fully visualize or comprehend.
The ambition of the LIFE research group is, apart from carefully
study the transformation itself, also to make these future
environments visible and intelligible.
The research group is brought together by a common understanding
of the need to study the digital transformation. Our research
can be characterized as basic research, with an ambition
to theorize and conceptualize a deeper understanding
of the digital transformation.
A number of projects, carried out at the Department of Informatics,
are more or less related to or part of the LIFE research purpose.
LIFE is an open research group. Anyone with an interest in
theoretical and conceptual aspects of information technology
and society can take part in the activities of the group.
If
you find any of this interesting, please contact us!
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Research
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Several projects can be found within the LIFE group. Here
are some of them. If you want to know more please contact
us:
”IT
and the Good Life”
Erik Stolterman, Anna Croon Fors, Daniel Skog, Annakarin Nyberg
”The Digital Transformation”
Erik Stolterman, Torbjörn Nordström
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VR & Urban Design”
Erik Stolterman, Thomas Persson, Nils-Petter Augustsson
“The Philosophy and Methodology of Design”
Erik Stolterman, Harold Nelson
”Design and Complexity"
Erik Stolterman, Harold Nelson, Anna Croon Fors
"The
Character of Things"
Erik Stolterman, Lars-Erik Janlert,
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