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Ph.D. Student Rikard Harr

About me
My name is Rikard Harr and I am a Ph. D Student at the department of Informatics, Umeå University. I started out as a junior lecturer in fall 2001 and got my position as a Ph.D Student in the beginning of 2004. I started out my academic career in the college of education but eventually came to my senses, during a year abroad at the south coast of Spain studying spanish.

Besides working, my main interests are studying languages, watching and practicing sports, hunting and fishing, movies and literature but in front of all enjoying life with my family

Teaching
I have been affiliated to the department of informatics since fall of 2001. Since then I have been involved in different teaching activties such as external teaching at the UPC (the centre of pedagogy at the university), internal teaching such as supervising thesises at the C-level and internal teaching at the department on various courses, such as (all courses are held in Swedish and their names are translated by me to Swedish) :

IT and society, 5 credits (held In cooperation between Informatics and Economic History)
IT and society 5 credits (held in Informatics)
IT-use and societal evolution, 10 credits
Information technology, 5 credits
Design and evaluation, 5 credits
Digital Business, 5 credits
Activity development in IT dependent organizations, 10 credits

Research
My main topic of research is CSCW. I have been conducting both empirical and theoretical studies and have investigated how collaborating groups coordinate their activities in different domains, for example in a research department and in a hunting case. My main interest is in how groups coordinate their activities around ill-structured tasks, which are characterized by rapid changing environments, poorly defined outcomes, high uncertainty and a substantial variety of problems to deal with. My head supervisor is Victor Kapitelinin and my co-supervisor is Mikael Wiberg

Research publications
Harr, R., and Wiklund, Ö. (2002). Letting commercial habits create a filter for commercial SMS. Presented at the IRIS25-conference (10-13 august, 2002 Bautahøj, Denmark).

Harr, R. (2002). Exploring the concept of group interaction through action in a mobile context. Presented at the 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications - Dexa 2002 (2-6 September, 2002 Aix-en Provence, France).

Nyberg, A., and Harr, R. (2003). Exploring everyday strategies of IT-use. Presented at the IRIS26-conference (9-12 august, 2003 Haikko Manor, Finland).

Nyberg, A., and Harr, R. (2003). With or without IT? – An exploration of strategies for IT-use in everyday life. Presented at the Aoir-conference (October 16-19, 2003 Toronto, Canada)

Scholl, J., McCarthy, J., and Harr, R. (2006). The ears and eyes have it: supporting audio & video: A comparison of chat and audio in media rich environments. In Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work CSCW '06, Banff, Alberta, Canada, New York: ACM Press, p. 323 - 332.

Harr, R., and Wiberg, M. (2007). IM not available: Implicit Availability Management in an Online Media Space. In Behaviour & Information Technology (BIT). First Published on: 20 January 2007.

Kaptelinin, V., and Harr, R. (2007). The ripple effects of interruptions: Unpacking the social dimension of external disruption. Working Paper WP-07.01. Department of Informatics, University of Umeå.

Other publications

Harr, R., och Westergren, U. (2007). Med små steg mot en jämställd grundutbildning. Inskickad för publicering.