• Designing for an Enhanced Body Relation: A Mindful Technology that En...
  Okholm Hansen, Simone Marie  : Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle (2018)	Master thesis (two year)

  

  

  English abstract:

  This thesis questions the idea that; quantified self technology can make us understand our bodies better and facilitate a healthy relationship with the body. Instead, it proposes that a healthy relationship to the body is developed through technology that facilitates a somatic practice, involving the bodily experience in the interpretations of the data. This is achieved by bringing in values inspired by the practice of mindfulness as an alternative to the existing design values promoted in technological solutions dealing with the body. I have designed a first prototype, Inner Mirror, which explores adolescents’ body relationship through screen-based visuals. Inner Mirror detects adolescents’ arousals to visualize their emotional changes in abstract representations that they are invited to connect to specific emotional experiences. The process of designing Inner Mirror will be described thoroughly in the paper. The process was a continuous negotiation between the ideas and values that I brought into the project and the adolescents’ worldview. This is described through a first-person perspective and a participatory design approach. Two school classes of 43 adolescents (between 13 to 14 years old) have participated in the project through three workshops. In the end, I test the prototype in two different settings: on myself, adopting the first-person perspective and together with the adolescents. Finally, three concepts that emerged in the design work are evaluated to suggest a direction for future work.

  Simone Okholm TP2.pdf   (3.167Mb)

• Making it personal in critical games to affect reflection and have a ...
  Dimitrova, Raya  : Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle (2018)	Master thesis (two year)

  

  

  English abstract:

  This thesis project explores the capacity of digital critical games when it comes to conveying socially relevant messages and making the player reflect on the real life outside of the game, with a specific interest in self-reflection. Starting with critical analyses of the vast field of existing online socially critical games, this research exploration continues with an empirical evaluation of selected few samples of such games by recruiting people to playtest them, followed by interviews. Identifying design qualities and openings based on the findings, a prototype is then implemented and iterated based on playtesting with more participants, again followed by interviews. The sought out novel aspects of online critical games, that are explored via the prototype, are: 1. Making the critical game experience personal by incorporating real life information from the player’s own life. Seeking in this way to ensure the flow outside of the magic circle and into the real life, this also aimed at supporting a stronger impact of the message conveyed by communicating it on the player’s “own ground”, i.e. in the terms of their own real life and personal feelings. 2. Allowing a space for the player to express disagreeing with the message coming from the game and giving them the possibility to enrich it collectively by sharing through the game what their own view on the matter is. This was an attempt for exploration in the direction of supporting a two-way dialogue between the game designer and the player in the sense of giving the player a voice and a stronger agency both in the game and in the message conveyed. So these two: 1. self reflection via making it personal and 2. self expression via allowing space for a two-way dialogue, were the two main topics incorporated in the artifact that came out of this research. Consequently the contribution of this thesis are the reflections from trying to incorporate such critical game’s qualities and the analyses of it, along with all the other factors that came out from the earlier investigation and evaluation of similar games concerning what exactly makes people reflect on real life and think outside of the magic circle while playing a critical game.

  Raya Dimitrova - Thesis Project 2.pdf   (3.479Mb)

• Är det verkligen du som väljer? - En komparativ visuell analys om hur...
  Kramsu, Evelina  : Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle (2018)	Bachelor thesis

  

  

  Swedish abstract:

  Uppsatsen har som syfte att undersöka om fyra restauranger i Malmö använder sig av nudging via grafisk design för att få folk att konsumera mer hälsosamt. Problemet är att fetma och dess följdsjukdomar ökar i Sverige. Samtidigt ökar även trenden med att äta ute. Jag har därför gjort en komparativ visuell analys av fyra menyer från restauranger i Malmö. Slutresultatet visade att de använder sig av såväl typografi som färg, hierarki och bilder som nudgingmetoder för att marknadsföra sina maträtter, men inte för att främja de mer hälsosamma alternativen. Genom min undersökning kan jag ge en grundläggande förståelse för begreppen menypsykologi och nudging, och hur man kan leda människor till att välja mer hälsosamma alternativ när de äter på restauranger.

  GDX18_EvelinaKramsu.pdf   (8.885Mb)

• An Analysis of Media Use and Media Practice Among Young People Aged B...
  Urbé, Lisa  : Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle (2018)	Master thesis (two year)

  

  

  English abstract:

  The study investigated how young people, aged between 20 and 26 years, use the media which is available to them, and how much time they spend on it on a weekday and on a weekend day. In addition to this, it identified which factors the people look for when they are about to choose which media is worth their time, and I found out which media or news user types the young people belong to. I believe that this target group includes the users of tomorrow which I find interesting. Hence, I decided to focus on their media habits in particular. The data was collected through the means of the media diary method since I strive to highlight the personal experiences of the participants. Five more in-depth interview questions followed the diary. Through the lens of the theory on worthwhileness, the data was analysed. From various dimensions of worthwhileness (Schrøder, 2010; Schrøder&Larsen, 2010), I tried to see which ones my participants could relate to, and which of the seven user types (Schrøder, 2010) they are part of. Results showed that not all the informants consume news in their everyday life but when they do so, it is mostly done through Facebook and Instagram or in a few cases, a newspaper’s website. Social media activities are given great importance by the young people, and from the various devices, they seem to prefer smartphone. Expanding on these findings, results also illustrated that accessibility, practical features offered by the technology, and that the media is easy to use are key for the young people. Participation is regarded as important: producing and sharing, commenting, or maybe discussing is a way for the people to express themselves. From seven user types, I identified four and my informants appreciate that they can get hold of the news and information very quickly and that the process is cheap.

  URBÉ, LISA.pdf   (23.14Mb)

• #metoo på svt.se-En kvalitativ studie av icke-verbal kommunikation i ...
  Rix, Janni  : Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle (2018)	Bachelor thesis

  

  

  JanniRix_100MP_utanmarkeringar.pdf   (27.24Mb)

  Janni Rix_Omexam2_uppsats.pdf   (440.8Kb)

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