Vaike Fors

ORCID: 0000-0003-1870-683X
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Research Areas
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Persona Design and Applications
  • Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • Museums and Cultural Heritage
  • Digital Storytelling and Education
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
  • Digital Games and Media
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Social and Educational Sciences
  • Data Analysis and Archiving
  • Artistic and Creative Research
  • Art Education and Development
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
  • Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
  • Innovative Education and Learning Practices
  • Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring
  • Service and Product Innovation
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Technology Use by Older Adults

Halmstad University
2012-2023

Volvo (Sweden)
2018

Volvo Cars (Sweden)
2018

Museum of Science
2013

Luleå University of Technology
2004-2012

Self-tracking is an increasingly ubiquitous everyday activity and therefore becoming implicated in the ways that environments are experienced configured. In this article, we examine theoretically ethnographically how digital materiality of these technologies mediates participates constitution people’s tacit being world. We argue accounting for presence such as part way offers new insights non-representational accounts life developed geography anthropology advances existing understandings it...

10.1177/1474474016684127 article EN Cultural Geographies 2017-01-12

Automated vehicles (AVs) have the potential to cause profound shifts across a wide range of areas human life, including economic structures, land use, lifestyles and personal well-being. Most current social science on AVs is narrowly framed. Research public attitudes has focused whether people are likely accept use AVs. We contend that failing anticipate wider implications may serious negative consequences, scientists from disciplinary perspectives can provide invaluable insights. Our...

10.1016/j.trip.2020.100133 article EN cc-by Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 2020-06-13

The theoretical concept of trust has been identified as highly important to the successful design intelligent technologies such autonomous vehicles (AVs). In human-centred transport research this resulted in a focus on technical future AVs and raised question how conditions that form change become more intelligent. article we discuss first stage an interdisciplinary project brought together ethnographic experimental user studies into cars. This focused development methodological framework...

10.1016/j.trip.2020.100201 article EN cc-by Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 2020-08-28

Abstract This article outlines the implications of a theory "sensory-emplaced learning" for understanding interrelationships between embodied and environmental in learning processes. Understanding as multisensory contingent within everyday place-events, this framework analytically describes how people establish themselves "situated learners." approach is demonstrated through three examples culturally constructed sensory categories offer routes to knowing about multisensoriality experiences....

10.1080/10749039.2012.719991 article EN Mind Culture and Activity 2012-08-17

In this article we outline and demonstrate a design anthropological approach to investigating automated mobile futures as processual opening up of possibilities, rather than process technological innovation. To undertake investigate the example how car-smartphone relationship is configuring in contingent circumstances present implications for futures. Our discussion set context growing possibility that automonous driving (AD) features are increasingly part everyday mobilities (even if...

10.1080/17450101.2018.1436672 article EN Mobilities 2018-03-14

In this article we take the novel step of bringing together recent scholarship about mobile media and communications with new ethnographic research self-tracking. The correspondences entanglements between self-tracking technologies, scholarship, argue, are usefully considered in relation to each other both empirically theoretically. Indeed, propose that convergence means will increasingly need account for their research, there is therefore a explore implications taking approaching through...

10.1177/2050157917695578 article EN Mobile Media & Communication 2017-04-10

10.1016/j.trip.2025.101334 article EN cc-by Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 2025-01-01

New technological possibilities associated with autonomous driving (AD) cars are generating new questions and imaginaries about automated futures. In this article we advance a theoretical-methodological approach towards researching context based in design anthropological theory sensory ethnographic practice. doing so explain discuss the findings of an in-car video ethnography study designed to investigate usually unspoken not necessarily visible elements car-based mobility. Such is needed,...

10.1177/1466138117735621 article EN Ethnography 2017-10-19

A growing body of Human-Computer-Interaction research and the automotive industry has identified that understanding user needs creating positive experience (UX) is crucial in order to successfully introduce Autonomous Driving (AD) vehicles market. AD commonly undertaken provide insights by studying individual-technology experiences lab settings or forecasting attitudes acceptability through large surveys. However, these approaches base their knowledge on people's past present expectations...

10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121105 article EN cc-by Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2021-08-17

Abstract In this paper, we discuss how people’s user experience (UX) of autonomous driving (AD) cars can be understood as a shifting anticipatory experience, people degrees AD through evolving advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in their everyday context. We draw on our ethnographic studies five families, who had access to research with ADAS features lives for duration 1½ years. Our analysis shows that gradually adopt cars, process involves anticipating if they trust them, what the...

10.1007/s00779-020-01410-6 article EN cc-by Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 2020-05-06

In this article we propose an approach to digital health tracking technologies that draws on design anthropology. This entails re-thinking the pedagogical importance of personal data as lying in how they participate constitution new possibilities enable people learn about, and configure, their everyday ways. There have been two dominant strands traditional debates field pedagogy: one refers processes teaching do things particular ways; another seeks learning. The first these corresponds with...

10.3390/socsci6020059 article EN cc-by Social Sciences 2017-06-06

Digital technologies are increasingly ubiquitous in everyday life forming part of the way we live and experience world. This article will specifically scrutinise how mobile phone cameras, digital photographing use web-based photo-sharing sites communities become meaning-making practices through which is lived understood. In doing so, I advance concept "mundane friction" to discuss experience, pedagogy generated operating screen-based technologies. Indeed, media participates worlds beyond its...

10.3402/jac.v7.28237 article EN cc-by-nc Journal of AESTHETICS & CULTURE 2015-01-01

In this article I draw on a study of sensory aspects teenagers' use digital media, how these are incorporated in emerging learning strategies, and the implications for same engagement museums. My focus is an ethnographic approach that attends to senses may enable critical review prevailing pedagogical ideas Recent developments museum education have led large investments state-of-the-art technology produce interactive, multisensory exhibits. However, question teenagers respond campaigns...

10.2752/174589313x13712175020479 article EN The Senses and Society 2013-10-05

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are developed to increase safety, and bring environmental benefits. Nevertheless, there is growing skepticism in society regarding these technologies, a tendency that centres issues of trust research design future AVs. In this paper, we raise the question how has been understood researched relation automation within field Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) thus far what identified as key deepen our understanding personal contemporary To answer question, systematically...

10.1145/3369457.3369493 article EN 2019-12-02

This article outlines a novel way of performing experimental“Wizard Oz”(WOz) User Experience (UX)research that specifically targets driving in different levels self-driving modes. The reasons for exploring the possibilities combining experimental and ethnographic WOz-testing have been twofold. On one hand, this mixed-method approach responds to growing body critique concerning how WOz test is biased by claim it explores real-life behaviour an setting. other hand,our also meets demands...

10.55612/s-5002-037-001 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Deleted Journal 2018-06-10

The thesis discusses three separate studies regarding understanding for the greening of school grounds, with special attention paid to impact and importance gardening in relation more traditional work school.The research is dominated by qualitative methods data collected from totally fourteen infant junior schools (thirteen Swedish one British).

10.5617/nordina.427 article EN cc-by Nordic Studies in Science Education 2012-10-26

Traditional User Experience (UX) research provides insights into situated uses of products, or reflections after their use, but tells us little about how products are experienced before use. In this article we demonstrate people's engagement in web-based discussion forums creates ways through which they can experience have actually used them, and reflect on the implications for UX research. To understand product anticipation emerges a digital-material setting undertook an ethnographic...

10.1145/3240167.3240219 article EN 2018-09-24

Experimental 'Wizard of Oz' (WOz) User Experience (UX) research in the context Autonomous Driving (AD) car development is becoming more interdisciplinary, human-centric and open to innovative methodological collaborations. In this paper, we demonstrate a mixed-methodological approach how people engage with make sense automated features that do not yet exist everyday life contexts. We present combination WOz testing ethnographic ride-alongs have been developed two different approaches can...

10.1145/3292147.3292211 article EN 2018-12-04
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