News and Events
Last week I gave an invited presentation on social media at KTH X, which is the alumni association at KTH. The presentation covered the basics of social media and raised questions about the use of social media in work, the future of personal integrity, the emerging topology of Internet and many other issues. About 40 people had come to listen and particpate in the discussion.
Jens Ohlsson from IDS Scheer gave a lunch seminar on Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture. Jens discussed the differences between an industrial and an academic view on these topics. He also presented the view of IDS Scheer on the future development in these areas. Thanks Jens for a nice presentation and a lively discussion!
Hélène Sandmark and I have recently got a conference paper accepted at the International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics, within the conference theme Bio-Medical Informatics. The conference is to be held 6-9 April, in Orlando, Florida, USA. We are going to participate virtually.
The paper is entitled “Stress Management 2.0 – A Holistic Approach to Self-management Online”.
Abstract:
The last years have put stress management on the agenda of healthcare. Intense lifestyles with job and domestic demands let people experience high levels of stress and to react strongly to different stressors. Long-term sickness and absence from work can be a consequence of too high stress exposure during a long period of time. This negative trend can be counteracted if we allow a combination of actions to support people who experience stressful lives. Different online programs are available for people with stress symptoms. However, there is a lack of conceptual understanding and a holistic approach to learning online for this group of people. In this article, we present a holistic and integrated approach to ‘stress management 2.0’ that considers several areas: stress management, self-management, informatics and continuous learning through communication and feedback. The approach is based on findings from previous research studies of web based solutions for learning new lifestyles, stress management and results from clinical trials. At the end of the article, we present some design principles to be used for developing systems in accordance with ‘stress management 2.0’ from a holistic view.
Keywords: Self-management, Stress management, Web based, Learning, Communication, Holistic
The research group within “IT for Health” has submitted a three year research proposal to Vinnova
A master thesis written by the EMIS master students Hao-chun Xing and Xin Zhang has been converted to a scientific paper together with their supervisor Hercules Dalianis. The paper is accepted to The seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010) with the title Creating a Reusable English-Chinese Parallel Corpus for Bilingual Dictionary Construction.
Ambjörn Naeve held a seminar on Provocative Modelling on 12 February. Ambjörn is presently a guest lecturer at DSV. Here follows Ambjörn’s summary and documentation of the seminar.
Provocative Modeling is a term that I came up with a while ago to describe models that provoke “engagement by disagreement” by exposing controversial ideas, beliefs and assumptions – often called prejudice. Since we can process only up to about 30 bits per second in our conscious mind, while we are at the same time receiving about 3 million bits per second through our senses, this information needs to be compressed about 100.000 times before we can deal with it on the conscious level. Hence, without pre-judging there can be no effective judging, and therefore it is not an option to be without prejudice. The question is only which prejudices you have. Also, by exposing your underlying beliefs and assumptions related to an issue, they become visible and therefore amenable to change. This is what Peter Senge calls Mental Modeling (http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5034656.html), which is one of the five disciplines of organizational learning (http://www.solonline.org/organizational_overview).In my talk I will display (what I think is) some of my more “provocative models” on terrorism, religion, gender, education, economics, and promotion strategies within a large organization. These models have been developed in our modeling tool Conzilla (www.conzilla.org) and the links to the presented models will be made available for the participants.
Some slides on Disagreement Management:
Ambjorn on Disagreement Management (Innsbruck, Febr 2009), Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/EagleBear/ambjrn-on-disagreement-managment-988233
In order to navigate the Conzilla-URLs below, you must first download Conzilla. Point your web browser to www.conzilla.org and click ’Download’ (to the left) and then ’Launch’ (under Conzilla 2.2 at the top of the page).
Below are the Conzilla-URLs for the maps that I discussed during my talk – and for some other ones that are related. Remember that these “Conzilla-URLs” have to be copied and pasted into the Conzilla address window (called Context-Map URI). To learn how to navigate Conzilla maps, go to www.conzilla.org/wiki/Doc/Navigation
Here are the Conzilla-URLs for:
the models that I discussed in my talk:
Terrorism (Dialogue map – Compendium-style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/religion/presentation/CM#52ded2112b5e07658
Religious Interoperability (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/religion/layoutCM#77e8ce1135e14f936
Discriminator questions (Decision tree style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df3732a88
Large Bureaucracies (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#70fa7d8911db90cc08e39c
Penetrating the Glass Ceiling (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#-5532ba2611dc8e76cb33b5
Militarism-Terrorism (Peter Senge, The 5th Discipline) (mixture of ULM + Systems modeling styles):
http://org/conzilla/people/amb/systems-modeling/CM#b52041113a08ce406
Shifting the Burden (The 5th Discipline , Systems modeling style):
http://org/conzilla/people/amb/systems-modeling/CM#95afdb1139d16ecc2476
Workload-Stress-Alcohol (Peter Senge, The 5th Discipline) (Systems modeling style):
http://org/conzilla/people/amb/systems-modeling/CM#7421ff112010afd4f
Gender modeling (ULM + mathematical style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/gender/layoutCM#b89c061139b60fb95
The Financial Crisis (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#-55dd4cc111dfd7ca38d
models that are related – but were not discussed in my talk:
Knowledge Emulation (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/trends/layoutCM#7925ae115b9ec94862d4
Globalization (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/humanity-inc/layoutCM#c126b31157ea353aa8b3
Global Climate Change (Peter Senge) (Systems modeling style):
http://org/conzilla/people/amb/systems-modeling/CM#c36b2a113afe2c1df
The Stock Market (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#-182d208411d950e3a84
Soros’ Boom-Bust model (Special style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/KLM/layout/contextmap#-1c4314fc11d8bcf072a
Political power systems – the Cracy Ontology (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/politics/presentation/CM#76358a113b9b34bf3
Ideologies (Timeline style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/politics/presentation/CM#cbbdf310ac7b5259a5b3
Selfish and Unselfish Knowledge (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/humanity-inc/layoutCM#76358a115a4478b6c
Swedish Asylum Policy (Process modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/humanity-inc/layoutCM#ecdb1b11702d608cf
Corporate Greed (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#60563f8811dafaa95256b3
Aiding Africa – corruption of foreign aid (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#3bcb8ca411dcb9b02ca1fa6
Advertise-Consume (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/humanity-inc/layoutCM#83484811883528013184b
Mass(age) media (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/trends/layoutCM#f6e3e9115adc3e27b
Automatization by Computers (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/trends/layoutCM#f15f7f115aaa59b29
Automatization and LifeLong Learning (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/trends/layoutCM#e40f4c115a8cd6e0e
Problem – Solution (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df1b9ca71
Problem – Solution applied to crime (Systems modeling style)::
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df1dd250e
Problem – Solution applied to early mathematics education (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df1ed8110
Problem – Solution applied to academic mathematics education (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df2132b32
Hi,
I am in the process of editing a book entitled “E-Health Communities and Online Self-Help Groups: Applications and Usage” to be published by IGI Global (www.igi-global.com) scheduled for release in 2011. If you have ideas for a book chapter in this area, I would very much like you to contribute to the book. Or, perhaps you know someone that could be interested, who can be invited to send a chapter proposal. Call for chapters is available at http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=807.
/Åsa
I have participated in a project called “Bygga Villa” with Prof. Anders Östman from Högskolan i Gävle. We have succeeded to produce two research papers from the research part of the project. The authors of the papers are:Mohamed El-Mekawy, Anders Östman, Khurram Shahzad, and the titles are:
1) Geospatial Interoperability for IFC and CityGML: Challenges of Existing Building Information Databases
2) Geospatial Integration: Preparing Building Information Database for Integration with CityGML for Decision Support
The two papers were presented at the 5th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations’08) in Dubai, UAE (16-18th, Dec, 2008) (http://www.it-innovations.ae/) and will be published in IEEE and fully indexed in IEEE Xplore.
Some pictures from the conference and social activities can be seen on my page.