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Ulike faktorer assosiert med avhengighetsproblematikk og pengebruk i Fortnite Battle Royale
Full text linkDenne rapporten presenterer funn fra en undersøkelse om belønningsmekanismer, problematisk spilling og pengebruk i gaming. Undersøkelsen er finansiert av Medietilsynet, og omhandler Fortnite Battle Royale (FBR).Ulike faktorer assosiert med avhengighetsproblematikk og pengebruk i Fortnite Battle RoyalepublishedVersio
The role of contextual conditions in systems development: The impact of design context on participation in Norwegian Welfare Services
Full text linkHuman-Computer Interaction and adjacent fields agree that citizen participation is vital in designing digital public services. However, a gap remains between recommendations and how participation is facilitated in practice in the public sector. As challenges to participation remain even in the face of established design standards and best practices, contextual conditions warrant more investigation. Based on this discrepancy, we must clarify how the design context impacts participatory activities. This paper presents an exploratory case study of how designers and caseworkers seek to involve vulnerable persons in a public service project's digital solution development. We identified three interconnected contextual conditions that impact participation in the design process: 1) organizational complexity, 2) recruitment and representation, and 3) power imbalances. This paper contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the role of context as a determinant of participatory outcomes in digital public system design.The role of contextual conditions in systems development: The impact of design context on participation in Norwegian Welfare ServicespublishedVersio
Tett på - nye arbeidsmåter og samspill mellom skole, barnehage og PPT : Delrapport 1 fra et modellutprøvingsprosjekt i tre kommuner
Full text linkDenne rapporten er den første forskningsrapporten i pilotutprøvingsprosjektet PPT Tett på. Tett på ble startet opp med finansiering av midler fra Utdanningsdirektoratet, i en oppfølging av Meld.st. 6 (2019-2020). Her ble det konkretisert at man skulle starte opp konkrete prosjekter for å se på ulike måter å organisere det spesialpedagogiske arbeidet på i barnehager og skoler. I rapporten presenterer vi piloten i stor bredde— hvordan den er utviklet, hva den bygger på, og status for pilotutprøvingen så langt. De overordnede problemstillingene for rapporten er hva som kjennetegner den spesialpedagogiske organiseringen i kommunene som deltar, om vi ser noen utvikling i arbeidet i kommunene som deltar, hva som er status for barnas faglige, sosiale og psykiske inkludering i deltagerkommunene, hvordan Tett på-modellen endrer organisasjonene, og hvordan organisasjonene endrer Tett på-modellen. I tillegg bruker vi kunnskapen om barnas faglige, sosiale og psykiske inkludering i de tre kommunene for å peke på områder for utviklingen og det videre arbeidet i de tre kommunene.Tett på - nye arbeidsmåter og samspill mellom skole, barnehage og PPT : Delrapport 1 fra et modellutprøvingsprosjekt i tre kommunerpublishedVersio
From urine to food and oxygen: effects of high and low NH4+:NO3- ratio on lettuce cultivated in a gas-tight hydroponic facility
Full text linkIn situ production of food, water and oxygen is essential for long-duration human space missions. Higher plants represent a key element in Bioregenerative Life Support Systems (BLSS), where crop cultivation can be based on water and nutrients recovered from waste and wastewater. Human urine exemplifies an important waste stream with potential to provide crops with nitrogen (N) and other nutrients. Dynamic waste composition and treatment processes may result in mineralized fractions with varying ammonium (NH4+) to nitrate (NO3-) ratios. In this study, lettuce was cultivated in the unique ESA MELiSSA Plant Characterization Unit, an advanced, gas-tight hydroponic research facility offering controlled environment and continuous monitoring of atmospheric gas composition. To evaluate biological and system effects of nutrient solution NH4+:NO3- ratio, two crop tests were run with different NH4+ to total N ratio (NH4+:N) and elevated concentrations of Na+ and Cl- in line with a urine recycling scenario. Plants cultivated at 0.5 mol·mol-1 NH4+:N (HiNH4+) achieved 50% lower shoot biomass compared to those cultivated at 0.1 mol·mol-1 NH4+:N (LoNH4+), accompanied by higher shoot dry weight content and lower harvest index. Analyses of projected leaf area over time indicated that the reduced biomass observed at harvest could be attributed to a lower specific growth rate during the close-to-exponential growth phase. The HiNH4+ crop produced 40% less O2 over the full cultivation period. However, normalization of the results indicated a marginal increase in O2 production per time and per projected leaf area for the HiNH4+ crop during the exponential growth phase, in line with a higher shoot chlorophyll content. Mineral analysis demonstrated that the biomass content of NH4+ and NO3- varied in line with the nutrient solution composition. The ratio of consumed NH4+ to consumed N was higher than the NH4+:N ratio of the nutrient solution for both crop tests, resulting in decreasing NH4+:N ratios in the nutrient solution over time. The results provide enhanced insight for design of waste processes and crop cultivation to optimize overall BLSS efficiency and hold valuable potential for improved resource utilization also in terrestrial food production systems.From urine to food and oxygen: effects of high and low NH4+:NO3- ratio on lettuce cultivated in a gas-tight hydroponic facilitypublishedVersio
We’re in the middle of it: Consultants' role in risk management in the Norwegian petroleum sector
Full text linkMost risk management research focuses on owner/operators and regulators, and ignores other actors. Preventing major accidents in the offshore oil and gas sector is a key responsibility of the companies that own and operate the infrastructure. Regulatory oversight of their activities comes in the form of industry-specific goal-based regulation administered by a specialist regulatory agency. In this paper we focus on a third actor in the system – the consultants who provide specialist services regarding safety and risk. Our study draws on interviews with experienced consultants in the Norwegian oil and gas sector (n = 11, average experience 20+ years). Power’s concept of riskwork is used to examine how consultants interact with their clients and how they see their role in relation to risk management. The analysis shows that the role of experienced consultants goes well beyond metaphor of the fox guarding the hen house. Rather, consultants contribute to regulatory compliance on the part of their clients but, further, they try to positively influence decision makers beyond simple compliance in order to promote what they believe to be the best safety decision making. The paper argues that consultants’ role in the system is under examined and under theorized. Alongside earlier research, our study indicates that consultants play a big role in risk management, which should be both recognized and scrutinized.We’re in the middle of it: Consultants' role in risk management in the Norwegian petroleum sectorpublishedVersio
Bedre tjenester til barn og unge med sammensatte behov? : Delrapport 1: Utgangspunktet da lovendringene trådte i kraft
Full text linkI 2021 vedtok Stortinget endringer i 14 ulike lover som regulerer velferdstjenester (jf. Prop. 100L, 2020-2021). Formålet var å sikre bedre tjenester til barn og unge med behov for sammensatte tjenester – tjenester fra flere instanser. Lovendringene skal evalueres, både med hensyn på iverksettingen i tjenesteapparatet og resultatene for målgruppen og deres familier. NTNU Samfunnsforskning har i oppdrag å gjennomføre evalueringen, og foreliggende rapport er første delrapport – skrevet basert på data som forelå trekvart år etter at lovendringene trådte i kraft (mai 2023). Den behandler følgelig bare en tidlig fase i gjennomføringen. Evalueringen gjennomføres på oppdrag fra fire direktorat, Utdanningsdirektoratet, Helsedirektoratet, Arbeids- og velferdsdirektoratet og Barne-, ungdoms og familiedirektoratet.publishedVersio
Ny rammeplan i SFO : Evaluering av innføring av ny rammeplan for SFO, delrapport 2
No full textDenne rapporten tar for seg innføringen av rammeplanen for SFO og bygger på kvalitative intervjuer og seminararbeid fra syv ulike caser.publishedVersio
Discretionary decision making in child welfare – An experimental vignette study of the use of interpreter services
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What were we thinking? A scoping review of crisis management pandemic literature (1984–2019)
Full text linkPandemics are now the focus of research attention in the fields of preparedness and crisis management. As pandemics are some of the largest crises to occur, an important question becomes ‘what were the field of crisis management thinking about pandemic management’. This paper investigates how the field of crisis management have incorporated the body of knowledge arising from pandemics into its science (from 1984 to 2019). We performed a scoping review of 4 journals on crisis management and what they have written about pandemics (230 papers). The findings are summarized in eight different categories. The main result is that the field of crisis management have shown sparse interest in pandemics. We attribute this to factors such as fragmentation of academic sciences when the problem-solving needs integration, perceived incommensurability and the organization of attention. We argue that the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic can provide a basis for posing new questions in research on, and the political debate around, societal vulnerability at large and not only restricted to recent experiences of particular crises. Finally, we argue that this will need a stronger integration of research strands and communities, which in turn require the ability to ‘connect the dots’ between different sources of knowledge.publishedVersio
Innovation policy in the Norwegian aquaculture industry: Reshaping aquaculture production innovation networks
Full text linkWhile aquaculture production in a number of countries has been highly successful in terms of production growth, there is also a number of instances where the rapid growth has been curtailed due to sustainability challenges. In response, fostering sustainable aquaculture production has become a key policy and research agenda. The point of departure for this paper is the radical technological innovations based sustainable restructuring dynamics of the Norwegian salmon farming industry, which despite becoming one of the most profitable aquaculture industries in the world, has in recent years seen its growth curtailed due to sustainability challenges. To address these challenges and to enable the use of new areas currently inaccessible by the incumbent aquaculture technology, the Norwegian authorities launched in 2015 a new type of innovation policy instrument, known as development licences. Based on a mapping of the aquaculture production technology development projects as well as in-depth interviews, this paper elucidates how the targeted innovation policy instrument has instigated the sustainable restructuring process of the Norwegian aquaculture industry. Our findings indicate that in the short term, the innovation policy appears to have succeeded in the reconfiguration, and more precisely, the ’renewal’ process of the aquaculture production technology innovation networks (ecosystems) thanks to the entry of the new capable actors into the segment. However, we emphasise that the overall success of the innovation policy instrument will ultimately hinge upon sufficiently addressing certain aspects of the institutional failures in the sector.Innovation policy in the Norwegian aquaculture industry: Reshaping aquaculture production innovation networkspublishedVersio