65 research outputs found
Beyond the Algorithm: Do Consumers Notice AI’s Environmental Cost?
No full textAs AI technologies are becoming more integrated into business operations, the environmental concerns are drawing increasing attention from both consumers and researchers. This exploratory research investigates the correlation between consumer perception of businesses using AI technologies and green AI, transparency and ethical consumerism in the context of the environmental footprint of AI. The research gap in this study is the lack of understanding of consumer attitudes towards businesses using AI technologies from an environmental perspective. Despite limited existing research on the topic three hypotheses were formulated based on theories and literature. This study follows a quantitative methodology and the Consumer Perception Theory was used to help interpret the results. A survey was conducted to collect data from 138 swedish speaking individuals and analysed using reliability tests, Spearman's correlation and ordinal regression on SPSS. The findings suggest weak, however noteworthy relationships between consumer perception against green AI and transparency. These results indicate that consumers are beginning to connect AI use with environmental concerns, however the overall awareness and understanding is still limited. No statistical support was found to support the correlation between consumer perception and ethical consumerism, which can be due to the complexity and low visibility of AI’s environmental impact. Organisations or policy makers can use these findings to improve communication strategies involving AI and the transparency around AI practices to align with emerging consumer values. AI’s environmental footprint is a growing topic of discussion gaining more and more attention on different media outlets and these results provide a foundation for future more detailed studies and suggest the need for deeper qualitative insights and longitudinal studies to track evolving consumer attitudes
Early literacy knowledge and skills: the development of a measure of early literacy and an investigation of the skills associated with single word reading
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2009 Dr. Emelie BarringerThe aims of this study were twofold; (1) to fill a gap in assessment tools by producing a scale that assessed a wide variety of early literacy skills not addressed by current measures: the Early Literacy Knowledge and Skills (ELKS) scale, and (2) to investigate the relationship between early literacy skills and single word reading skills. Participants were a total of 339 children enrolled in four-year-old preschool programs across Melbourne (160 boys and 172 girls) who completed four measures of early literacy, including the ELKS, Concepts about Print (Clay, 2002), the Record of Oral Language (Clay, 2007) and four subtests from the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool, Second Edition (Wiig Secord, & Semel, 2006). The study built on research conducted by Ferreiro and Teberosky (1982), taking a social constructionist perspective. Consistent with this perspective, findings demonstrated that young children have many conceptualisations about literacy before receiving formal literacy instruction. Specific associations were found between children’s knowledge of conventions of print, oral language skills (sentence structure, word structure and expressive vocabulary), distinctions between print, letter knowledge, phonological awareness, knowledge of written syntax, early writing and children’s single word reading skills. No significant associations were found between children’s performance on the Record of Oral Language, concepts about silent reading, word identification skills and children’s single word reading skills. Together the findings suggested that a wide variety of early literacy skills, including both outside-in and inside-out skills, are important to children’s early literacy development
A Changed Leadership? : A study of the EU leadership from a instituional standpoint, related to multilateral environmental negotiations
No full textAbstract Political Science, level III thesis Spring semester 2010 Author: Emelie Alfredsson Supervisor: Tomas Mitander "A Changed Leadership? - A study of the EU leadership from a institutional standpoint, related to multilateral environmental negotiations" The EU has for a relatively long time considered itself a leader in the environmental policy area as a whole as well as in multilateral environmental negotiations. This study attempts to classify and identify the European leadership with the purpose of relating it to the institutional framework of the Union. The treaties of the European Union decide its ability to act and its institutions the right to engage in different policy areas, the environmental area being the focus of this study. With the recent ratification of the Lisbon treaty this study aims to make out if the type of leadership the Union showed during the Kyoto negotiations has changed with the new treaty, into a new type during the COP-15 meeting in Copenhagen. The results shows that the Union has kept the same type of leadership despite the change in treaties, though with great potential of changing leadership if or when the new reforms of the new treaty are better implemented. This result points to the fact that institutional changes have a small effect on the EU leadership and that other factors such as ability to unite the member countries may play a bigger role. Keywords: EU, leadership, multilateral environmental negotiations, Copenhagen, Kyot
"Det blir lite dubbelt, frivilligt men ändå inte frivilligt" : En kvalitativ studie om socialsekreterares syn på stöd, kontroll/tvång och repression inom ekonomiskt bistånd och missbrukarvård.
No full textABSTRACT Author: Emelie Olsson Title: "It gets a bit twice, voluntarily and yet not voluntarily"- Social workers approach to support, control / coercion and repression in financial assistance and substance abuse Supervisor: Weddig Runquist Assessor: Mats Hilte The purpose of this study has been to examine and analyze the exercise of authority social workers in the social services for substance abusers and financial assistance considers measures of support and control / coercion against the client, and how they, in their own balance these measures in client work. The study is based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with four social workers, two from financial assistance and two from substance abuser in a small town and a middle town in south of Sweden. The theoretical approach being used is: accounts, perspective of power and repressive power and extreme case formulations. The study´s result shows that social workers in the social services for substance abusers only work with control when it´s not a question about voluntary treatment. They also agreed about that coercive actions means an LVM situation. Social workers working with financial assistance are aware that their work includes control but do not see that there are any coercive actions in their work with the clients
Ledsagare - en förlängd arm?
No full textLedsagare – en förlängd arm? Av: Emelie Johansson Abstract The aim of this essay was to see how the respondents reasoned about different themes like, isolation, integration and barriers to integration, given that they had all been diagnosed with a psychosis diagnosis. The essay has used qualitative interviews, by the author of this essay, with persons working as escort to persons with an impairment To complement the interviews with more perspectives this essay has used relevant laws to the essay topics and postings from the Swedish Employment Service. The interviews, the laws and the postings from the Swedish Employment Service were analyzed against the social model as a theory. The social model claims that it is the society that causes the disability for the individual, rather then the impairment causing the disability. The results and analysis showed that the laws intend the individual to live a good life or a good enough life depending on which law is used to grant an escort to the individual with an impairment. Employers often asks for specific characteristics in the escort. This could insinuate that the employer is trying to match the escort to the person who wants an escort so that their personalities or interests match as much as possible. In line with the result from analyzing the postings from the Swedish Emplyment Service, the interviews shows that the escorts likes their jobs and does not always look at what they do as a job because it can be something in between having a job and a friendship. Key words: Impairment, social model, social exclusion, escort, normalization Nyckelord: Funktionsnedsättning, social modell, social segregering, ledsagare, normaliserin
The delusion of Wonderland
No full textThis thesis seeks to address how Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland can be interpreted as a story about mental illness, where the main character is suffering from Schizophrenia. The story of Alice has been adapted many times since it first was published, even by Carroll himself who wrote three different versions of the Alice story. I will look into how children’s literature has been defined over the years, as well as address the emergence and acceptance of the fantasy story. Wonderland was quite controversial at the time it was published. Children’s literature was supposed to be of a moral character, always seeking to teach children how to be good, behaved persons. However, Carroll did not write according to these criteria. Rather, his writing appeals to the enjoyment of the child, and the adult, as I will address. The focus will be on how Alice’s Schizophrenia is making her imagine things and places, and that Wonderland and its characters are really not the fairy tale it appears to be. Rather, Wonderland is a mental asylum, and the characters she encounters are other, fellow patients of the mental asylum. Thus, I will also be addressing Schizophrenia and mental illness through the times. Through this interpretation of Wonderland, I will show how the reader is as much a part of creating the story as the author is. The author can have all the intentions they want, but in the end, it is up to the reader how they interpret it. They might see a whole different story than the author intended to write
Följa upp och synliggöra barns lärprocesser : En kvalitativ studie om hur pedagoger arbetar och resonerar kring hur barns lärprocesser följs upp och synliggörs
No full textTitle: Making learning visible in a preschool setting- A qualitative study of how teachers work and evaluate how children’s learning can be visualized Term: Autumn 2015 Author: Emelie Persson and Annelie Westerlund Mentor: Maria Rosén The objective of this study is to examine how two departments at a preschool work specifically to visualize children’s learning processes, both from a Child Perspective and from the Children's Perspective. The purpose is to investigate questions concerning how teachers follow up and visualize the children’s learning process and how preschool teachers evaluate to what extent children's learning processes should be made visible. The study is qualitative and ethnographically inspired. We have conducted participating observations in order to examine how teachers follow up and visualize children’s learning processes. In addition to this we have made unstructured interviews to examine how preschool teachers evaluate how children's learning processes are visualized. The theoretical starting point we used is Dewey’s Pragmatism which is based on the assumption that children's learning emerge out of their own experiences and interests. The result shows that the pre-school teachers follow up and visualize the children's learning processes in different ways. They incorporate different steps of the process and they structure the environment by having materials easily accessible to the children in order to make learning processes based on children’s interests possible. The teachers act as role models when it comes to vocal expression and through active dialogues they create opportunities for the children to reflect on what they’ve learnt. The teachers also actively work to allow the children to express their thoughts and opinions, and to integrate these into the learning process. The most prominent result of the study showed that the teachers’ interaction with the children were shown by their attendance, responsiveness, commitment, as well as to their showing an interest in the children’s many different worlds of experiences. Keywords: Pre-school, learning processes, children's learning Nyckelord: Förskola, lärprocesser, barns lärand
Storbankernas digitala kundrelationer : - en kvalitativ studie om digitaliseringens påverkan på kundrelationer inom banksektorn
No full textTitle: The major banks digital customer relationships - a qualitative study of the impact of digitalization on customer relationships in the banking sector. Author: Emelie Fernholm and Emma Finnhult. Keywords: Swedish banks, digitalization in the banking sector, digital customer relationships. Aim: The aim of this study is to describe how banking clerks experience the impact of digitalization on customer relationships. Furthermore, the study aims to investigate whether the older generation has been affected harder by increased digitalization in the banking sector comparison with the younger generation and whether video chats is a successful complement to other digital channels to include more senses in customer conversation. Theoretical reference frame: The theoretical frame of reference consists of the subject areas digitalization, digitalization in the banking sector, generations, customer relationships, customer loyalty and asymmetric information flows. The theory further presents several models. These models describe the impact of digitalization on the business, various relationship programs to create a good relationship with the customer and an alternative database for evaluating customer relationships. The theory chapter ends with an “understanding model” that connects the entire theoretical frame of reference. Method: This study is based on a qualitative research method. Eight bank clerks have been interviewed from Sweden's major banks in a small municipality, a medium-sized municipality and a large municipality. The answers have been analyzed with the help of an intra- and interval analysis. Conclusion: The theoretical frame of reference and the empirical material have finally resulted in four conclusions. The study shows that bank clerks customer relationships have been affected more positive than negative as a result of increased digitalization, that long-term customer relations have not become less important in Sweden's major banks as a result of increased digitalization, the problem that the older generation is affected by digitalization is explained much worse in the theoretical frame of reference compared to what bank clerks believe and video chats is a good complement to other digital channels to include more senses in the customer conversation.
Sexuella behov - en arbetsuppgift? - En kvalitativ studie om personliga assistenters relation till brukares sexuella behov
No full textAuthor: Emelie Lindberg & Sofia Minör Title: Sexual needs – a professional task?: A qualitative study on the relationship between personal assitants and the sexual needs of their clients [translated title] Supervisor: Malinda Andersson Assessor: Anna Angelin The aim of this study was to examine the professional relationship between personal assistants and their clients with a focus on sexuality. The purpose was to examine how personal assistants relate to the sexual needs of the client and how they can facilitate it within their profession. We acknowledge a conflict between the clients’ right to have their sexual needs facilitated and the personal assistants rights to a good working environment. The clients’ legal right to assistance does not mention sexual needs while other authorities provide guidelines that assistants can if there is a voluntary agreement facilitate sexual needs in behalf of their profession. There is a silence in society concerning the subject which makes it more difficult for assistants to approach sexual needs of their clients. The study was based on focus groups because it has been proven useful on sensitive topics. Three focus groups with eleven participants with experiences of the profession personal assistants were held. The analysis is based on an intersectional perspective that has its focus on power structures in society and interpersonal relationships. Our conclusion consists that someone always can become a victim in a professional relationship where sexual services is included as a task because of how the sexuality power structure sets the normative and deviant sexuality. Hence the consequence that nobody dares to raise the question of clients’ sexual needs because somebody needs to facilitate the sexual service for payment without a feeling of being abused or being the abuser. Key words: Personal assistance, Disability, Facilitated sex, Relation, Intersectionalit
Följa upp och synliggöra barns lärprocesser : En kvalitativ studie om hur pedagoger arbetar och resonerar kring hur barns lärprocesser följs upp och synliggörs
No full textTitle: Making learning visible in a preschool setting- A qualitative study of how teachers work and evaluate how children’s learning can be visualized Term: Autumn 2015 Author: Emelie Persson and Annelie Westerlund Mentor: Maria Rosén The objective of this study is to examine how two departments at a preschool work specifically to visualize children’s learning processes, both from a Child Perspective and from the Children's Perspective. The purpose is to investigate questions concerning how teachers follow up and visualize the children’s learning process and how preschool teachers evaluate to what extent children's learning processes should be made visible. The study is qualitative and ethnographically inspired. We have conducted participating observations in order to examine how teachers follow up and visualize children’s learning processes. In addition to this we have made unstructured interviews to examine how preschool teachers evaluate how children's learning processes are visualized. The theoretical starting point we used is Dewey’s Pragmatism which is based on the assumption that children's learning emerge out of their own experiences and interests. The result shows that the pre-school teachers follow up and visualize the children's learning processes in different ways. They incorporate different steps of the process and they structure the environment by having materials easily accessible to the children in order to make learning processes based on children’s interests possible. The teachers act as role models when it comes to vocal expression and through active dialogues they create opportunities for the children to reflect on what they’ve learnt. The teachers also actively work to allow the children to express their thoughts and opinions, and to integrate these into the learning process. The most prominent result of the study showed that the teachers’ interaction with the children were shown by their attendance, responsiveness, commitment, as well as to their showing an interest in the children’s many different worlds of experiences. Keywords: Pre-school, learning processes, children's learning Nyckelord: Förskola, lärprocesser, barns lärand
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