Jonas Löwgren
Professor, interaction design.
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Phone: 070 - 391 7854
E-mail: jonas.lowgren@mah.se
Website: webzone.k3.mah.se/k3joloPosts by Jonas
Designing the future of the newspaper – an iPad app for collaborative viewing
The newspaper is a dying breed. In fact, Philip Meyer predicted in his 2004 book (called The Vanishing Newspaper – yeah) that the final copy of the final newspaper will appear on someone’s doorstep one day in 2043. This is good, of course, as long as it pertains to the “paper” [...]
Lunch? Social places meet the media – find friends to eat with
The News Media Concept Lab at Medea has built a simple demonstrator called Lunch? Yes, the question mark is part of the name, and the reason is that it helps you find friends to have lunch with. After leaving your office and firing up the app, it shows you which restaurants nearby your Facebook frie [...]
Teknikinformation och kollaborativa medier: nya förutsättningar för teknikinformatörer
Teknikinformation fann sin form för ganska länge sedan, och den formen betyder inte så mycket i dagens medielandskap. »Informationskonsumenterna» får idag svar på sina frågor på många andra sätt än genom teknikinformatörerna. Men de kompetenser som teknikinformatörer och informationsar [...]
Signifying Strategies in Electronic Literature
TALAN MEMMOTT is an acknowledged writer and critic of electronic literature, who has taught at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola for several years. He is also working on a PhD in interaction design at Malmö University, which has now progressed to the 90 percent mark. The tentative title of the PhD is Dig [...]
How to deploy SmartShare
Six thoughts on how you might get the most out of SmartShare in your organization, based on experience from a number of other cases of deploying new media to support collaboration. And, of course, based on the design intentions of SmartShare itself. 1. The vanilla scenario for deploying SmartShare [...]
CPI 2.0: An interview with Jonas Löwgren
The following is an interview with Jonas Löwgren from the February 2011 issue of SK Outlook, the internal company newsletter at Sigma Kudos. It has been edited slightly for external publication. – Hi Jonas, tell us about yourself and your background! I am a professor of interaction design at [...]
Review and Discussion on OmmWriter
Do you ever dream of being able to write without being disturbed by incoming e-mails and facebook notifications? OmmWriter gives you a clutter-free word-processing interface with no menus, no spell check and no notifications of any kind. Ambient background music and chirpy keyboard clicks are option [...]
The Need for Video in Scientific Communication
Read full article online. Löwgren, Jonas. (2011): “The Need for Video in Scientific Communication”, Interactions xviii(1):22-25. INTRODUCTION In our academic field of inquiry – whether we call it interaction design, experience design, or new media – much of what we talk about is cen [...]
Designing for Collaborative Crossmedia Creation
Read full article online. Löwgren, J. (2010). Designing for collaborative crossmedia creation. In Drotner, K., Schrøder, K. (eds.) Digital content creation: Perceptions, practices & perspectives, pp. 15–35. New York: Peter Lang. INTRODUCTION In the Fall of 2004, Swedish producer and dj Eric [...]
