Spaces within Spaces

Not only do people make spaces, but also spaces make people. Acknowledgement First of all I want to thank my supervisors Carl Gustaf Jansson, Henrik Artman, and Robert Ramberg for their support and guidance in this work. In particular I am indebted to Calle for believing in me from the very beginning ; he made this thesis possible. As part of my doctoral studies I had the opportunity to spend almost two years at Laboratoire de Design Cognitif (LDC) at Electricité de France (EDF) R&D in Clamart, France. I am grateful to Saadi Lahlou, the director of the lab, for making my stay possible. Special thanks go to everyone at LDC who made my stay more pleasant. I also want to thank several other people: Bo Helgesson for inviting me to his lab at Blekinge Institute of Technology to hold an " interaction analysis seminar " on my early work, Aaron Cicourel for his indispensable comments on my work in France, Tessy Cerratto-Pargman for detailed comments on my work during my doctoral proposal seminar, Mathias Broth for feedback on approaches and methods, and Klas Karlgren for feedback on an earlier draft. Special thanks to Fatima Jonsson with whom I have shared many thoughts throughout this work, thanks so much Ylva Fernaeus for designing the cover illustration of the thesis, and thanks to all my colleagues at DSV with whom I shared the daily work environment. Thanks also to Jan Borchers at RWTH, Volker Hartkopf at CMU and Jim Hollan at UCSD for allowing me to include pictures from their labs in my thesis. Many thanks to Helen Snively for correcting my English with such enthusiasm and speed (any remaining errors are solely my responsibility). I also want to acknowledge the financial support that made this thesis far easier to conduct. The first part of the work was conducted within the iSpaces project, a project financed by Wallenberg Global Learning Network, in partnership with the Royal Institute of Technology and Stanford University. For the first part of my stay in France I received a Marie Curie Fellowship on Social Representation and Communication; thanks to Saadi Lahlou who is associated with l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. The second half of my work was partly supported by an internship at EDF R&D. Finally, thanks to family and friends. Above all I want to express my gratitude to my …