The course activities are anchored around project work which expands over two quarters. In the projects the students are supposed to solve demanding real-life problems whose specification and solution requires active end-user participation. There can be two types of project providers: 1) Partners from industry. 2) Researchers or research labs from our university. Project providers, who wish to ...

Diversity is a defining characteristic of global collectives on the Internet. Although there is substantial evidence to suggest that diversity can have profound implications for a variety of outcomes including performance, member engagement, and withdrawal behavior, prior research has examined the effects of diversity predominantly in the context of organizational workgroups or virtual teams. I...

Using longitudinal data from a subsample of Hispanic, African American, and white youth enrolled in the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (N = 1,419), we examined the effects of both parental involvement in domestic violence and youth participation in organized out-of-school-time activities on internalizing symptoms during adolescence. We also examined the extent to which pa...

This proposal is for the participation of the SpaceMaster Robotics Team in this year’s High Altitude LEGO Extravaganza (H.A.L.E.) project. We intend to use the LEGO Mindstorms NXT microprocessor in connection with a Nintendo Wii Remote to measure gravitational acceleration during the operation of the balloon.

Patient participation in healthcare is a neglected area of interest in the rather extensive amount of research on immigrant so-called Selma patients in Swedish health care as well as worldwide. The aim is to explore the phenomenon "patient participation" in the context of the Swedish health care from the perspective of immigrants non-fluent in Swedish. A phenomenological lifeworld approach was ...