WatchMAid Patrolling guards are a
professional group of people who work under very special
conditions and are extremely mobile in their settings.
At the same time as the work situation is distinguished
by routine they are often brought before uncertainty
and dangerous situations. The purposes with this project
are, through ethnographic fieldwork, to explore how
the community of patrolling guards works, what they
think about their work situation and how they deal with
upcoming problems. We also want to find how members
in the group identify themselves within the community
and what their views of learning are. With this as a
foundation we aim to develop a mobile IT support prototype
for the commercial security business.
MobiColl The MobiColl (mobile collaboration)
project studies how competence development for mobile
workers can be supported by supporting collaboration
and communication. An important part of the project
is to study how we can bridge problems that are created
by difference in time and place when mobile workers
communicate. This might hinder social interaction and
therefore hinder collaboration and communication. The
goal of the project is to construct a demonstrator that
exemplifies how competence development can be supported
for mobile workers. The MobiColl project has sprung
from a master thesis project at Gothenburg University,
Department of Informatics. The project is preformed
in collaboration with the MobiLearn project at Victoria
institute and ADB-kontoret in Gothenburg.
IT-support
for civil workers in construction projects A construction project is
complex and fragmented. It involves many different disciplines
and companies including designers, estimators, engineers
and labor that have to work together under a certain
period of time to achieve a goal. On site the civil
workers have to coordinate their work and collaborate
with other workers and site personnel in order to accomplish
their tasks. To get material and machinery in time and
at the right place is of utmost importance for a successful
project. This master thesis is trying to look at the
civil workers, in their daily work on a construction
site, in order to find and explain certain critical
factors of their work. The result of the thesis will
be design implications, derived from the field study
that has to be taken into account when designing IT-support
for this group in the future.
