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Viktoria Leder Projekt för Utveckling av Framtidens Flygplatser

pererik — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:56:12 +0100

Som ett led i att utveckla global hållbar mobilitet lanserar Viktoriainstitutet tillsammans med Swedavia/Stockholm-Arlanda och Trafikverket ett projekt relaterat till framtidens flygplatser....

Hans Pohl joins Viktoria Institute

pererik — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:27:35 +0100

In December 2011, Hans Pohl joined Viktoria Institute as a senior researcher (part-time). Hans Pohl got his MSc in 1991 (Industrial Engineering and Management at Linköping University)....

Kenneth Lind joins the Electromobility group at Viktoria Institute

stefanp@viktoria.se — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:12:19 +0100

On December 1st, Kenneth Lind joins Viktoria Institute as a new member of the Electro mobility group. Kenneth has a background from Saab Automobile AB where he has been working with...

West Coast Travelhack 2011 genererade 20 innovatiova tjänster för hållbart vardagsresande

pererik — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:56:18 +0200

76 utvecklare I 20 lag, 24 timmars nätverkande, 1800 timmars innovation, 2000 tittare på livestreaming och ett 50-tal besökare och funktionärer resulterade i 20 innovativa prototyper på digitala tjänster för att öka det hållbara vardagsresandet....

Johan Wedlin joins the Business group at Viktoria Institute

per-ake — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:12:13 +0200

On November 28, Johan Wedlin will join Viktoria Institute as a new member of the Business group. After graduating from Chalmers University of Technology with a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 1979, Johan has held a number of...

Kent Eric Lång joins Viktoria Institute as Vice President

per-ake — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:09:44 +0200

On the 1st October Kent Eric Lång will join Viktoria Institute as Vice President.

Kent Eric has been working in industrial and international companies more than 30...

Niklas Johansson joins the Sustainable Transports Group at Viktoria Institute

mikaellind — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:07:04 +0200

For the last three years Niklas has been a consultant at WSP involved in traffic and transport related projects as well as more mobile phone centered projects....

Mathias Karlsson joins the Sustainable Transports Group at Viktoria Institute

mikaellind — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:00:04 +0200

On September 15th Mathias Karlsson joined the research group Sustainable Transports at the Viktoria Institute. Mathias has been a student at the IT Management program at the IT University and he also studied Shipping & Logistics at Chalmers University of Technology....

Paper on Innovation Regimes Accepted at HICSS 2012

fresva — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:34:08 +0200

Fredrik Svahn and Ola Henfridsson’s paper entitled "The Dual Regimes of Digital Innovation Management" has been accepted for presentation at the Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) in Grand Wailea, Maui, January 2012.

Investigation of how charging of electric cars can be made automatic

camilla.stalstad@viktoria.se — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:23:20 +0200

An increasing number of plugin electric cars will generate positive effects on our environment both globally and locally, but it will also lead to new challenges for the electricity producers and distributors....

Conny Börjesson joins the Electromobility group at Viktoria Institute

stefanp@viktoria.se — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:11:32 +0200

On October 1st, Conny Börjesson will join Viktoria Institute as a new member of the Electromobility group. Hi has been a student at Borlänge University and Chalmers University of Technology with an degree in Mechanical and Electrical engineering. Conny has 28 years of experience from the car industry in different positions both at Saab and Volvo. Recently engaged within the area of electromobility at Saab Automobile R&AD department.

Lars Johannesson Mårdh joins the Electromobility group at Viktoria Institute

stefanp@viktoria.se — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:33:17 +0200

On August 21st, Lars Johannesson Mårdh joined Viktoria Institute as a new member of the Electro mobility group. Lars has a background from Chalmers University of Technology, where he received a M.Sc. in Automation...

Kristoffer Lidström joins the Cooperative Systems group at Viktoria Institute

mats.williander@viktoria.se — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:52:18 +0200

On the 1st of September Kristoffer Lidström will join the research group cooperative systems at the Viktoria Institute. Kristoffer has been a PhD student at the Centre for Research on Embedded Systems...

Björn Fridholm joins the Electromobility group at Viktoria Institute

stefanp@viktoria.se — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:29:29 +0200

Björn Fridholm will join the Electromobility group at Viktoria Institute on October 1st 2011. Björn received a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in 2002. Since then, he has worked as a control function developer in the automotive industry.

New ISO standard for environmental information

raulc — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:33:36 +0200

Oslo, July 1st, 2011: Viktoria institute is glad to announce that the new international standard for quantitative environmental information, ISO/TS 14033 is now ready for publication....

Viktoria Institute strenghten its position within Energy Informatics

mikaellind — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:10:16 +0200

As of July 1st 2011, Richard Watson joins the Viktoria Institute as a Visting Professor to engage primarily on projects related to Energy Informatics and Green IS....

Master thesis vacancy

stefanp@viktoria.se — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:09:29 +0200

One or two Master thesis studens are searched for that would like to study a one-axle lightweight haul truck. The supervision is led by Viktoria Institute and Volvo Technology. For more information read here.

Oscar Olsson joins the Electromobility group at Viktoria Institute

stefanp@viktoria.se — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:40:21 +0200

On the 20th of June 2011 Oscar Olsson joined the Electromobility group at Viktoria Institute. He holds a M.Sc. from Industrial Engineering and Management from Chalmers University of Technology....

Viktoria Institute publish report on dual-mode busses

henrik.engdahl@viktoria.se — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:31:08 +0200

On the 8:th of June MSc students Oscar Olsson and Michael Johansson presented their master thesis "Feasibility study of dual-mode buses in Gothenburg public transport" at Chalmers department for Operations management....

ISJ-paper on Cynicism as User Resistance

lisen — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:28:38 +0200

Lisen Selander and Ola Henfridsson’s article "Cynicism as user Resistance in IT- implementation" has been accepted for publication in Information Systems Journal. The Information Systems Journal (ISJ) is an international journal included in the ‘basket’ of 6 top IS journals in the field, identified by the AIS (Association of Information Systems) Senior Scholars.

Viktoriainstitutet och Samtrafiken i forskningssamarbete om öppen trafikdata

pererik — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:17:51 +0200

Samtrafiken i Sverige AB och Viktoriainstitutet påbörjade under mitten av 2010 ett samarbete genom att gemensamma resurser bedrev tillämpad forskning på Viktoriainstitutet samtidigt som resultatet av denna forskning realiserades på Samtrafiken....

Innovating Sustainable Everyday Travel gets awarded at European Conference on Information Systems

pererik — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:12:05 +0200

Viktoria Institute has once again been recognized for its research in information systems. At last years ICIS conference (International Conference on Information Systems) in St....

Steven Alter visits Viktoria Institute

pererik — Mon, 30 May 2011 10:15:12 +0200

The last week of may, Vitoria Institute was visited by the well-known Professor Steven Alter, the founder of the Work Systems Theory. ...

Richard Watson visits Viktoria Institute

pererik — Mon, 30 May 2011 09:46:37 +0200

The last week of may, Vitoria Institute was visited by the well-known Professor Richard Watson, the founder of the energy informatics framework and active within the area of Green IS. ...

Vi söker nya medarbetare inom Electromobilityområdet

stefanp@viktoria.se — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:50:48 +0200

Sugen på att jobba med elektrifiering av fordonsflottan? Då är det din turdag. Viktoriainstitutet söker duktiga medarbetare inom Electromobilityområdet. Läs mer

Strålande svenska resultat i Grand Cooperative Driving Contest 2011

pererik — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:11:33 +0200

SAFER-teamen lyckades med det (nästan) omöjliga i de internationella tävlingarna i kooperativ körning (GCDC) i Helmond under helgen....

Swedish CoACT teams on site for Grand Cooperative Challenge 2011

pererik — Mon, 09 May 2011 10:05:53 +0200

The three Swedish teams from the CoAct project, Chalmers, Halmstad and KTH, are now on site in Helmond, Holland, preparing for this weekends exiting contest in cooperative driving....

Viktoria Institute forms Research Council

mats.williander@viktoria.se — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:11:43 +0100

Viktoria Institute has formed a research council manned with three research managers Dr. Mats Williander, Associate Prof. Mikael Lind and Associate Prof. Stefan Pettersson....

Viktoria Institute “exports” its second professor to academia

mats.williander@viktoria.se — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:03:31 +0100

Our research director, research manager and senior researcher professor Ola Henfridsson, who started at Viktoria more than 10 years ago as a new Ph.D , has accepted a full time professorship at the...

Lyckade fältförsök på Stora Holm - Kooperativ körning i praktiken

pererik — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:47:30 +0100

Under veckan har SAFER projektet CoAct genomfört fälttester inför tävlingen Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge som går av stapeln i maj i Holland. Viktoriainstitutet leder projektet och koordinerar de tre bidrag från Sverige som kommer delta i tävlingen....

Saab Automobile and Viktoria Institute long-term research collaboration contributing to new IQon infotainment-platform

pererik — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:38:43 +0100

Over a series of R&D projects, the Viktoria Institute and Saab Automobile have collaborated around the development of Saab's new open innovation concept....

Maria Nilsson joins the cooperative system group at Viktoria Institute

maria.nilsson@viktoria.se — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:23:50 +0100

Maria Nilsson is a new researcher in the cooperative systems group contributing with knowledge of the intersection between human and technology, in particular, Maria will explore the possibility of using information fusion concepts together with a user perspective to enhance cooperative systems. ...

Presentationer från Viktoria Forum 2010

pererik — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:39:33 +0100

Ett varmt tack till alla våra besökare på Viktoria Forum 2010!

Det var ca 120 deltagare som besökte årets upplaga av Viktoria Forum, som i år gick av stapeln påLindholmen Science Park....

Michel Avital joins Viktoria Institute as a Visiting Professor

pererik — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:51:52 +0100

As of January 2011, Michel Avital joins Viktoria Institute as a Visiting Professor to engage primarily with projects related to the Sustainable Transports and Open Vehicle groups....

New project on electric vehicle charging

niklast — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:30:30 +0100

Vattenfall and Viktoria Institute have launched a project on innovative system concept designs for automated stationary charging of electric vehicles with particular focus on positioning, information and communication solutions....

Keynote at SmartVision 2010

fresva — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:22:44 +0100

Fredrik Svahn, part of the research group Open Vehicle, recently gave a keynote talk on digital product innovation at...

Sandra Haraldson joins the sustainable transports research group at Viktoria Institute

pererik — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:25:01 +0100

On the 1st of October 2010 Sandra Haraldson joined the Sustainable Transports group at Viktoria Institute. She holds a Licentiate Degree in Information Systems Development from Linköping University. She...

Viktoria Institute coordinates SAFER project CoAct

cristofer.englund@viktoria.se — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:43:29 +0100

Viktoria Institute leads and coordinates three teams in the CoAct project. The teams are making progress and are preparing for GCDC2011, a platooning competition where the vehicles’ ability to cooperate is rewarded....

Winner of Best Theme Paper Award for ICIS 2010

ola — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:21:09 +0100

Lisen Selander, Ola Henfridsson, and Fredrik Svahn's paper "Transforming Ecosystem Relationships in Digital Innovation" has won the Best Theme Paper Award for ICIS 2010. ICIS is the leading conference on information systems.

LiveResponse med sitt ursprung i forskningen på Viktoriainstitutet vinner Erkännande

pererik — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:05:30 +0200

Nominering till GuldMobilen 2010Vi är mycket glada över den uppmärksamhet och det erkännande som LiveResponse fått den senaste tiden från kunder som kör igång med live-video och från den Svenska mobilbranschen....

Viktoria presenting at IEEE Smart Grid conference

niklast — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:19:56 +0200

During the 2010 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe, Viktoria researcher Henrik Engdahl presented the paper "Using 1kV Low Voltage Distribution for Connection of Plug-in Vehicles"....

Åsa Rönnbäck joins the sustainable transports research group at Viktoria Institute

pererik — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:23:00 +0200

On the 1st of January 2011 Åsa Rönnbäck joins the Sustainable Transports group at Viktoria Institute. She holds a Master in Information Systems Science from Luleå University of Technology and will...

ISR-paper on Digital Innovation

ola — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:29:10 +0200

Ola Henfridsson's article (co-authored with Youngjin Yoo and Kalle Lyytinen) "The Organizing Logic of Digital Innovation: An Agenda for Information Systems Research" has been accepted for...

Elias Arnestrand joins the sustainable transports research group at Viktoria Institute

pererik — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:53:38 +0200

On the 1st of September Elias Arnestrand joined the research group sustainable transports at Viktoria Institute. Elias has a background at Stockholm Public Transport and has been working with development...

Viktoria institute researcher is author in new book on corporate environmental information systems

raulc — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:00:14 +0200

Dr Raul Carlson, Senior Resarcher at Sustainable Transport group at Viktoria Institute participates as author in the newly released Business Science Reference book "Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems: Advancements and Trends". The book can be purchased from e.g. IGI Global or Amazon ...

ICIS-paper on Third-Party Development and Platform Boundary Resources accepted

ola — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:22:29 +0200

Ahmad Ghazawneh and Ola Henfridsson's paper "Governing Third-Party Development through Platform Boundary Resources" has been conditionally accepted for publication in the Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), St. Louis. The paper builds on case study research of Apple's iPhone third-party development community.

ICIS-paper on Innovation Ecosystems accepted

ola — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:04:03 +0200

Lisen Selander and Ola Henfridsson's paper "Transforming Ecosystem Relationships in Digital Innovation" has been conditionally accepted for publication in the Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), St. Louis. The paper builds on a 8-year case study of SonyEricsson's developer program.

Dr. Raul Carlson is assigned scientific reviewer for International Journal of Life Cycle Assesment

raulc — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:14:38 +0200

Dr Raul Carlson, Senior Resarcher at Sustainable Transport group at Viktoria Institute has received the honor of being scientific peer reviewer of the highly ranked International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment....

Viktoria participates at the17th ISO/TC 207 plenary meeting on environmental management in Mexico

raulc — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:54:38 +0200

Dr Raul Carlson, Senior researcher at the Sustainable Transports group at the Viktoria Institute particiaptes at the 17th plenary meeting of the ISO/TC 207 standard committee on environmental management standards....

Viktoria Institute presents at the 9th EcoBalance in November 2010 in Tokyo

raulc — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:43:51 +0200

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Viktoria Institute presents research at the 3rd International Conference on Eco-Efficiency

raulc — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:28:43 +0200

Dr Raul Carlson, Senior researcher at the Sustainable Transports group at Viktoria Instute presented two abstracts...

New Research Manager joins Viktoria Institute

pererik — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:59:22 +0200

Mats Williander will join Viktora Institute as a new Research Manager, together with Christian Grante, for the area Active Systems. ...

New Senior Project Manager at Viktoria

pererik — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:02:18 +0200

On September 1:st Jonas Didoff will join Viktoria Institute in the capacity of Senior Project Manager. Jonas has a background of more than 25 years within the IT business in consultant and management roles,...

SEVS (Safe, Efficient, Vehicle Solutions) project presented

niklast — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:53:54 +0200

Viktoria Institute has during 2009-10 taken part in a novel joint research project looking at transport system and vehicle needs for 2030....

Viktoria Institute contributes to TNO battery seminar

niklast — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:53:48 +0200

During the Automotive and Space Battery seminar held on May 19th in Helmond, Netherlands, Henrik Engdahl contributed with a presentation on the dimensioning of battery energy storage for hybrid vehicles....

New Design Research Method Accepted for Publication in MISQ

ola — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:38:30 +0200

Ola Henfridsson and Rikard Lindgren's paper "Action Design Research" has been accepted for publication in the MIS Quarterly, which is the top journal in the field of information systems....

Viktoriainstitutet expanderar och letar efter nya medarbetare

pererik — Tue, 04 May 2010 10:14:10 +0200

Viktoriainstitutet expanderar sin verksamhet i Göteborg med fokus på Fordon & Transport.

Vi söker därför ett antal erfarna, framtidstroende och målmedvetna nya medarbtare som kan förstärka oss inom områdena "Sustainable transports" och "El- & Hybridfordon"....

Research paper accepted for the European Conference on Information Systems

dstenmark — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:51:50 +0200

Dick Stenmark and Taline Jadaan got their paper entitled "ENABLING PROCESS INNOVATION THROUGH SENSOR TECHNOLOGY: A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY OF RFID DEPLOYMENT" accepted for presentation at ECIS...

New electromobility project

niklast — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:38:06 +0200

In a joint initiative by the Swedish vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, ongoing research, development and deployment activities on electric vehicles and infrastructure in the national and international arena will be studied....

Daniel Rudmark joins the Sustainable Transports group

pererik — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:22:00 +0200

On April 1st, Daniel Rudmark joined Viktoria Institute as new member of the Sustainable Transports group. Daniel has a M.Sc. from Linköping University and has during the last 10 years worked with systems development in different roles such as developer, architect, project manager and CTO. Daniel will primarily work in projects related to infrastructure innovation.

Research and visions in logistics comes to Life

pererik — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:20:10 +0200

Viktoria Institute has the great pleasure inviting you to this year’s "Logistik & Transport Conference and Exhibition” in Gothenburg May 4-6 at Svenska Mässan. ...

Magnus Andersson speaker at Telematics Valley International Conference 2010

pererik — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:13:04 +0100

Magnus Andersson, Research Manager Vehicle Diagnostics at Viktoria Institute, is invited speaker at Telematics Valley International Conference 2010. The conference will focus on the most important commercial issues for the vehicle manufacturers....

Michael Rosemann new visiting professor at Viktoria Institute

pererik — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:56:29 +0100

Viktoria Institute is happy to welcome Dr. Michael Rosemann
http://sky.scitech.qut.edu.au/~rosemann/...

New Researcher

niklast — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:54:44 +0100

On March 1st, Henrik Engdahl will join Viktoria Institute as a new member of the Hybrid & Electric Vehicles group. Henrik earned his MSc degree at Linköping University of Technology. For the past three years Henrik has been responsible for system engineering of hybrid powertrains for commercial vehicles. Henrik will lead research projects within the area of hybrid and electric vehicles and their associated infrastructure.

New Senior Researcher

niklast — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:31:25 +0100

On February 1, David Bauner joined Viktoria Institute as a new member of the Hybrid & Electric Vehicles group. Dr Bauner earned the degree of Dr....

New Project on Open Design Infrastructures

fresva — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:08:42 +0100

The objective of the project Open Design Infrastructures is to develop new platform concepts and harmonizing governance strategies, helping the automotive industry to develop an open innovation agenda in the area of vehicle infotainment. Read more...

Presentations and pictures from Viktoria Institute Forum 2009

pererik — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:42:27 +0100

Presentations and pictures from Viktoria Institute Forum 2009 at Eriksberg December 1:st are now available.

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Viktoria Institute Forum 2009

pererik — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:19:32 +0100

Den 1:e december genomförde Viktoriainstitutet för tredje året i rad Viktoria Institute Forum. I år gick det "av stapeln" på Hotell 11, Eriksberg i Göteborg under temat "Towards Sustainable Mobility"....

Paper on Digital Innovation accepted at ICIS 2009

fresva — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:32:37 +0200

Fredrik Svahn, Ola Henfridsson, and Youngjin Yoo's paper entitled "A Threesome Dance of Agency: Mangling the Sociomateriality of Technological Regimes in Digital Innovation" has been accepted...

Raul Carlson presents the new international standardization

raulc — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:55:41 +0200

Raul Carlson presents the new international standardization on handling of quantitative environmental information at Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) in Stockholm, 14th of October....

Raul Carlson presents at ISESS 2009 in Venice October 6-9

raulc — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:41:19 +0200

Raul Carlson presents his paper Push versus Pull Environmental Information Systems at the ISESS 2009 (International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems) conference in Venice, Italy between 6th and 9th of October 2009....

Viktoria researcher presented at the DHS/MSB: Euro-Atlantic Stakeholder Conference in Stockholm.

jonaslandgren — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:24:52 +0200

At the Euro-Atlantic Stakeholder Conference 2009, Jonas Landgren gave a presentation on Society Security 2.0 outlining how the future of public safety and emergency response must allow for an active...

New Researcher in the Transport & Logistics group

mikaellind — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:58:50 +0200

On September 1, Ph.Lic. Anders Hjalmarsson joined Viktoria Institute as a new member of the Transport & Logistics group. Anders will earn his PhD on September 24 at Linköpings University.The thesis...

New Automotive Senior Researcher

benji — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:16:09 +0200

On August 31st, Stefan Pettersson will join Viktoria Institute as a new member of the automotive group. Stefan has a background from Chalmers University of Technology, where he received a M.Sc....

Best paper award at IRIS

fresva — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:49:21 +0200

Fredrik Svahn’s paper “The Sociomateriality of Competing Technological Regimes in Digital Innovation” was selected as one of three best papers at IRIS, 9-12 August. The Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia (IRIS) is an annual working conference, this year hosted by Molde University College in Norway.

The Swedish ICT stand at the 16:th ITS world congress 2009, Stockholmsmässan, Sweden, 21-25:th September.

pererik — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:38:37 +0200

When the 16:th ITS world congress takes place in Stockholm the 21-25:th of September, you will find Swedish ICT represented in...

Journal paper on in-car navigation accepted

ola — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:35:08 +0200

Fredrik Svahn and Ola Henfridsson's paper entitled "Situated Knowledge in Context-Aware Computing: A Sequential Multimethod Study of In-Car Navigation" has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Advanced Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing.

Raul Carlson leder internationell miljöstandardisering

raulc — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:44:16 +0200

Raul Carlson kommer att leda den internationella standardiseringen av miljödatahantering inom ISO/TC 207. Detta beslutades i Kairo lördagen den 27e juni då ISOs tekniska kommitte inom miljöstandardiseringsområdet (ISO/TC 207) träffades i Kairo, Egypten veckan efter Midsommar för sitt årliga möte....

Viktoria entering into international standardization of environmental management

raulc — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:26:16 +0200

Viktoria Institute begins participation in the international standardization of environmental management systems (ISO 14000) by being represented by Raul Carlson at the ISO/TC207 2009 plenary meeting in Cairo, June 21-27. ...

New Transport Business Manager

johanb — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:22:45 +0200

On June 8th, Per-Erik Holmberg will be joining Viktoria Institute as Business Manager for the Transport research group. Per-Erik holds a Bsc in Information Science from the University of Göteborg. Over the last 20...

New Transport Senior Researcher

johanb — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:09:23 +0200

On August 10th, Niklas Thulin will join Viktoria Institute as a new member of the Transport group. Niklas earned his Licentiate degree at Chalmers University of Technology and has 15 years industrial experience of applied research and development in the automotive industry....

Gemensam satsning på fordons- och transport ICT

per-ake — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:34:52 +0200

SP, Chalmers och Swedish ICT har initierat en gemensam satsning på att utveckla informations- och kommunikationsteknik för fordons- och transporttillämpningar....

Scientific paper on information platforms accepted for ITS World

dstenmark — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:24:42 +0200

Dick Stenmark and Taline Jadaan’s scientific paper "Towards a common information infrastructure for the Swedish railroad industry" has been accepted for ITS World in Stockholm. ITS World in Stockholm is the 16th World congress and exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services.

Technical paper on sensor technology accepted for ITS World

dstenmark — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:20:58 +0200

Dick Stenmark and Taline Jadaan’s technical paper "Sensor technology in railroad industry: Potentials and obstacles" has been accepted for ITS World in Stockholm. ITS World in Stockholm is the 16th World congress and exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services.

Technical paper on RFID deployment accepted for ITS World

dstenmark — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:15:53 +0200

Dick Stenmark and Taline Jadaan’s technical paper "RFID deployment patterns: A case study of five railroad applications of RFID" has been accepted for ITS World in Stockholm. ITS World in Stockholm is the 16th World congress and exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services.

Raul Carlson utsedd till årets författare av SIS

johanb — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:06:53 +0200

Raul Carlson är utsedd till Årets författare av SIS Förlag för boken
Livscykelanalys (LCA) - Ringar på vattnet. Boken beskriver hur
livscykelstudier genomförs för att jämföra hur olika produkter påverkar...

Visiting Professor at Center for Process Innovation, GSU

ola — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:55:49 +0200

Ola Henfridsson acts as visiting professor at Center for Process Innovation (CEPRIN) hosted by J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University for a six-week period. In particular, the visit is intended to further develop an approach to modularity that addresses organization design and product innovation challenges in automotive systems design. The visit is partly funded by STINT.

New Automotive Senior Researcher

johanb — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:55:35 +0200

On April 20th, Christian Grante joined Viktoria Institute as a new member of the Automotive group. Christian earned his PhD within Development of Complex Safety Critical Systems at Linköpings University...

Technical paper based on the MOTION project accepted for ITS World

lenaa — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:46:39 +0200

Lena Andreasson’s technical paper "A distributed innovation network for developing a speed adaptation service" has been accepted for ITS World in Stockholm. ITS World in Stockholm is the 16th World congress and exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services.

Paper on Installed Base in Service Innovation

lenaa — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:26:32 +0200

Lena Andreasson’s paper "Installed Base in Service Innovation: The case of intelligent speed adaptation" has been accepted for AMCIS in San Fransisco. AMCIS is Americas Conference on Information Systems.

Paper on Digital Differentiation

lenaa — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:23:59 +0200

Lena Andreasson and Ola Henfridsson’s paper "Digital Differentiation, Software Product Lines, and the Challenge of Isomorphism in Innovation: A Case Study" has been accepted for ECIS in Verona. ECIS is the European Conference on Information Systems.

New Transport Senior Researcher

benji — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:45:04 +0100

On March 1, Associate Professor Mikael Lind joined Viktoria Institute as a new member of the Transport & Logistics group. Mikael earned his PhD (2001) and his associate professorship (2006) at Linköping University....

New Automotive Researcher

ola — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:44:42 +0100

On February 9, Lisen Selander joined the Viktoria Institute as a new member of the Automotive group. Lisen earned her PhD in Informatics at Lund University last year and will conduct platform and process innovation research in the infotainment and telematics domain.

Presentations and pictures from Viktoria Institute Forum 2008

johanb — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:28:00 +0100

Presentations and pictures from Viktoria Institute Forum 2008 at Navet Lindholmen Science Park 26 November are now available.

Presentations: http://www.dfvastra.se/webbtv/081126/viktoria.htm (works best in Internet Explorer)

Pictures: Viktoria gallery

Associate Editor at ISR

rikard — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:50:30 +0100

As of January 1, Rikard Lindgren will serve as an Associate Editor at Information Systems Research for a three-year period. ISR is a top journal of the information systems and management fields.

Paper on ubiquitous computing accepted

rikard — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:46:02 +0100

Magnus Andersson and Rikard Lindgren’s paper "Inscribing Interpretive Flexibility of Context Data in Ubiquitous Computing Environments: An Action Research Study of Vertical Standard Development" has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Advanced Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. IJAPUC is a journal in the information systems discipline.

Viktoria top-ranked in Sweden by Webometrics

johanb — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:12:32 +0100

Webometrics ranks the Viktoria Institute as the #6 (December 23) research center in Sweden (see webometrics).

Originally an initiative in the emerging open access publication tradition, Webometrics uses measures such as web size, rich files, Google scholar citations, and link visibility to assess the quality of research centers.

ISJ Publication on User Involvement in Developing Interconnected Systems

ola — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:08:58 +0200

Ola Henfridsson and Rikard Lindgren's paper "User Involvement in Developing Mobile and Interconnected Systems" has been accepted for publication in Information Systems Journal....

Senior Editor at MISQ

ola — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:48:40 +0200

As of July 1, Ola Henfridsson will serve as a Senior Editor at the MIS Quarterly for a three-year period. MISQ is a top journal of the information systems and management fields. The ISI Impact Factor of MISQ was 5.826 in 2007.

Post-doc funding

jonaslandgren — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:39:06 +0200

Jonas Landgren, research manager of the Public Safety Research Group at Viktoria, has been granted post-doctoral funding from the Swedish Emergency Management Agency.

New Professor

rikard — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:24:07 +0200

Rikard Lindgren, research manager of the transport group at Viktoria, has been promoted to professor of informatics at the University of Gothenburg.

Viktoria researcher served on NSF review panel

jonaslandgren — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:04:42 +0200

In May, Viktoria researcher Jonas Landgren served on a National Science Foundation (US) review panel. The National Science Foundation is...

Viktoria hosts Leading Information Systems Researcher

ola — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:06:15 +0200

Kalle Lyytinen, who is Iris S. Wolstein professor at Case Western Reserve University, USA, is visiting Viktoria Institute the coming week....

Successful PhD-Colloquium at ISCRAM2008

jonaslandgren — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:08:23 +0200

The PhD-colloquium held at the ISCRAM2008 conference attracted over twenty PhD-students in the inter-disciplinary field of Information system for crisis response and management....

Successful Ph.D. defence

leh — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:16:12 +0200

On April 25, Sara Ljungblad defended her Ph.D. thesis Beyond Users at Stockholm University. The opponent was Professor Bill Gaver...

New Visiting Professor

rikard — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:23:23 +0100

Viktoria Institute is happy to welcome Dr. Ulrike Schultze (http://www.cox.smu.edu/academic/professor.do/uschultz), associate professor at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, as a part-time visiting professor during 2008. Ulrike is a leading researcher in the information systems discipline. At Viktoria, she will primarily participate in projects on standards design and diffusion and architectural innovation.

Study on Protection and Restoration of Critical Infrastructure

jonaslandgren — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:57:08 +0100

Public Safety Research Group has started a study on “Protection and Restoration of Critical Infrastructure” as a joint-research effort between the Viktoria Institute and the Fire and Rescue Services in Gothenburg....

Viktoria congratulates former employee's MISQ publication

ola — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:18:26 +0100

In the forthcoming MISQ issue (Vol.32, No.2), Helena Holmström Olsson, assistant professor at the IT University of Göteborg, has a first-authored research article published which is entitled "Two-Stage Offshoring: An Investigation of the Irish Bridge"....

Bartel Van De Walle visits Viktoria

jonaslandgren — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:27:05 +0100

Associate Professor Bartel van de Walle, the founder of the global community ISCRAM - Information Systems on Crisis Response and Management visits Viktoria Institute on the 28th to 30th of January....

New Visiting Professor

ola — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:37:36 +0100

Viktoria Institute is happy to welcome Dr. Youngjin Yoo (http://youngjinyoo.com), associate professor at Temple University, Philadelphia, as a part-time visiting professor during 2008. Youngjin is a leading researcher in IT-enabled innovation and ubiquitous information environments. At Viktoria, he will primarily participate in projects on new innovation challenges following the digitalization of cars and car infotainment.

Paper on Inter-Organizational IT Innovation Accepted

ola — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:12:14 +0100

Magnus Andersson, Rikard Lindgren, and Ola Henfridsson's paper "Architectural Knowledge in Inter-Organizational IT Innovation" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS)....

New Professor

ola — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:12:31 +0100

As of January 1, Ola Henfridsson, research manager of the automotive group at Viktoria, is professor of informatics at Jönköping International Business School/JIBS.

Successful PhD thesis defense

ola — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:02:26 +0100

On October 25, Magnus Andersson defended his doctoral dissertation “Heterogeneous IT Innovation” at the IT University of Göteborg. The defense was successful and we congratulate him on his effort....

New journal publication

rikard — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:27:18 +0200

Christian Hardless, Rikard Lindgren, and Ulrike Schultze’s paper “Technology-Mediated Learning Systems for Project Work: A Design Theory” has been accepted for publication in Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems....

New research manager for the Public Safety Group

jonaslandgren — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:37:02 +0200

Starting October 1, Jonas Landgren is the new research manager for the Public Safety group. Jonas has worked in the Public Safety group since 2002 and earned his PhD-degree in Informatics in September...

Leading IT Innovation and UbiComp Researcher is Visiting Viktoria

ola — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:19:08 +0200

Dr. Youngjin Yoo, associate professor at Temple University in Philadelphia is visiting Viktoria Institute during the coming week. Youngjin is a leading researcher in IT-enabled innovation and ubiquitous information environments....

Doctoral Dissertation: Public Safety Research Group

jonaslandgren — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:49:43 +0200

On Friday the 7th of September, Jonas Landgren at the Viktoria Institute successfully defended his PhD-thesis "Designing Information Technology for Emergency Response"....

New Automotive Group Researcher

ola — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:33:20 +0200

Starting October 1, Lena Andreasson will join the Viktoria Institute as a new member of the Automotive group. Lena has considerable experience from car infotainment assignments in Sweden, Japan, Germany, England, and USA. At Viktoria, she will conduct applied research on in-car architectural challenges with a focus on HMI and interaction design.

Truck and Trailer Telematics conference

beeb — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:58:34 +0200

Magnus Andersson from the Viktoria Institute will give a presentation at the upcoming Truck and Trailer Telematics conference. The conference will be held on October 30-31st in conjunction with the European Road Transport Show in Amsterdam.

Project on Flexible HMI Architectures

ola — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:08:40 +0200

Funded by VINNOVA/V-ICT over a two-year period, the Flexible HMI Architecture-project is focused on developing an in-car software architecture that is capable of handling the increasing magnitude of new functionality enabled by on-board systems as well as nomadic devices....

New Research Project Funded by the Swedish Road Administration

ola — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:04:42 +0200

Emerging ubiquitous technologies such as GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) hold the promise of closing some of the information gaps in the supply chain, especially in transport and logistics....

New Book Chapter

ola — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:52:00 +0200

Dick Stenmark and Rikard Lindgren’s research article “Knowledge Management Systems: Towards a Theory of Integrated Support“ has been accepted for publication as a chapter of the book Advances in Knowledge Management Research (Idea Group).

Hämta verksamhetsberättelsen för hela koncernen Swedish ICT Research här.

kersti — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:21:26 +0200

SICS, Interactive Institute, Viktoria Institute, Santa Anna IT Research Institute och Acreo ingår alla i koncernen Swedish ICT Research. Hämta verksamhetsberättelsen för Swedish ICT Research 2006 här.

Magnus Holmqvist is defending his PhD thesis on Friday 15/6

torbjorn — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:46:49 +0200

It aint over til the fat lady sings? New research shows that there is no such thing as 'one complete and deployed system', at least not in aftermarket logistics. Magnus Holmqvist is defending his PhD thesis on Friday 15/6 and explain these IT-Management aspects on www.viktoria.se/~pom/the5.htm ...

Public Safety Group in Crisis Response Journal

jonaslandgren — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:13:23 +0200

The new issue of the Crisis Response Journal includes a feature article by the Public Safety researchers Jonas Landgren and Urban Nulden in ...

Swedish ICT Research's Automotive Council

torbjorn — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:59:29 +0200

Over the last two months, workshops dedicated to active safety, diagnostics, and nomadic device integration have been conducted as part of Swedish ICT Research's Automotive Council. The objective of the ...

Viktoria Researcher Elected AIS Regional Representative

torbjorn — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:58:10 +0200

Ola Henfridsson has been elected as member of the AIS (Association for Information Systems) Council. Ola will serve as regional representative for area 2 (Europe/Middle East/Africa) for a two-year period starting July 1.

Public Safety Researcher presents full-paper at CHI2007

torbjorn — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:56:59 +0200

On 3rd of May, Jonas Landgren will present a research paper at CHI 2007 - the premier international conference for human-computer interaction. The paper “A study of Emergency Response Work: Patterns ...

Journal Paper on Context-Aware Application Design in Car Infotainment

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:40:01 +0100

Ola Henfridsson and Carl Magnus Olsson´s paper entitled "Context-Aware Application Design at Saab Automobile: An Interpretational Perspective" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application.

New Project on Home Care

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:44:11 +0100

The Knowledge Foundation has provided a grant for the project "Safe At Home - Living And Residing" which is led by the Health Technology Alliance in the Halmstad region. ...

Paper accepted at CHI2007

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:47:24 +0100

Jonas Landgren´s and Urban Nulden´s paper "A study of emergency response work: Patterns of mobile phone interaction" was accepted as a full paper at CHI2007, San Jose, USA. ...