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. I have once before (in Oct 2013) declared a " Blog week " where I wrote seven blog posts in as many days to "catch up", and, I did it again in the beginning of november. I did however know that I needed to write a lot more than seven blog posts to catch up so I declared it " Blog week/Blog mania " instead. I then proceeded to write eleven blog posts in as many days (Nov 7 - Nov 17) before I had an involuntary eight-day hiatus due to a temporarily heightened work load. I have since Nov 25 however for the most part written three blog posts per week and this is a considerably higher tempo than the one to two blog posts per week that I have consistently aimed for ever since I started to blog back in September 2010 . One reason for the increase in the number of blog posts is due to the fact that a substantial part of the blog posts written this year (>40%) relates to texts (articles, conference papers) that I have submitted left and right. Each text usual...

. This blog post is unusual in that it's not about my personal academic activities, nor musings that stem from (for examples) from a seminar of from an academic book I have read. It is instead an analysis of current events and it's written against the backdrop of Donal Trump becoming the 45th US president less than four weeks from now Before I started this blog, I had another non-academic (but in fact much more analytical ) blog where I wrote about (peak) oil, energy, geopolitics, sustainability, economy etc. This blog post is in fact much more in line with the kind of blog post I wrote on my previous blog and I also use blog posts from that blog as the starting point of this analysis. ---------- When the Arab Spring started in Tunisia in December 2010, I naturally took an interest. The "unrest" later spread to Egypt where protests began at the end of January 2011 and where Hosni Mubarak was quickly forced away from power after having rules Egypt for 30 years. After ...

. Three months ago  I wrote a blog post  about an abstract we had just submitted to  the 9th [Swedish] Pedagogical Inspiration Conference . The abstract was accepted, we wrote up the short paper and submitted it in the beginning of November. My colleague, Björn Hedin (first author) presented it last week. I'm the second author and the third author is Olle Bälter. We had a discussion already at the time when we submitted the paper and came to the conclusion that the old title ("Dummerjöns"/"Blockhead Hans") should be changed. The title was problematic as it might sound demeaning even though it really isn't - but you might only know that if you go back and read the original H.C. Andersen fairy tale . The new title of the paper is " Sagan om examensringen – en akademisk tragedi " [Lord of the graduation ring - an academic tragedy] and the paper is already available online ( pdf file ). The paper treats two different phenomena: 1. A student who had zer...

. I try to publish complete lists of (guest) lectures in mine and Elina Eriksson's course DM2573 Sustainability and Media Technology and I managed to do that two years ago but didn't last year (due to my extended blog absence ). This blog does contain the line-up of this year's course as well as some reflections about giving the course (see further below). The course has moved around a little since last year and it is now given during the second rather than the first half of the autumn term (from Sept-Oct to Nov-Dec). The course ended last week and below is the 2016 line-up for our course (15 lectures + 1 panel). ------------ DM2573 - Sustainability and Media Technology - lectures ------------ -  Daniel Pargman  (Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Media Technology, KTH/MID) " Course introduction " " Sustainability and Sustainable Development - On concepts and issues " -  Elina Eriksson , Ph.D., Researcher at KTH/Media Technology and Interaction Design (MID)...

. My last blog post was about a paper I wrote that was accepted to  the CHI 2017 conference . Well, I had another paper accepted to CHI, " The (Un)sustainability of Imagined Future Information Societies " (written together with my co-authors Elina Eriksson, Mattias Höjer, Ulrika Gunnarsson Östling and Luciane Borges). The paper hasn't been accepted outright but is rather "conditionally accepted" and the note of acceptance came together with this formulation: " Conditional acceptance means that you must fulfill the set of revision requests ... from your Associate Chair. This means that the Associate Chairs will check the final version of your submission to see if you have followed their specific recommendations ". We had of course planned to make these changes anyway but it is certainly interesting to see that someone will actually check on us and make sure we do what we have promised to do! The deadline for the final, camera-ready version of the pape...

. With the exception of this introduction, the rest of the blog post (below) was written back in September, right after we submitted this paper to the CHI 2017 conference (also see the previous blog post ). As of a few days back we now know that the paper has been accepted to that particularly selective conference! We are not required to but we do have the opportunity to brush the paper up over Christmas as the deadline for the camera-ready paper is January 6. One of the things we will do is to change the title of the paper into " Means and Ends in Human-Computer Interaction: Sustainability through Disintermediation ". My perhaps favorite reviewer ever started his/her review of our paper as follows: " This was a joy to read, and I personally learned a lot from reading it. It makes an important contribution to the field of sustainable HCI - both by providing such a great synthesis of previous work in the area, and by providing a new rubric researchers can use to identif...

. I submitted no less than three papers to the upcoming CHI conference in Boulder, Colorado and I wrote a blog post about it in September, almost three months ago. CHI is of course The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - " the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction ". Let's just say it's a Big Thing for people in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and it's notoriously hard to get your papers accepted to the conference. Beyond submitting three full papers, I also reviewed five paper for the conference. This blog post is about that process (both of submitting and of reviewing paper for CHI). Since the process is double-blind and very rigorous, I did not divulge any information at all about my contributions back in September but I can now state that two of my papers were accepted . That's a lot. No less than 2424 papers and notes (short paper) were submitted to the conference and around 25% were accepted. The accept...

. This is a two-for-one blog post (re-using an earlier invitation as a template). First an open invitation to next week's (Dec 16) final presentation of " The Future of Computer Games / Computer Games of the Future ", followed by the introduction to the limited-edition book we are publishing on that topic. December 16 final presentation at 13.00-16.00 in lecture hall Q1 You are invited to the final presentation in the course Future of Media. This year's theme is  The Future of Computer Games and Computer Games of the Future .  Sign up here! The course is given for the 14th year and I think this year's presentations might be the best and the most ambitious ever. It is also the last ever as we are currently ushering in a new master's program where this course will be replaced by another project course . Do note that  the 11 project groups   span a very wide area and will present concepts, ideas and scenarios that, for example, treat the future of pervasive game...

. I'm working in a research project with the most complicated title ever; " Improved energy counceling and energy habits by Quantified Self Assisted Advisory ". I mentioned the project briefly in the previous blog post . The internal acronym we use for the project is STEM - which in fact is an abbreviation of the agency that funds the project - The Swedish Energy Agency. Every year in December, they invite representatives from all the projects that are funded by their their "Energy, IT and Design" (EID) research program to a "program conference". This year's program had presentations from no less than 18 research projects. I could only attend the first day of the conference and therefore missed about a third of the presentations. Most of the projects presented are ongoing but some were finished earlier this year (our project is funded until next summer). No less than 5 out of these 18 projects come from KTH (including CESC where I work and Green ...

. I have written about the master's thesis activities that I'm involved in several times during the last six months on this blog: Back in June, I wrote a blog post about the five master's theses students I worked with during the spring.  I recently wrote about two proposed spin-off papers that came out of two of these master's theses and that we submitted to the very same conference (" Energy for Society : 1st International Conference on Energy Research   and Social Science "); " ICT support for collective energy management in housing cooperatives " and " Using low-fi user-centered design methods to overcome barrier to adopting photovoltaics ". There are in fact two more thesis from this past year that could come to be reshaped into papers during the next six months so there might be more to come... I recently wrote about an after work event we organized for companies to inspire and help them propose master's theses topics in the area...