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. It's been a standing joke between us four authors for a long time - referring to our not-yet-published paper as our "New and Super Excellent Scenarios & Impacts paper". We are here talking about a paper that is based on a research project ("Scenarios and impacts of the information society") that ended quite some time ago (for example  see this blog post from the beginning of 2015 or this blog post from February 2013). It's also the case that this is a rewritten version of a paper that has already been submitted once ( back in April 2016!) , but that was rejected by the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change. So we have now rewritten the paper and are submitting it to another journal in the hope that we will have better luck this time around. There is another related article that has been on a parallell track. It concerns more or less the same results from the very same project but aimed towards "my" area, Human-Computer Intera...

. I'm part of a group (led by the University of Deusto in Spain) that handed in a EU application last week, " Cities4Good: Coping with Societal Challenges through Smart Cities ". I'm the lead/contact person for KTH but have worked together with my colleagues Mattias Höjer and Elina Eriksson on this application. The application is a "Marie Curie Innovative Training Networks" application and it's the third time I'm part of such an application. One year ago I participated in the application " Smart home technology for sustainable practices " and three years ago I participated in the application " Energy-aware cloud-based software engineering " but I have nothing to show for it this far. If granted, the project will get money to hire 15 ph.d. students for three years at six universities and four research institutes/research-oriented organisations in nine different countries: - DeustoTech/University of Desuto in Bilbao, Spain (FD) - Un...

. Last week (January 15) I submitted a paper to alt.chi for the first time: " alt.chi 2018 continues the tradition of bringing substantive, thought-provoking, original work to CHI through an alternative approach. alt.chi is appropriate for submissions that prove difficult to assess through the main Papers track, whether for reasons of methodology, style or content. A Juried review process ensures that high standards for excellence are maintained. alt.chi hosts some of the most audacious and insightful presentations at the conference. This is the avant-garde of CHI.  We invite the submission of bold, compelling, critical, and innovative works that challenge or re-imagine human computer interaction research and design. " I literally worked until the very last minute together with co-author Bonnie Nardi (through Skype) and I uploaded the paper a bit more than one minute and a bit less than one and a half minutes before the deadline. The last hour and especially the last 10-15 ...

. KTH is hosting the 12th International Sustainable Campus Conference between June 11-13 this year. Me and my colleague Elina Eriksson know the people who organize it and they sent us a personal invitation. We wanted (and we felt compelled) to submit an abstract (on the day of the deadline, January 15). It's not quite clear to us if the organizers require us to write a paper of if the abstract below is enough for us to (maybe) be invited to give an oral presentation. We for sure intend to write a paper and if not for this conference, then for another. We in fact came up with the title for this paper already back in May 2016 when we wrote the paper " Sustainable development for ICT engineering students - “What’s in it for me?” " for the Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (EESD) 2016 conference. That paper had five authors and me and Elina wanted to push the paper a bit further than then other authors. I believe we could all agree that our students should b...

. This is blog post #500! I started the blog in September 2010 - more than seven years ago. This is also the fourth installment in this particular series of blog posts: -  Blog post #200 + 3rd anniversary of the blog!  (September 2013) -  Blog post #300 + 4th anniversary of the blog!  (October 2014) -  Blog post #400 + 6th anniversary of the blog! (September 2016) It took three years to publish the first 200 blog posts, a little more than a year to write the next 100 blog posts, the better part of two more years to publish the next 100 blog posts and slightly less than one and a half years to publish the last 100 blog posts. I recently wrote some about statistics and trends  so this is a good time to more qualitatively reflect on the blog and how the content and my blogging has developed and changed over time. My intention was that this should be a short blog post - in this particular blog post I feel I have nothing in particular to prove! - but that didn'...

.  I read the books below more than a year ago, in August and September 2016. All books concern the intersection of ecology, sustainability and politics. There are a lot of quotes from these books further below (about 125 in total!) and the quotes are represented by the number of asterisks right below. Here's the previous blog post about books I have read. *************************** Andrew Dobson 's Green Political Thought is a classic. The first edition came out in 1990 and I actually read it when I was an undergraduate student. I remember I thought it was great and felt the book merited a re-reading and then actually went out and bought the most recent, fourth edition of the book (2007). So I invested money in buying "the same" book one more time and my expectations were obviously very high. While the book was good, it wasn't as good as I expected it to be. Perhaps it was hard for the actual book to beat my memory of the book? Or perhaps the fourth editio...