Åsa Cajander – Lecturer

Address: Avdelningen för visuell information och interaktion
Department of Information Technology
Uppsala University
Box 337
SE-751 05 Uppsala
Sweden
Visit: ITC building 1, floor 1, room 1152
Mobile: +46 70 425 07 86
Fax: +46 18 511925
Email: Asa.Cajander@it.uu.se

Courses

Application Code Code Level Name Homepage Program Teacher Start Info Other
UU-11205 1DT012 avanc IT and Society, 15 hp ITisam FRI, IT Åsa Cajander Aug 29 at 10.15 in P1111 in English, not open to int. master students, cont. in period 2
UU-61604 1MD000 avanc User Centered Systems Design, 5 hp acsd FRI Åsa Cajander Jan 16 at 8.15 in P2247 in English

Publications

PhD theses

Usability – Who Cares?: The Introduction of User-Centred Systems Design in Organisations. Åsa Cajander. Ph.D. thesis, Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology nr 740, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala, 2010. (KÖP BOKEN / BUY THIS BOOK, fulltext).

Licentiate theses

Values and Perspectives Affecting IT Systems Development and Usability Work. Åsa Cajander. Licentiate thesis, , Printed by the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2006. (External link).

Chapters in book

Internationella studentprojekt – en ämnesdidaktisk utmaning. Åsa Cajander and Mats Daniels. In Kunskapens nya världar: Mötet mellan pedagogik och teknik vid Uppsala Learning Lab, pp 255-269, Uppsala Learning Lab, Uppsala University, 2010.
Usability and User’s Health Issues in Systems Development - Attitudes and Perspectives. Åsa Cajander, Inger Boivie, and Jan Gulliksen. In Maturing Usability: Quality in Software, Interaction, and Value, Springer Verlag, 2007.

Articles in journal

Reasoning about the value of cultural awareness in international collaboration. Helena Bernáld, Åsa Cajander, Mats Daniels, and Cary Laxer. In Journal of Applied Computing and Information Technology, volume 15, number 1:I2, 2011. (External link).
Assessing professional skills in engineering education. Mats Daniels, Åsa Cajander, Roger McDermott, and Brian von Konsky. In Australian Computer Science Communications, volume 33, number 2, pp 145-154, 2011. (External link).
Constructive controversy as a way to create "true collaboration" in an open ended group project setting. Mats Daniels and Åsa Cajander. In Australian Computer Science Communications, volume 32, number 2, pp 73-78, 2010. (External link).
Engineering Education Research in Practice: Evolving use of open ended group projects as a pedagogical strategy for developing skills in global collaboration. Mats Daniels, Åsa Cajander, Arnold Pears, and Tony Clear. In International journal of engineering education, volume 26, number 4, pp 795-806, 2010.
Evolution of an international collaborative student project. Cary Laxer, Mats Daniels, Åsa Cajander, and Michael Wollowski. In Australian Computer Science Communications, volume 31, number 5, pp 111-118, 2009. (External link).
User-Centred Systems Design as Organizational Change: A Longitudinal Action Research Project to Improve Usability and the Computerized Work Environment in a Public Authority. Jan Gulliksen, Åsa Cajander, Bengt Sandblad, Elina Eriksson, and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, volume 5, number 3, pp 13-53, 2009. (DOI).
Work environment and computer systems development. Bengt Sandblad, Jan Gulliksen, Carl Åborg, Inger Boivie, Jenny Persson, Bengt Göransson, Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, Stefan Blomkvist, and Åsa Cajander. In Behaviour and Information Technology, volume 22, number 6, pp 375-387, 2003. (DOI, External link).
Key principles for user centred systems design. Jan Gulliksen, Bengt Göransson, Inger Boivie, Stefan Blomkvist, and Åsa Cajander. In Behaviour and Information Technology, volume 22, number 6, pp 397-409, 2003. (External link).

Conference papers

Development of Professional Competencies in Engineering Education. Åsa Cajander, Mats Daniels, and Brian R. von Konsky. In Proc. 41st ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pp S1C-1-5, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2011. (DOI).
Professionella kompetenser i projektkurser. Åsa Cajander, Mats Daniels, Helena Bernáld, and Björn Victor. 3:e Utvecklingskonferensen för Sveriges ingenjörsutbildningar, Norrköping, 2011.
Experiences from using Constructive Controversy in an Open Ended Group Project. Mats Daniels and Åsa Cajander. In Proc. 40th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pp S3D-1-5, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2010. (DOI).
Towards a usability coaching method for institutionalizing usability in organisations. Åsa Cajander, Elina Eriksson, and Jan Gulliksen. In Human-Computer Interaction, volume 332 of IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, pp 86-97, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2010. (DOI).
Hello World!: Experiencing usability methods without usability expertise. Elina Eriksson, Åsa Cajander, and Jan Gulliksen. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2009, volume 5727 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp 550-565, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2009. (DOI).
Introducing an external mentor in an international open ended group project. Åsa Cajander, Tony Clear, and Mats Daniels. In Proc. 39th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pp T2D-1-6, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2009. (DOI).
Students analyzing their collaboration in an international open ended group project. Åsa Cajander, Tony Clear, Mats Daniels, Joel Edlund, Per Hamrin, Cary Laxer, and Martin Persson. In Proc. 39th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pp M1D-1-6, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2009. (DOI).
Only Figures Matter?: If Measuring Usability and User Experience in Practice is Insanity or a Necessity. Jan Gulliksen, Åsa Cajander, and Elina Eriksson. In Proc. International Workshop on Meaningful Measures: Valid Useful User Experience Measurement, pp 91-96, Institute of Research in Informatics of Toulouse (IRIT), Toulouse, France, 2008. ().
Introducing Usability Roles in Public Authorities. Elina Eriksson, Jan Gulliksen, and Åsa Cajander. In Proc. 5th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Building Bridges, pp 113-122, ACM Press, New York, 2008. (DOI).
Evaluating Procurement, Usability and Off-the-Shelf Office Software. Åsa Cajander, Elina Eriksson, and Jan Gulliksen. In COST294-MAUSE Workshop - Downstream Utility: The Good, the Bad, and the Utterly Useless, pp 22-29, 2007.
Automation and E-government Services: A Widened Perspective. Åsa Cajander and Elina Eriksson. In The 1st International Workshop on Design & Evaluation of e-Government Applications and Services: DEGAS, 2007. (External link).
Management Perspectives on Usability in a Public Authority - A Case Study. Åsa Cajander, Jan Gulliksen, and Inger Boivie. In NordiCHI 2006: Changing Roles, p 521, 2006. (External link).
Managing cross-cultural differences in an open ended group project course. Mats Daniels, Lecia Barker, Åsa Cajander, Cary Laxer, and Dan Moore. In IEEE Frontiers in education conference, pp T4D22-23, 2005.

Reports

Användbara IT-stöd: En utvärdering av ett forskningsprojekt vid CSN, Centrala studiestödsnämnden. Åsa Cajander, Elina Eriksson, Jan Gulliksen, Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, and Bengt Sandblad. Technical report / Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University nr 2008-021, 2008. (External link).