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Co-Creating Innovations

2011-05-23
Our project LoCoMedia is finalized and one of the outcomes was a newspaper that we produced together with the newspaper partners.

2010-06-08
Halmstad Living Lab has been granted 1.196.000 SEK for the three year LILAN project SOCIALL funded by Nordforsk.

2010-04-15
Halmstad Living Lab was on the cover of the April issue of VINNOVAnytt.

2010-03-01
Halmstad Living Lab has been granted SEK 3.768.000 SEK for the three year AAL project Express2Connect (E2C).

2010-02-15
Carina Ihlström Eriksson and Maria Åkesson are track chairs for the Future oriented approaches to digital innovation track at MCIS 2010 in Tel Aviv.

2009-10-23
Halmstad Living Lab has been granted 100.000 SEK to write an application to the Interreg IVA Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak-program called "Brukarstyrd omsorgsteknologi" together with Borg Innovasjon AS in Norway.

2009-09-25
Maria Åkesson defended her doctoral thesis "Digital Innovations in the Value Networks of Newspapers" at IT University Gothenburg. Pär Ågerfalk was the opponent.
      
2009-09-24
Carina Ihlström Eriksson gave her "Docentföreläsning" called "The Digital Journey of Newspapers" on September 24th.

2009-06-10
VINNOVA has granted the project Silver Technology 995.000 SEK for a 6 months pilot study divided between Halmstad Living Lab and Stockholm Living Lab. The total application concerns 4.000.000:-. Carina Ihlström Eriksson is the project leader.

2009-06-08
The "Free2Ride" project has been granted 1.500.000:- from VINNOVA which will be divided by three partners; Halmstad University, Free2Move and Hylte- and Laholms ryttarförening.

2009-03-15
Carina Ihlström Eriksson and Maria Åkesson are mini-track chairs together with Carolyn Watters for Innovation and Situated Design for Digital Media Applications at HICSS 43.

2009-01-28
Carina Ihlström Eriksson and Per Andersson-Ek presented the UbiMedia project at DagsVara 2009 in Stockholm.

2008-12-19
The "Local newspaper 2.0 - with engaged readers" project (LoCoMedia) has been granted 2.015.000 SEK from KK-stiftelsen over a two year period. Partners are Helsingborgs Dagblad Nya Medier AB, Göteborgs-Posten Nya AB, Mediebolaget i Halland AB, NA Tidningar AB, Sydsvenskan AB, VLT and Västkustmedia AB.

2008-12-18
Carina Ihlström Eriksson was the opponent when Anna Ståhlbröst defended her thesis "Forming Future IT - The Living Lab Way of User Involvement" at Luleå University of Technology.

2008-11-24
Maria Åkesson and Carina Ihlström Eriksson presented their paper "Mobile Service Adoption - the Swedish Case Between 2006 and 2008" at the GMR conference in Auckland, New Zealand.

2008-10-01
The Media IT group will participate at IFRA Expo in Amsterdam October 27-30.

2008-09-19
Carina Ihlström Eriksson and Maria Åkesson presented results from the UbiMedia project at the International e-reading Conference arrange by IFRA in Paris.

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2008-06-05
We have a new project accepted with funding of 1.500.000:- (divided between the three partners) from VINNOVA that is called "Secure at home - smart locks". It is a project with Phoniro AB, Emwitech AB and Föreningen för anhörigvårdare. Jesper Svensson is the project leader of this project. Read the press release here. 

2008-05-29
The Media IT group arranged an international workshop on user involvement in the innovation process at Halmstad University during May 28-29 2008.

2008-02-23
Carina Ihlström Eriksson is mini-track chair together with Carolyn Watters for Urban Computing - a Living Lab Approach at HICSS 42.

2008-02-01
Carina Ihlström Eriksson, Jesper Svensson and Maria Åkesson visited IBBT/SMIT in Brussels to discuss future collaboration.

2007-10-30
Radio Halland P4 broadcasted six minutes about our UbiMedia project on October 30th.

2007-10-22
Carina Ihlström Eriksson, Jesper Svensson and Maria Åkesson made a public presentation called "Dagstidningen - från dåtid till nutid till framtid" at Halmstad University.

2007-10-03
Carina Ihlström Eriksson, Jesper Svensson and Maria Åkesson made presentations of our research projects at Poynter Institute and also at University of Missouri-Columbia where we had a two day workshop with Roger Fidler in September 2007. We also visited New York Times, Wall Street Journal, St. petersburg Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe och USA Today.

2007-09-07
The Media IT group hosted The International workshop on e-paper technology in the newspaper sector at Halmstad University on September 7th with participants from Japan and Belgium.

2007-08-02
Carina Ihlström Eriksson and Maria Åkesson made a presentation of our research projects at Yomiuri Shimbun (The largest newspaper in Japan).

2007-06-28
VINNOVA has approved the application (a joint application of MI-lab, CC-lab and IS-lab at Halmstad University) for the project "Secure at home - Living Lab" with 1.600.000:- over two years. Carina Ihlström Eriksson is project leader and the project starts August 1st 2007. Read the press release.

2007-06-01
Carina Ihlström Eriksson, Jesper Svensson and Maria Åkesson presented papers at L.A. Global Mobility Roundtable i Los Angeles.

IFRA conferens in Paris

International Workshop

Carina Ihlström Eriksson and Svenåke Boström

UbiMedia concept movie

Design

Mainichi Shimbun

Carina Ihlström Eriksson is mini-track chair together with Carolyn Watters

IBBT/SMIT in Brussels

Presentation at Poynter Institute

Roger Fidler

The International workshop on e-paper technology in the newspaper sector

Jesper Svensson and Carina Ihlström Eriksson

Maria Åkesson