Search results for "RSSI"

Human resource development practices supporting creativity in Finnish growth organizations

2020

Creativity can be enhanced through appropriate Human Resource Development (HRD) practices that support employees’ learning and competence development. The aim of this study is to increase our understanding of HRD practices that enhance creativity in Finnish growth companies. To achieve this aim, we searched for creativity requirements based on employees’ experiences expressed in interviews, and we studied HRD practices used in organizations that respond to the requirements of creativity. We gathered 98 interviews from personnel in technology, industrial and artistic design organizations and utilized them for a theory‐driven content analysis to identify the variety of requirements for creati…

Change Talk in Hospital Management Groups

2020

Recent national healthcare reforms have resulted in many changes to healthcare organizations. When social realities are enacted in social interactions, changes also occur in communication through discourses. In public hospitals, middle management groups form one important platform for change talk. This study aimed to identify and understand how change talk emerges in management group meetings. Data were collected from 10 hospital meetings, and change-related interactions were explored by analyzing sensemaking and positioning. In the data, change talk took three forms: collaboration, control and confrontation. These forms consisted of change discourses (change as a possibility, concealed cha…

Turvetuotannon diskurssit paikallisen tiedon näkökulmasta Saarijärven reitillä

2013

Suomessa käydään poliittista keskustelua turvetuotannon hyödyistä ja haitoista. Tähän keskusteluun ovat aktiivisesti osallistuneet myös kansalaiset ja eri järjestöt. Keskustelujen ytimessä on kiista mitatun tiedon ja havaintojen välisestä ristiriidasta ja luotettavuudesta. Viitekehyksenä tutkimuksessa käytetään sosiaalista konstruktionismia. Sosiaalisen konstruktionismin mukaisesti huomiota kiinnitetään itsestäänselvyyksinä pidettyihin asioihin sekä käsitystemme historialliseen ja kulttuuriseen sidonnaisuuteen. Tutkimuksessa selvitetään kriittisen diskurssianalyysin menetelmin ovatko Saarijärven reitillä tehdyt havainnot muutoksista luotettavia. Paljon aikaa luonnossa viettävillä, esimerkik…

Tiedolla hallinnointia ja diskurssien historiallista voimaa

2010

Kirja-arvostelu teoksesta Restructuring the truth of schooling : essays on discursive practices in the sociology and politics of education : a festschrift for Hannu Simola / Jaakko Kauko, Risto Rinne & Heli Kynkäänniemi (toim.). [Helsinki], 2010. nonPeerReviewed

‘World-class’ fantasies : A neocolonial analysis of international branch campuses

2018

In this article, we build on postcolonial studies and discourse analytical research exploring how the ‘world-class’ discourse as an ideology and a fantasy structures neocolonial relations in international branch campuses. We empirically examine how international branch campuses reproduce the fantasy of being so-called world-class operators and how the onsite faculty members identify with or resist this world-class fantasy through mimicry. Our research material originates from fieldwork conducted in business-school international branch campuses operating in the United Arab Emirates. Our findings show the ambivalent nature of mimicry towards the world-class fantasy to include both compliance …

Constructions of Nonagency in the Clients’ Initial Problem Formulations at the Outset of Psychotherapy

2019

This multiple case study investigated how clients construct nonagentic positions when formulating their problems in the beginning of their first psychotherapy session. The initial problem formulations of nine clients entering psychotherapy were analyzed with a detailed model drawing on discursive methodology, the 10 Discursive Tools model (10DT). We found ten problem formulation categories, each one distinguished by the tool from the 10DT model primarily used to construct nonagency. All clients gave several problem formulations from different categories and constructed nonagentic positions with a variety of discursive tools. When the resulting problem formulation categories were read in com…

Hidden agendas : situational tasks, discursive strategies and institutional practices in process consultation

2009

Advanced voice and data solutions for evolution of cellular network system

2014

RSS-eye: Human-assisted Indoor Localization without Radio Maps

2015

The pervasive diffusion of smartphones is boosting indoor positioning solutions and location-based services. We propose a novel methodology to perform indoor positioning of mobile users by the estimation of angles of arrival from access points whose locations are known. Angles of arrival are estimated by correlating WiFi RSSI measurements with data coming from a digital compass, which is provided by most current handsets. Our system has minimal requirements in terms of infrastructure and mobile hardware. The system neither needs calibration, nor radio maps but requires the user to perform a gesture when an estimation is needed. The resulting on-demand localization has advantages in terms of…

Learning via Summarizing Infographics Assignment in Software Engineering Management e-Course?

2020

This Research-to-Practice, Work in Progress Paper focuses on how learners experience creation of infographics as a summarizing assignment in an advanced level e-course on software engineering management (SEM). We have previously investigated how learners perceive infographics as a repeated reflection assignment during a requirements engineering e-course. To complement this research project, we studied how learners experience the use of infographics as a method for summarizing a whole software engineering management course in e-education setting. The SEM course participants (N=36) found that infographics as a summarizing assignment required complex learning that was altogether deemed highly …