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Applying Minimalism in the Real World: Results From a Workshop

2020

Minimalism is a user-centered, contextual and goal-oriented approach to technical communication originally developed by John M. Carroll (1990). In minimalism, the aim is to produce user documentation that focuses on the user’s needs, helps the user recover from error situations, and strengthens the user’s skills in working with the system (Carroll & van der Meij 1995: 245). The challenge with minimalism has been its practical application: although user-centeredness – the core of minimalism – is the key issue in technical communication, the abstract nature of the approach and its focus on software documentation has made it difficult to apply in industry settings (Virtaluoto, Suojanen & Isohe…

Vastuullisuusarvot suomalaisten tekstiiliyritysten tarinoissa

2022

Textile industry causes significant negative environmental and social impacts. Sustainability in the industry has lately yielded more and more research interest, however, sustainability communication is underresearched area. In this paper, we will focus on sustainability communications in the Finnish textile industry through the stories of companies in their webpages. Storytelling has traditionally been a mode of transmitting, producing and reproducing the culture. Stories produce a structure in the reality, explain phenomena and concretize abstract concepts. In this research, we approach the stories as rhetorical devises, which address, attract and connect the reader to the company behind …

Minimalism for the Win : User-Centered Design for Guidance in Industrial Maintenance

2022

Background: We conducted an exploratory study to test the delivery of technical instructions built on the principles of minimalism. The aim was to investigate how we could support target users’ skill levels in a context-sensitive manner. Literature review: Related work examines minimalism, user needs and profiling, and industrial maintenance and technician experience. Research questions: 1. How can the semantic structure of DITA XML be utilized in delivering technical information to users based on their skill levels? 2. How would a layered system of information support the principles of minimalism? Methodology: We created material and tested the concept in user studies with maintenance pers…

Vieraan kielen arkuus ala-asteella

1998

Nuorten aikuisten käsityksiä viestijäkuvansa kehittymisestä

2001

Liikkuvan median ulottuvuuksia : visuaalinen viestintä nuorten matkapuhelimen käytössä

2005

Mobiiliteknologia potilaan ja sairaalan välisessä viestinnässä

2011

Kingelin, Milla Elisa Mobiiliteknologia potilaan ja sairaalan välisessä viestinnässä Jyväskylä: Jyväskylän yliopisto, 2011, s. 24 Tietojärjestelmätiede, kandidaatin tutkielma Ohjaaja: Makkonen, Pekka Suomalainen terveydenhuolto on muutoksien edessä väestön ikääntyessä. Eräs ratkaisu ongelmiin voisi olla mobiiliteknologian hyödyntäminen terveydenhuollon viestinnässä. Tässä tutkielmassa tutkitaan kirjallisuuskatsauksena ongelmia mobiiliteknologian käytössä potilaan ja sairaalan välisessä viestinnässä. Näkökulmaksi on valittu järjestelmäkehittäjän näkökulma. Aihetta käsitellään aikaisempien kansainvälisten tutkimusten pohjalta. Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan aluksia erilaisia mobiiliteknologiaan p…

Digital community design : exploring the role of mobile social software in the process of digital convergence

2010

Monetary information in sustainability reports: How is it related with stakeholders?

2014

Sustainability reports have recently become a central tool for a corporation in convincing different stakeholder of their sustainability performance. The research and especially criticism towards sustainability reports is increasing. One solution for the criticism would be that companies provide more monetary arguments of their sustainability work. Currently there is a research gap of the content of the monetary sustainability reporting. This paper aims to address this gap by analysing how three Finnish companies construct the classification of stakeholders in terms of monetary information in their sustainability reports between 2003 and 2012. We studied three Finnish companies which repres…

Cultural impact on international branding : a case of marketing Finnish mobile phones in China

2001

Hundreds of Finnish brands have been launched in China. How do the Chinese perceive these brands and think about the brand names in Chinese? Will the Chinese associate the images with Finland? And what is Finland in Chinese eyes? … In short, how to manage a brand in China? Finnish corporations usually practice three types of branding approaches. The first one is to keep every elements of the brand exactly the same as it in European market and only to substitute the original text with Chinese characters. Only a few companies apply this approach because people are more aware of the impact of cultural differences. Slogans, for example, may not have the same persuasive power and effectiveness i…