News
2016
2016-02-16
Maria Åkesson and Carina Ihlström Eriksson are minitrack chairs for
Digital Media Ecosystems track at MCIS at Cyprus, September 4-6.
2015
2015-09-25
Jesper Lund defended his PhD dissertation, Digital Innovation: Orchestrating Network Activities, in Göteborg. The opponent was Jonny Holmström from Umeå University.
2015-02-16
Carina Ihlström Eriksson and Birgitta
Bergvall-Kåreborn and are minitrack chairs for
the minitrack Co-Creating Innovations at HICSS-49, Kauai, Hawaii, US
2013
2013-11-16
Carina Ihlström Eriksson and Birgitta
Bergvall-Kåreborn and are track chairs for
the minitrack Co-Creating Innovations at AMCIS 2014 in Savannah, US.
2012
2012-12-11
Media IT has been granted 5.250.000 SEK from the KK Foundation for a three year project called "New(s) Media Ecosystem" starting 130101. Partners are: Aftonbladet, Expressen, Göteborgs-Posten, Helsingborgs Dagblad, Mediabolaget Västkusten AB, MittMedia och Västerbottens-Kuriren.
2012-09-22
Halmstad Living Lab has been
granted 2.000.000 SEK (together with HCH) for the project "Towards a Health Innovation Alliance - introducing a Living Lab perspective" funded by VINNOVA.
2011
2011-09-15
Birgitta
Bergvall-Kåreborn and Carina Ihlström Eriksson are track chairs for
the minitrack
Co-Creating Innovations at ECIS 2012 in Barcelona, Spain.
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
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 minitrack at
MCIS 2010 in
Tel Aviv.
2009
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
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.
2008-09-19
Carina Ihlström Eriksson and Maria Åkesson presented results
from the UbiMedia project at the International e-reading Conference
arranged by IFRA in Paris.

2008-09-03
We proudly present the three movie clips, featuring
Albin,
Diana and
Maria, that
is one of the results from our UbiMedia project. The material to the
movie clips was developed in collaboration with our nine newspaper
partners. The movie clips was produced by Quincy.
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.

2008-05-23
Carina Ihlström Eriksson
and Svenåke Boström presented the UbiMedia project and the concept
movie at the Society Newsdesign for Scandinavia event Copenhagen Crash
2008.

2008-04-28
The Media IT group visited Mainichi Shimbun in Tokyo to present
our research and to make interviews. At the same trip we visited
eMobile, DoCoMo, Bridgestone and Yomiuri Shimbun.

2008-04-10
The Media IT group arranged
an international workshop on Community Generated Content with
participants from Belgium, Germany and Sweden.

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
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.

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