Ola Knutsson

• Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction
• Lecturer at Stockholm University

Design is not neutral but involves ethical aspects, from addressing power dynamics to enabling broader accessibility and inclusion. In industry settings, design leaders can play an essential role in promoting ethical design by, for instance, setting visions, developing and advocating values, and providing guidance for design. Through co-design work...

Even though the importance of corrective feedback (CF) is widely recognized, there is no agreement on the most effective type of CF for promoting self-regulation. Thus, this study adopts a sociocultural perspective on learning and employs dynamic assessment (DA) as a CF form. DA is considered a theoretically promising approach to CF as it focuses o...

Mental health services in Sweden and care planning situations are still dominated by the staff's perspectives. In order to offer a recovery-oriented effort where SDM is one of the cornerstones, epistemic justice is assumed where the experiences of users and their relatives are regarded as inalienable for the service. • The tool to promote SDM and r...

User participation is increasingly emphasised in policies guiding social services. However, translating policy into practice is fraught with difficulties. The staff’s approaches to user participation are crucial for the users’ opportunities to participate in decision-making, particularly for users with extensive care needs and reduced autonomy. The...

The discussion on the dynamic assessment (DA) - a combination of assessment and instruction - and regulatory scales from implicit to explicit corrective feedback (CF) is relatively new in the CALL context. Applying the notions of Sociocultural Theory, Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) and Mediation, the present study examines how a DA-based regula...

Pedagogical patterns aim at assisting teachers with limited teaching experience with technology-supported solutions to educational problems. In a workshop series, 13 pedagogical patterns were created by upper secondary teachers recognised for their use of technology in teaching. These patterns constitute data for a deductive thematic analysis to un...

Integrated treatment is recommended for users with a comorbidity of mental illness and substance misuse. However, due to a divided support system, coordinated individual care planning (CIP) and user participation are emphasised to provide users with the necessary support. One way of increasing user participation is through shared decision making. H...

Research on how teachers design to support learning and how teachers use different learning designs is still in its infancy. The explorative study reported here aims to approach an understanding of how teachers design learning activities by analysing upper secondary teachers' design work while using pedagogical patterns. Ten teachers working in pai...

on the participatory design of learning and work environments, the use of design patterns, and research on digital literacy. 172 Sirkku Männikkö Barbutiu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University. She holds a PhD in Human-Machine-Interaction, and her research interest is in ICT for developm...

Purpose Although user participation and shared decision-making in formal statutory coordinated care planning are described as central, they remain to be implemented. The aim of this study is to explore how collaboration and shared decision-making in the social services can be realized in formal care planning activities with people with mental disab...

Stu­dents need to en­gage in or­der to learn. As dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion changes the con­di­tions for learn­ing, it is es­sen­tial to con­sider how stu­dent en­gage­ment might be af­fected. This study ex­plores the re­la­tion­ship be­tween stu­dent en­gage­ment (and dis­en­gage­ment) in tech­nol­ogy-en­hanced learn­ing (TEL) and aca­d­e­mic out­comes....

The theme selected for the 2019 EuroCALL conference held in Louvain-la-Neuve was ‘CALL and complexity’. As languages are known to be intrinsically and linguistically complex, as are the many determinants of learning (additional) languages, complexity is viewed as a challenge to be embraced collectively. The 2019 conference allowed us to pay tribute...

Teachers cannot presume that their learners have the competence to use the technology brought to the classroom. Therefore, the learners’ abilities to use technology may be a concern for teachers. This paper reports on digital competence through an analysis of designs for learning in design patterns, written by upper secondary teachers. Learning act...

Student engagement is significantly related to both retention and learning outcome. Hence, teachers need to take into account how their practices affect student engagement. The purpose of this study was to explore how teachers and researchers collaboratively could develop learning activities with learning technologies (LTs) to increase engagement,...

Student engagement is significantly related to school success. With the increasing digitalisation of education, it is essential to explore if student engagement is affected by the uptake of learning technologies (LTs). The aim of this study was to approach what factors students perceive to influence their engagement when learning with technologies....

As digitalisation spreads in education, it is vital to understand its relation to student engagement. We used student diaries and observation data to approach student engagement and explore the use of learning technologies on a lesson-to-lesson basis. Results show that a less thought-through use of technologies might lead to unconsidered effects. P...

Teachers in their practice make choices grounded in their teaching experience resulting in what could be labelled design solutions. An identified problem is that these design solutions stay at the level of individual solutions and do not reach the teaching community. The aim of this article is to study how teachers´ design solutions can be systemat...

This paper presents an analysis of upper secondary teachers’ design patterns portraying their technology use in teaching by answering the question: What pedagogy is implicit in technology supported learning activities designed by teachers? Building on a framework defining key characteristics of contemporary learning theories, seventeen design patte...

In the article we present how teachers by use of design patterns in a participatory design process have captured their experiences of using information technology in teaching. Focus in the design patterns shifted over time from focusing difficulties with technology and proposed solutions to these to didactic and pedagogical aspects of technology us...

In spite of the widespread use of technology in higher education, discourses on learning technologies commonly account for their features as disembodied from their use. There has so far been few theoretical approaches which have delved into "the technology question" in CSCL. We present an empirical study that investigates how students’ peer-review...

Nyckelord: skrivande, lärplattformar, sociala medier, design, textkompetenser, digitala kompetenser, taggning, systemisk-funktionell lingvistik, social-semiotik, social bokmärkning, social annotering Projektets mål var att: 1) Bidra till en ökad förståelse av hur digitala verktyg påverkar elevers läs-och skrivutveckling när de skriver texter i och...

This paper presents the overall goals and preliminary results of an on-going research project that aims at: understanding the intricacies and complexities of introducing mobile technologies into schools' curriculum and accepted teaching practices; analyzing actual transformations that the use of mobile technologies in schools brings to contemporary...

Smartphones are increasingly being used on field trips to support students in exploring the natural world. In this paper we present a design and analysis of an inquiry-based learning field trip for primary school students. One problem for design is how to make use of smartphones to support, rather than distract, students in interacting with the phy...

Introduction Social media pose challenges as well as opportunities for networked learning. In particular, outside information sources may be seamlessly brought into education, and students may share and discuss those sources in novel and unfamiliar ways. These changes are not merely technological additions to traditional ways of learning and teachi...

Workflow management deals with a fair amount of free text -- scanned paper documents, web input forms, e-mail, input from mobile devices as well as texts from government agencies to citizens. The free-text input is intended for a human reader. Still, in eGovernment settings we would like to process such input before, while and after handling office...

In this paper social semiotics, and systemic functional linguistics in particular, is used in order to identify registers of digital literacy in the use of virtual learning environments. The framework of social semiotics provides means to systemize and discuss digital literacy as a linguistic and semiotic issue. The following research question was...

This article presents a robust probabilistic method for the detection of context-sensitive spelling errors. The algorithm identifies less-frequent grammatical constructions and at-tempts to transform them into more-frequent constructions while retaining similar syntactic structure. If the transformations result in low-frequency constructions, the t...

We evaluate to what extent students are interacting with mobile devices in one of four ways intended in the design of a mobile learning activity. Video data from one class of fifth grade students were analyzed using a model of four different types of interaction. The evaluation shows that the students interacted with the devices in the ways intende...

We design a mobile learning activity with the aim of supporting inquiry-based learning and analyze it to understand how students interact with mobile devices. For analysis we use a model of contextual human-technology interaction, which is an expansion of an older model by Buxton (1995). Our research question is: How can student interaction in a mo...

In Sweden, the use of e-mail by the public sector has become a key communication service between citizens and governmental authorities. Although the integration of e-mail in the public sector has certainly brought citizens and handling officers closer, it has also introduced a particular vision on governmental authorities such as for instance the i...

The Swedish Social Insurance Agency, (Försäkringskassan) receives 40 000 e-mails per month as well as phone calls from the citizens that are handled by almost 500 handling officers. To initiate the process to make their work more efficient we carried out two user-centered design workshops with the handling officers at Försäkringskassan with the obj...

This paper is concerned with the task of preposition generation in the context of a grammar checker. Relevant features for this task can range from lexical features, such as words and their part-of-speech tags in the vicinity of the preposition, to syntactic features that take into account the attachment site of the prepositional phrase (PP), as we...

There are important discrepancies between how language is currently represented by language tools, such as grammar and spelling checkers, and how language is understood in a broad view on literacy in second language learning. On the one hand, language tools do seem useful and important for learning linguistic form, but on the other hand they stand...

This paper presents a field study carried out with learners who used a grammar checker in real writing tasks in an advanced course at a Swedish university. The objective of the study was to investigate how students made use of the grammar checker in their writing while learning Swedish as a second language. Sixteen students with different linguisti...

We present two case studies of two different pedagogical tasks in a Computer Assisted Language Learning environment called Grim. The main design principle in Grim is to support ‘Focus on Form’ in second language pedagogy. Grim contains several language technology-based features for exploring linguistic forms (static, rule-based and statistical),...

This paper describes a method to create a grammar checker “for free”. It requires no manual work, only unannotated text and a few basic NLP tools. The method used is to simply annotate a lot of errors in written text and train an off-the-shelf machine learning implementation to recognize such errors. To avoid manual annotation artificially created...

This article describes an automatic evaluation procedure for NLP system robustness under the strain of noisy and ill-formed input. The procedure requires no manual work or annotated resources. It is language and annotation scheme independent and produces reliable estimates on the robustness of NLP systems. The only requirement is an estimate on the...

This paper focuses on the transformation of grammar checking technology into a learning environment for second language writing.

Grammar errors and context-sensitive spelling errors in texts written by second language learners are hard to detect automatically. We have used three different approaches for grammar checking: manually constructed error detection rules, statistical differences between correct and incorrect texts, and machine learning of specific error types. The...

We address the topic of automatic evaluation of robustness and performance degradation in parsing systems. We focus on one aspect of robustness, namely ill-formed sentences and the impact of spelling errors on the different components of a parsing system. We propose an automated framework to evaluate robustness, where ill-formed and noisy data is i...

Introduction In many NLP-applications, the robustness of the internal modules of an application is a prerequisite for the success and usability of the system. The term robustness is a bit unclear and vague, but in NLP, it is often used in the sense robust against noisy, illformed, and partial natural language data. The full spectrum of robustness i...

this paper we focus on tools for grammatical analysis, corpus development and how the corpus must be designed to be useful in machine learning and automatic evaluation

This article describes the construction and performance of Granska – a surface-oriented system for grammar checking of Swedish text. With the use of carefully constructed error detection rules, written in a new structured rule language, the system can detect and suggest corrections for a number of grammatical errors in Swedish texts. In this articl...

We will in this paper present an evaluation of how much stemming improves precision in information retrieval for Swedish texts. To perform this, we built an information retrieval tool with optional stemming and created a tagged corpus in Swedish.

This article describes the construction and performance of Granska - a surface-oriented system for grammar checking of Swedish text. With the use of carefully constructed error detection rules, written in a new structured rule language, the system can detect and suggest corrections for a number of grammatical errors in Swedish texts. In this articl...

This article describes how Granska – a surface-oriented system for checking Swedish grammar – is constructed. With the use of special error detection rules, the system can detect and suggest corrections for a number of grammatical errors in Swedish texts. Specifically, we focus on how erroneously split compounds and noun phrase agreement are handle...

This paper discusses the role of computer-based language tools for adult writers in the context of second language learning. It presents initial studies of second-language learners who write with the aid of a language tool developed at our department. The studies focus on the revision process in authentic free text production. A method for collecti...

This paper presents a partial extension of a tool for automatic grammar checking of Swedish text. The work was carried out within a research project aiming at de-signing the grammar checker to meet the needs of second-language writers. The pa-per discusses the construction and imple-mentation of a new set of matching rules for the grammar checking...

Three different ways of evaluating a Swedish grammar checker are presented and discussed in this article. The first evaluation concerns measuring the program's detection capacity on five text genres. The measures (precision and recall) are often used in evaluating grammar checkers. However, in order to test and improve the usability of grammar chec...

This paper describes a method to detect errors in written text which requires no manual work. The method used is to simply annotate a lot of errors in written text and train an off-the-shelf machine learning implementation to rec-ognize such errors. To avoid manual annotation synthetically created errors are used for train-ing. The method is evalua...

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A prototype of a corpus-based tool to help writers use collocations in written Swedish is presented. Unlike similar tools for English, fully parsed and lemmatized text is used, to accommodate the Swedish language with its inflections and varying word order.

Proceedings of the Workshop on NLP for Reading and Writing - Resources, Algorithms and Tools (SLTC 2008). Editors: Rickard Domeij, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Ola Knutsson and Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 3 (2009), i-ii. © 2009 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European Association for Language Technolog...

Proceedings of the Workshop on NLP for Reading and Writing – Resources, Algorithms and Tools (SLTC 2008). Editors: Rickard Domeij, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Ola Knutsson and Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 3 (2009), iv-v. © 2009 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European Association for Language Technolog...

Proceedings of the Workshop on NLP for Reading and Writing – Resources, Algorithms and Tools (SLTC 2008). Editors: Rickard Domeij, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Ola Knutsson and Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 3 (2009), v+23 pp. © 2009 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European Association for Language Techno...