Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka vad ungdomar tyckte var viktigt i det första mötet med terapeuten, och vad i detta möte som fick dem att bestämma sig för att återkomma och påbörja en stödgrupp. Kvalitativa intervjuer genomfördes med sju unga vuxna i tjugoårsåldern som alla hade fullföljt en termin på en stödgruppsverksamhet för anhöriga till missbrukare i Stockholm. Utskrifterna av de inspelade intervjuerna tematiserades i tre steg genom tematisk analys. Resultaten från de teman som hittades analyserades utifrån teorier om arbetsallians. De främsta fynden i studien pekar mot att terapeuterna fick allians med ungdomarna redan på första mötet.  Terapeutens värme och mänsklighet var en nyckelfaktor som spelade stor roll för att skapa allians med de unga. De uppskattade även äkthet, självkännedom och flexibilitet hos terapeuterna. I materialet framkommer även att platsen i sig spelade roll. Faktorer som omgivning och inredning spelade roll för ungdomarna. Slutsatserna indikerar att allians är av största vikt och att det kan vara än viktigare med unga vars frågor är flyktiga och i familjer som kämpar för att hantera vad som ofta är extremt påfrestande situationer, vilket ofta är fallet i beroendefamiljerna. / The purpose of this study was to explore what adolescents found important during the introductory meeting with the therapist, as well as which aspects of the initial meeting encouraged them to participate in a support group for codependents. Qualitative interviews were compiled of seven individuals in their early twenties whom had all completed a term at a treatment center for codependents in Stockholm. The transcpripts were thematized in three steps using thematic analysis. The resulting themes were explored from the viewpoint of the Working Alliance Theory. The main findings in this study were that the therapists made a strong alliance at an early stage with the adolescents. The warmth and the humanity of the therapists was a key factor that made an important difference among the adolescents. The therapists expression of authenticity, self- disclosure and flexibility played part in their experience as well. The environment and furnishings held inviting properties and helped create a relaxed atmosphere. Conclusions point to the significance of alliance, especially within youth, for whom issues are volatile, and whose families are struggling to manage what often are extremely disruptive situations. These often include problems with addiction of some sort.

The thesis named Quality forms of family and kindergarten cooperation deals with the effectiveness leadership of tripartite meetings at a given kindergarten. The theoretical part summarizes subjects such as cooperation, communication, representation of coopration with the family in Framework Education Programme for pre-school and primary education or the portfolio. The practical part consists of the research carried out at a particular school that describes the tripartite leadership, mapping the effectiveness of tripartite meeting with the participation of the child and its portfolio, and at the very end offers further opportunities to engage the activities in tripartite meetings with the support of the portfolio.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many companies have been forced to make their employees work from home, fully distributed. One of the work aspects affected by this change is meetings. The purpose of this study is to investigate what effects the fully distributed context have on meetings, meeting participants, and meeting leaders. To achieve this purpose, a qualitative single-case study was conducted. The empirical data were gathered from 15 interviews with employees at a large information and communications technology company in Linköping, Sweden. The theoretical framework including the fully distributed context, leadership, motivation, and attitudes, behaviors, and norms is the foundation for the analytical model used to analyze the empirical data. For meetings, it was found that the number of meetings has increased, meetings without fixed end times get longer, meetings need clear agendas and structures, and that meetings are booked in a tighter sequence without room for breaks. Using cameras during meetings increases participation but not if there are many meeting participants or when someone starts sharing their screen. It was found that inter-office meetings work better in the fully distributed context. Discussions are fewer and less lively in fully distributed meetings, but virtual fika1 is a kind of informal meeting that can help employees feel more connected and maintain interpersonal relations. For meeting participants, it was found that the fully distributed context has enabled participants to not be seen during meetings, to multitask more, to go on walks during meetings, and to attend more meetings. Fully distributed meetings offer participants more flexibility in meeting attendance but are also more difficult for participants to stay focused during. The perceived social pressure from the surrounding often determines how participants behave in meetings, for example if participants turn on their cameras or not. For meeting leaders, it was found that, contrary to the literature, meeting participants’ behavior affect the motivation of the meeting leader. Meeting participants' multitasking during meetings is considered positive for productivity but makes meeting leaders feel insecure as participants seem to listen less. Cameras can offer supportive feedback as the meeting leader can see the participants reactions, but it only works in smaller meetings. Fully distributed meetings demand more of meeting leaders who need to work harder to structure the meetings, force discussions, aim questions, and keep participants active. The results implicate that meeting leaders should set agendas for and structure meetings, implement breaks between meetings, and start meetings with some informal conversations. Moreover, meeting leaders should turn on their cameras in smaller meetings without screen sharing and aim questions at specific participants instead of posing open questions. At the end of this report, a number of suggestions for future studies on the topic of fully distributed meetings are proposed. 1Fika is Swedish for taking a break and sharing a cup of coffee or tea with friends or colleagues possibly, but not necessarily, with a little something to eat.

This study presents an in-depth evaluation of a website integrating OpenAI Whisper and ChatGPT-4 for automatic transcription and extraction of meeting dialogues, using design science as the research strategy. The introduction highlights the need for such a system and its potential application areas. The theoretical background elucidates key concepts and technologies in artificial intelligence. Insights into existing methods and their strengths and weaknesses are gained through a review of previous research and similar systems. The methodology section illuminates how the design science strategy was applied to define requirements, develop, and evaluate the system. The process is described in detail and includes steps such as problem identification, survey for data collection, artifact development, demonstration, and evaluation. The results of the user evaluation highlight both positive and negative aspects of the system. User feedback was used to identify areas for improvement and suggest paths for future development. In conclusion, despite some limitations, the system has the potential to be a useful resource in various application areas, and design science proves to be an effective method for the development and evaluation of such systems. This report has contributed to an increased understanding of the design process behind AI-based systems and their utility in practical applications, where strengths and weaknesses have been identified through the application of design science, leading to suggestions for future development.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilka effekter möteskulturen i traditionell projektmiljö har på motivation hos mötesdeltagarna. Möteskultur i traditionella projekt kan vara ostrukturerad eftersom det är upp till varje enskild projektledare att sätta upp riktlinjer för hur möten ska genomföras. Den empiriska undersökningen i form av kvalitativa intervjuer utfördes på Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut, FOI, och deltagarnas upplevda motivation analyserades utifrån Self Determination Theory. Intervjuresultat visade på en demotiverande upplevelse i flera situationer, både kring möteskulturen och i hur mötesinnehållet hanteras. Författarna fann att motivationen påverkades av agenda och syftet med mötet, närvaro, mötestider, mötesformen samt feedback. Resultatet visade att den undersökta möteskulturen var ostrukturerad vilket ledde till en uppkomst av en submöteskultur med fler mindre informella möten som i sin tur leder till en upplevelse av att arbetsflödet bryts och de intervjuade kände sig mer stressade och mindre produktiva. Eftersom agil projektledningsmetodik brukar framhållas motiverande ur flera aspekter för författarna en diskussion om hur införandet av agila möten kan vara främjande för motivationen i traditionella projektmiljöer. / The purpose of this study was to examine the effects the meeting culture in traditional projects has on the participants’ motivation. The meeting culture in traditional projects can differ in effectiveness since it is dependant on the project manager to arrange, hold and follow up the meeting. The empiric study was conducted in the form of qualitative interviews at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI, and the motivation experienced by participants' was analysed by Self Determination Theory. The results from the interviews showed a demotivating experience in several situations, both regarding the meeting culture and how the meeting content was handled. The authors found that the motivation was affected by the agenda and purpose of the meeting, the attendence, time and form of the meeting and feedback. The results revealed that the examined meeting culture was unstructured which led to an emerging sub-meeting culture of an increasing number of smaller informal meetings. This in turn led to an experience of the work flow being disturbed and the interviewees feeling more stressed and less productive. Since agile project methodology is often regarded as motivating from several aspects, the authors conducted a discussion on how the implementation of agile meetings can be conducive to motivation in traditional project environments.

The purpose of this study is to show transitions between verbal and visual meaning in ordinary language, based on philosophical concepts and conceptual artworks. It offers models for artistic research and collaboration in arts and science. Shared experiences in ordinary language are fundamental to this thesis and make it an accessible and trans-disciplinary study. Language as such, is approached from different practices and disciplines and becomes the central object of investigation. The research introduces a general set of mechanisms in language, stemming from the Wittgensteinian notion of the language-game. The study examines the possibility of a meeting between the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the writer Gertrude Stein in a linguistic, biographical and poetic sense. The main claim is that Wittgenstein and Stein share the understanding of language as a game, which is a fruitful principle for artistic and poetic production. Gertrude Stein developed a dimension in her writing which partly succeeds in showing this notion of creating meaning-as-practice and making sense on the ‘edge’ of conventional meaning. In this way she augments Wittgenstein’s idea of the language-game and puts it into practice, tests its limits on her own language and on the reader’s habits. The artistic works represented in this thesis are equally experimental tests of Wittgenstein’s meaning-as-use hypothesis. They put his ideas into practice. They extend the research with strategies from the arts, poetry and fiction. The methodology of the research is based on Wittgenstein’s notion of meaning as context-dependent use. This concept defines the meaning of a word by the way it is used in a specific context. This perspective is then challenged with visual artistic work. This hypothesis is tested throughout the research by applying tools and concepts from several practices, like computer linguistic tools, collaboration with writers and artists from other fields and autonomous visual and poetic work to augment the study of facts. Conceptual artworks, often produced in collaboration, function as language experiments, or language-games. The Wittgensteinian differentiation between what can be shown and what can be said is examined. The context of the research lies in the practices developed as a conceptual artist in which theoretical research informs artistic practice. This thesis, on the border between verbal and visual language, is founded upon antecedent studies in philosophy of language and the practice of Fine Arts. Against this background the research focuses on the relationship between word, context and meaning: issues of communication, ordinary language, words and their composition, context-based meaning, naming visual phenomena, examination of word-and-world-relationships and vocabularies. Main sources are the major works and biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gertrude Stein, the critical work of Marjorie Perloff, language philosophers concerned with ordinary language and the contrastive corpus linguistic approach. The results of this research are generated by several interdisciplinary productive methods. Artworks, poetic and scientific work, all of which employ modes of language, and whose their domains overlap. Additionally, the notion of meeting acts as model metaphor for the development of a solid trans-disciplinary methodology for research between science and the arts. One major result of comparing their ideas on language is reflected in the meeting of the language used by Wittgenstein and Stein. Their meeting is materialized in the computer generated Shared Vocabulary, which is a list of words which both Wittgenstein and Stein used in their writing. It applies linguistic tools from contrastive corpus linguistics to compare their vocabularies (corpora), which offers new methods for investigating the works of the philosopher Wittgenstein and writer Stein. Generally, this thesis may act as an introduction to language as ideal fundament for interdisciplinary study. The application of the principle of the language-game (Wittgenstein) is a significant of displaying possible strategies for artists and researchers who work transdisciplinarily. The research results directly inform practice and practitioners from other fields, which means that collaboration is central to the research. It implies that language permeates every sort of research, art and its discourse. It also suggests that the meaning of words and images depend on their use, which extends the Wittgensteinian meaning-as-use hypothesis to visual language. The findings of the research on vocabularies are quite specific, but they overlap with offering simple general mechanisms of the language-game. The consequent alliance of the discussion with the language of the everyday makes the research a general contribution to everyone who is genuinely interested in language and the arts.

Bakgrund: Möten mellan människor är en del av vården och inom psykiatrin är de ofta komplicerade, i synnerhet inom tvångsvården. Multifaktoriella orsaker påverkar patienten och sjuksköterskan innan, under samt efter mötet. Det ställs stora krav på professionalitet för att hantera detta möte varvid kunskap är nödvändigt. Området är dock relativt outforskat. Syfte: Att belysa kliniska erfarenheter hur möten inom psykiatrin kan leda till byggandet av goda vårdrelationer. Metod: En allmän litteratursammanställning av åtta vetenskapliga artiklar. Resultat: Den forskning som finns inom området syntetiserades till tre teman; möte, relation och trygghet. Angående mötet är det första intrycket viktigt och under det läggs grunder för en vårdrelation, som behöver utvecklas ömsesidigt, och patienten behöver känna att det är tryggare på avdelningen än utanför. Slutsats: Professionella möten som del av byggandet av goda vårdrelationer har potential att förmedla känslan av trygghet som i sin tur underlättar konvalescensen. Klinisk betydelse: Den kliniskt ackumulerade erfarenheten av detta möte måste studeras djupgående och mer forskning behövs. Sjuksköterskan kan använda resultaten i sin strategiska planering i byggandet av patientrelationer. / Background: Meetings are part of nursing and within psychiatric care they are often complicated, especially those occurring within coercive care. There are multifactorial underlying causes affecting both the patient and the nurse before, during and after the meeting. There are many requirements on professionalism in order to make use of this occasion. Education is necessary but research is lacking. Aims: To elucidate how meetings within psychiatric care leads to good caring relationship. Methods: A general literature review based on eight scientific articles. Results: The research within the field was synthesized into three themes; meeting, relation and comfort. Regarding the meeting, the first impression is of great importance and fundamental for constructing the caring-relationship, based on mutual understanding, that make the patient feel safer inside the department, rather than outside. Conclusions: Professional meetings as a part of building good patient relationship has the potential to mediate a feeling of safety and this is essential for convalescence. Clinical implications: The clinical accumulated experience from the meetings must be studied in depth and more research is needed. The nurse can use these results in her strategic planning for building of patient relationship.

Mötesplatsen är en utforskande designuppsats som behandlar ämnena möten, kommunikation och återhämtning på arbetsplatsen. Vi gör en litterär undersökning där vi tittar på forskning gjord av Rachel och Stephen Kaplan, Gary W. Evans och Janetta Mitchell McCoy med utgångspunkt i frågeställningarna: Hur skapas en plats för vila och återhämtning? Hur skapas en plats för naturliga möten och kommunikation? Hur skapas en samlingspunkt för att lära känna varandra? För att få ytterligare utgångspunkter utför vi även enkätundersökningar och intervjuar tre arkitekter. Baserad på en kreativ process resulterar undersökningen i ett inredningskoncept och en möbel utformad för en planerad mötesplats inför samlokaliseringen av en nybildad koncern. / The meeting place is an investigative design essay which covers the subjects meeting, communication and recovery at the workplace. A literary investigation is made where we study research by Rachel and Stephen Kaplan, Gary W. Evans och Janetta Mitchell McCoy based on the questions: How could a restorative space be designed? How could a meeting place and a place for communication be designed? How could a meeting place to get to know each other be designed? To broaden our investigation we are carrying out surveys and interviewing three architects by profession. Based on a creative process the investigation results in an interior design concept together with a furniture designed for a planned meeting place for a recently united concern.

This thesis is a study about how a conference room can be formed to facilitate for multiway communication. The room will facilitate meetings in different forms. This study uses a meeting room in Västerås for the leading team of “Habiliteringscentrum Västmanland” as an example. In the current situation the room doesn’t meet the needs of the leading team to support multiway communication and the room is perceived as uninspiring. In order to support the leading team to have multiway communication, it’s very important to have a conference room that reflects the newly introduced ways of working. The current design and use of the room has been studied through an architectural analysis, interview, observation and a questionnaire. With support from literature and the results from the architectural analysis, interview, observation and the questionnaire I have created a design proposal. Through color, work material and furniture adapted to the requirements of the leading team, the new design proposal for the room creates space for multiway communication and a possibility to stimulate the team to a creative way of thinking. The design suggested support multiway communication that can lead to more effective meetings with better results for their continued work. / Detta arbete är en studie i hur ett mötesrum kan utformas för att underlätta för flervägskommunikation. Arbetet har utgått ifrån ett mötesrum i Västerås för ledningsgruppen av Habiliteringscentrum Västmanland. Rummet ska underlätta för att ha möten i olika former. I nuläget uppfyller inte rummet ledningsgruppens behov av möten i olika former, arbetsmiljön idag är bristfällig och rummet upplevs som oinspirerande. För att ledningsgruppen ska kunna ha möten i form av flervägskommunikation är ett arbetsrum som är stödjande för deras arbetsmetoder av stor betydelse. Genom rumsanalys, intervju, observation och mailenkät har det befintliga rummet och användarnas behov studerats. Med stöd av litteratur och resultaten av rumsanalys, intervju, observation och mailenkät har jag skapat ett gestaltningsförslag. Genom färger, arbetsmaterial och möbler anpassade efter ledningsgruppens behov skapar rummet plats för flervägskommunikation och ger möjlighet för att stimulera ledningsgruppen till ett kreativt tankesätt.

Aim: The overall aim is to examine how a patient perspective, grounded in caring science, can be preserved and developed in the context of hospital care.   Methods: The first study examines attitudes towards caring science in a clinical practice. Data were collected through focus group interviews with seven nurses, three head nurses and four senior preceptors. An interpretive approach guided the study. The results called for collaboration between clinical praxis and the academy, according to how caring science can be preserved and developed. Study II–III functioned in accordance with this goal and were conducted in collaboration with a hospital ward for people over seventy-five years of age. In an attempt to develop care the patients were invited to attend a team meeting. The data in these studies were collected using interviews and observations. Fifteen patients (study II) and nine nurses (study III) who had experienced patient participation in a team meeting participated. In these studies, a reflective lifeworld approach guided the research process. Study IV is presented as a general structure and philosophical examination in the light of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty’s philosophies.   Main Findings: To preserve and develop a patient perspective is strongly connected to existential issues, such as lived time, intersubjectivity and a meaningful existence. For the patients, vulnerability is exposed and increased when the need for hospital care arises. The team meeting is experienced as an emotional situation where existential dimensions need to be recognized. The nurses desire to develop caring is challenged by organizational and economic demands. Time presents both a possibility for an encounter as well as a threat to excellent care.   Conclusions: There is a need to challenge narrow processes in modern health care that value the staffs’ work and the patients’ vulnerability in quantifiable measures of efficiency. The challenge is to take into account something that is invaluable - human existence.