Master's projects under this topic should focus on understanding current practices of digital pathologists in the Drammen Hospital with the intent of identifying design opportunities to support these practices through the use of AI-based solutions. Ideally, the project will be implemented through an ethnographic informed approach, including short visits to the Drammen Hospital to observe digital pathologists at work, and interviews to better understand their practices and associated needs. Starting from this understanding, the project will concentrate on the design of an innovative AI solutions for the identified practices following participatory approaches.
Courses:
- IN5000 – Research Methods in Informatics
- IN5500 - Computer-Support Cooperative Work and Social Computing
- IN5510 – Participatory Design
Related literature
Creswell, J. W. (2007). Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
Pinatti De Carvalho, A. F., Abele, N. D., Hoffmann, S., Schweitzer, M., & Tolmie, P. (2026). Realising Grounded Design in Practice: Reflections on Using Design Case Studies for Practice-centred Computing. I-Com, 25(1), 127-146. https://doi.org/10.1515/icom-2025-0042
Rohde, M., Brödner, P., Stevens, G., Betz, M., & Wulf, V. (2017). Grounded Design - A Praxeological IS Research Perspective. Journal of Information Technology, 32(2), 163-179. https://doi.org/10.1057/jit.2016.5
Wulf, V., Müller, C., Pipek, V., Randall, D., Rohde, M., & Stevens, G. (2015). Practice-Based Computing: Empirically Grounded Conceptualizations Derived from Design Case Studies. In V. Wulf, K. Schmidt, & D. Randall (Eds), Designing Socially Embedded Technologies in the Real-World (pp. 111–150). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6720-4_7