Maja Van Der Velden

• Kjøde, Svein Gunnar; Van Der Velden, Maja & Motevallian, Mahsa (2021). Sustainability Concepts in Nordic Business Research: A Critical Perspective. Sustainability.  ISSN 2071-1050.  13(9) . doi: 10.3390/su13095160
• Van Der Velden, Maja (2021). ‘Fixing the World One Thing at a Time’: Community repair and a sustainable circular economy. Journal of Cleaner Production.  ISSN 0959-6526.  304 . doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127151 Vis sammendrag

  The notion of a circular economy is often presented in discourses on a more sustainable future. A circular economy proposes more efficient material flows in growth-based economy and in support of sustainable development. Repair is presented as one of the phases in a circular economy and supports product lifetime extension. The paper brings a particular form of repair, community repair, into discourses on a circular economy. Data from a world-wide initiative in community repair and from participant observation in a Repair Café provide new insights in the possible roles and challenges of repair in a circular economy. Notions of efficiency and economic growth are contested in community repair; repair contributes to product lifetime extension and product attachment through acts of tinkering, sharing, and care. The analysis points to an inseparability of the material and social in community repair, contributing to a non-reductionist understanding of a circular economy. Community repair is a sociomaterial entanglement of people and things. This enables a different perspective on the role of repair, from merely a phase in the material flows in a circular economy to a sustainable way of living with things in a circular economy.

• van der Velden, Maja (2021). ‘I felt a new connection between my fingers and brain’: a thematic analysis of student reflections on the use of pen and paper during lectures. Teaching in Higher Education.  ISSN 1356-2517. . doi: 10.1080/13562517.2020.1863347 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  This paper presents an analysis of a hundred and one handwritten essays by master students in Informatics. The students reflected on their experiences of working with pen and paper for reading and writing as a mandatory assignment for the duration of a five-week intensive course. Taking an inductive approach, reflexive thematic analysis was used to identify patterns of meaning across the full dataset. The essays elicited insightful student reflections on learning, knowing, and being. One overarching theme, New connections, and four sub-theses were identified: Handwriting as note making, Being present for learning, Freedom to think, and Materiality of reading and writing. This study contributes to an improved understanding of the affordances of paper and laptops in the lecture room, based on a student-centred approach, and reflects on how student perspectives can be implemented during lectures.

• Van Der Velden, Maja; Gjelsten, Børge Kile & Jensen, Siri Annethe Moe (2021). Sustainability Competence in Computer Science Education. Nordic Journal of STEM Education.  ISSN 2535-4574.  5(1) . doi: 10.5324/njsteme.v5i1.3953 Vis sammendrag

  Digitalisation creates opportunities and challenges, both socially and environmentally. Are computer science students interested in addressing these opportunities and challenges and is their education providing them the desired competencies? Theoretically, the paper focuses on the concept of competency and presents the eight sustainability competencies formulated in UNESCO’s Education for the Sustainable Development Goals. Two sets of data are analysed to address the research questions: data from a questionnaire focusing on their aspirations for future work and data from a deductive content analysis of the learning outcomes of six bachelor programmes in informatics. Sustainability-related factors scored important/very important in the aspirations for future work. The analysis of the learning outcomes indicates a very weak connection between learning goals and sustainability competencies. An integrative approach is proposed, which may contribute to the development of sustainability competencies that enable the students to take up normative and critical positions in digitalisation and sustainability discourses.

• Oteng-Ababio, Martin & van der Velden, Maja (2020). Connectivity in Chaotic Urban Spaces: Mapping Informal Mobile Phone Market Clusters in Accra, Ghana. Journal of Asian and African Studies.  ISSN 0021-9096. . doi: 10.1177/0021909620960147 Vis sammendrag

  This article investigates the proliferation of informal mobile phone markets and contributes to the understanding of the changing urban economic geographies in Africa. It enriches comparative research by modestly bringing new theoretical ideas to bear, and explores how the spatial geography of mobile phone markets mediates urban governance. We argue that regardless of where in Accra mobile phone markets emerge, the same kind of processes and activities develop, and this recognition contrasts other works, which either focus on the city as a whole or on specific sites. Using key informant interviews, augmented with cognitive mapping, we observe the geography of mobile phone repairs and sales, intersecting socio- economic factors, and a collaborative culture among participants. Ultimately, our article touches upon the issues of power and agency by elucidating the relational dynamics between the informal operators and city authorities.

• Oteng-Ababio, Martin; van der Velden, Maja & Taylor, Mark Beaumont (2020). Building Policy Coherence for Sound Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Management in a Developing Country. The Journal of environment & development.  ISSN 1070-4965.  29 . doi: 10.1177/1070496519898218 Vis sammendrag

  This article explores the compatibility of Ghana’s e-waste policy (Act 917) in the country’s socioeconomic context. Our article starts with two main questions based on our empirical engagements with the act which, contextually, mimics the extended producer responsibility. First, we question the pessimistic imaginaries about the e-waste industry that seeks its outright trade ban or promotes a single version of recycling. Second, we query if the underlying assumptions and basic mechanisms of extended producer responsibility can create the enabling environment to actualize sound e-waste management. Based on prevailing context, the imaginaries appear socially peripheral, isolated, and powerless, and we call for a broader, unbiased, in-depth, critical systems thinking for understanding the complexities and multidimensional nature of the waste electrical and electronic equipment industry. We suggest that it is by fostering the positive synergies across sectors and among policies that environmentally sound e-waste policy outcomes can be achievable.

• Taylor, Mark Beaumont & Van Der Velden, Maja (2019). Resistance to Regulation: Failing Sustainability in Product Lifecycles. Sustainability.  ISSN 2071-1050.  11(22) . doi: 10.3390/su11226526 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  International policy and law have long sought to ensure that states regulate the negative impacts of production processes on people and the planet. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 targets sustainable production and consumption; international conventions, such as the Basel Convention, or the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and the International Labour Organisation Conventions, all seek to regulate toxic or labour-related impacts associated with industrial production. However, there is ample evidence that such impacts continue. At a time of increasing pressure to develop sustainable systems of production and consumption, we asked whether the existing legal frameworks are appropriate to the task of regulating for sustainability in consumer products. Drawing on research conducted into sustainability in the mobile phone lifecycle, this paper examines the regulatory ecology of hotspots of unsustainability in the product lifecycle of electronics. This paper finds that the interaction of regulatory disjunctures, business models, design of technology, and marginalisation combine to ensure that our systems of production and consumption are predisposed to resist regulation aimed at sustainability.

• Junge, Ines & van der Velden, Maja (2018). Obsolescence in Information and Communication Technology: A Critical Discourse Analysis, In David G. Kreps; Charles Melvin Ess; Louise Leenen & Kai K. Kimppa (ed.),  This Changes Everything - ICT and Climate Change: What Can We Do?.  springer.  ISBN 978-3-319-99605-9.  14.  s 188 - 201 Vis sammendrag

  Responsible production and consumption is one of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Fast Tech, resulting in premature obsolescence, is perceived as an important factor in unsustainable production and consumption patterns of information and communication technologies. In order to investigate societal perspectives on planned obsolescence and its root causes in Norway, we implemented a critical discourse analysis of the Norwegian written media. Technology discourses are often inspired by particular understandings of technology-society relations. We therefore mapped our findings on Andrew Feenberg’s four theories of technology. All articles presented a critical perspective towards the phenomenon of obsolescence. The majority of articles expressed an instrumentalist understanding of technology as the cause of planned obsolescence, while the rest communicated technological determinism as the main worldview underlying planned obsolescence. Both instrumentalist and determinist understandings of technology are based on the understanding that technology is intrinsically neutral and can be used for good or bad ends. We argue that this technology is neutral perspective can undermine the development of policy and design interventions that can contribute to sustainable technology. A thorough engagement with the politics of technology is needed to reach the goal of responsible production and consumption.

• van der Velden, Maja (2018). Digitalisation and the UN Sustainable Development Goals: What role for design. ID&A Interaction design & architecture(s).  ISSN 1826-9745.  (37), s 160- 174 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  This paper investigates the relation between digitalisation and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Digitalisation is often presented as a transformative power, changing the way we live and work. The SDGs describe digitalisation technologies such as ICTs as enablers of sustainable development. The unsustainability of these technologies themselves may actually undermine the gains made in digitalisation. This becomes clear when we locate the discussion of digitalisation and the SDGs in a discussion of the Planetary Boundaries framework. The example of one of the most emblematic digital technologies of our time, the smartphone, shows the negative impact of its production and consumption on the biosphere, the basis for all life on our planet, and on many of the social aspects of the SDGs, such as poverty, child labour, decent work, and peace. But rather than promoting sustainable digitalisation, this paper proposes the notion of sustainment as a foundational principle for the sustainability of digitalisation. While sustainability has become a mean to an end, sustainment is about sustaining life itself. With sustainment,digitalisation and its design can strengthen our ability to respond to the challenges of living on a finite planet.

• van der Velden, Maja (2018). ICT and Sustainability: Looking Beyond the Anthropocene, In David G. Kreps; Charles Melvin Ess; Louise Leenen & Kai K. Kimppa (ed.),  This Changes Everything - ICT and Climate Change: What Can We Do?.  springer.  ISBN 978-3-319-99605-9.  12.  s 166 - 180 Vis sammendrag

  This paper investigates the relation between information and com- munication technology and sustainability through two frameworks that promote sustainable development: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Doughnut Economics. The instrumentalist technology perspective underlying the SDGs, guiding the perceived universality of ICT, presents ICT as a neutral tool. Doughnut Economics enables a more integrative approach, making the unsustainability of ICT itself visible. What these frameworks have in common is that they are located in the discourse of the Anthropocene. Feminist perspectives on this epoch by Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing focus the attention on dif- ferent figures, rhythms, and futures made invisible by the centrality of the human species in the debates on the future of our planet. The idea that humans- with-technology will get us out the predicament of the Anthropocene needs urgent refinement and critical investigation.

• van der Velden, Maja; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Culén, Alma Leora (2018). Designed for Learning: Experiences with the intensive course format in informatics. NOKOBIT - Norsk konferanse for organisasjoners bruk av informasjonsteknologi.  ISSN 1892-0748.  26(1) Vis sammendrag

  Bachelor and Master courses at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo are semester- long courses. Students and teaching staff meet two to four hours every week for lectures and group work. This was also the case in Design, Use, Interaction, a two-year master programme. In 2013 it became possible to teach intensive courses in this Master programme, creating an opportunity to implement three intensive courses successively in one semester. This resulted in the development of two intensive courses and the intensification of another course, which was normally taught as a semester-long course: Tangible Interaction Design, Advancements in Interaction Design, and Design, Technology & Society. Each course was five weeks long. In a presentation of each of the three courses, we will focus on the opportunities and challenges in teaching an intensive course. The main question we will address is: What are the characteristics of a successful intensive course? Based on a literature review, we have identified the following attributes that play a central role in the success of an intensive course: course methodology, teaching methods, exam format, and lecturer-student(s) interactions. We will present our experiences in teaching intensive courses along these four attributes. Our findings and discussion centre around our constructivist learning methodology, implemented through a wide variety of methods enabling creativity, hands-on experiences, theory-practice nexus, and critical reflexivity; new and adapted exam formats; and constructive lecturer-student interactions. While the experiences from the three courses are different, we were able to extract three common attributes for success: i) create a ‘learning home’ for the students, which provides them with a common understanding of the course methodology and enables them to identify their learning experiences; ii) actively work with the theory-practice nexus, using the theoretical literature as a lens to understand practice and practice to construct new knowledge; iii) cultivate constructive lecturer-student and student-student interactions both on an individual, group, and class level.

• Sommervold, Margaret Machniak & van der Velden, Maja (2017). Visions of Illness, Disease, and Sickness in Mobile Health Applications. Societies.  ISSN 2075-4698.  7(4) . doi: 10.3390/soc7040028 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Abdelnour-Nocera, José; Strano, Michele; Ess, Charles Melvin; van der Velden, Maja & Hrachovec, Herbert (2016). Culture, technology, communication common world, different futures: 10th IFIP WG 13.8 international conference, CaTaC 2016 London, UK, june 15–17, 2016 revised selected papers. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology.  ISSN 1868-4238.  490, s V
• Sommervold, Margaret Machniak & van der Velden, Maja (2016). Technology for Transition: Needs and Preferences of Young Patients, In Marike Hettinga; Alma Leora Culén; Lisette Van Gemert-Pijnen; Anne G. Ekeland; Trine Strand Bergmo; Paolo Perego; Maurizio Caon; Cristiana Degano; Piero Giacomelli & Kari Dyb (ed.),  eTELEMED 2016, The Eighth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine and Social Medicine.  International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA).  ISBN 978-1-61208-470-1.  46.  s 257 - 262 Vis sammendrag

  This paper presents a study of the technology needs of young patients with Irritable Bowel Disease, who are in the process of transitioning from pediatrics to adult-centered healthcare. The study is part of a Participatory Design process and is based on the assumption that information and communications technologies can potentially support young patients in achieving increasing independence from parental support and in engaging with their own healthcare. We argue in favor of designing for context-awareness and appropriation in technologies for young patients in transition.

• van der Velden, Maja (2016). Design as Regulation: Towards a regulatory ecology of the mobile phone, In Maja van der Velden (ed.),  CATaC 2016 Culture, Technology, Communication: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Culture, Technology, Communication - Common world, different futures?.  CaTaC, Culture, Technology, and Communication.  ISBN 978-82-999770-1-2.  14.  s 151 - 164 Vis sammendrag

  Mobile phones have become one of the most unsustainable consumer goods. New initiatives, such as Fairphone and Puzzelphone, are working on a more sustainable mobile phone design. This paper introduces the notion of lifecycle thinking to take sustainability beyond the product towards the larger product-system. Social and environmental sustainability needs to be addressed in the whole lifecycle of the mobile phone. This paper explores the opportunities and limitations of design as regulation. The relational concepts of script and affordance help to provide a non-deterministic account of design as regulation. The particular case of the Fairphone 2, a smartphone based on social and environmental values, will be discussed to investigate design as regulation. The notions of regulatory ecology and regulatory patching are introduced as tools to explore opportunities for constructing a more desirable regulatory regime.

• van der Velden, Maja (2016). Design as regulation: Opportunities and limitations for sustainable mobile phone design. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology.  ISSN 1868-4238.  490, s 32- 54 . doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-50109-3_3 Vis sammendrag

  Mobile phones have become one of the most unsustainable consumer goods. Social and environmental risks are found throughout the whole lifecycle of mobile phones. This chapter introduces the notion of lifecycle thinking to take sustainability beyond the product towards the larger product-system. Design can play a central role creating sustainable product lifecycles, but is constraint by other modes of regulation, such as law, social norms, and market. This paper explores the opportunities and limitations of design as regulation. The relational concepts of script and affordance help to provide a non-deterministic account of design as regulation. The particular case of the Fairphone 2, a smartphone designed with social and environmental values, will be discussed to investigate design as regulation. The notions of regulatory ecology and regulatory patching are introduced as tools to explore opportunities for constructing a more desirable regulatory regime.

• van der Velden, Maja & Sommervold, Margaret Machniak (2016). MoodLine and MoodMap: Designing a Mood Function for a Mobile Application with and for Young Patients, In Marike Hettinga; Alma Leora Culén; Lisette Van Gemert-Pijnen; Anne G. Ekeland; Trine Strand Bergmo; Paolo Perego; Maurizio Caon; Cristiana Degano; Piero Giacomelli & Kari Dyb (ed.),  eTELEMED 2016, The Eighth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine and Social Medicine.  International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA).  ISBN 978-1-61208-470-1.  39.  s 214 - 219 Vis sammendrag

  Tracking mood or emotional experiences over time is a popular function found in mobile health applications. In this study, young patients with chronic health challenges consider this also an important function of a multifunctional app supporting them in the transition to adult care. At the same time they expressed the need to be seen as a young person, not a diagnosed body. A lifeworld-led design approach, based on a Participatory Design methodology, resulted in a mood tracking and a mood mapping design, which was meaningful to the young persons’ everyday experiences. Photos tagged with colors representing different emotional states were chosen as the best way to represent their moods. An overview of moods, by day as well as by color, gives an understanding of the wider context in which these moods appear and can play a motivational role in dealing with a difficult day or episode in their lives.

• van der Velden, Maja & Sommervold, Margaret Machniak (2016). The KOOLO app - A case study of self-tracking, visualization, and organizing personal moods. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems.  ISSN 1942-2679.  9(3&4), s 554- 564
• van der Velden, Maja; Sommervold, Margaret Machniak; Culén, Alma Leora & Nakstad, Britt (2016). Designing Interactive Technologies with Teenagers in a Hospital Setting, In Linda Little; Daniel Fitton; Beth Bell & Nicola Toth (ed.),  Perspectives on HCI Research with Teenagers.  Springer Publishing Company.  ISBN 978-3-319-33450-9.  5.  s 103 - 131 Vis sammendrag

  This chapter describes a design process with teenagers with chronic health challenges. The design activities were related to two main themes, the transition from paediatrics to adult healthcare and patient-oriented social networking, and were implemented with a group of young patients who were members of the Youth Council, an advisory body to the hospital. We describe two design strategies, Design Stations and Continuous Participation Platform. Design Stations facilitate a design process that uses the time with the teens effectively and caters also to the teens’ creativity and attention span. The Continuous Participation Platform contributes to maintaining consistency and continuity between the Design Station meetings. The process consisted of four design workshops, which took place in a hospital, and online activities in between these workshops. Nine small research projects were implemented, using a range of diverse participatory methods and tools. In the chapter we analyse and discuss the results using the SHARM framework, our Participatory Design methodology for designing with and for teenagers with chronic health challenges. SHARM focuses on situation-based action, having a say, adaptability, respect, and mutual learning. We found that our participants switch between their identity as a patient and as a teenager. Building and strengthening a third identity, namely that of a co-designer, may further improve the design efforts when designing with this particular group of participants.

• Culén, Alma Leora & van der Velden, Maja (2015). Making Context Specific Card Sets - A Visual Methodology Approach: Capturing User Experiences with Urban Public Transportation. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems.  ISSN 1942-2679.  8(1&2), s 17- 26 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Gallert, Peter & van der Velden, Maja (2015). The sum of all human knowledge? Wikipedia and Indigenous Knowledge, In Nicole Bidwell & Heike Winchiers-Theophilus (ed.),  At the Intersection of Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge and Technology Design.  Informing Science Press.  ISBN 9781932886993.  7.  s 117 - 133
• Sommervold, Margaret Machniak & van der Velden, Maja (2015). Transition Cards: Designing a Card Sorting Method with and for Teenage Patients. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information System.  ISSN 1646-3692.  10(2), s 79- 94 Vis sammendrag

  This paper presents the process of designing and implementing a card-based method used in a Participatory Design process. The method was designed to support young patients in organizing and explaining their experiences and expectations surrounding their transition from pediatrics to adult healthcare. The paper argues in favor of not only including users in the design of new technologies, but also in the design of methods.

• Sommervold, Margaret Machniak & van der Velden, Maja (2015). Transition Cards: Designing a Method with and for Young Patients. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information System.  ISSN 1646-3692.  10(2), s 79- 94
• van der Velden, Maja; Sommervold, Margaret Machniak & Culén, Alma Leora (2015). Patient-Initiated Personalisation: Privacy, Moods and Colours, In Mário Macedo; Claire Gauzente; Miguel Baptista Nunes & Guo Chao Peng (ed.),  Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Health 2015.  IADIS Press.  ISBN 978-989-8533-42-5.  E-Health.  s 95 - 103 Vis sammendrag

  Personalisation can improve the acceptability and prolonged use of a product. This paper reports on the use of colours in user-initiated personalisation of privacy settings and a mood tracker. Colours and their associations were discussed in participatory design activities with young patients (13-21 years old) in a children's hospital in Canada and in Norway and explored in a survey among university students. Colours are an effective way to personalise data. The young patients preferred to select their own colours for the personalisation of data and that colour associations and preferences should be re-configurable during the use of the technology. We found that in the case of the privacy settings that re-configuration could lead to privacy risks. We illustrate our findings by presenting two prototypes we designed with and for young people with chronic health challenges. The first one shows the use of colours in privacy settings in a social networking site for teenage patients and the second one shows the use of colours in the mood tracking function of a mobile application supporting teens in their transition to adult health care.

• Culén, Alma Leora; van der Velden, Maja & Herstad, Jo (2014). Travel Experience Cards: Capturing User Experiences in Public Transportation, In Leslie Miller & Alma Leora Culén (ed.),  ACHI 2014, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions.  ThinkMind.  ISBN 978-1-61208-325-4.  kapittel.  s 72 - 78
• van der Velden, Maja (2014). Re-politicising Participatory Design: What can we learn from Fairphone, In  Ninth International Conference on Culture, Technology, and Communication 2014.  Culture Technology Communication.  ISBN 978-82-999770-0-5.  11.  s 133
• van der Velden, Maja & Machniak, Margaret (2014). Colourful Privacy: Designing Visible Privacy Settings with Teenage Hospital Patients, In Leslie Miller & Alma Leora Culén (ed.),  ACHI 2014, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions.  ThinkMind.  ISBN 978-1-61208-325-4.  kapittel.  s 60 - 65 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• van der Velden, Maja & Mörtberg, Christina M (2014). Participatory Design and Design for Values, In Jeroen van den Hoven; Pieter E. Vermaas & Ibo Van de Poel (ed.),  Handbook of Ethics, Values, and technology Design.  Springer.  ISBN 978-94-007-6994-6.  Kapittel.  s 1 - 22 Vis sammendrag

  Participatory Design (PD) is a design methodology in which the future users of a design participate as co-designers in the design process. It is a value-centered design approach because of its commitment to the democratic and collective shaping of a better future. This chapter builds forth on the Scandinavian Participatory Design tradition. We discuss why the design process is as important as the final result, the product, or service. The creative application of Participatory Design methods facilitates a design process in which values emerge and become inscribed in a prototype. We present PD’s guiding principles: equalizing power relations, democratic practices, situation- based action, mutual learning, tools and techniques, and alternative visions about technology. In addition, we discuss some value practices and design methods informed by our PD projects in health care and the public sector. We maintain that Participatory Design increases the chance that the final result of a design process represents the values of the future users.

• Culén, Alma & van der Velden, Maja (2013). The digital life of vulnerable users: designing with children, patients, and elderly, In Margunn Aanestad & Tone Bratteteig (ed.),  Nordic Contributions in IS Research : 4th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2013, Oslo, Norway, August 11-14, 2013. Proceedings.  Springer.  ISBN 978-3-642-39831-5.  4.  s 53 - 71
• van der Velden, Maja (2013). Decentering Design: Wikipedia and Indigenous Knowledge. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.  ISSN 1044-7318.  29(4), s 308- 316 . doi: 10.1080/10447318.2013.765768
• van der Velden, Maja & Culén, Alma Leora (2013). Information Visibility in Public Transportation Smart Card Ticket Systems. International Journal On Advances in Networks and Services.  ISSN 1942-2644.  6(3&4), s 188- 197
• van der Velden, Maja; Culén, Alma; Herstad, Jo & Abdelhakeem, Atif (2013). Networked Visibility: The case of smart card ticket information, In Leslie Miller (ed.),  ACHI 2013, The Sixth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions.  IARIA.  ISBN 978-1-61208-250-9.  kapittel.  s 228 - 233
• van der Velden, Maja & El Emam, Khaled (2013). "Not all my friends need to know": a qualitative study of teenage patients, privacy, and social media. JAMIA Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.  ISSN 1067-5027.  20(1), s 16- 24 . doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000949
• Mörtberg, Christina M & van der Velden, Maja (2012). Studying the Entanglement of Human and Technologies in Work Practices: A 'Modest Intervention', In John Chandler; Jim Barry & Elisabeth Berg (ed.),  Dilemmas for Human Services. Papers from the 15th Research Conference 2011.  Royal Docks Business School University of East London, United Kingdom.  ISBN 9781905858286.  15.  s 97 - 102
• van der Velden, Maja (2012). Designing for Culture: An Ecological Perspective on Indigenous Knowledge and Database Design, In Pauline, Hope Cheong; Judith Martin & Leah P. Macfadyen (ed.),  New Media and Intercultural Communication: Identity, Community and Politics.  Peter Lang Publishing Group.  ISBN 978-1-4331-1365-9.  2.  s 21 - 38
• van der Velden, Maja (2012). In/visible Bodies: On patients and privacy in a networked world, In  Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication 2012.  Murdoch University.  ISBN 9781921877025.  KAPITTEL. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  In the networked world, privacy and visibility become entangled in new and unexpected ways. This article uses the concept of networked visibility to explore the entanglement of technology and the visibility of patient bodies. Based on semi-structured interviews with patients active in social media, this paper describes how multiple patient bodies are produced in the negotiations between the need for privacy and the need for social interaction. Information technology is actively involved in these negotiations: patients use technology to make their bodies both visible and invisible. At the same time technology collects data on these patients, which can be used for undesired commercial and surveillance purposes. The notion of visibility by design may infuse design efforts that enable online privacy, supporting patients in the multiple ways they want to be visible and invisible online.

• van der Velden, Maja (2012). In/visible bodies: On patients and privacy in a networked world, In  Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication 2012.  Murdoch University.  ISBN 9781921877025.  kapittel 17.  s 199 - 211
• van der Velden, Maja & El Emam, Khaled (2012). “Not all my friends need to know”: a qualitative study of teenage patients, privacy, and social media. JAMIA Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.  ISSN 1067-5027.  20, s 16- 24 . doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000949
• van der Velden, Maja & Mörtberg, Christina M (2012). Between Need and Desire: Exploring Strategies for Gendering Design. Science, Technology and Human Values.  ISSN 0162-2439.  37(6), s 663- 683 . doi: 10.1177/0162243911401632
• Grisot, Miria; van der Velden, Maja & Vassilakopoulou, Polyxeni (2011). Socio-Technical Challenges in Designing a Web-Based Communication Platform, In Anne Moen (ed.),  User Centred Networked Health Care.  IOS Press.  ISBN 9781607508052.  Artikkel 15.  s 68 - 72
• van der Velden, Maja (2011). When Knowledges Meet: Wikipedia and other stories from the contact zone, In Nathaniel Tkacz (ed.),  Critical point of view : a Wikipedia reader.  Institute of Network Cultures.  ISBN 978-90-78146-13-1.  Chapter 16.  s 236 - 258
• Andersen, Synnøve Thomassen & van der Velden, Maja (2010). Mobile phone-based healthcare delivery in a Sami area: Reflections on technology and culture, In Fay Sudweeks; Herbert Hrachovec & Charles Ess (ed.),  Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication 2010.  School of Information Technology, Murdoch University.  ISBN 978-0-86905-966-1.  Chapter 7.  s 53 - 68
• van der Velden, Maja (2010). Design for the Contact Zone: Knowledge management software and the structures of indigenous knowledges, In Fay Sudweeks; Herbert Hrachovec & Charles Ess (ed.),  Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication 2010.  School of Information Technology, Murdoch University.  ISBN 978-0-86905-966-1.  KAPITTEL.
• van der Velden, Maja (2010). Design for the contact zone: Knowledge management software and the structures of indigenous knowledges, In Fay Sudweeks; Herbert Hrachovec & Charles Ess (ed.),  Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication 2010.  School of Information Technology, Murdoch University.  ISBN 978-0-86905-966-1.  Chapter 1.  s 1 - 18 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• van der Velden, Maja (2010). From Tornedalen with Love, In  Travelling Thoughtfulness - feminist technoscience stories ....for Christina.  Institutionen för Informatik, universitetet i umeå.  ISBN 9789174590944.  Kapitel 16.  s 233 - 243
• van der Velden, Maja (2010). Undesigning Culture: A brief reflection on design as ethical practice, In Fay Sudweeks; Herbert Hrachovec & Charles Ess (ed.),  Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication 2010.  School of Information Technology, Murdoch University.  ISBN 978-0-86905-966-1.  KAPITTEL. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• van der Velden, Maja (2010). Undesigning culture: A brief reflection on design as ethical practice, In Fay Sudweeks; Herbert Hrachovec & Charles Ess (ed.),  Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication 2010.  School of Information Technology, Murdoch University.  ISBN 978-0-86905-966-1.  Chapter 13.  s 117 - 122
• van der Velden, Maja (2009). Design for a common world: On ethical agency and cognitive justice. Ethics and Information Technology.  ISSN 1388-1957.  11(1), s 37- 47 . doi: 10.1007/s10676-008-9178-2

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• Abdelnour-Nocera, José; Strano, Michele; Ess, Charles Melvin; van der Velden, Maja & Hrachovec, Herbert (2016). Culture, Technology, Communication. Common World, Different Futures: 10th IFIP WG 13.8 International Conference, CaTaC 2016, London, UK, June 15-17, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Springer.  ISBN 978-3-319-50109-3.  149 s.
• van der Velden, Maja; Strano, Michele; Hrachovec, Herbert; Abdelnour-Nocera, José & Ess, Charles Melvin (2016). CATaC 2016 Culture, Technology, Communication: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Culture, Technology, Communication - Common world, different futures?. CaTaC, Culture, Technology, and Communication.  ISBN 978-82-999770-1-2.  272 s.
• Strano, Michele; Hrachovec, Herbert; Suely, Fragoso; Ess, Charles Melvin & van der Velden, Maja (2014). Ninth International Conference on Culture, Technology, and Communication 2014. Culture Technology Communication.  ISBN 978-82-999770-0-5.  251 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.

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• Maitre-Ekern, Eléonore; Taylor, Mark Beaumont & van der Velden, Maja (2020). Towards a Sustainable Circular Economy: SMART Reform Proposals. Vis sammendrag

  The European Union (EU) has developed ambitious strategies to transform the economy, but it is happening too slowly and not uniformly. There is need to set up a smart regulatory mix governing products sold in the EU, designed to achieve coherence and reduce fragmentation of the existing framework pertaining to products and waste, consumer protection, and trade rules. Moreover, CE policies must be developed for the purpose of limiting environmental and social impacts throughout the life cycle of products, extending product lifetime notably through repair and reuse activities and shaping more sustainable consumption behaviours. The new Circular Economy Action Plan released in March 2020 offers great prospects for developing a policy framework for sustainable production and consumption , but the real challenge will lie in developing specific measures to transform objectives into effective legislation.

• van der Velden, Maja (2020). Apple uses trademark law to strengthen its monopoly on repair. repair.eu. . doi: https://repair.eu/news/apple-uses-trademark-law-to-strengthen-its-monopoly-on-repair/
• Oteng-Ababio, Martin & van der Velden, Maja (2019). “Welcome to Sodom” – Six myths about electronic waste in Agbogbloshie, Ghana. Standplaats Wereld.
• Oteng-Ababio, Martin & van der Velden, Maja (2019). 'Welcome to Sodom' - Six myths about electronic waste in Agbogbloshie, Ghana. Blogging for Sustainability.
• Taylor, Mark Beaumont & van der Velden, Maja (2019). Resisting Regulation: Failing sustainability in product lifecycles.
• van der Velden, Maja (2019). Fixing the World One Thing at the Time: Community Repair and the Circular Economy.
• van der Velden, Maja (2019). March 8 – Women’s Health, Decent Work and the Electronics Industry. Blogging for Sustainability.
• van der Velden, Maja (2019). Vi er alle tapere i saken Apple vant. Dagens næringsliv.  ISSN 0803-9372.
• van der Velden, Maja (2017). Design for living in the doughnut: The case of the mobile phone.
• van der Velden, Maja (2017). Thinking with Care: Exploring interdisciplinarity in a global research project.
• van der Velden, Maja (2017). Why the most sustainable mobile is the one you own. KLIMA - Et magasin om klimaforskning fra CICERO.
• van der Velden, Maja & Borge, Krister (2017). Rett til reparasjon. Dagsavisen.  ISSN 1503-2892.
• van der Velden, Maja & Taylor, Mark (2017). Sustainability Hotspot Analysis of the Mobile Phone Lifecycle.
• Abdelnour-Nocera, José; Strano, Michele; Ess, Charles Melvin; van der Velden, Maja & Hrachovec, Herbert (2016). Preface. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology.  ISSN 1868-4238.  490, s V- V
• van der Velden, Maja (2016, 19. april). America's Drone Wars: http://www.cinemateket.no/148584/unmanned-americas-drone-wars. [Internett].  Oslo - Cinemateket.
• van der Velden, Maja (2016). Å reparere en stavmikser - en oppfordring til reparasjonsvennlig politikk. Dagsavisen.  ISSN 1503-2892.
• van der Velden, Maja (2015). Another Design is Possible: On slow tech and a fair phone.
• van der Velden, Maja (2015). “Design is politics by other means”: On futures, Fairphone, and participatory design.
• van der Velden, Maja (2015). Etiske mobiler?.
• van der Velden, Maja (2014). Re-politicising Participatory Design: What we can learn from Fairphone. Vis sammendrag

  This exploratory paper is a contribution to the discussion of the re-politisation of Participatory Design. After a brief introduction of this Scandinavian design tradition, the Fairphone, a sustainable and fair mobile phone, is introduced as a case to rethink design as politics. Concern for planetary destruction, as a result of climate change, motivates the discussion of Tony Fry's notion of redirective design in the analysis of the Fairphone. Is the Fairphone just 'less bad' or is it paradigmatic example of an alternative technological vision? There are many lessons to be learned from Fairphone, not just by Participatory Design. Most importantly, Fairphone shows the importance of relating the things we help design to futures that become possible or impossible. Participatory Design, with its focus on democratic practices and 'having a say', needs to find ways to bring the voices of future generations into today's design practices.

• Culén, Alma; van der Velden, Maja & Karpova, Anna (2013). Challenges in Designing Learning Apps for and with Vulnerable Children. Vis sammendrag

  In this paper, some challenges in designing for and with vulnerable children, focusing primarily on touch-based interactions with personal artefacts such as tablets, are discussed. The basis for discussion is our experience with an iPad learning application design for a special education class consisting of only six elementary school students. Even for such a small group of students, it was difficult to find an appropriate common learning activity, and consequently design a learning app that could be used in the classroom, benefiting all. Designing with this vulnerable group is complicated by variety of ways in which these children have special needs and how children’s vulnerabilities around those are manifested. Some of the main challenges we met were how to adapt our techniques and methods to working with this user group, primarily in strenghtening their voice in the design process, how to interpret children’s behaviours correctly and how to best handle increased ethical concerns.

• Gallert, Peter & van der Velden, Maja (2013). Indigenous knowledge for Wikipedia: Bending the rules?.
• Kate, Ackerman & van der Velden, Maja (2013, 29. januar). Teenagers, Social Media and Health Information Privacy. [Internett].  iHealthBeat.
• van der Velden, Maja (2013). Hva deler pasienter på sosiale medier?. Om selvbeskyttelse, selvdefinisjon, selvbestemmelse og synlighet.
• van der Velden, Maja (2013). Nettpasienter. www.tidsskriftet.no.  (2)
• van der Velden, Maja & Culén, Alma (2013). Designing Privacy with Teenage Patients: Methodological Challenges.
• Midthun, Sondre & van der Velden, Maja (2012, 07. september). Redigerer bort sykdom.  Klassekampen.
• Torheim, Norunn K. & van der Velden, Maja (2012, 13. september). Syke vil være normale på Facebook. [Internett].  Forskning.no.
• van der Velden, Maja (2012). Constructing a Self on Facebook: Teenage patients, privacy and autonomy.
• van der Velden, Maja (2012). In/visible Bodies: On patients and privacy in a networked world. Vis sammendrag

  In the networked world, privacy and visibility become entangled in new and unexpected ways. This article uses the concept of networked visibility to explore the entanglement of technology and the visibility of patient bodies. Based on semi-structured interviews with patients active in social media, this paper describes how multiple patient bodies are produced in the negotiations between the need for privacy and the need for social interaction. Information technology is actively involved in these negotiations: patients use technology to make their bodies both visible and invisible. At the same time technology collects data on these patients, which can be used for undesired commercial and surveillance purposes. The notion of visibility by design may infuse design efforts that enable online privacy, supporting patients in the multiple ways they want to be visible and invisible online.

• van der Velden, Maja (2012). Making the invisible visible. Vis sammendrag

  Also in the Third Age of Internet and Internet Studies (Wellman, 2011), research focuses mainly on the users, use, and content. Web 2.0 platforms, the technologies underlying blogs, social networks, wikis, etc., are ignored in these studies. The lack of attention to platforms (Bogust & Montfort, 2009) makes the agency of technology invisible (van der Velden, 2007). These platforms establish the channels and perform the connections through which information circulates (Langlois et al, 2009). Take the case of Wikipedia, the largest collection of user-generated online content and one of the most popular Internet site, with 460 million visitors a month. Wikipedia has de-centered (Cunningham & Williams, 1993) the authoring of knowledge but has a centralised platform with protocols and templates that define, order, and circulate knowledge. This platform is based on the values of a print culture with its focus on details, rational analysis, and linear storytelling (St. Clair 2000). The human knowledge that doesn’t fit the Wikipedia platform becomes invisible, is marginalised, or diasporized (Olson & Ward, 1997). By including the platforms, softwares, codes, protocols, standards, and templates in our Internet studies – the way they shape users, use, and content, and at the same time are shaped by them – we can make visible what has become invisible.

• van der Velden, Maja (2012). Teenage Patient Privacy: Self-presentation and self-protection in social media.
• van der Velden, Maja (2012). Wenn sich Wissen im Plural trifft Indigenes Wissen und Datenbanken. www.bpb.de.
• Finken, Sisse; Mörtberg, Christina M; van der Velden, Maja & Bratteteig, Tone (2011). The Becoming of Places: Stories of meaning and matter from a university metro station through still pictures.
• Grisot, Miria; van der Velden, Maja & Vassilakopoulou, Polyxeni (2011). Institutionalizing Practices as Boundary Work: The case of MyHealthRecord.
• Mörtberg, Christina M & van der Velden, Maja (2011). ‘Modest interventions’ – a feminist methodological contribution to the entanglement of humans and nonhumans in work practices.
• van der Velden, Maja (2011). Personal autonomy in a post-privacy world: A feminist technoscience perspective.
• van der Velden, Maja (2011). Visualising Privacy.
• van der Velden, Maja (2010). Bok presentasjon: IKT og samhandling i helsesektoren - Digitale lappetepper eller sømløs integrasjon? (Aanestad & Olaussen, eds).
• van der Velden, Maja (2010). Design for the Contact Zone: Knowledge management software and the structures of indigenous knowledges.
• van der Velden, Maja (2010). Undesigning Culture: A brief reflection on design as ethical practice.
• van der Velden, Maja (2010). When Knowledges Meet: Database Design and the Performance of Knowledge.
• Bratteteig, Tone; Finken, Sisse & van der Velden, Maja (2009). Autonomy and Automation in an ‘Information Society for All’.
• van der Velden, Maja (2009). Another Design is Possible: Looking for ethical agency in global information and communication technology. Vis sammendrag

  PhD-avhandling

• van der Velden, Maja (2009). Design of Knowledge Management Software and the Structures of Indigenous Knowledges.
• van der Velden, Maja; Bratteteig, Tone & Finken, Sisse (2009). Entangled matter: thinking differently about materials in design. Vis sammendrag

  What role do materials play in the communication of information in a public space? In this paper we look at a metro station in Oslo and focus on how and where messages, such as posters, graffiti, and commercial advertisements, are connected to the station’s surfaces. How to understand this relationship between materials, surfaces, and messages? In a discussion of representational and ecological perspectives on the properties of materials, we propose to understand the station as a zone of entanglement. This enables us to see how the realities of the station, including the properties of its materials, are constantly produced in the practices of the people who use the station. This understanding of materials presents design not only as a non-deterministic practice, but challenges us to design for not yet known uses. Making future uses possible should be based on ongoing engaged and entangled design practices today.

• van der Velden, Maja; Bratteteig, Tone; Finken, Sisse & Mörtberg, Christina M (2009). Autonomy and Automation in an Information Society for All.
• van der Velden, Maja; Bratteteig, Tone; Finken, Sisse & Mörtberg, Christina M (2009). Autonomy and Automation in an Information Society for All, In Judith Ann Molka-Danielsen (ed.),  Proceedings of the 32nd Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, IRIS 32 - Inclusive design.  Høgskolen i Molde.  ISBN 9788279621201.  KAPITTEL.
• van der Velden, Maja; Mörtberg, Christina M & Elovaara, Pirjo (2009). Tensions in Design.

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