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Competencies

The Val IT Research Group is a multidisciplinary research group ranging from Business administration and management, Logistics, Decisions theory and Informatics and as such holds a multitude of competencies. The combination of the group’s accumulated competencies could be grouped in four primary areas; methodology, design, critical perspectives and project management.

Methodology
- Quality assessment of interactive artifacts
- Investment analysis (such as option theory)
- Optimization and statistical methods in general
- Quantitative methods for handling risk and uncertainty
- Text analysis, content analysis, discourse analysis
- Field study methods (interviews, observations, focus groups etc.)
- Ethnographic methods
- Case study
- Action research
- Psychological and experimental engineering psychology
- Grounded theory

Design
- Human computer interaction and interaction design
- User perceptions and usage of information technologies
- Visualizing ethical agency
- Reflexive and sustainable design stances
- Participatory design
- Process modeling
- Experimental design and research
- Systems analysis modeling

Critical Perspectives
- Analyzing power relations (gendered power relations) in IT design and use
- Feminist STS approach to IT production, design and use of IT
- How technologies are done in assemblies of humans and nonhumans
- Post colonial STS as a theoretical approach to production, design and use of IT
- Visualizing dominant stories and embedded internationalities
- Demonstrating digital technologies’ interpretative flexibility (different actor roles, tensions and conflicts, and different values interconnected with IT)

Project Management
- General enterprise systems research
- Methods to support sustainable strategic investments
- Methods for evaluating investment decisions accounting for corporate social responsibility

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