Curriculum Vitae (Full version) Andreas Larsson
CURRICULUM VITAE ANDREAS C. LARSSON
1 PERSONAL INFORMATION 1.1 Name Andreas Christer Larsson 1.2 Date of Birth September 26, 1976 1.3 Gender Male 1.4 Contact Details Home address: Storgatan 50 A 972 31 Luleå Sweden Telephone number: +46 70 332 18 74 Email address: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.ltu.se/staff/d/daisan 1.5 Current Position 2009‐, Research Associate and Associate Professor, Division of Functional Product Development, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 1.6 Previous Positions 2008‐2009, Research Associate and Assistant Professor, Division of Functional Product Development, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2008, Visiting Scholar, Center for Design Research, Stanford University, Stanford, USA. 2007‐2008, Project Leader and Assistant Professor, Division of Functional Product Development, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2006‐2007, Visiting Scholar, Hosei University IT Research Center, Tokyo, Japan 2005‐2007, Researcher, Division of Computer Aided Design, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2006, Project Coordinator, Office of External Relations, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2001‐2005, PhD Student within the Polhem Laboratory, a VINNOVA Competence Centre in Integrated Product Development, Division of Computer Aided Design, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2000‐2001, Research Engineer, Division of Computer Aided Design, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden.
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1.7 Other 2009‐, Global Foresight Scholar, Center for Foresight & Innovation, Stanford University 2007‐2008, Research Manager, Designtech Innovative Project Solutions, Luleå, Sweden. 1996‐, Consultancy work in interaction design, web site design, team facilitation, and participatory product innovation. CEO of Fusemode.
2 EXAMINA AND EVALUATIONS 2.1 University Examina 2005, Ph.D. in Computer Aided Design, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. Thesis: “Engineering Know‐Who: Why Social Connectedness Matters to Global Design Teams”. ISSN 1402‐1544 / ISRN LTU‐DT‐‐05/19‐‐SE / NR 2005:19. 2002, Tech.Lic. in Computer Aided Design, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. Thesis: “Socio‐Technical Aspects of Distributed Collaborative Engineering”. ISSN 1402‐1757 / ISRN LTU‐LIC‐‐02/36‐‐SE / NR 2002:36. 2000, M.Sc. in Human Work Science with Emphasis on Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, Sweden. 1999, B.Sc. in Human Work Science with Emphasis on Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, Sweden. 2.2 Docent (Associate Professor) Competency 2009, Associate Professor (Docent) in Functional Product Development. 2007, Supervisor Education, Step 2, “Docentkurs”, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2.3 Evaluations of own scientific excellence 2009, Evaluation for the Associate Professor (Docent) title in Functional Product Development. Performed by Professor Amaresh Chakrabarti, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and Professor Hans Johannesson, Division of Product Development, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. 2008, Evaluation for the position of Research Associate in Functional Product Development. Performed by Professor Staffan Sunnersjö, School of Engineering, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden. See ”3.4 Granted Funding Applications” below to see my contributions to evaluated grants.
3 ACADEMIC MERITS 3.1 Short description of own research profile With a multi‐disciplinary academic background, spanning the fields of Human Work Science, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, his research approach borrows from all these fields to seek to better understand and address some of the particularly pressing challenges that face both local and global innovation teams in the highly competitive business climate of today. Inspired by the ethnographic tradition, he usually embarks from empirical investigations [email protected] 2 (17) October 7, 2009 Curriculum Vitae (Full version) Andreas Larsson into the everyday work practice of individuals and teams working with product development at our industry partners in Sweden and across Europe. The research activities fundamentally aim to establish a strong relation between a deep understanding of engineering work practice and the design of appropriate, useful technologies and methods that can truly support engineers working primarily in the early stages of functional product development, often in the context of globally dispersed teams. One particular focus is to understand and support social aspects of engineering collaboration, meaning that I tend to direct his attention to situations in which people exchange information, knowledge, experiences and ideas with other people – where technologies and methods are used as mediators of the social process of ‘doing engineering’. At the core of his research agenda is to create a rich blend of needs‐motivated research activities dealing with cross‐functional knowledge sharing, local and distributed teamwork, and participatory innovation. These three interests can be summarized in the overarching aim to support product developing individuals, teams and organizations in effectively and efficiently sharing knowledge across a wide range of boundaries (i.e. teams, organizations, cultures, languages, time zones, etc.) His research activities are heavily user‐centric, including a strong preference for needfinding, scenario‐based design, and other methods and approaches that serve to include end‐user perspectives throughout the whole development phase. An area of particular interest is how to adapt lightweight technologies (i.e. wikis, blogs, tag clouds, mashups) to better serve the knowledge sharing needs of global product development organizations of the Virtual Enterprise kind – a field of research which he has chosen to coin ‘Engineering 2.0’ (see below). 3.2 Short description of planned research activities In a Functional Product Development perspective, knowledge from later phases of the Functional Product life‐cycle (i.e. production, maintenance, recycling, etc.) needs to be used as a knowledge foundation in the earlier phases of the development process. It is most advantageous to make changes at the preliminary design phase, since it will become more expensive, more difficult, or even impossible to compensate or correct the shortcomings of a poor design concept in the late design phases. In order to provide Functional Products that truly meet the full range of life‐cycle demands and needs, it is highly important to investigate how downstream knowledge could be modelled and simulated (when previous knowledge does not exist), captured (when previous knowledge exists) and made available to improve early‐stage decision making in cross‐ functional teams. Key aspects include how to make structural knowledge capital of the human knowledge capital available internally and externally, and how to make sure that these knowledge assets can be effectively shared across organizational and departmental boundaries. The main objectives of the work is to investigate which methods and tools might be suitable for improving the ‘knowledge baseline’ from which new Functional Product Development projects can start. The research focuses particularly on knowledge that currently resides outside of the ‘traditional’ scope of product development teams. Such knowledge is referred to as ‘downstream knowledge’, since the main interest is to identify and utilize knowledge assets that normally would not enter the scene until after a design concept has already been selected.
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An important aspect of these knowledge assets is that they can be found in a wide range of professional domains – both within the own company, and at customers and partners. Thus, the research seeks to address how boundary‐ crossing teams across the extended enterprise can decrease the start‐up time for new product development projects by rapidly identifying and effectively utilizing a shared knowledge base from day one (i.e. rather than starting from ‘scratch’). Also, it needs to address how these various teams can successfully create, share and utilize ‘generic’ knowledge (i.e. making sure that the knowledge assets they create are easily available to other teams in the extended enterprise, regardless of what domain of expertise they are working in.) For example, the same fundamental knowledge assets might be used for the purposes of both product development and opportunity management, but since there are different competencies involved with different goals and motivations, it is crucial to be able to share structuralized knowledge on an adequate level of detail or abstraction depending on each particular setting; raising questions of how to assess the maturity and readiness of the organization’s knowledge assets and capabilities. The work builds on the assertion that lightweight technologies show serious potential when it comes to effectively sharing knowledge between actors partaking in product development in a Virtual Enterprise. Here, the term ‘lightweight’ fundamentally means that such technologies require little time and effort to set up, use and maintain. Also, they are lightweight in that they do not impose a pre‐defined structure, but rather lets structures evolve over time as an almost organic response to the activities, practices and interests of the knowledge workers that use these technologies as part of their everyday work. Since this work draws it context from the fields of engineering and product development in primarily business‐to‐business situations, these lightweight technologies can be summarized in the term ‘Engineering 2.0’, which specifically targets how emerging digital platforms and Web 2.0 approaches could benefit globally dispersed engineering teams, working in business‐to‐business contexts of the Virtual Enterprise kind. The simplicity of Web 2.0 technologies offers a few key characteristics that have particular relevance for the highly distributed, highly cross‐functional Virtual Enterprise. To reap the benefits of Web 2.0, companies need to: ‐ Support lighweight programming models that allow for loosely coupled systems (i.e. in line with the loosely coupled VE network) ‐ Support syndication rather than coordination of data (i.e. content will flow from the bottom‐up rather than from the top‐down) ‐ Support re‐use and remixability in an open‐source model (i.e. content can be used for other purposes than for which it was originally intended) Further, Andreas Larsson is one of the main designers of the new 12 MSEK collaboration and research studio at Luleå University of Technology (‘Experiment Studio’) that was inaugurated in May 2008. This facility is a key enabler in his work in the domain of knowledge‐based and team‐based innovation across distance. Another topic of great interest is that of ‘Radical Innovation Workshops’, which he is organizing and facilitating in both academic and industrial settings, most
[email protected] 4 (17) October 7, 2009 Curriculum Vitae (Full version) Andreas Larsson recently at Sandvik Coromant, Volvo Aero Corporation, ABB, and CASTT (the LTU Center for Automotive Systems Technology and Testing). He is the Principal Investigator for "Redesigning Innovation", a joint research project with Stanford University’s Center for Design Research in the domains of design research and team innovation. This initiative is co‐financed by the Kempe Foundations. He is also the LTU project leader for CRESCENDO, Collaborative & Robust Engineering using Simulation Capability Enabling Next Design Optimisation: a three‐year EC FP7 project within aeronautics, with 59 partners from the European aerospace industry. 3.3 Publications 3.3.1 Refereed publications in international journals (2) Ericson, Å., Larsson, A., Larsson, T. Understanding Needs Equals Raising the Knowledge Baseline for Innovations? Submitted to the International Journal of Product Development. Larsson, A. Banking on Social Capital: Towards Social Connectedness in Distributed Engineering Design Teams, Journal of Design Studies, Vol. 28, No. 6, pp.605‐622, Elsevier, Amsterdam, NL, 2007. 3.3.2 Book chapters (6) Larsson, A., Ericson, Å., Larsson, T., Isaksson, O., Bertoni, M. Engineering 2:0: Exploring Lightweight Technologies for the Virtual Enterprise, In From CSCW to Web 2.0, Randall & Salembier (Eds.), Springer Verlag, forthcoming, 2010. Olsson, A., Larsson, A. Improving Value Creation in Product/Service‐System Design through the Integration of Product and Packaging Innovation Processes, In Introduction to Product/Service‐System Design, Sakao & Lindahl (Eds.), Springer Verlag, forthcoming, 2010. Larsson, A., Larsson, T., Bylund, N., Isaksson, O., Rethinking Virtual Teams for Streamlined Development, In Virtual Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Kisielnicki (Ed.), pp.1646‐1664, Information Science Reference, Hershey: PA, USA, 2008. Larsson, T., Larsson, A. Design for wellbeing, In Smart Technology for Aging, Disability, and Independence: Computer and Engineering Design and Application, Helal, Mokhtari & Abdulrazak (Eds.), pp.819‐832, John Wiley, Hoboken: NJ, USA, 2008. Larsson, A., Larsson, T., Bylund, N., Isaksson, O., Rethinking Virtual Teams for Streamlined Development, In Higher Creativity for Virtual Teams: Developing Platforms for Co‐Creation, MacGregor & Torres‐Coronas (Eds.), pp.138‐156, Idea Group Publishing, New York: NY, USA, 2007. Leifer, L., Larsson, A., Larsson, T., Van der Loos, M., Feland, J. Design for Wellbeing: Innovations for People, In Human Centered Design: Maruzen for 10th Anniversary of the Kanto Branch, Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers. Fukuda (Ed.), 11 pages, 2005. 3.3.3 Other refereed publications (26) Bertoni, M., Larsson, A. Coping with the knowledge sharing barriers in functional product design. Accepted for presentation at the 8th International Symposium
[email protected] 5 (17) October 7, 2009 Curriculum Vitae (Full version) Andreas Larsson on Tools and Methods for Competitive Engineering (TMCE 2010), April 12‐16, 2010, Ancona, Italy. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Ericson, Å., Bergström, M., Larsson, A., Törlind, P. Design thinking challenges in education. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED’09), August 24‐27, 2009, Stanford, CA, USA. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Johansson, C., Parida, V., Larsson, A. How is knowledge and information evaluated? – Decision making in new product development. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED’09), August 24‐ 27, 2009, Stanford, CA, USA. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Hicks, B.J, Culley, S., Larsson, A., Larsson, T. A methodology for evaluating technology readiness during product development. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED’09), August 24‐27, 2009, Stanford, CA, USA. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Larsson, A., Ericson, Å., Larsson, T., Randall, D. Engineering 2.0: Exploring Lightweight Technologies for the Virtual Enterprise. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP '08), Hassanaly, Ramrajsingh, Randall, Salembier & Tixier (eds.): Institut d'Etudes Politiques d'Aix‐en‐Provence, 10 pages, May 20‐23, 2008, Carry‐le‐Rouet, France. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Johansson, C., Larsson, T., Larsson, A. Gated Maturity Assessment: Supporting Gate Review Decision Documents with Maturity of Knowledge Assessment, Presented at the 2008 International CIRP Design Seminar, Design Synthesis, 6 pages, April 7‐9, 2008, Enschede, NL. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Ericson, Å, Larsson, T., Larsson, A., Larsson, M. Need driven product development in team‐based projects, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED’07), pp.747‐748 (exec. abstract, full paper on CD), August 28‐31, 2007, Paris, France. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Redon, R., Larsson, A., LeBlond, R., Longueville, B. VIVACE Context Based Search Platform, Proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT’07), pp.397‐410, August 20‐24, 2007, Roskilde, Denmark. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Johansson, C., Larsson, A., Larsson, T. Knowledge Enabled Engineering ‐ Knowledge Lifecycle Approach, In Svenska Mekanikdagar: Program and Abstracts (SMD’07), p.102, June 13‐15, 2007, Luleå, Sweden. [Abstract, peer‐ reviewed] Ericson, Å, Larsson, T., Larsson, A. In Search of What is Missing ‐ Needfinding the SIRIUS way, Proceedings of Fourth IASTED International Conference on Knowledge Sharing Collaborative Engineering (KSCE 2006), pp.104‐109, November 29‐December 1, 2006, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Johansson, C., Larsson, A. Virtual Meeting Interoperability: Discussing the Need of Support for Heterogeneous Meeting Environments, Proceedings of Fourth IASTED International Conference on Knowledge Sharing and Collaborative Engineering (KSCE 2006), pp. 92‐97, November 29‐December 1, 2006, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed]
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Törlind, P., Larsson, A. Re‐experiencing Engineering Meetings: Knowledge Reuse Challenges from Virtual Meetings, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges in Collaborative Engineering (CCE06): State of the Art and Future Challenges in Collaborative Design, 10 pages, Indrusiak, Karlsson, Pawlak & Sandkuhl (eds.), Prague, Czech Republic, April 19‐20 2006, ISBN 91‐975604‐3‐X. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Larsson, A., Törlind, P., Bergström, M., Löfstrand, M., Karlsson, L., Design for Versatility: The Changing Face of Workspaces for Collaborative Design, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED’05), pp.367‐368 (exec. abstract, full paper on CD), August 15‐18, 2005, Melbourne, Australia. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Törlind, P., Larsson, A., Löfstrand, M., Karlsson, L., Towards True Collaboration in Global Design Teams?, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED’05), pp.105‐106 (exec. abstract, full paper on CD), August 15‐18, 2005, Melbourne, Australia. [Full conference paper, peer‐ reviewed] Larsson, A., Larsson, T., Leifer, L., Van der Loos, M., Feland, J., Design for Wellbeing: Innovations for People, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED’05), pp.401‐402 (exec. abstract, full paper on CD), August 15‐ 18, 2005, Melbourne, Australia. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Larsson, T., Larsson, A., Kassfeldt, E. Innovations for Life: Design for Wellbeing, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Lifestyle, Health and Technology, 1 page, June 1‐3, 2005, Luleå, Sweden. [Abstract, peer‐reviewed] Karlsson, L., Löfstrand, M., Larsson, A., Larsson, T., Törlind, P., Elfström, B‐O., Isaksson, O., Information Driven Collaborative Engineering: Enabling Functional Product Innovation, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Challenges in Collaborative Engineering (CCE’05), pp.65‐81, Jacucci, Pawlak & Sandkuhl (eds.), Sopron, Hungary, April 13‐15, 2005. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Larsson, A., Making Sense of Collaboration: The Challenge of Thinking Together in Global Design Teams, Proceedings of GROUP 2003, pp.153‐160, Pendergast, Schmidt, Simone & Tremaine (eds.), Sanibel Island, FL, USA, November 9‐12, 2003. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Larsson, A., Grante, C. and Bylund, N., Close Long‐Term Industrial Collaboration: Increasing the Impact of Engineering Design Research, Proceedings of the 7th International Research/Expert Conference “Trends in the Development of Machinery and Associated Technology” (TMT 2003), Calvet (ed.), 4 pages, Lloret de Mar, Barcelona, Spain, September 15‐16, 2003. [Full conference paper, peer‐ reviewed] Larsson, A., Törlind, P., Karlsson, L., Leifer, L., Mabogunje, A., Larsson, T. and Elfström, BO., Distributed Team Innovation: A Framework for Distributed Product Development, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED’03), pp.321‐322 (exec. abstract, full paper on CD), August 19‐21, 2003, Stockholm, Sweden. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Larsson, A., Törlind, P., Mabogunje, A. and Milne, A., Distributed Design Teams: Embedded One‐on‐One Conversations in One‐to‐Many, In Common Ground.
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Proceedings of the Design Research Society International Conference at Brunel University, Durling & Shackleton (eds.), Staffordshire University Press: Stoke on Trent, UK, pp.604–614, September 5‐7, 2002. [Full conference paper, peer‐ reviewed] Larsson, A., Larsson, T. and Törlind, P., The Mobile Intranet: Managing People and Information in a Distributed Organization, In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Work With Display Units (WWDU 2002), Luczak, Cakir & Cakir (eds.), pp.133‐135, May 22‐25, 2002, Berchtesgaden, Germany. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Törlind, P. and Larsson, A., Supporting Informal Communication in Distributed Engineering Design Teams, 2002 International CIRP Design Seminar, Design in the ECommerce Economy, 9 pages, May 16‐18, 2002, Hong Kong. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Larsson, T. and Larsson, A., Web‐based Multibody Dynamics using Distributed Simulation Modules, 2002 International CIRP Design Seminar, Design in the E‐ Commerce Economy, 8 pages, May 16‐18, 2002, Hong Kong. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Larsson, T., Larsson, A., Karlsson, L., Distributed Multibody Dynamic Analysis Within Product Development, Proceedings of ASME 2001 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (DETC’01), pp.501‐507, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, September 9‐ 12, 2001. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] Larsson, T., Larsson, A., Karlsson, L., A Modular Approach to Web Based Multibody Dynamic Simulation, 2001 International CIRP Design Seminar, Design in the New Economy, 6 pages, June 6‐8, 2001, Stockholm, Sweden. [Full conference paper, peer‐reviewed] 3.4 Granted Funding Applications 3.4.1 Research Council Grants 2009, Fuel Efficient Transmission Technology, a four‐year, 18 MSEK project within the VINNOVA FFI (Fordonsstrategisk Forskning och Innovation) programme. AL contributed to the knowledge engineering parts of the proposal. 2008, Teams for Heterogeneous Innovation Knowledge, a four‐year, 15 MSEK project within the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research’s (SSF) ProViking 2 programme. AL contributed to the strategies concerning needs establishment, multidisciplinary team‐based collaboration, and effective knowledge sharing in design teams. 2006, Faste Laboratory VINN Excellence Centre for Functional Product Innovation, Luleå University of Technology, 240 MSEK over ten years. AL was a major contributor to, and the coordinator of, the proposal. AL was also one of the participants in the presentation for the external review board at VINNOVA in April, 2006. 3.4.2 EU, foundations, and other grants 2009, Redesigning Innovation. 1.0 MSEK from the Kempe Foundations (JCK‐ 2902) to Luleå University of Technology for a joint research project with Stanford University. AL was the main contributor to, and the coordinator of, the proposal.
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2009, CRESCENDO, Collaborative & Robust Engineering using Simulation Capability Enabling Next Design Optimisation: a three‐year EC FP7 project within aeronautics, bringing 6.5 MSEK to Luleå University of Technology. AL contributed to the development of the proposed capabilities and work package descriptions, and is the LTU project leader, leading LTUs efforts in three work packages. 2008, Education for Product Innovation. 0.5 MSEK from PIEp. AL contributed to the proposal and takes part in the research work. 2006, Research fellowship grant for 3 month research visit to Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. The host university covered costs for travel and accomodation. Approx. 100 kSEK. 2005, Participatory Product Innovation. 4.2 MSEK from the Kempe Foundations (JCK‐2506) to Luleå University of Technology for a joint research project with Stanford University. AL was the main contributor to, and the coordinator of, the proposal. 2004, The Experiment Studio. 11.5 MSEK from the Kempe Foundations and the Wallenberg Foundation. AL was a major contributor to the proposal. 2004, Design for Wellbeing & Product Design. Luleå University of Technology, 1 MSEK. AL was a major contributor to the proposal and the development of the Design for Wellbeing framework. 2003, Travel stipend of 9 kSEK from the Wallenberg Foundation for a two week research visit to Stanford University. 3.5 Other academic merits 2009, Fuel Efficient Transmission Technology, a four‐year, 18 MSEK project within the VINNOVA FFI (Fordonsstrategisk Forskning och Innovation) programme. AL is the LTU project leader. 2009, CRESCENDO, Collaborative & Robust Engineering using Simulation Capability Enabling Next Design Optimisation: a three‐year EC FP7 project within aeronautics, bringing 6.5 MSEK to Luleå University of Technology. AL is the LTU project leader, leading LTUs efforts in three work packages. 2009, Co‐organizer of a “Summer School” within the Product Innovation Engineering program (PIEp), held at Stanford University, Stanford, USA, with 14 participants from six universities. 2008, Organizer of nine “Open Talks” at Luleå University of Technology, to promote knowledge sharing across the university. The nine invited lecturers were from Stanford University, Volvo Aero, Sandvik Coromant, Lund University, and Politecnico di Milano. 2008, Co‐organizer of a “Tiger Team Writing Workshop” within the Product Innovation Engineering program (PIEp), held in Luleå, Sweden, with 14 participants from six universities. 2008, Organizer of the workshop “From Foresight to Design”, held in Trollhättan, Sweden, with 15 participants from different companies in the Volvo Group. In partnership with the Center for Foresight and Innovation and the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, USA. 2008, Organizer of the workshop “From Foresight to Design”, held in Stockholm, Sweden, with 17 academic and industry participants from the Product
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Innovation Engineering program (PIEp). In partnership with the Center for Foresight and Innovation and the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, USA. 2008, Organizer of the workshop “From Foresight to Design”, held in Luleå, Sweden, with 20 academic and industry participants from the Faste Laboratory. In partnership with the Center for Foresight and Innovation and the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, USA. 2008, Co‐organizer of PIEp EDU workshop related to development of the PIEp Graduate School, Stanford University, USA. In partnership with PIEp. 2008, Co‐organizer of the workshop “Turning Foresight into Innovation”, Stanford University, USA. In partnership with the Center for Foresight and Innovation and the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, USA. 2007, PIEp EDU Course Development in Product Innovation Workshop, Stanford University, USA. 2007, Creativity and Coaching Workshop, co‐arranged by Stanford University and PIEp EDU, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. 2007, Supervisor Education, Step 2, “Docentkurs”, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2006‐2009, FASTE LABORATORY A ten‐year, 240 MSEK, VINNOVA VINN Excellence Centre with focus on Functional Product Innovation. AL was a major contributor to, and coordinator of, the awarded funding proposal. AL was Project Leader for the Research Track “Knowledge Baseline Improvement”, including the Demo Track “Knowledge Acquisition for Boundary‐Crossing Innovation”. 2006‐2008, COLLABORATIVE WORKING ENVIRONMENTS, AL was the convenor for a special interest group on collaborative working environments at Luleå University of Technology. The group deals with both technological and social aspects of tools, methods, and environments for distance‐spanning collaboration. 2004‐2007, VIVACE Value Improvement in Virtual Aeronautical Collaborative Enterprises: a four‐year, 70 MEUR EC FP6 Integrated Project focusing on improved methods and processes for aircraft development. AL is a researcher in the work package “Knowledge Enabled Engineering” and the work package “Collaboration Hub for Heterogeneous Enterprise”. AL also acted as the LTU project leader for the final year of the project. 2004, Supervisor Education, Step 1, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2003‐, DESIGN FOR WELLBEING, a thematic research network concerning design’s role as an enabler for people’s wellbeing. AL is a co‐founder together with faculty from Stanford University, USA and Hosei University, Japan. 2003‐, PARTICIPATORY PRODUCT INNOVATION, a framework that seeks to develop product innovation processes that are more attentive to prospective user needs and that consider users as active participants in the development of innovative products. AL is a co‐founder and Principal Investigator of this joint project involving faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students from Stanford University, USA. 3.5.1 Active participation in national and international conferences during the latest 5 years
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Note: added to the list below are all the conference presentations related to the publication list above. The list below merely describes conferences in which I have had a role other than that as presenter. 2009, 17th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED’09), August 24‐27, 2009, Stanford, CA, USA. AL was a member of the Scientific Committee. 2009, 12th IFIP conference on Human‐Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2009, August 24‐28, 2009, Uppsala, Sweden. AL was a member of the Program Committee. 2009, Symposium on Sustainable Product Development, organized by Hosei University. January 15, 2009, Tokyo, JP. AL was one of four invited speakers. 2008, Australasian Computer‐Human Interaction Conference, OZCHI 2008, December 8‐ 12, 2008, Cairns, Australia. AL was a member of the Reviewing Panel. 2008, 8th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, COOP’08, May 20‐23, 2008, Carry‐le‐Rouet, France. AL was a member of the Conference Committee. 2007, 2nd Conference on Nordic Innovation Research, December 3‐4, 2007, Luleå, Sweden. AL was a member of the Scientific Committee. 2006, 1st Conference on Collaborative Working Environments for Business and Industry, CWE’06, May 10‐11, 2006, Brussels, Belgium. AL was a member of the Organizing Committee, and was the editor of the conference proceedings. 3.5.2 National and international prizes 2004, CONEX stipendiate and recipient of 25,000 SEK for his efforts within computer aided product development. 2001, Main designer of an LTU intranet that was recognized as one of the “ten best intranets of 2001” by the Nielsen/Norman Group (Intranet Design Annual 2001). 3.5.3 Member of academies 2007‐, Design Society. 3.5.4 Editorial/advisory board in international journals N/A 3.5.5 Journal reviewer 2008‐, Journal of Cases on Information Technology, ad‐hoc reviewer until June 30, 2010. 2006, Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, one occasion. 3.5.6 Opponentships 2009, Discussant at the Licentiate Seminar of Joakim Eriksson, Department of Innovation, Design and Product Development, Mälardalen University, Eskilstuna, Sweden. 2007, Discussant at the pre‐Dissertation Seminar of Marita Holst, Division of Social Informatics, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 3.5.7 Expert assignments 2009, The Research Council of Norway. AL was a member of the referee panel for the ICT Research Programme, VERDIKT.
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3.5.8 Patents N/A 3.6 Academic merits outside the university 2007‐2008, Research Manager, Designtech Innovative Project Solutions, Luleå, Sweden.
4 PEDAGOGICAL MERITS 4.1 Pedagogical reflections 4.1.1 Pedagogical bias My pedagogical approach is heavily influenced by the educational inspiration I have received through my close collaboration with Stanford University since 2001. At Stanford, there is a strong emphasis on design, and education, as a social process – which fits very well both with the theme of my own research activities, and with my experience from educational activities with children. Fundamentally, I believe that letting students work in teams together with peers at different levels of expertise and different views of ‘the problem’ presents the largest learning opportunity for the students. Thus, the main emphasis of my teaching activities has been on team‐based projects, where student teams form to jointly address the needs of society and sponsoring companies. This team‐ centric and user‐centric approach ensures both that the students are faced with similar collaboration challenges as industry companies, and that their joint efforts are performed with the clear goal of closely addressing the needs of the end users. Pedagogically, I am also biased towards acting as a ‘coach’ rather than as a ‘teacher’ in these kinds of projects. This does not mean that I take the task of teaching product development methods and theories lightly, it merely means that the students need someone that guides them in the process of choosing how to proceed, rather than someone who tells them what is ‘advisable’ based on my own knowledge of the situation at hand. This is also an approach largely picked up at Stanford University, where the students are frequently told that they ‘are the boss’ of their own projects, and that they can choose to accept or disregard comments or advice from their teaching team and coaches, as long as they clearly present their rationale for their choices. I have found out that giving the student teams this freedom to navigate the design space without too much interference by me as a teacher truly helps them to become in charge of their own learning. However, it is at the same time a more challenging pedagogical task for me, since I have to spend quite some extra time discussing potential alternatives and ways forward, when a ‘normal’ teacher would have just told them what is the best option given the circumstances. I truly believe that this extra workload for me as a coach is worth a lot to the students, since they can leave the project knowing that they were the ones ultimately responsible for the final result. Also, it should be noted that I have a preference for projects and assignments that deal with ‘wicked problems’, where there might be no obvious problem, and where there might be no obvious solution to this ill‐defined problem. This preference includes a strong emphasis on ‘needfinding’ activities, i.e. the early stages of product development where user needs are explored and understood. Since this phase is often considered to be very ‘fuzzy’ from a student perspective, I spend quite a lot of time and effort in this phase to make sure that the students
[email protected] 12 (17) October 7, 2009 Curriculum Vitae (Full version) Andreas Larsson understand how crucial a well‐founded understanding of user needs is to their project and their own learning curve. 4.2 Teaching activities Undergraduate level 2008, AL was a coach and supervisor of the “Immerse Global: From air to water” project, where students from Luleå, Stanford, Lund, and the Royal Institute of Technology jointly developed an atmospheric water generator within the framework of the ME310 class at Stanford University. 2007‐2009, Main lecturer in, and co‐developer of, the course “M7014T Product Development Processes” (7,5 ECTS) within the International Master Programme in Product Development, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2007‐2009, Lecturer in, and co‐developer of, the course “M7016T Creative Concept Design” (7,5 ECTS) within the International Master Programme in Product Development, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2004‐2006, AL was the course coordinator of the course “M7004T Creative Product Design Process ‐ SIRIUS” (30 ECTS) at Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. Also, AL was the lecturer in two sub‐courses: “Product Development Methods” (4,5 ECTS) and “Tools and Methods for Distributed Collaborative Engineering” (3 ECTS). During his coordinatorship, AL was a co‐ developer of the “Participatory Product Innovation” process that since then has guided the student’s learning and project progress in the course. As part of this course, AL has been a coach and supervisor for the following student projects: “Abbott Diabetes Care” (2006), “Future Elderly Environments” (2006), “AddActive: Future Playground” (2005), “CRE[ATIVO]: Lightweight Composite Wheelchair” (2004), “INTELiCARE: Promoting Social Connectedness for Elderly People” (2004), “Virtual Pedals” (2002). Five of these projects were carried out together with Stanford University, where AL was responsible for the relationship and communication with Stanford faculty and teaching team. Graduate level 2009, Lecturer in the PhD course “Functional Product Development” (7,5 ECTS) at Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2004, Lecturer in, co‐delevoper and co‐organizer of, the PhD course “Participatory Product Innovation” (7,5 ECTS) at Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2003, Lecturer in, co‐delevoper and co‐organizer of, the PhD course “Collaborative Work in Design” (7,5 ECTS) at Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 4.2.1 Scope, level, experience of different teaching formats See ”4.2 Teaching Activities”. 4.2.2 Experience from supervision and examination 2009‐, Main supervisor for PhD Student Åsa Kastensson, Division of Functional Product Development, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. PhD Objective: 2013. 2009‐, Main supervisor for PhD Student Koteshwar Chirumalla, Division of Functional Product Development, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. PhD Objective: 2013.
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2009‐, Main supervisor for PhD Student Anna Karlsson, Division of Functional Product Development, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. PhD Objective: 2013. 2009‐, Assistant supervisor for PhD Student Johan Wenngren, Division of Functional Product Development, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. PhD Objective: June 2013. 2009, AL supervised the MSc Thesis of Fredrik Åsberg, entitled “Awareness and presence amplification in virtual socializing”. 2008, AL supervised the MSc Thesis of Erika Andersson, who was working at Volvo Aero Corporation on the topic of “Capturing and managing design rationale for aero engine component development.” 2008, AL supervised the MSc Thesis of Johan Wenngren, who was one of four students working with a global team of students from LTU, Stanford University, Royal Institute of Technology, and Lund University. Their task was to develop a device that can extract potable water from air humidity. AL was the LTU coordinator for this project. 2005‐2007, Assistant supervisor for PhD Student Åsa Ericson, Division of Functional Product Development, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. Åsa earned her PhD in December 2007. 2005‐, Assistant supervisor for PhD Student Christian Johansson, Division of Functional Product Development, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. PhD Objective: October 2009. AL acted as Main Supervisor from 09/2009. 2004‐2005, AL supervised four MSc Thesis students: Christian Johansson (Introducing virtual meeting services in a highly protected IT‐environment, 2004), Joakim Eriksson (Introducing virtual meeting services in a highly protected IT‐environment, 2004), Kajsa Dymling (Ingenjörsutbildning i förändring: design, innovation och entreprenörskap, 2005), and Tomas Almbo (Konstruktion av drivsystem för manuella rullstolar, 2005). 4.3 Pedagogical Education 4.3.1 University pedagogy education 2007, PIEp EDU Course Development in Product Innovation Workshop, Stanford University, USA. 2007, Creativity and Coaching Workshop, co‐arranged by Stanford University and PIEp EDU, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. 2007, Supervisor Education, Step 2, “Docentkurs”, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2004, Supervisor Education, Step 1, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 4.3.2 Academic studies in pedagogy 2005, Pedagogical Development: project‐based education, 2 credits, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 1999, BSc Thesis Work, 20 credits, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, Sweden. The thesis work was performed at University of California, San Diego, and involved setting up a Fifth Dimension activity (promoting learning through computer‐mediation) at a local Boys and Girls Club.
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1998, Computers and Learning, 20 credits, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, Sweden. During this period, AL was also a project manager and teacher for a Fifth Dimension program in Ronneby, involving computer activities for children based on Lev Vygotsky’s theories on the zone of proximal development. 4.3.3 Other pedagogic education N/A 4.3.4 Practical teacher educations N/A 4.4 Development and research within the area of education 4.4.1 Course development Undergraduate level 2007, Co‐developer of “M7014T Product Development Processes” (7,5 ECTS) within the International Master Programme in Product Development, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2007, Co‐developer of “M7016T Creative Concept Design” (7,5 ECTS) within the International Master Programme in Product Development, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2004‐2006, Coordinator and co‐developer of “M7004T Creative Product Design Process ‐ SIRIUS” (30 ECTS) at Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. Also, AL was a codeveloper of two sub‐courses: “Product Development Methods” (4,5 ECTS) and “Tools and Methods for Distributed Collaborative Engineering” (3 ECTS). During his coordinatorship, AL was a co‐developer of the “Participatory Product Innovation” process that since then has guided the student’s learning and project progress in the course Graduate level 2007, Co‐developer of the International Master Programme in Product Development at Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. Work performed within the PIEp EDU Course Development in Product Innovation Workshop, Stanford, USA. 2007, Co‐delevoper and co‐organiser of the PhD course “Participatory Product Innovation” at Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 2003, Co‐ developer and co‐organiser of the PhD course “Collaborative Work in Design” at Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 4.4.2 Other trial and development activities N/A 4.4.3 Evaluation activities N/A 4.5 Teaching material Apart from slides, exercises and assignments for each of the above courses, AL has been the lead developer of the Participatory Product Innovation process, used heavily in the above courses and in MSc Thesis work. Further, AL is continuously involved in developing practical tools (e.g. method card decks, flipbooks, etc.) that both students and teachers can use to learn more about needfinding, knowledge sharing, and creative processes. 4.6 Education planning and administration
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2007, Planning and administration of “M7014T Product Development Processes” (7,5 ECTS) within the International Master Programme in Product Development, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. 4.7 Other N/A
5 OTHER ASSIGNMENTS 5.1 Administrative assignments N/A 5.1.1 Leadership experience 2009‐, AL is the LTU project leader for the research project “Fuel Efficient Transmission Technology” together with Volvo Construction Equipment and Linköping University (funded by VINNOVA). 2009‐, AL is the LTU project leader for the research project “Redesigning Innovation” together with Stanford University (funded by the Kempe Foundations). 2009‐, AL is the LTU project leader for the CRESCENDO (Collaborative & Robust Engineering using Simulation. Capability Enabling Next Design Optimisation) EU FP7 project. 2009, AL was the LTU project leader for FLUD (Flygtekniska utvecklings‐ och demonstratorprogrammet, Swedish Green Engine Demonstrator, funded by VINNOVA and Volvo Aero). 2008‐, AL is a member of the small management group for the PIEp Graduate School within PIEp EDU. 2007‐2008, AL was the LTU project leader for the research project “Participatory Product Innovation” together with Stanford University. 2007, AL was the LTU project leader for the final year of the VIVACE EU FP6 Integrated Project. 2005‐2009, AL was the project leader for Research Track 3.2 “Knowledge baseline improvement/Cross‐functional knowledge sharing” in the Faste Laboratory. 2005‐2007, AL was a member of the Executive Committee of the Faste Laboratory. 2005‐2007, AL was the leader of Work Package 3 “Sharing Expertise” of the Faste Laboratory 5.1.2 Membership in boards at the university during the latest five years N/A 5.1.3 Other professional administrative assignments N/A 5.2 Research policy assignments N/A 5.2.1 Member of governmental research agencies/committees N/A 5.2.2 Member of other funding agency boards or committees [email protected] 16 (17) October 7, 2009 Curriculum Vitae (Full version) Andreas Larsson
N/A 5.2.3 Other evaluations of Swedish and foreign research applications [As noted in 3.5.7] 2009, The Research Council of Norway. AL was a member of the referee panel for the ICT Research Programme, VERDIKT. 5.2.4 Other assignments of significance N/A 5.3 External relations and external activities 5.3.1 Enterprise collaboration AL has established an excellent relationship with both national and international industry companies through his participation in the Polhem Laboratory (VINNOVA Competence Centre), the Faste Laboratory (VINNOVA VINN Excellence Centre), the VIVACE (EU FP6), the CRESCENDO (EU FP7), the ProViking THINK, and the VINNOVA FFI activities. He has visited BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre in Bristol, UK (Nov 2004 ‐ Dec 2004), and Hosei University’s IT Research Centre in Tokyo, Japan (Dec 2006 ‐ Mar 2007), as a Research Fellow. From January to June of 2008, AL was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Design Research. 5.3.2 Other activities within the third task 2009, AL was the editor of a popular‐science magazine, entitled “FUNKTIONEERING Magazine”, available at www.funktioneering.org. 2006, AL was a project coordinator at the Office of External Relations, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. His work involved an analysis of the external funding situation at the university, an analysis of the university’s potential to attract EU FP7 funding, and several applications for funding, both on a national and an international level.
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