Lennart Björneborn

Lennart Björneborn

Lektor

København

Phone: 32341315

Research and education information

My research interests evolve around how affordances (actionable properties) in physical and digital information spaces may enable and support creative practices in the shape of user participation, embodied interaction, exploratory information behaviour, social navigation and serendipity (unplanned findings).
  • media theory and participatory media (web 2.0)
  • library 2.0, user-to-user mediation and social navigation
  • webometrics and social network structures
  • users' information behaviour, embodied interaction, serendipity
  • interplay between information spaces (social/physical/digital), mediation flows and users' information behaviour
  • interaction design and mediation in the overlap between social/physical/digital information spaces

Research areas

A new research project in 2009, 'Walking the Library', with funding from the Danish Agency for Libraries and Media, deals with how users move through the physical library and use its facilities. The project takes place at the new public library in Hjørring in northern Jutland. Research partner is the department of Architecture and Design at Aalborg University. The project develops new RFID tracking technology to analyze users' movement patterns in the library. Using affordance theory in the project to investigate affordances, i.e. action possibilities, in the physical library, I'm particularly interested in investigating possible 'affordance gaps' between users' perceived affordances and the library staffs' intended affordances in the library's physical design.

Curriculum

Born on May 8, 1957 in Helsingborg, Sweden - Swedish father and Danish mother

Education:

1976: A-level, mathematical/science line, Helsingborg, Sweden

1977 - 1978: Mathematics, University of Lund

1978 - 1979: Social Anthropology, University of Lund

1994 - 1998: Librarian, Royal School of Library and Information Science (RSLIS), Copenhagen

1998 - 2000: Master of Library and Information Science, RSLIS

2000 - 2003: PhD in Library and Information Science, RSLIS [PhD defence 2004]

Jobs:

1979 - 1980: Substitute teacher in maths and natural sciences in a gymnasium (Olympiaskolan), Helsingborg, Sweden

1981 - 1993: Working in institutions for mentally disabled adults in Denmark. Learnt a lot about human-human interaction and what it means to be a human being.

1996 - 1997: Student's job at Danish Bibliographic Centre, responsible for the reference library

1996 - 1999: Student's job as web assistant, RSLIS, designing and maintaining web pages of the RSLIS departments, centres and administration

1997 - 2000: Student's job as web designer at the Danish Cultural Policy Research Network

1999 - 2003: Teaching web-related courses, RSLIS 2006: Assistant Professor, RSLIS, teaching web-related courses

2003 -
 
2006 -         : Associate Professor, RSLIS, teaching web-related courses 
  • Member of the editorial board of Cybermetrics - Electronic Journal of Scientometrics, Informetrics and Bibliometrics.
  • Co-editor (2004-2007) of Dansk Biblioteksforskning [in Danish], the Danish journal of LIS research.
  • On the Program Committee of ISSI 2005, ISSI 2007, ISSI 2009, conferences of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics