College of Design

The aim of this article is to contribute to laying a theoretical foundation for visually communicating competence through PechaKucha presentations. PechaKucha is a PowerPoint presentation format consisting of 20 slides that are shown for 20 seconds each. This article argues that the PechaKucha presentation format can be aligned with Nonaka's SECI model (socialization, externalization, combination, internalization) to look at competences from a knowledge creation perspective. From a managerial perspective, the theoretical discussion in this article can be used in organizational settings to share knowledge through PechaKucha presentations between people with different backgrounds. On the other hand, from a research perspective, this article has at least two implications. First, by combining semiotics with knowledge management this article attempts to renew the call for a semiotic/ linguistic perspective to knowledge management. Second, by combining visual communication with written and oral communication, the author calls for a more holistic approach to knowledge-related research in organizational settings.

DESCRIPTION The shipscape contains multiple human and non-human characteristics that together contribute to the cruise experience. Although many of these characteristics are identified separately, less research attention has paid into investigation of the cruise experience as an entity and interconnectivity of the characteristics. An ethnographic study was conducted in an authentic passenger ship environment in order to find out what characteristics passengers perceive contributing into the cruise experience. Instead of seeing experiences as belonging to the human domain, this article also brings in non-human actors by drawing on Actor-Network Theory (ANT). ANT is applied to illustrate how experiences emerge and constituted within the passenger ship environment. Using three actor network illustrations: social experiencing, everyday distinction and predictability, this article proposes that people and things become entangled via processes of translation. The shared aims that concurre...

DESCRIPTION An interesting paradigm occurs in between regulated safety and passenger’s perceived safety on board passenger ships. Seems to be that passengers perceive the safety through features that are not acknowledged in the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) regulations. We suggest that in the process of developing regulations, the relation between safety perception and safety regulations should be better understood and it should be recognized that human perception is a dominant factor in human behavior. Therefore, this study traces the underlying connections of the passenger’s safety perception and safety regulations through Actor-Network Theory (ANT). Methodology enables us to illustrate the encounter of the technical and the human perception, and draw attention to shortage of researching human element of safety from human perception perspective. Furthermore, we investigate whether dominant technical perspective on safety lacks certain issues that passengers’ perceive critical for ...