Resources and material

by Thomas Mejtoft, PhD

Resources created for students to use during and after their studies at Umeå University, Sweden.Of course, all resources are free for anyone to use under the CC license! Please create derivatives and share them or publish links to these pages.

Since I started to publish these notes and resources a couple of years ago, they have become used be students, teachers, researchers, and others all around the world. It’s a great honor and please feel free to continue to use them. The reason why I started publishing them online instead of behind a closed educational platform was because I felt that these were needed. If you have comments or wanna get in touch, please feel free to send me a message.

Notes on (scientific) writing

Notes on academic writing to give some detailed recommendations on how to solve some common obstacles during the writing process.

References and in-text citing
No 1: How to use figures from other sources
No 3: How to cite screenshots
No 2: References to secondary source and review articles
No 4: Writing references to personal communication
No 5: Writing references to programming code
No 6: Citing content created by generative AI

Working with quotes in your writings
No 8: Master quotes in writing

Crafting visual representations of your data
No 7: How to visualize data in an understandable way

Feel free to send suggestions on changes and additions to the documents above.

General material

Some free general material that could be handy to use at different occasions.

Guidelines for discussion
These guidelines are based on 20 years of experience of running workshop and creating discussions within the industry and academia.

Illustration of the Design Thinking development process (CC license)

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LaTeX and BibTeX

Some tips and trix on using LaTeX while writing and understanding BibTeX.

LaTeX writing tips
References using BibTeX

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Review forms

Forms (as docx-files) to give feed-forward during review of draft papers as well as final papers and theses/reports.

Draft review form (for review during draft stage)
Paper review form (for review of submitted papers)

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Physics for computing

Video lectures on classical mechanics for students in computer engineering recorded at the Interactive Recording Studio (IReS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

An Introduction to Classical Mechanics

Prototyping

Video lectures on prototyping developed at Umeå University and recorded at the Interactive Recording Studio (IReS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

An introduction to prototyping

Research papers

A complete list of publications which I have been involved in over the years. Download and read research papers within e.g., media technology, interaction technology, marketing, business strategy, innovation, engineering didactics, and pedagogy.

List of publications

Many research papers are available Open Access. If you cannot access the papers for free, contact me for free copies.


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(First published by Thomas Mejtoft: 2019-06-14; Revised: 2022-05-10; Last updated: 2024-11-20)