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IRIS 32 MOLDE NORWAY
August 9-12 2009 Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia |
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Theme: Inclusive Design
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WORKSHOPS at IRIS - Three are described below. August 9th (Sunday)
Workshop Session I (15:00 - 16:30) Title Workshop A: Inclusive Design with a Living Lab approach Theme
This workshop will focus on the emerging trend of open innovation and Living Labs and it will especially focus on aspect such as empowerment of users and the use of technology for stakeholder inclusion. Hence, issues such as how to
handle openness and innovations will be discussed and elaborated on.
The starting point for any Living Lab is to, in close cooperation among involved stakeholders, develop products and
services from the basis of what users really need and expect, where the main role of the Living Lab is to include and
empower users to participate in the creation of valuable and viable assets. When a Living Lab approach is applied, the
inclusion of users is carried out 24/7 in the users´ real-world. The aim of these processes is to develop IT-innovations in
close correlation with contemporary research to facilitate the innovation and development process.
In this workshop we aim to gather researchers from different fields, such as participatory design, user-centred design,
customer oriented design, and co-operative design etc, that finds an interest in this area.
Purpose of the workshop
The purpose of the workshop is to start a discussion among scholars in different fields about how they practice inclusion of users in the different design and innovation phases when a distributed approach is applied. For example in the idea
generation phase or the concept development phase.
Organizers
Anna Ståhlbröst, works as a researcher and project manager in Social Informatics at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) and at the Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology (CDT).
Her research interests are user-centred methods that specifically focus on integrating user needs
in the design of innovative IT artefacts by applying a Living Lab approach.
Anna has participated in the development of the concept Living Lab related to the Botnia Living Lab, and to establishing a
network of Living Labs, both on European and Nordic levels.
Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn works as associate professor in Social Informatics at Luleå
University of Technology (LTU). Her research focuses on methods and tools for Human centred IT-design
with special focus on distributed and innovative environments. She has
also received a grant from SSF for participating in the creation and development of Ericsson’s Service Provider Research (SPR) testbed with knowledge and research on methods and tools for user-driven innovation. Marita Holst, works as project manager at Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology at Annika Sällström, works as general business manager at Centre for Distance-Spanning Carina Ihlström Eriksson, work as assistant professor at Halmstad University and Jesper Svensson work as lecturer in informatics at Halmstad University where he is Title
Workshop B: End-User Development: Bridging Practices of Working Life and Everyday Life Theme
End User Development (EUD) aims at providing users of ICT with the means to configure, tailor, customise or even develop software from existing parts in order to accommodate needs and visions arising out of their work and everyday practices. EUD provides design environments and methods for in situ user-driven innovation of ICT. User Driven Innovation of ICT does not only take place when designing a product but throughout the whole life cycle. Strengthening cooperation and communication between providers and users of software enhances the feedback of usage specific innovations into the evolution of the base software.
In this workshop, EUD is regarded in the relationship to human activity: software thus created is supposed to support or change their practices. This means among other things, that the ultimate criteria for evaluation come from those activities rather than from the software itself. People attend to different practices in their work life roles and in their private life. Research on ICT at work has longer roots and richer collection of frames of reference than on ICT in everyday life. Everyday practices, on the other hand, conceive people in more flexible settings of informal groups and with more power to make in situ changes in their daily routines. Yet these two types of practice share many characteristics, they can even use same pieces of software such as office tools and GPS navigators to support their activities.
The purpose of the workshop is to build conceptual bridges between work and everyday practices. One obvious task of this mission is to identify both similarities and differences between them. Another approach might be to use one or more lenses given by different theoretical frameworks to create comparisons. Or perhaps one might be attracted to experiment with transfer of innovations from one type of practice to another. These are just a few possible ways for the intended bridge building; more of them will certainly emerge. It is likely that improved understanding of the two practices will lead to new insight in the end-user-driven development of these practices and software supporting them.
EUD cuts across different sub-disciplines within computer science and informatics: Research on EUD requires cross-disciplinary integration: research on human computer interaction to understand user interface design that supports not only the use but also the manipulation of the software; computer supported cooperative work respectively learning to support the cooperation around co-design of work practices and the supporting software; software architecture to develop techniques that allow the safe manipulation of programs by non-it professionals; and software engineering to understand and support the development of end-user tailorable software.
The workshop continues the long and strong Nordic/Scandinavian discussion and research tradition around EUD. We invite position papers from the participants and design an interactive workshop based on the submissions.
Organisers:
Yvonne Dittrich, associate professor, IT University of Copenhagen Sara Eriksén, professor, Blekinge Institute of Technology Markku Nurminen, professor emeritus, University of Turku Samuli Pekkola, professor, Tampere University ofTechnology ---------------------------------------------
August 11th (Tuesday)
Workshop Session II (11:00 - 12:30) (Two to three in parallel.) Title
Workshop C: Action Research and Design Science Theme
Action research is a topic suitable for improvement of existing information systems. It also give a good chance practitioners to participate in the development work. Among the researchers action research initiates many different
views. We as senior participants can submit can give our contribution to present or to teach about some important topics.
Purpose of the workshop
Action research is a topic suitable for improvement of existing information systems. The purpose of the workshop is include also design science and the interrelationships between AR and DS.
Organizers
Pertti Järvinen, Professor, a leading authority on research methods, represents University of Tampere, Finland.
Email: <Pertti.Jarvinen@cs.uta.fi>
Jesper Simonsen, Associate Professor has area of expertise in Participatory Design (PD) focusing on offering theories and methods for IT design in an organizational context. He is representing Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark.
Email: <simonsen@ruc.dk>
Christina Mörtberg, Associate Professor, is representing both University of Oslo, Norway and Umeå University, Sweden, E-mail: <chrismmo@ifi.uio.no>
Pär Ågerfalk, is Chair in Computer Science in Intersection with Social Sciences, Uppsala University, Department of Information Science Computer and Systems Science, Uppsala, Sweden, E-mail: <par.agerfalk@dis.uu.se>
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August 11th (Tuesday)
Workshop Session II (11:00 - 12:30) (Two to three in parallel.) Titlle Theme Description
The mid-career stage is perhaps the most challenging one in an academic career.
It is the stage during which publishing needs to target higher level journals, and when contribution and service to the field expands through editorial board positions and conference roles.In addition, the mid-career scholar typically breaks with her old research environment and has an urgent need to develop new networks and a long-term research plan. On top of this,the mid-career stage is typically the time when their immediate family expands. The entire range of new challenges and opportunities makes it important to
identify ways to handle the career while achieving a good work/life balance. In view of the apparent lack of fora for discussing these issues, this panel is intended to reveal, explore, and reflect upon mid-career challenges and opportunities. Panel Conduct We intend to make the panel an interactive session in two ways. First,the panelists will
not simply present papers: rather they will be stating their experiences, views, opinions, and positions in response to short questions posed by the moderator. Second, we seek active audience participation: while the panelists present their ideas, a free flowing dialogue between (and within) the panel and the audience is actively encouraged. Hence, the format we will follow will be for the moderator to ask a question to the panel which each panelist will address briefly in turn (not longer than approximately 2 minutes each).Then the audience will be invited to give their views on the question. We will then proceed to the next question and the discussion will follow the same format. We will end the panel session by brief closing statements by the panelists and a wrap-up by the moderator. -------------------------------------------------------
August 11th(Tuesday)
Workshop Session III (17:00-18:00) (single session)
Title
Workshop E: How to publish your work in Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
Theme
The aim of this workshop is to provide the participants with guidelines and advice on how to publish their work in the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS). Twenty years after its origin, SJIS continues to be a high quality publication outlet for researchers both within and outside Scandinavia, and an important forum for the IRIS community to publish its work. The workshop will present the research profile and format of the journal, and the submission, review and publication process. Further, the editors will give their advice and tips to authors on how to increase the chances for getting their manuscripts accepted for publication in SJIS. Examples of successful submissions will be presented, and there will be ample time for questions from the audience.
The workshop will be facilitated by the following three SJIS editors:
Keld Bødker, Roskilde University
Bjørn Erik Munkvold, University of Agder Samuli Pekkola, Tampere University of Technology |