30-04-2012: GIRI 2.0 Public Lecture [in room 3A08, ITU at 10:30 – 12:00]:
Towards Local Appropriation of Design and Evaluation - A Namibian design Journey - A guest lecture on Culture and Design in Namibia by Professor H. Winschiers. Organized by Yvonne Dittrich, Assoc. prof. Software Development Group. Read more about the lecture 24-04-2012: GIRI2.0 Public lecture - Dave Randall - one of the authors of the famous book Fieldwork for Design will be making a public lecture from 10:00-12:00 in room 3A12. The focus of the talk will be ethnography in CSCW. Organized by Pernille Bjørn
30-03-2012: GIRI2.0 Public Lecture [in AUD3, ITU at 13:15-15:00] "Tangible user interfaces for distributed collaboration" by Morten Fjeld, Manager of the Tabletop Interaction Lab at Chalmers University, Sweden ( http://www.t2i.se/ ). Read more
21 - 23 March 2012: ICIC 2012 Participation GIRI2.0 members Pernille Bjorn and Rasmus Eskild Jensen will be participating in the International conference Intercultural Collaboration ICIC 2012, in Bangalore, India
cand.IT Renée Korver Michan, former GIRI2.0 master thesis student will be presenting a research paper based upon her thesis at the ICIC 2012 conference in Bangalore, India. The paper: Korver-Michan, R., and Bjørn, P. "Sources of miscommunications: Searching for contextual information in communication between Chinese and Danish collaborators," in: International Conference on Intercultural Communication (ICIC), ACM, Bangalore, India, 2012.
12-03-2012: Danske Bank and IT University of Copenhagen in global partnership Great IT Across Borders: Danske Bank and the IT University have created a strategic partnership in making it possible for ITU master thesis student to investigate the chhallenges of global interaction. Danske Bank will engage ITU master thesis students over the next year as part of their focus on Great ITAcross Borders andas part of India Toda, a cooperation bringing Denmark and India closer. Read more
27-29 february 2012: GIRI2.0 members Pernille Bjorn, Yvonne Dittrich, and Lars Rune Christensen participated in the network workshop for the European Network on Socially
Embedded Systems EUSSET in Siegen, Germany Feb 27-Feb 29 2012. Here we discussed future research agendas and European collaboration. To know more about EUSSET visit http://www.eusset.eu/
December 2011 – January 2012: GIRI2.0 member associate professor Pernille Bjorn was on an extended research stay at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore (IIM-B) as part of the NexGSD research project. Here she interviewed participants in three large GSD projects conducted within one large Indien software company as well as conducted interviews with managers on their use of social software. To know more about the NexGSD project visit http://nexgsd.org/
5-12-2011: Workshop WSN [Ghana]
Sebastian Büttrich will be teaching in the Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) arranged by ICTP , AAU (Association of African Universities) and University of Cape Town. See poster
02-12-2011: GIRI 2.0 seminar at the IT University of Copenhagen [in 2A18/DesignLab at 10-12] In collaboration the GIRI2.0 participants will launch the 5-year process of writing the GIRI2.0 Book which will be co-authored by the participants and invited researchers. See agenda/invitation and poster
01-12-2011: GIRI2.0 recommends: CNC talk by Annette Markham [10:30 - 12:00 in 4A22]
The Center for Network Cultures presents a public talk by Annette Markham (Department of Communication, University of Arizona). Network Analysis as Bricoleur’s Tool: Reconsidering interpretive qualitative methods for social media research. Arranged by Irina Shklovski irsh@itu.dk
23-11-2011: Participation at the 11th Danish HCI Research Symposium The aim of the symposium is to stimulate Danish research in human-computer interaction by providing an overview of current activities and an opportunity for networking. GIRI2.0 contributors: Pernille Bjørn, Nina Boulus, Lars Rune Christensen and Rasmus Eskild Jensen. Download journal papers and proceedings .
22-11-2011: GIRI 2.0 Public lecture [in AUD5, ITU at 12:10-14:00]
"Tales and experiences from Industry on Global Software Development" by Anders Lybecker, Chief Architect at Kring Development A/S and Thomas Byrdal Christensen, Project Manager at IBM Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Master. Arranged by Pernille Bjørn as part of the masters course Distributed Collaboration & Development
(14-18)-11-2011: GARNET Network meeting [Ghana]
Sebastian Büttrich, pitLab Manager meets with the GHANA Research Network (GARNET) organized by NSRC
09-11-2011: GIRI 2.0 Public lecture [in pITLab, 3A54 at 13-14]
Crowds - Precious Cargo; Ferrying virtual resources in crowds and mobile apps for crowd communication. Seminar led by visiting professor Tim Kindberg , one of the most experienced RFID and electronic tagging experts in the world, with a taste for real-world applications and art. He co-edited " Labeling the World" special issue in IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine last year together with Rahul Sukthankar at Carnegie Mellon and GIRI fellow Thomas Pederson which among other articles included one on how electronic tagging technologies impacts the possibilities for small-scale producers of products in developing countries to get access to the global market (Author: Ann Light).
01-11-2011: GIRI 2.0 Public lecture [in AUD5, ITU at 13:15-14:00]
"Is minimizing interaction a solution to cultural and materity in equality in offshore outsourcing" by Morten Herzum, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Roskilde University - arranged by Pernille Bjørn as part of the masters course Distributed Collaboration & Development
20-10-2011: Participation at the International Conference on Culture and Computing 2011 in Kyoto - read more and download papers
25-10-2011: GIRI 2.0 Public Event - Ecotelemedia Global Networks , [15-16 at the Intermediality Lab]
Kjell Petersen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor at ITU invites you to witness one of the event that the research project evolves around, including mediated participants from Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Beijing and Washington. An experiment on how people interact in a mediating network and how it is possible to develop and explore ecologies of telemediation through artistic processes. The current approaches involve telemedial performance using multiple iPods and iPads, acoustic ambience in-between places mediated over IPv6 networks, and interfaces designed from various plant-robot symbiosis.
30-09-2011: GIRI 2.0 presents a talk "What are you working on" by Jennifer Thom-Santelli, IBM Research. Arranged by Irina Shklovski.
24-09-2011: Participation at the ECSCW 2011 conference in Aarhus - read more and download papers
16-08-2011: Participation at the IRIS/SCIS 2011 conference in Turku - read more and download papers
23-06-2011: The Third international workshop: Infrastructures for Healthcare - download proceedings
08-05-2011: TRANSNATIONAL HCI - Humans, Computers and Interactions in Transnational Context
19-03-2011: CSCW 2011 - The 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.