Conferences 2011
Transnational HCI
This workshop brought together researchers and designers across academia and industry to address the effects, implications, and design opportunities for individuals and communities who engage in transnational technological practices. Scholars and practitioners across HCI subfields and disciplines like anthropology, media studies, and technology studies will participate in this interdisciplinary conversation at CHI, where were will develop implications for research, design, development and implementation of technologies in transnational contexts.
Visit the homepage at http://www.princeton.edu/~jvertesi/TransnationalHCI/Welcome.html
The IT University played a role in setting the focus on Global Interactive Research at the ECSCW and the SCIS/IRIS conferences this fall, presenting papers on research with different approaches to global socio-technical collaboration and initiating controversial questions to the ECSCW community on whether or not culture is relevant for Computer Supported Collaborative Work. GIRI participants prioritize networking with other researchers within these societies to initiate collaboration across research areas and global settings as well as inspiring, provoking and challenging the theoretical framework.
ECSCW conference
in Aarhus (September 2011)
At the ECSCW (European Computer Supported Cooperative Work) conference in Aarhus, the NexGSD project and papers were presented by Pernille Bjørn, Ph.D. Associate Professor (TIP) and Lars Rune Christensen, Ph.D. Post Doc (TIP) while the two ethnographic PhD students: Rasmus Eskild Jensen (ITU) and Thomas Tøft (CBS) were participating in the masterclass on Field studies for design, organized by Dave Randall.
The NexGSD project received good feedback from the ECSCW community and was very much in focus at the bi-yearly conference with awareness created by representatives Pernille Bjørn, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Lars Rune Christensen, Ph.D. Post Doc presenting papers on relevant subjects such as ”Creating socio-technical connections in global engineering” and ”Challenges and Opportunities for Collaborative Technologies for Home Care Work”. Participation also included raising a controversial panel on Culture in CSCW, questioning ”Is ’culture’ relevant for CSCW?” - chaired by Pernille Bjørn, with Anne-marie Søderberg, Volker Wulf, Liam Bannon, and Claus Bossen as speakers.
Papers presented:
- Bjørn, Pernille and Lars Rune Christensen (2011).
Relation work: Creating socio-technical connections in global engineering.
In proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Aarhus, Denmark, September 24-28, 2011. Springer, London. 133-153 [PDF]
- Lars Rune Christensen and Erik Grönvall (2011)
Challenges and Opportunities for Collaborative Technologies for Home Care Work
In proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Aarhus, Denmark, September 24-28, 2011. Springer, London. 61-81 [PDF]
SCIS/IRIS conference in Turku (August 2011)
The Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS) was held in concurrence with the Information Systems Research in Scandinavia (IRIS) in Turku, Finland where Associate Professor and NexGSD participant Pernille Bjørn presented papers on her ethnographic studies of how globally distributed engineers handle planning practice and the complexities in communicating about the requirement specification across culture and geography. Global COE Researcher (Kyoto University) and Research Fellow (ITU) Mika Yasuoka was also there to represent GIRI and present her co-authored paper with Pernille Bjørn of their research on difficulties in establishing local language in machine-translated mediated communication.
Papers presented:
- Bjørn, P. (2011)
Co-Constructing Globally Collaborative Spaces and Places: An Ethnographic Study of How Globally Distributed Engineers Handle Planning Practice.
Scandinavian Conference Information Systems SCIS. Turku, Finland, Springer. [PDF]
- Yasouka, M. and P. Bjørn (2011)
Difficulties in Establishing Local Language in Machine-Translated Mediated Communication.
Scandinavian Conference in Information Systems SCIS. Turku, Finland, Springer. [PDF]
- Jensen, R. E., H. T. Storm, and P.Bjørn (2011).
Global Software Development: The complexities in communicating about the requirement specification across culture and geography.
Research Seminar on Information Systems (IRIS). Turku, Finland. [PDF]
International Conference on Culture and Computing, Kyoto University, Japan, October 2011
GIRI representative Mika Yasuoka, Global COE Researcher (Kyoto University) and Research Fellow (ITU) participated and presented papers on the International Conference on Culture and Computing in Kyoto. The paper presented was co-authored with Associate Professor Pernille Bjørn from IT University of Copenhagen and questions what makes it difficult to communicatte through machine translation. The paper is related to the course "Distributed Collaboration and Development" by Pernille Bjørn on the Master of science Software Development and Technology at the IT University of Copenhagen.
Paper presented:
Mika Yasuoka and Pernille Bjørn, Machine Translation Effect on Communication, in Proceedings of International conference on Culture and Computing, Kyoto, p.110-115, IEEE Computer Society, 2011. [PDF]