The ‘international reports on socio-informatics’ are an online report series of the International Institute for Socio-Informatics, Bonn, Germany. They aim to contribute to current research discourses in the fields of ‘Human-Computer-Interaction’ and ‘Computers and Society’.
The ‘international reports on socio-informatics’ appear at least two times per year and are exclusively published on the website of the IISI. The main language of publication is English, German issues may be published on an irregular basis.
Enhancing Interaction Spaces by Social Media for the Elderly:
A Workshop Report
- Enhancing Interaction Spaces by Social Media for the Elderly: A Workshop Report (Mueller, Lewkowicz) - Ageing in communal place: ethnographic studies of social interaction in senior housing communities (Aarhus, Ballegaard, Grönvall, Larsen) - Aspects of social media design and innovation in a project for aging together (Botero, Kommonen) - Towards Ambient Assisted Shared Living for the Elderly (Hummel, Hlavacs, Lilgenau, Mayer, Moser-Siegmeth) - Wii play with elderly people (Neufeldt)
Guest Editors: Steffen Budweg, Sebastian Draxler, Steffen Lohmann, Asarnusch Rashid, Gunnar Stevens
Open Design Spaces Supporting User Innovation
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Open Design Spaces (ODS'09)
- Open Design Spaces Supporting User Innovation:Perspectives and Challenges (Budweg, Draxler, Lohmann, Rashid, Stevens) - Living Spaces: A Participatory Design Process Model Drawing on the Use of Boundary Objects (Huybrechts, Coenen, Laureyssens, Machils) - Making Innovation Happen: Tool-Support for Software Related Communities for Innovations (Huber, Bretschneider, Leimeister, Krcmar) - On the Social Construction of Open Innovation (Schwartz, Meurer, Stevens) - Co-creation through User Feedback in an Online Living Lab: A Case Example (Følstad) - Challenges and Potentials of User Involvement in the Process of Creating Games (Niesenhaus)
Guest Editors: Christopher Scaffidi, Gunnar Stevens
Proceedings of the Work-in-Progress Session of the
Second International Symposium on End User Development
March 2 - 4, 2009 Siegen, Germany
- An End User Development Environment for Culturally Contextualized Storytelling (Silva Junia, Anacletouthor) - Scaffolding Collaborative Project Work in End-User Development (Korn, Veith) - An Outline for a Syllabus for Introducing End-user Type of Students to the Object-oriented Paradigm (Flatscher) - A Toolkit Method to Match Up End User Needs with Salesforce.com Solutions (Decreus, Viaene, Poels) - Blurring the distinction between software design and work practice (de la Flor, Jirotka)
Empowerment and e-Participation in Civil Society: Local, National and International Implications Workshop Proceedings
- Introduction to “Empowerment and e-Participation in Civil Society: Local, National and International Implications” Workshop Proceedings (Boyd) - Are Political Weblogs Public Spheres or Partisan Spheres? (Vatrapu, Robertson, Dissanayake) - Framing Issues, Fomenting Change, ‘Feministing’: A Contemporary Feminist Blog in the Landscape of Online Political Activism (Mowles) - Civil Society, New Media and Participation in Germany (Mambrey) - What kind of grassroots e-participation? The uneasy demand of new politics in Italy: between continuity and innovation (Balocchi, Freschi, Raffini) - Challenges and prospects of e-participation in Bulgaria(Larsson, Neykova, Wang)
Guest Editors: Bernhard Nett, Marleen Huysman, Markus Rohde, Charles Steinfield, Volker Wulf
The Role of ICT in Interfirm Networks and Regional Clusters
Workshop Documentation
COOP ’06 Conference
- ICT and trust in clusters : the case of the clothing industry in France and US (Abecassis-Moedas, Caby-Guillet) - Regional Learning in the Software Industry: A University Facilitating Regional Networks of Practice (Rohde, Wulf) - The virtual platform of the Regional Learning Network - an artifact for creating new forms for development cooperation between research and development units and tourism entrepreneurs (Kantola, Lassila, Kalliokoski, Mäntylä, Haapanen) - Regional Networks between Industry and Academia: What can we learn from Bourdieu? (Müller, Durissini, Nett) - Semantic Discovery of Services in Peer-to-Peer Based Inter-Firm Grids (Amoretti, Bertolazzi, Prandi, Zanichelli, Conte) - Promoting Broadband Internet Use in Rural Areas Through Rural Business Clusters (Steinfield, LaRose)
Guest Editors: Yvonne Dittrich, Paul Dourish, Anders Morch, Volkmar Pipek, Gunnar Stevens, Bettina Toerpel
Special Issue on Supporting Appropriation Work
- Supporting Appropriation Work: A Workshop Report (Pipek) - Three Contexts of Appropriation for an Urban Simulation System (Borning, Davis) - Mobile Collaborative Software Adaptation (Chalmers, Hall, Bell) - Socio-Technical Self-Descriptions as a Means for Appropriation (Kunau, Hermann, Loser) - Supporting Appropriation Work with Social Translucence, Collective Sensemaking, and Social Scaffolding (Kellogg, Erickson) - Leveraging the language action perspective for system accountability and end user configurability (Jacucci, Calzà, D'Andrea) - What’s in a name? Exploring the connections between abstraction and appropriation (Cameron, Twidale) - Design for appropriation of ubiquity in information systems (Lemhachheche) - Studying Appropriation in Activity-Centric Collaboration (Muller, Minassian, Geyer, Millen, Brownholtz, Wilcox) - Let's harness IT for our purposes...! (Toerpel) - “Let them use emacs”: the interaction of simplicity and appropriation (Twidale, Cameron) - Supporting Configuring as Appropriation Work (Wagner, Balka) - Groupware Construction with the Oregon Software Development Process (Schuemmer) - Radical Appropriation: The Configurations of Wireless Networking in a Community Group (McDonald) - ‘Reflective User’ in Practice: Explorations from two cases (Pekkola) - Discussion Report: Simplicity and Appropriation (Dourish, Herrmann, Kellogg, Kunau)
