The International Institute for Socio-Informatics takes pride in hosting the website of the conference series “International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD)”. The IS-EUD conference series is the leading international forum to discuss topics around “empowering end-users to develop and adapt systems themselves”. The first meeting took place in 2003 in Bonn, Germany. Since 2009 the conference series follows a biannual rhythm. IS-EUD is committed to high scientific quality.

As organizations and work practices vary widely and evolve rapidly, the technological infrastructure has to enable and support these changes. Traditional Software Engineering approaches reach their limits whenever the full spectrum of user requirements cannot be anticipated or the frequency of changes cannot be accommodated by traditional processes. EUD refers to a set of methods, techniques, and tools that allow users acting as non-professional software developers to create, modify or extend a software artifact.

Especially the deployment of Web 2.0 technologies resulted in the exponential growth of the number of end-user developers, compared to the number of software professionals. The increasing importance of ‘infrastructural’ aspects of software, particularly the mutual dependencies between technologies, usages, and domain competencies, calls for a differentiation of roles beyond the classical user-designer dichotomy.

The International Symposium on EUD brings together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working in the field of EUD. While programming activities by non-professional actors are an essential focus, EUD also investigates into related activities within the process of developing a software infrastructure, e.g. the collective understanding and sense-making of use problems and solution alternatives, the interactions among end users around new configurations, and delegation patterns that may also partly involve professional designers. To this end, EUD brings together threads of discussion from disciplines like Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Artificial Intelligence. Concepts such as configurability, tailorability, end-user programming, visual programming, natural programming, and programming by example already form a fruitful base, but need to be better integrated to exploit the synergy among them.

International Steering Committee

• Joerg Beringer, SAP, Palo Alto, USA
• Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA (http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/research/members/burnett/index.html)
• Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy (http://www.di.uniba.it/~ivu/people/costabile.htm)
• Boris De Ruyter, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Yvonne Dittrich, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (http://www.itu.dk/~ydi/)
• Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA (http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/)
• Anders Mørch, University of Oslo, Norway (http://www.uv.uio.no/intermedia/english/people/aca/andersm)
• Brad Myers, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/)
• Fabio Paternò, HIIS Laboratory CNR-ISTI, Italy (http://giove.isti.cnr.it/~fabio/)
• Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen, Germany (http://www.uni-siegen.de/fb5/wirtschaftsinformatik/mitarbeiter/pipek/index.html.en?lang=en)
• Mary Beth Rosson, Penn State University, USA (http://mrosson.ist.psu.edu/)
• Volker Wulf, University of Siegen, Germany (https://www.wineme.uni-siegen.de/team/wulf/)