Area of expertise: Design Studies in general and Participatory Design (PD) in specific focusing on offering theories and methods for IT design in an organizational context. This research area also includes Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Knowledge Management (KM), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and Computer Mediated Communication (CMC).

I have since 1991 conducted research in collaboration with industry on IT design - research focussed on how IT designers can cooperate with users and their management especially when relating to the clarification of goals, formulation of needs, and design and evaluation of coherent visions for change. I am affiliated to the research group User-Driven IT Innovation (UDI) and currently I manage the research program Effects-Driven IT development (EDIT).
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New Article
New article in Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems:

A Concern for Engaged Scholarship: The Challenges for Action Research Projects

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Best Paper
Article appointed for the "best paper selection" of the 2009 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics: Positive effects of electronic patient records on three clinical activities

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New Book Chapter
Effektdrevet it-udvikling: Status og erfaringer 2004-2009 (in Danish)

Kapitel i bogen: Sundhedssektorens digitalisering: Ledelse og effektmåling

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