Area of expertise: Design Studies in general and Participatory Design in specific.

Professor of Design Studies, Department of Communication, Business, and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, Denmark. Has since 1991 conducted participatory design research in collaboration with industry - focussed on how information technology 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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Effects-Driven IT Dev.

New main journal article published describing this ground braking research program.

New book chapter describe the status of the research from 2004-2011

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Conference Chair
I will be chairing the next upcoming Participatory Design Conference, PDC'2012.

PDC'2012 will be held at Roskilde University in August 2012.

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Key Note
See my Key Note held at the EuroSPI 2011 conference entitled:

Process Improvement Through Sustained Participatory Design and Effects-Driven IT Development

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