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 in Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems:

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

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Key Note
Keynote speaker at the Fourth International Conference on IT in Health Care: Socio-technical Approaches (ITHC'2010), June 23-24, 2010, in Aalborg, Denmark
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New Book
Design Research: Synergies from Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Routledge, 2010

Design Research is a new interdisciplinary research area with a social science orientation at its heart, and this book explores how ...

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