Workshops
Workshops will give participants the opportunities to share experiences, establish common understanding on shared topics, and identify open problems and rising challenges promoting future research on End-User Development. This year two very interesting workshops will be held on June 10th:
- CoPD@: Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age – Empowering End Users to Improve their Quality of Life
EUD for Supporting Sustainability in Maker Communities
CoPD@: Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age – Empowering End Users to Improve their Quality of Life
Digital Age is defined by the use of technology to support the way people communicate and interact in their everyday and working lives. Digital age therefore offers new and exciting opportunities to people, but it also presents new challenges to researchers and designers. Issues such as utility, efficiency, productivity, trust and other human values should be considered in a holistic sense oriented to enhance the 'quality of life' of people.
Chairs
David Díez Cebollero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Anders Mørch ,InterMedia, University of Oslo, Norway
Antonio Piccinno, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Stefano Valtolina, Università degli Studi di Milano.
Monday, June 10th, 9.00-17.30
Room 3A20/28
Website: http://homes.di.unimi.it/cslab/copda/
EUD for Supporting Sustainability in Maker Communities
There has been a recent proliferation of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) communities that can broadly be included under the maker movement umbrella. Many of these groups are engaged in DIY projects in areas that relate to sustainable living, such as urban gardening groups engaged in growing their own food in urban areas, home energy monitoring communities interested in improving their homes to support a more energy efficient living, and textile crafts people who engage in home production, as well as recycling and upcycling of textiles. Spurred by the possibilities of digital fabrication and the Internet, the maker movement has a great potential to support sustainable living by fostering related innovations, fostering their appropriation and propagating their practical use. However, technology-driven maker communities associated with FabLabs or Hackerspaces are often perceived as places for tech-savvy people and have difficulties to instantiate a sustainable dialogue with the society at large. Hence, attracting wider categories of public, as well as sharing innovations created by users are still seen as challenges.
End User Development (EUD) as research field focuses on methods, techniques, and tools that allow non-professionals to create, modify and extend technologies. Tools for EUD include for example visual programming environments, mash-up editors and service orchestration tools. EUD concepts can play a big role in supporting sustainability in maker communities by facilitating sustainable access to digital fabrication, in order to support user innovation and leverage knowledge sharing across communities.
Chairs
Alexander Boden, University of Siegen, Germany
Gabriela Avram, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Irene Posch, Vienna Technical University, Austria
Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen, Germany.
Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Vienna Technical University, Austria.
Monday, June 10th, 9.00-17.30
Room 3A08
Website: http://eudforsustainability.wineme.fb5.uni-siegen.de/