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Happy 2021! Your thoughts on our plans for paving the way to practice-centered computing (a survey from the EUSSET SC)
We would like to wish you a Happy New Year, full of amazing personal and professional projects. May 2021 be more peaceful and healthy, hopefully with more face-to-face events! This message concerns the current status of EUSSET activities, and our plans for the near future. We hope to increase and strengthen the interactions within the…
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Happy relaxing break! Paving the way to practice-centered computing (an update from the EUSSET SC)
Dear friends, we hope that you and your loved-ones are healthy and safe during the pandemic. We also hope that it will be possible to meet you in person in 2021. Fingers crossed. In this message we want to inform you about the current status of EUSSET activities, our plans for the near future, and…
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New EUSSET Steering Committee appointed
The new Steering Committee of EUSSET has started its work in September 2020. We thank members of the previous Steering Committee for their engagement and support. And we welcome all freshly appointed members of the Steering Committee and wish them good luck in their offices. Anyone interested in joining the Steering Committee and supporting EUSSET…
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2020 – Kari Kuutti
IISI-EUSSET Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 to Kari Kuutti We recognize Kari Kuutti this year for the importance of bringing activity theory into systems design and social computing research and his detailed contributions to the field. His work has fostered new directions to work of others for many years, and materially expanded the research field. Kari Kuuti is…
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Time Matters: Flexi-time and women’s retention in the 24/7 workplace
The winner of the 2020 David B. Martin Award is Oindrila Matilal for her paper “Time Matters: Flexi-time and women’s retention in the 24/7 workplace” (access via >> EUSSET DL). Find an interview with the winner here. Abstract. Historically, the ability to exercise agency over the scheduling of working-time has shaped women’s retention in the workforce. Therefore, policies such as…
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EUSSET Competence Network launched
EUSSET has recently launched its Competence Network at ECSCW 2020. The network features a group of experienced researchers and practitioners committed to advancing the understanding of how digital technologies mediate and affect human practices, cultures and organisations, and how better technologies for complex settings can be designed as a result. More information on the services,…