Acting Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT-M, professor P Srivinas Kumar, gave the inaugural welcome speech
Participatory design of ict: opportunities and challenges
This workshop was co-organized by Indian Insitute of Technology Madras (IIT-M), India, and Blekinge Insitute of Technology (BTH), Sweden, and hosted by IIT-M. The workshop brought together industry, engineers, social scientists and project managers in the field of ICT:s for a discussion on the role and methods of Participatory Design (PD). The participants were scholars from BTH and Lund University in Sweden, ITU Copenhagen in Denmark, TeNeT Group, Faculty of CSE, EE, IIT Madras, and project managers from RTBI. From the Industry - Ericsson India and Chennai were both represented and some RTBI and TeNeT companies like Uniphore and Invention Labs & Vortex Eng were also represented. Links to presentations and a summarizing report from the workshop can be found below.
Indo-Swedish workshop held at IIT-M, Chennai, February 18th-19th 2010
Venue: BSB 361, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Madras
AGENDA
Day 1, February 18th 2010
Start time End time Title Speaker
9:00 9:30 Inaugural Head of Dept of Computer Science & Engineering
9:30 10:00 Opening Plenary Professor Timothy A. Gonsalves /Presentation 1
10:00 10:30 Opening Plenary Professor Sara Eriksén /Presentation 2
10:30 11:00 Tea break
11:00 11:30 Cooperative method ... Professor Yvonne Dittrich /Presentation 3
11:30 12:00 Online TT & other ... Dr. Hema Murthy /Presentation 4
12:00 12:30 Real World Inventions Professor Kari Rönkkö /Presentation 5
12:30 1:30 Lunch break
1:30 2:00 Generic quantitative ... Professor Markus Fiedler /Presentation 6
2:00 2:30 Quality of mobile ... Professor Hans-Jürgen Zepernick /Presentation 7
2:30 3:00 Intercultural ... Professor Pernille Björn Rasmussen /Presentation 8
3:00 3:30 Tea break
3:30 4:00 Mobile payments Deepti Kumar /Presentation 9
4:00 4:30 TENET/RTBI Lab tour
7:00 9:00 Dinner at DakshinaChitra /See more at this link
AGENDA
Day 2, February 19th 2010
Start time End time Title Speaker
9:00 9:45 Keynote Address Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala /Presentation 10
9:45 10:15 A joint study ... Professor Markus Fiedler /Presentation 11
10:15 10:45 Tea break
10:45 11:15 User-centric designs L. Kannon, Vortex /Presentation 12
11:15 11:45 Networking at school Dr. Måns Svensson /Presentation 13
11:45 12:15 Building inclusive ... Lakshmi Vaidyanathan /Presentation 14
12:15 12:45 Beginning to End ... Suma Prashant /Presentation 15
12:45 2:00 Lunch break
2:00 2:30 Co-constructive ... Dr. Annelie Ekelin & Kishore Reddy /Presentation 16
2:30 3:00 Universal Design Dr. Namita Jacob /Presentation 17
3:00 3:30 Tea break
3:30 4:00 Mobile services for ... Uniphore Team /Presentation 18
4:00 4:30 Farm(er) specific ... Dr. Aarti Kawlra&Swarna Subramanian /Presentation 19
4:30 5:00 Closing remarks ... Sara, Hema and Yvonne /Summarizing report
Professor Timothy A. Gonsalves, Opening Plenary Day 1
Pernille Bjørn Rasmussen, IT University Copenhagen, getting a delicious Indian lunch
Hema Murthy, Annelie Ekelin and Lakshmi Vaidyanathan during a tea break
Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, Blekinge Institute of Technology, discusses perceptions of quality
Hans-Jürgen Zepernick and Anvesh Reddy
Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology, explains his conclusions
Markus Fiedler and professor Mani Subramanian
Attentive audience
Kari Rönkkö and Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, listening
Professor Gonsalves thanks professor Eriksén for presentation
Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala discussing sustainable ICT development
Kishore Reddy and Annelie Ekelin - two key people in the Augment project.
Måns Svensson, Lund University, presents Pippi Longstockings and the concept of Cybernorms.
Suma Prashant presents a project focusing on health care in rural villages.
Måns Svensson and Aarti Kawlra discussing Cybernorms with the workshop participants
Ladies enjoying the tea break: Yvonne Dittrich, Aarti Kawlra, Hema Murthy and Sara Eriksén
The closing discussion was moderated by Sara Eriksén, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Yvonne Dittrich, IT University, Copenhagen, and Hema Murthy, IIT-M. (In the foreground, a glimse of Pernille Bjørn Rasmussen, IT University, Copenhagen.)
Aarti Kawlra, Swarna Subramarian and Roopa Naika on the field trip, February 20th. (And in the background, a glimse of Åsa Holm.)
The colorful workshop banner hanging outside the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT-M was designed by the IIT-M students who were exchange students at Blekinge Institute of Technology during the autumn of 2009.
Sustainable campus: bicycles parked outside the Computer Sciences Block at IIT-M
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to the workshop participants who generously shared their pictures for publication on this web site. Some pictures were taken with mobile phone cameras, others with more advanced tools, but hopefully they all help convey the enthusiasm and inspiration we experienced at the workshop!
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