IISI-EUSSET Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 to Volkmar Pipek. Volkmar Pipek has studied Computer Science and Economics at the University of Kaiserslautern, focussing on Database Systems and Artificial Intelligence.His research interest into interdisciplinary, more application-oriented computer science lead him to the Research Group on HCI and CSCW (ProSEC) at the Institute forREAD MORE

IISI-EUSSET Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 to Richard Harper. Originally trained as a sociologist but now a computer scientist, Richard Harper is concerned with how new technologies shape us and how we in turn shape our technologies – in the space that is often known as Human-Computer Interaction or HCI. CSCWREAD MORE

EUSSET-IISI Lifetime Achievement Award 2021 for Carla Simone

EUSSET-IISI Lifetime Achievement Award 2021 for Carla Simone We are pleased to announce that Carla Simone receives the 2021 EUSSET-IISI Lifetime Achievement Award. This way EUSSET and IISI recognize her outstanding contributions to the CSCW research, as well as her long-term engagement within the scientific community. We congratulate Carla toREAD MORE

IISI-EUSSET Live Time Achievement Award 2020 to 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 theREAD MORE

IISI-EUSSET Live Time Achievement Award 2019 to Bonnie Nardi

IISI-EUSSET Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 to Bonnie Nardi Her most recent book, Heteromation and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism (co-authored with Hamid Ekbia), was published in 2017 by the MIT Press.  Bonnie co-edits the MIT Press Acting with Technology Series (with Kirsten Foot and Victor Kaptelinin). She is a senior editorREAD MORE

IISI-EUSSET Lifetime Achievement Award 2018 to Dave Randall. Laudatio Dave Randall was born in the West Country in the UK in 1950 in a working-class family – his father was a welder – and he was one of 6 children. He graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury withREAD MORE

EUSSET-IISI Lifetime Achievement Award

Today at ECSCW 2017 in Sheffield the EUSSET-IISI Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to Mark Ackermann. Mark Ackerman‘s influence in the CSCW community can be traced back to his work in the Answer Garden projects and the seminal papers related to it. This work opened the research field of knowledgeREAD MORE

2015 EUSSET-IISI Lifetime Achievement Award to Susanne Bødker and Christian Heath Susanne Bødker and Christian Heath have been and are two central figures in shaping a research agenda for the design of socially embedded technologies over a number of years. They represent two lines of research which each had a tremendous influence onREAD MORE

2013 EUSSET-IISI Lifetime Achievement Award to Liam Bannon and Kjeld Schmidt Laudatio:Kjeld Schmidt and Liam Bannon were largely responsible for the creation and development of European CSCW research as a distinctive research arena, one in which attention to practice became regarded as fundamental to the design of socio-technical systems. Both have made aREAD MORE

2011 EUSSET-IISI Lifetime Achievement Award to Christiane Floyd Laudatio:Christiane Floyd received the EUSSET-IISI Lifetime Achievement Award especially for the following merits: Development of an alternative research paradigm in the field of software engineering which has opened the thitherto dominantly limited to technological questions discourse for socio-informatic questions Inclusion of cyberneticsREAD MORE