Preparing Students for (Inter-)Action with Activity Theory
Susanne Bødker
Aarhus University
Susanne Bødker is professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University where she leads the Computer-Mediated Activity group. She is known for her theoretical and empirical work on second-wave Human-Computer Interaction, computer mediated activity, and participatory design. Her book, Through the Interface helped put the socio-cultural research tradition of Activity Theory on the agenda for Human-Computer Interaction research. She has been teaching participatory design interaction design classes for computer science and IT students since the mid-1980s. Susanne helped initiate the Participatory Design and Computer Supported Cooperative Work conference series and is currently, for the second year running, paper co-chair of ACMs Computer-Human Interaction conference. She co-manages Aarhus University’s new interdisciplinary center for Participatory IT research.
Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose
Aarhus University
Denmark
Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose is a postdoc in the Computer-Mediated Activity group at Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University and is currently funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. Clemens received his PhD from Aarhus University in 2009 and has since worked as a postdoc at Université Paris-Sud XI followed by a year as a system engineer and user-interface developer in the industry at Cetrea A/S. Clemens has a strong interest in how we conceptualize interaction with computers, and how we push interaction with computers to be more aligned with the way we perceive and interact in and with the physical world.