Second International Symposium on End User Development (ISEUD 2009)
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Second International Symposium on End User Development (ISEUD 2009)
http://www.eud2009.org/
Conference Chairs:
- Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Volker Wulf, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Program Chairs:
- Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen, Germany
- Mary Beth Rosson, Penn State, USA
Deadline for Submission: September 8, 2008
Date of Symposium: March, 2 - 4 2009
Location of Symposium: Siegen, Germany
Proceedings:
Proceedings will be published with Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS). The paper should not extend 20 pages. Formatting information is available at: http://www.springer.com/lncs
Theme:
Organizations and work practices vary widely and evolve rapidly. The technological infrastructure has to follow, allow or even support these changes. Traditional Software Engineering approaches reach their limits whenever the full spectrum of user requirements can’t be anticipated or the frequency of changes makes software reengineering cycles too clumsy to address all needs of a specific field of application. Moreover, the increasing importance of ‘infrastructural’ aspects, particularly the mutual dependencies between technologies, usages, and domain competencies, calls for a differentiation of roles beyond the classical user-designer dichotomy.
End User Development (EUD) addresses these problems by offering lightweight, use-time support which allows users to configure, adapt and evolve their software by themselves. EUD is understood as a set of methods, techniques, and tools that allow users of software systems, who are acting as non-professional software developers, at some point to create, modify or extend a software artifact (cf. Lieberman, Paternó, and Wulf 2006). While programming activities by non-professional actors are an essential focus, EUD also investigates into related activities within the process of developing a software infrastructure, e.g. the collective understanding and sense-making of use problems and solution alternatives, the interactions among end users around the introduction/diffusion of new configurations, or delegation patterns that may also partly involve professional designers.
EUD concepts have found widespread use in commercial software with some success: recording macros in word processors, setting up spreadsheets for calculations, defining e-mail-filters, desktop widget configuration or configuring/composing mesh-ups. Although these applications only realize a fraction of EUD's potential and still suffer from many flaws, they illustrate why empowering end-users to develop the systems they are using is an important contribution to letting them become active citizens of the Information Society.
EUD integrates different threads of discussion from Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Software Engineering (SE), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Concepts such as tailorability, configurability, end-user programming, visual programming, natural programming, and programming by example already form a fruitful base, but they need to be better integrated, and the synergy between them more fully exploited.
Also driven by developments in the context of Web 2.0, the number of end-user developers compared to the number of software professionals will grow exponentially. This underlines the importance of systematic research in EUD. The potential to provide EUD-based adaptation over the Internet may create a shift from the conventional few-to-many distribution model of software to a many-to-many distribution model.
EUD could also lead to a considerable competitive advantage in adapting to dynamically changing (economic) environments by empowering end-users. The increasing amount of software embedded within consumer and professional products also points to a need to promote EUD to enable effective use of these products. This momentum may also be picked up to improve software (re-)design based in user-driven innovation tools and strategies.
On the political level EUD is important for full participation of citizens in the emerging Information Society. While techniques of Web 2.0 already contribute to a democratization of the creation of content, the modification of the software infrastructure are difficult for non-professional programmers. This results for many sectors of society in a division of labor between those who produce and those who consume. EUD has the potential to counterbalance these effects.
The Second International Symposium on End User Development will focus an emergent discussion which so far has been conducted on many different fori. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
- Empirical studies of EUD practices
- User Interfaces for EUD
- Metaphors for software modularization
- Requirements specification for EUD
- Architectures for EUD
- EUD as part of software infrastructuring
- Support for collaboration among non-professional programmers
- EUD for specific types of devices
- EUD in specific fields of application
- EUD for user groups with specific needs
- Education concepts to foster EUD
- Micro-economical effects of EUD
- Marco-economical impact of EUD
- Political implications of EUD
Program Committee:
Peter Bogh Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Jörg Beringer, SAP Palo Alto, USA
Alan Blackwell, Cambridge University, UK
Maragret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA
Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy
Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Clarisse Sieckenius De Souza, Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Anid Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Yvonne Dittrich, IT University Copenhagen, Denmark
Christian Dörner, University of Siegen, Germany
Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany
Roman Englert, T-Labs, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Jörg Haake, FernU Hagen, Germany
Austin Henderson, Pitney Bull, USA
Thomas Herrmann, University of Bochum, Germany
Yasmin Kafai, UCLA, USA
Helge Kahler, German Federal Ministry for Research and Education, Germany
Roger Kilian-Kehr, SAP-Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Markus Klann, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Kari Kuutti, University of Oulu, Finland
Michel Lacroix, Commission of the EU, Brussels, Belgium
Caterine Letondal, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France
Henry Liebermann, MIT Media Lab, USA
Wendy Mackay, INRIA, France
Nikolay Mehandjiev, UMIST, UK
Rob Miller, MIT, USA
Anders Morch, University of Oslo, Norway
Piero Mussio, University of Milano, Italy
Brad Myers, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Horst Oberquelle, University of Hamburg, Germany
Reinhard Oppermann, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Philippe Palanque, Univerity of Toulouse, France
Fabio Paterno, CNRS, Pisa, Italy
Alexander Repenning, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Michael Resnick, MIT Media Lab, USA
Stefan Scheidl, SAP Research, Germany
Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Kjeld Schmidt, IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Carla Simone, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Gunnar Stevens, University of Siegen, Germany
Giuseppe Strina, IFU Cybernetics Institute, Germany
Alistair Sutcliffe, UMIST, UK
Bettina Törpel, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Richard van de Sluis, Philips Research Eindhoven, Netherlands
Michael Veith, University of Siegen, Germany
Ina Wagner, Technical University Vienna, Austria
Markus Won, Deutsche Post, Bonn, Germany
Jürgen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Heinz Züllighofen, University of Hamburg, Germany
More information available at http://www.eud2009.org/.
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