The ‘international reports on socio-informatics’ are an online report series of the International Institute for Socio-Informatics, Bonn, Germany. They aim to contribute to current research discourses in the fields of ‘Human-Computer-Interaction’ and ‘Computers and Society’.

The ‘international reports on socio-informatics’ appear at least two times per year and are exclusively published on the website of the IISI. The main language of publication is English, German issues may be published on an irregular basis.

The series is edited by Prof. Dr. Volkmar Pipek and Dr. Markus Rohde.

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Guest Editors: Volkmar Pipek, Jonas Landgren, Leysia Palen

Proceedings of the CSCW 2012 Workshop on Collaboration and Crisis Informatics

- Workshop Summary: Collaboration and Crisis Informatics (CCI) (Volkmar Pipek, Jonas Landgren, Leysia Palen)
- Why Expressiveness Matters in Command & Control Visualizations (Aaron Genest, Scott Bateman, Anthony Tang, Stacey Scott, Carl Gutwin)
- Integrating Process Modeling and Linked Open Data to Improve Decision Making in Disaster Management (Axel Schulz, Sebastian Döweling, Florian Probst)
- Speeding-Up Innovation Cycles in Emergency Management Using Mobile & Social Software (Olaf Grebner, Florian Probst)
-Survivor Confirmation at Higher Educational Institutions as A Socio-Technical Testbed for Large-Scale Emergency Response (Shoji Kajita)
- Repairing Human Infrastructure During Crises (Gloria Mark)
- Framework for the Analysis of Coordination in Crisis Response (Hemant Purohit, Amit Sheth, Andrew Hamton, John Flach, Valerie Shalin)
- Behavioral Patterns in Online Crisis Communications (Sarah Vieweg)
- Experimenting Crisis Response Coordination (Jörn Franke, Karim Dahman, Francois Charoy)
- Crowdsourcing in Crisis Informatics for Disaster Relief (Masayoshi Teraguchi, Shin Saito, Tessa Lau, Masaki Ohno, Julian A Cerruti, Hironobu Takagi)
- Disaster Symbols and Cultural Responses (Hiroko Wilensky)
- InNEED: Managing Natural Disasters Through Community Self-Organization Using Mobile Technology (Fareena Chanda, Nermin Moufti, Derek Reilly)
- Social Media for Supporting Emergent Groups in Crisis Management (Christian Reuter, Oliver Heger, Volkmar Pipek)
- Work and reflection in crisis informatics (Simone Mora, Alessandro Boron, Monica Divitini)
- Call for Open Humanitarian Information (Gisli Olafsson)
- Brainstorming for Japan: Rapid Distributed Global Collaboration for Disaster Response (Michael Muller, Sacha Chua)
- Digital Volunteerism: Examining Connected Crowd Work During Mass Disruption Events (Kate Starbird)

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Guest Editors: Steffen Budweg, Claudia Müller, Myriam Lewkowicz

Designing for Inter/Generational Communities
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop “Fostering Social Interactions in the Ageing Society”, COOP Conference 2012

- Designing for Inter/Generational Communities - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop “Fostering Social Interactions in the Ageing Society”, COOP 2012 (Steffen Budweg, Claudia Müller, Myriam Lewkowicz)
- Online LIfebooks: Narrations of lived lives to foster inter- generational exchange (Federico Cabitza, Carla Simone)
- Motivating (Non-)Normative Freedom and Technologically Mediated Well-Being (Dominic Depner)
- What’s Up: Fostering Intergenerational Social Interactions(Marco Dianti, Christhian Parra, Fabio Casati, Antonella De Angelli)
- Motivating Elderly People to Use Fall Preventive Exercise Training Games at Home: Are Community Based ICT Features Always a Good Choice?(Johanna Meurer, Rainer Wieching)
- Social Interaction through Participatory Desing in a Residential Care Home(Cornelius Neufeldt, Claudia Müller)
- Active Livestyle: an application to help elderly stay physically and socially active(Patrícia Silveira, Florian Daniel, Fabio Casati)
- User-Centred Design for Elderly Patients with Low Digital Literacy(Emilija Stojmenova, Tomaž Žohar, Dejan Dinevski)

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Guest Editors: Nikolaj Gandrup Borchorst, Susanne Bødker, Nathalie Colineau, Matthias Korn, Cécile Paris

Proceedings of the C&T 2011 Workshop on Government and Citizen Engagement

- Introduction to the Workshop on Government and Citizen Engagement (Scott Anderson, Nikolaj Gandrup Borchorst, Susanne Bødker, Nathalie Colineau, Amanda Dennett, Matthias Korn, Cécile Paris)
- Challenges for National Civic Engagement in the United States (Christopher M. Mascaro, Sean P. Goggins)
- E-Petitions in Local Government: The Case of Wellington City Council (Janet Toland)
- Political Blogging and the Public Sphere in Malaysia (Rosyidah Muhamad)
- Geo-Located Augmented Reality as a PlaMorm for Citizen Engagement (Mohammad Ashraf Khan, Andy Dong)
- Place and Situated Deliberation in Participatory Planning – A Research Proposal (Matthias Korn)
- Deliberation and Empowerment in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas (Alice Baroni)
- Capitalising on the Potential of Online Communities to Help Welfare Recipients (Nathalie Colineau, Cécile Paris)

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Guest Editors: Roberta Cuel, Marc Herbrechter, Markus Rohde, Martin Stein, Oksana Tokarchuk, Torben Wiedenhöfer, Fahri Yetim, and Marco Zamarian

Requirements Report of the INSEMTIVES Seekda! Use Case

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Guest Editors: Steffen Budweg, Sebastian Draxler, Steffen Lohmann, Asarnusch Rashid, Gunnar Stevens

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Open Design Spaces (ODS 2010)
- Open Design Spaces – Socially Crafting Interactive Experiences (Steffen Budweg, Sebastian Draxler, Steffen Lohmann, Asarnusch Rashid, Gunnar Stevens)
- Challenges of Using Open Online Design Spaces – Case Monimos (Pirjo Näkki)
- Process Tools for Interaction Design (Alexander Wiethoff, Andreas Butz)
- SourceBinder: Community-based Visual and Physical Prototyping (Bettina Conradi, Balázs Serényi, Miriam Kranz, Heinrich Hussmann)
- Open Innovation Applied to Smart Metering: a Case-Study into Socio-Cultural Aspects (Annelise M. de Jong, Regina Hardziewski, Laszlo Bax)
- A Meta-Design Approach for Collaborative Process Modeling (Selim Erol, Felix Mödritscher, Gustaf Neumann)

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Guest Editor: Gunnar Stevens

Workshop Proceedings of 9th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems - COOP 2010, Aix-en-Provence, France, May 2010

- Workshop Analysing the quality of collaboration in task-oriented computer-mediated interactions (Françoise Détienne, Michael Baker, Jean-Marie Burkhardt)
- Workshop Mobile Collaboration Systems: challenges for design, work practice, infrastructure and business (Maria Danninger, Wolfgang Gräther, Tobias Heer)
- Workshop The Mediation Role of Shared Representations in Cooperative Activities (Jean-François Boujut, Stefania Castellani, David Martin, Frédéric Roulland, Jutta Willamowski)
- Workshop Incentives and Motivation for Web-Based Collaboration (Webcentives) (Elena Simperl, Roberta Cuel, Markus Rohde)

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Guest Editors: Claudia Mueller, Myriam Lewkowicz

Enhancing Interaction Spaces by Social Media for the Elderly:

A Workshop Report

- Enhancing Interaction Spaces by Social Media for the Elderly: A Workshop Report (Mueller, Lewkowicz)
- Ageing in communal place: ethnographic studies of social interaction in senior housing communities (Aarhus, Ballegaard, Grönvall, Larsen)
- Aspects of social media design and innovation in a project for aging together (Botero, Kommonen)
- Towards Ambient Assisted Shared Living for the Elderly (Hummel, Hlavacs, Lilgenau, Mayer, Moser-Siegmeth)
- Wii play with elderly people (Neufeldt)

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Guest Editors: Steffen Budweg, Sebastian Draxler, Steffen Lohmann, Asarnusch Rashid, Gunnar Stevens

Open Design Spaces Supporting User Innovation

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Open Design Spaces (ODS'09)

- Open Design Spaces Supporting User Innovation:Perspectives and Challenges (Budweg, Draxler, Lohmann, Rashid, Stevens)
- Living Spaces: A Participatory Design Process Model Drawing on the Use of Boundary Objects (Huybrechts, Coenen, Laureyssens, Machils)
- Making Innovation Happen: Tool-Support for Software Related Communities for Innovations (Huber, Bretschneider, Leimeister, Krcmar)
- On the Social Construction of Open Innovation (Schwartz, Meurer, Stevens)
- Co-creation through User Feedback in an Online Living Lab: A Case Example (Følstad)
- Challenges and Potentials of User Involvement in the Process of Creating Games (Niesenhaus)

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Guest Editors: Christopher Scaffidi, Gunnar Stevens

Proceedings of the Work-in-Progress Session of the

Second International Symposium on End User Development

March 2 - 4, 2009 Siegen, Germany

- An End User Development Environment for Culturally Contextualized Storytelling (Silva Junia, Anacletouthor)
- Scaffolding Collaborative Project Work in End-User Development (Korn, Veith)
- An Outline for a Syllabus for Introducing End-user Type of Students to the Object-oriented Paradigm (Flatscher)
- A Toolkit Method to Match Up End User Needs with Salesforce.com Solutions (Decreus, Viaene, Poels)
- Blurring the distinction between software design and work practice (de la Flor, Jirotka)

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Guest Editors: Ovid Pacific Boyd, Peter Mambrey

Empowerment and e-Participation in Civil Society: Local, National and International Implications Workshop Proceedings

- Introduction to “Empowerment and e-Participation in Civil Society: Local, National and International Implications” Workshop Proceedings (Boyd)
- Are Political Weblogs Public Spheres or Partisan Spheres? (Vatrapu, Robertson, Dissanayake)
- Framing Issues, Fomenting Change, ‘Feministing’: A Contemporary Feminist Blog in the Landscape of Online Political Activism (Mowles)
- Civil Society, New Media and Participation in Germany (Mambrey)
- What kind of grassroots e-participation? The uneasy demand of new politics in Italy: between continuity and innovation (Balocchi, Freschi, Raffini)
- Challenges and prospects of e-participation in Bulgaria(Larsson, Neykova, Wang)

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Theorien sozialer Praktiken zur Fundierung der Wirtschaftsinformatik: Eine forschungs-programmatische Perspektive (Volker Wulf)

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Guest Editors: Bernhard Nett, Marleen Huysman, Markus Rohde, Charles Steinfield, Volker Wulf

The Role of ICT in Interfirm Networks and Regional Clusters

Workshop Documentation

COOP ’06 Conference

- ICT and trust in clusters : the case of the clothing industry in France and US (Abecassis-Moedas, Caby-Guillet)
- Regional Learning in the Software Industry: A University Facilitating Regional Networks of Practice (Rohde, Wulf)
- The virtual platform of the Regional Learning Network - an artifact for creating new forms for development cooperation
between research and development units and tourism entrepreneurs (Kantola, Lassila, Kalliokoski, Mäntylä, Haapanen)
- Regional Networks between Industry and Academia: What can we learn from Bourdieu? (Müller, Durissini, Nett)
- Semantic Discovery of Services in Peer-to-Peer Based Inter-Firm Grids (Amoretti, Bertolazzi, Prandi, Zanichelli, Conte)
- Promoting Broadband Internet Use in Rural Areas Through Rural Business Clusters (Steinfield, LaRose)

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- Appropriation and Re-Appropriation of Groupware: Theoretical and Practical Implications of a Long-term Case Study (Pipek, Wulf)

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Guest Editors: Yvonne Dittrich, Paul Dourish, Anders Morch, Volkmar Pipek, Gunnar Stevens, Bettina Toerpel

Special Issue on Supporting Appropriation Work

- Supporting Appropriation Work: A Workshop Report (Pipek)
- Three Contexts of Appropriation for an Urban Simulation System (Borning, Davis)
- Mobile Collaborative Software Adaptation (Chalmers, Hall, Bell)
- Socio-Technical Self-Descriptions as a Means for Appropriation (Kunau, Hermann, Loser)
- Supporting Appropriation Work with Social Translucence, Collective Sensemaking, and Social Scaffolding (Kellogg, Erickson)
- Leveraging the language action perspective for system accountability and end user configurability (Jacucci, Calzà, D'Andrea)
- What’s in a name? Exploring the connections between abstraction and appropriation (Cameron, Twidale)
- Design for appropriation of ubiquity in information systems (Lemhachheche)
- Studying Appropriation in Activity-Centric Collaboration (Muller, Minassian, Geyer, Millen, Brownholtz, Wilcox)
- Let's harness IT for our purposes...! (Toerpel)
- “Let them use emacs”: the interaction of simplicity and appropriation (Twidale, Cameron)
- Supporting Configuring as Appropriation Work (Wagner, Balka)
- Groupware Construction with the Oregon Software Development Process (Schuemmer)
- Radical Appropriation: The Configurations of Wireless Networking in a Community Group (McDonald)
- ‘Reflective User’ in Practice: Explorations from two cases (Pekkola)
- Discussion Report: Simplicity and Appropriation (Dourish, Herrmann, Kellogg, Kunau)

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- Negotiating Infrastructure: Supporting the Appropriation of Collaborative Software (Pipek)

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- Tailoring together: A systematization and two cases (Pipek, Kahler)

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- Towards a self-organized knowledge infrastructure in a health insurance company (Mambrey, Pipek, Rohde, Won)

Responsible Series Editors: Prof. Dr. Volkmar Pipek, Dr. Markus Rohde

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