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Colaboradores

Ayça Akin is an Interaction Designer at R/GA in
Nueva York. She received her MDes from Carnegie
Mellon University in 2008. In her work she focuses on
the role of design and technology in helping people
shape the environments in which they want to live.

Nicola J. Bidwell is a Principal Researcher at CSIR-
Meraka and Associate Professor affiliated with Nelson
Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa.
Desde 2003, she has focused her research, in human-
computer-interaction, on designing for rural settings
and indigenous knowledge systems in Africa and
Australia. To co-generate approaches that are locally
accountable and grounded, she has lived rurally for
the past few years in an African village.

Erling Björgvinsson is a researcher and teacher at
Malmö University in interaction design. He has over
ten years of experience working with collaborative
and participatory design within the fields of culture
and healthcare. His research area is in design method-
ology, specifically on collaborative and participatory
design-lead research. He has published articles in,
Entre otros, CoDesign – International Journal of
CoCreation in Design and The Arts and in The Proceed-
ings of Participatory Design.

Edwin Blake is a professor in Computer Science at the
University of Cape Town in South Africa. His research
focus has been on information and Communications
Technology for Development, User Experience as
applied to Games, Virtual Environments and 3D
Graphics as well as social aspects and networking.

Peter Dalsgaard is an assistant professor of interac-
tion design at Aarhus University. His work explores
theories of interaction design and the nature of design
procesos, particularly as it pertains to the design
of interactive environments, experience-oriented
aspects of interaction, and the ways in which digital
technologies transform the experiences and practices
of urban life.

Carl DiSalvo is an Assistant Professor in the
Digital Media program in the School of Literature,
Comunicación, y cultura, at the Georgia Institute
of Technology. Desde 2010, DiSalvo has also served as
the book review editor for DesignIssues.

Pelle Ehn is a professor at the School of Arts and
Communication at Malmö University in Sweeden. Para
más que 30 años, he has been engaged in research
on design and participation, and has published widely
on the subject. Major publications span from “Work-
Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts” (1988) to the
collaborative work Design Things: A. Telier (Cambridge,
MAMÁ: CON prensa, 2011).

Gunnar Ellingsen is a professor at the University of
Tromsø, Institute of Clinical Medicine. He teaches
in the international master program in Telemedicine
and e-Health. His research interests revolve around
diseño, implementation and use of information
systems in health care, particularly Electronic
Patient Records in hospitals where key themes are
integración, standardization, collaboration and other
socio-technical issues. He has published extensively
in international academic journals on broader issues
in health informatics.

Penny Hagen works as a researcher and design
strategist specializing in community and social
change projects. She assists organizations to take a
participatory approach to the design of organizational
estrategia, products and services. Su investigación se centra
on participatory methods for the design of social
tecnologías.

Morten Hertzum is Associate Professor in Computer
Science at Roskilde University. Sus intereses de investigación
include human-computer interaction, computer
supported cooperative work, information systems
desarrollo, and medical informatics. He has
recently co-edited a book about the balancing of
sourcing and innovation in information systems
desarrollo.

Jan Hess holds a diploma degree in applied computer
ciencia. After finishing his thesis on new directions
for digital television, he started working for the
chair of Information Systems and New Media at the
University of Siegen. Within the last five years, él
supervised a variety of industry founded projects in
the field of iTV and Social Media. His PhD is focused
on Participatory Design and HCI issues.

Per-Anders Hillgren is a researcher and teacher at
Malmö University in interaction design. He has over
ten years of experience working with collaborative
and participatory design within the field of health-
care, urban development and social innovation. Su
research area is in design methodology, specifically on
collaborative and participatory design-lead research.
He has published articles in, Entre otros, CoDesign
– International Journal of CoCreation in Design and The
Arts and in The Proceedings of Participatory Design.

David Holstius is a PhD student in Environmental
Health Sciences at the University of California,
berkeley. His research is concerned with the health
effects of traffic-related pollution, participatory
research and citizen science. Prior to his PhD studies,
David worked as a design researcher at Carnegie
Mellon University and MAYA Design.

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Robert Sedlack is the cover designer for DesignIssues
28, No. 3 (Verano 2012). He is a professor of design at
the University of Notre Dame, where his course work
includes projects that tackle various social issues such
as discrimination, gun control, and voter participa-
ción. Robert’s academic research is focused on the life-
changing impact that design can have when applied
appropriately and collaboratively with organizations
dedicated to social betterment. As Principal of Sedlack
Design Associates, he is responsible for consultation
servicio, diseño, and execution of a wide variety of
print and interactive projects to the business and cul-
tural community.

Jesper Simonsen, Guest Editor for DesignIssues 28,
No. 3 (Verano 2012), is Professor of Design Studies at
Roskilde University. His research interests include
Participatory Design, and offering theories and
methods for IT design in an organizational context.
Recent publications include Simonsen et al., editores.,
Design Research: Synergies from Interdisciplinary
Perspectives (Routledge, 2010) and Simonsen and
Robertson, editores., Routledge International Handbook
of Participatory Design (Routledge, 2012).

Heike Winschiers-Theophilus is director and
professor in the Schol of Information Technology
at the Polytechnic of Namibia. She has lived
and lectured in Namibia since 1994. Su investigacion
focuses on cross-cultural issues in HCI, cultural
appropriation of design and evaluation concepts
and methods, representation and retrieval of
indigenous knowledge and community-centered
design of information systems.

Liv Karen Johannessen is pursuing a PhD at the
University of Tromsø, Research group for Telemedi-
cine and eHealth. Her main research interests are
within innovation and design of information systems
for health care. She is employed by the health ICT
vendor DIPS as part of an initiative to foster close co-
operation between Norwegian research and industry.

Marti Louw is Research Faculty, Universidad de
Pittsburgh Center for Learning in Out-of-School
Environments (UPCLOSE). Her research and project
work focuses on how design and its related communi-
cation strategies can be used to create media-rich
learning experiences that support participation and
shared meaning-making with science and technology.

Illah Nourbakhsh is Professor of Robotics,
director of the Community Robotics, Educación
and Technology Empowerment (CREATE) lab
and head of the Robotics Master’s Program in The
Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
His current research projects explore community-
based robotics, including educational and social
robotics and ways to use robotic technology to
empower individuals and communities.

Volkmar Pipek is an assistant professor with the
Institute for Information Systems of the University
of Siegen, Alemania. He explores the relations
between design, development and appropriation
of Information Technology in general, and in
Participatory Design approaches in particular, a
improve development methods and tools. Él es
also the co-founder and chair of the International
Institute for Socio-Informatics in Bonn, Alemania.

Toni Robertson, Guest Editor for DesignIssues 28,
No. 3 (Verano 2012), is Professor of Interaction
Design at the University of Technology, Sídney. Ella
is a specialist in the study of human practice and
technology design, and the application of qualitative
and participatory research and design methods.
Her research focuses on understanding and designing
the interaction between people, their activities and
tecnología, and the issues surrounding the use of
technology in actual work and social settings.

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