RESEARCH PROJECTS
In progress
Customer Innovation Toolkit project 2007-08 funded by the Danish research network for user-driven innovation. The project experiments with having users telling their ideas for innovation to a tape recorder when alone in a situation of use.
The eGov+ project 2008-2010 funded by a grant from the Danish national research council and headed by Professor Susanne Bødker from Aarhus University. Ell-researchers Ellen Christiansen, Tom Nyvang og Anne Marie Kanstrup participate with a special focus on communication. The goal is to bring Danish municipal government to the forefront as regards efficient, and democratic e-services. eGov+ will utilize and further develop Web 2.0 technology at the interface between citizens and public administration, and explore visualization of decision processes and workflows.
The FEEDBACK-project is concerned with design and evaluation of online consumption feedback, which motivates households to save electricity. The project consists of three related sub-projects, and Ell-researchers Anne Marie Kanstrup & Ellen Christiansen have been responsible for the user-driven innovation part, developing prototypes of on-line information on energy consumption (download report about the Feedback-project (in Danish) 
here). The developed prototypes will be installed and the effect on energy conservation will be tested in 120 Danish households in 2006-2008. The FEEDBACKproject is funded by Danish Energy Net, from where Ell-researchers Anne Marie Kanstrup and Ellen Christiansen have also received an additional grant for a qualitative follow up-study in 2008 on the households in Southern Denmark, who received e-mail and SMS-feedback.
THE MINI-PROJECT: MINI is short for Mobile INteractIon, and the project aims at experimenting with and designing e-learning applications for handheld computers to be used by doctors in their clinical education. The project is a collaboration between Aalborg University and Randers Central Hospital, and a reference group of private companies specialized in e-learning, health informatics and mobile devices. Project duration: May 2006 to May 2007. The project is sponsored by The Danish Ministry of Science and Technology, grants for mobile e-learning.
THE DEMO-NET: DEMO-net is a Network of Excellence project funded under the European Commission's sixth framework programme: Information Society Technologies IST (FP6-2004-27219). The project started 1 January 2006, will be funded for 4 years and has a detailed workplan for the first 18 months. As participant in Aalborg University’s E-governance research center, I work on evaluation of public service websites, and evaluation criteria, both in my teaching and research wise. Together with Tom Nyvang and partners from Sweden and Portugal I work on a proposal for research on design of tax-websites, rooted in User-driven innovation. As an inspiration the Swedish coordinated government websites provides an example. http://www.sweden.gov.se/
Completed
Telepeers, 2004-2005. In the context of field-based peer reviews, academic partners from seven European countries conducted an in-depth analysis of TELEs (Technology Enhanced Learning Environments) that support self-regulated learning to provide examples of innovative practice at the universities participating in the project. This involved identifying factors that are crucial for the success of TELEs, developing criteria for measuring them, and subsequently performing comparative analyses. The analysis also included a narrative approach, i.e. the analysis of TELE stories provided by users of TELEs across Europe. Individuals and institutions who are interested in learning more about the project or the project results are invited to join TACONET, the Targeted Cooperative Network on Technologically Enhanced Learning Environments.
’Virtuel biblioteksservice som integrerende baggrund for selvregulerede universitetsstudier’ (Virtual library service as integrating background for selfregulated university study activities). 2003 – 2004. An inquiry into possibilities and problems related to the role of a university library as part of the study environment for part time students without daily, physical presence at campus. Funded by it-vest.
’ICT-supported knowledge sharing within organizations characterized by flexible time-, space- and team structure: Patterns of knowledge sharing behavior analyzed at the motivational and operational level’ , 2004. In collaboration with researchers from Free University Amsterdam, dept. of computer science. Funded by Dept. of Communication, Aalborg University (my research time) and the National Danish research council.
KALEIDOSCOPE Concepts and methods for exploring the future of learning with digital technologies’ Network of Exellence. EU-6th framework, European Contract n°507838, 2004-2007, Special Interest Group: Context & Learning’ concluded
New Ways of Working 2000. I was part of the activities from 2000 to 2003, where I conducted field studies in a small start up consultancy company and experimented with designs of computer support for social awareness in distributed work settings.
The EuroCODE 1992-95: CSCW Open Development Environment. Project 6155 founded by an ESPRIT contract, headed by Morten Kyng. I worked on the project 6 months in 1993, on a conceptual model together with Mike Robinson and Susanne Bødker.
1990-93 The AT-project - Practical research in cooperative design. With Susanne Bødker, Pelle Ehn, Randi Markussen, Preben Mogensen, Randall Trigg, and the Aarhus branch of the National Labour Inspection Service.
1989-1990 On the review board of the KEPC-project (Knowledge Engineering with Personal Computers), financed by the COMETT program of the European Union, and the “Human Centered Design”research program, financed by the FAST-program of the European Union. With Oluf Danielsen.
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