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Olav W. Bertelsen
is an Associate
Professor of human-computer interaction and systems development at the
Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has
been teaching human-computer interaction at the interdisciplinary
multimedia education since 1998. Former work includes an attempt to give
a systematic account, based on activity theory, on the tools, methods,
techniques etc. mediating the design of computer artefacts. Actual
research interests include common information spaces; activity theory
based methods and techniques in human-computer interaction; and a
reformation of human-computer interaction as an aesthetic discipline
based in dialectical materialism.
Olav can be reached by e-mail at
Mikko Korpela
is Research Director of the Healthcare Information Systems
R&D Unit, University of Kuopio, Finland, and Docent at the Department of
Computer Science at the same university. He was born in Finland and
achieved his DTech in Information Systems at the Helsinki University of
Technology in 1994. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Obafemi Awolowo
University, Nigeria, for 1989. Later he was founding Secretary of IFIP
WG 9.4 and an initiator of the Health Informatics in Africa (HELINA)
conferences. He is a member of IFIP WG 8.2 and was a Program Co-Chair of
the WG 8.2 conference in Athens in 2003. His research interests include
West African political history, activity development and information
systems development particularly in healthcare.
Mikko can be reached by
e-mail at
Anja Mursu
is an acting professor of Software Engineering at the
University of Kuopio, Department of Computer Science, Finland. She
achieved her PhD in Information Systems in 2002 at the University of
Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research interests include information systems
development, especially in developing countries, activity development,
risk assessment and sustainability of information systems, and recently
also usability of information systems.
Anja can be reached by e-mail at