First International Workshop on Activity Theory Based Practical Methods for IT Design  ATIT2004      

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Organizers

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

Last update: 15. March, 2004