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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">The Department of Computing Science at Aalborg University is pleased to</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">announce a PhD course in Information Systems Development as Engaged</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">The course will focus on some different research modes available for</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">conducting engaged systems development as research. ‘Engaged’, in this</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">context, signals that the software development effort is conducted</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">together</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">with outside partners - often a development company, a group of users, or</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">a target organisation. There are three prevalent traditions in</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Scandinavia; Participative (user-centered) Design, Action Research and</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Design Research and we introduce the particular</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">form which is developed at Aalborg University: Socio-Interactive Design.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">· Engaged Scholarship</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">· Participative Design</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">· Action Research</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">· Design Science</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">· Socio-interactive design</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">We also cover data collection and documentation, data analysis tools and</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">techniques and identifying and presenting contributions, which have many</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">features in common.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">The course is targeted at students who plan to be involved with some</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">programming or system development work with external partners as part of</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">their PhD studies, or who have already done this.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Lecturers: Professor Rikard Lindgren, IT University of Gothenburg,</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Associate Professor Jeremy Rose, University of Aalborg</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">ECTS: 21Ž2</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Time: November 12-14, 2012</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Place: room 0.1.12, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University,</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Selma Lagerløfs Vej 300, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Deadline: (for registration) October 19, 2012</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">The course website is under</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">construction:<a href="http://people.cs.aau.dk/~jeremy/PhD/ISDasER/home.html">http://people.cs.aau.dk/~jeremy/PhD/ISDasER/home.html</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">There are no tuition fees but students are expected to pay for their own</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">transport and accommodation. There</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">is however a late cancellation fee of DK5000.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Please register here:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Further enquiries to:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Jeremy Rose</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Room 5.2.50</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Dept. of Computer Science</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Aalborg University</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Selma Lagerløfs Vej 300</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">9220 Aalborg</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">0045 9940 8917</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Skype address: jeremyrose270154</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Fax: 0045 9940 9798</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; ">Jeremy Rose</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; ">Dept. of Computer Science</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; ">Selma Lagerløfs Vej 300</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; ">9220 Aalborg</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; ">0045 9940 8917</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; ">Skype address: jeremyrose270154</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; ">Fax: 0045 9940 9798</div>
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