<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<style id="owaParaStyle" type="text/css"></style>
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000;
font-size:10pt">
<div style="font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000;
font-size:16px">
<div><span lang="EN-GB">EUSSET and IISI wish to announce the
award of its second biennial lifetime achievement award.
This year, it has been decided that the 2013 award should be
shared between two seminal thinkers in the fields of
Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Human Computer
Interaction, Professor Kjeld Schmidt and Professor Liam
Bannon.<span style=""> </span>Kjeld Schmidt is currently
employed at the Copenhagen Business School, after a lifetime
of service in Danish universities. Liam Bannon is currently
Emeritus Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland
and Honorary Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, having
previously held a variety of research positions in academic
institutions around the world. <br>
<br>
</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Professor Schmidt and
Professor Bannon were largely responsible for the creation
and development of European CSCW research as a distinctive
research arena, one in which attention to practice became
regarded as fundamental to the design of socio-technical
systems. Both have made a foundational contribution to the
critical challenge that this European perspective has
brought to design thinking. Not least, they have established
and maintained a level of scholarship that is seldom
equalled in the interdisciplinary arena. They were jointly
and separately influential in the establishing of the both
well-regarded and influential CSCW journal, of which
Professor Schmidt has been the long- standing editor, and of
the biennial ECSCW conference series. Their continued
influence is evidenced by the enviable number of citations
attached to a wide- ranging set of papers that they have
contributed, separately and together, to CSCW and HCI. Their
clarity of thought and purpose<span style=""> </span>has
been an inspiration to a generation of scholars and
practitioners.<br>
<br>
The Awards will be handed over during ECSCW 2013, September
25th, 2013.<br>
<br>
</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">Liam Bannon was born in
1953 in Dublin, Ireland, and studied psychology and computer
science at University College, Dublin and Trinity College,
Dublin, followed by a PhD in experimental psychology from
the University of Western Ontario, Canada in 1981. An early
interest in artificial intelligence in the 70’s was replaced
by the study of human factors in computing in the 80’s. He
worked with Don Norman’s group at UCSD in the early days of
the HCI field, stressing the role of the computer as a
communication and collaboration tool/medium, and then came
to Scandinavia in the late 80’s to learn about Scandinavian
approaches to participatory design, working mainly at Aarhus
University. Liam has also worked at a large number of
research institutes and Universities<span style=""> </span>in
the US and Europe over the years. From 1993-2009, Liam
worked at the University of Limerick, Ireland, as Professor
and Founding Director of the Interaction Design Centre. He
has articulated an approach to human-centred design based on
augmentation rather than substitution as an alternative to
the prevailing "ambient intelligence" paradigm.<span
style=""><br>
<br>
</span></span>Kjeld Schmidt was born in 1945 in Esbjerg,
Denmark. <span style="" lang="EN-US"> Initially a software
programmer (1965-72), he was awarded the MSc degree in
sociology from the University of Lund, Sweden, in 1974.
After a decade of research focusing on processes of
socio-economic transformation, he decided in 1985 to devote
his energies to the — then only emerging — area of
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), first as a
researcher in private industry but from 1989 at Risø
National Laboratory. From 1998, he has held faculty
positions at universities in the Copenhagen area and is now
professor of Work, Organization, and Technology at
Copenhagen Business School. — Schmidt has been the
Editor-in-Chief of the CSCW Journal since 1992. His main
scholarly contributions to CSCW have been centered on what
can be termed its conceptual foundations. In this line of
work, he has, for example, contributed to the clarification
of key concepts such as ‘work’, ‘cooperative work’,
‘awareness’, ‘knowledge’, and ‘practice’. In his
technology-oriented research, he has been deeply involved in
the development of computational technologies that will
enable ordinary workers to express and execute the protocols
of their coordinative practices such as workflows and
classification schemes in a fully distributed and flexible
manner.</span> <span style="" lang="EN-GB">
<style>
<!--
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri}
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin-top:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;
line-height:115%;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"}
.MsoChpDefault
{font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"}
.MsoPapDefault
{margin-bottom:10.0pt;
line-height:115%}
@page WordSection1
{margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 2.0cm 70.85pt}
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin-top:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;
line-height:115%;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"}
.MsoChpDefault
{font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"}
.MsoPapDefault
{margin-bottom:10.0pt;
line-height:115%}
@page WordSection1
{margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 2.0cm 70.85pt}
body
{direction:ltr;
font-family:Tahoma;
color:#000000;
font-size:10pt}
p
{margin-top:0;
margin-bottom:0}
-->
</style></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>