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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;" lang="EN-US">EUSSET-IISI Lifetime
Achievement Award</span></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align:
justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
lang="EN-US"> IT artifacts pervade almost all aspects of our
daily lives, so much so that almost all our day-to-day practices
involve interaction with them. A radical re-thinking of the
computing field which recognizes the complex relationship
between system and practice </span><span style="font-size:
12pt;" lang="EN-US">has been slowly gathering momentum over the
past quarter century, and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
lang="EN-US">emphasis is now shifting from an exclusive concern
with hardware and software to aspects of the human, social, and
organizational contexts within which information and
communication technologies are both being designed and used. </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">The design of innovative
IT artifacts needs to be understood as relying upon, interacting
with, and challenging given social practices. These shifts imply
a radical approach to methodology, one which is fundamentally
interdisciplinary. The most important contributions to this
developing understanding draw on psychology, sociology,
management science, and information systems research as well as
the more traditional computer science and engineering
approaches. The issues at hand are vibrant and substantive and
have profound implications for the research paradigm in many
fields of applied computer science.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align:
justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
lang="EN-US">The EUSSET-IISI Lifetime Achievement Award is
presented to scholars for outstanding contributions to the
reorientation of the computing field. This award recognizes the
very best work in shaping the field. It is given for a lifetime
of innovation and leadership and is honored with 5,000 Euro. The
criteria for selecting the award winner are: </span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">Cumulative
contributions to the field,</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">Influence
on the work of others,</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">Development
of new research directions.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">The
EUSSET-IISI Lifetime Award is the most prestigious award in this
emerging field. It will be granted each second year. The winners
will become honorary member of EUSSET – The European Society for
Socially Embedded Technologies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">Award
Committee: </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
lang="EN-US">The Award Committee consists of five members and is
appointed jointly by the European Society for Socially Embedded
Technologies (EUSSET) and the International Institute for
Socio-Informatics (IISI). The Awards committee is chaired by
Dave Randall, University of Siegen, and selects the winner of
the Award. Members of the Award Committee are: Mark Ackerman,
University of Michigan; Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research; Kari
Kuutti, University of Oulu; and Markus Rohde, International
Institute for Socio-Informatics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">The committee
gathers nominations for the award and decides who will receive
the Award. A successful candidate will need at least two
nominations from within the academic community. The Award
Committee seeks input from many sources in reaching its
decision. It can decide to split the Award among more than one
winner. To prevent conflicts of interest, neither current
members of the Award Committee nor actors holding official
positions in EUSSET or IISI can win the award. </span></p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
line-height: 115%; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: windowtext;
font-style: normal;" lang="EN-US">Nomination Process</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: windowtext;
font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" lang="EN-US">:
Nominations must be submitted in English and must include: </span></h4>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">the name of
the nominee, </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">his/her
university or research institution, </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">a outline
of his/her previous career (Curriculum Vitae),</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">and a
factual and informative description of the candidate's merits,
specifically how the nominee meets the criteria for the award
</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">These
documents (no more than 12 pages in total) should be sent to the
chair of the Awards Committee (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:dave.randall@uni-siegen.de">dave.randall@uni-siegen.de</a>).
Nominations must be submitted by 30th July 2015. The Award will
be handed over for the first time at ECSCW 2015.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">Background
Information</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">The </span><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">European
Society for Socially Embedded Technologies</span></i><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> (EUSSET, <a
href="http://www.eusset.eu">www.eusset.eu</a>) is a networked
organizational forum dedicated to the development of
technological tools and infrastructures that incorporate a
human-centered design perspective in computing. The members of
EUSSET come from a variety of organizations and disciplines, but
they share a passion for developing a range of more integrative,
interdisciplinary approaches to the design, development and use
of new technologies for work, home and play.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">The </span><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">International
Institute
for Socio-Informatics </span></i><span style="font-size:
12pt;" lang="EN-US">(IISI, </span><span style="font-size:
12pt;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.iisi.de"><span style="">www.iisi.de</span></a></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">) </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">was founded to investigate
into the design of computer applications in support of social
systems. An interdisciplinary group of researchers works at the
intersection of computer science, social science, learning
science, and design. Taking into account current developments of
the internet, multimedia and mobile computing, the main focus of
IISI is on a user-oriented and sustainable design of information
technology. <br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">In 2013,
Kjeld Schmidt and Liam Bannon were winning the award. In 2011,
it was Christiane Floyd: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://eusset.eu/awardwinner/">http://eusset.eu/awardwinner/</a><br>
</span></p>
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Prof. Dr. Volker Wulf
Institute for Information Systems, University of Siegen
Hölderlinstr. 3, 57068 Siegen, Germany
Phone: +49-271-740-2910, Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:volker.wulf@uni-siegen.de">volker.wulf@uni-siegen.de</a>; and:
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FhG-FIT)
Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany
Phone: +49-2241-142993; Fax: +49-2241-142146
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:volker.wulf@fit.fraunhofer.de">volker.wulf@fit.fraunhofer.de</a>
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