Organizers

Susanne Stigberg is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Communication. She belongs to the research group Democratizing design practices in the digital society. Stigberg holds a PhD in Computer Science from TU Wien. Her academic interest lies in the field of interaction design and making. Using a human-centered perspective and a participatory methodology she explores how we can interact with technology beyond the desktop paradigm. Furthermore, she is involved in several interdisciplinary projects that create and study technology-based learning experiences. As a computer scientist and interaction designer, she takes a cautious but optimistic stance towards technology in a process that tightly couples research and design.

Klaudia Carcani is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Communication. She belongs to the research group Democratizing design practices in the digital society. Carcani holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Oslo. Her academic interest lies in the field of co-design for cooperation, bridging the fields of Participatory Design and Computer Supported Cooperative Work. With an interest in the empowerment of marginalized user groups in a cooperative social context, she is concerned with the design of safe, ethical, and responsible AI-based solutions that can empower humans and contribute to more inclusion and development. She is involved in research projects exploring the tools and techniques to enable mutual learning of AI that will contribute to envisioning future AI solutions.

Suhas Govind Joshi is an Associate Professor in the Section for Digitalization at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, and currently serving as deputy head of the department. His research has been focused on applying Participatory Design to facilitate inclusive development of welfare technologies for older adults. The main emphasis has been on sustaining participants in long-term collaboration at care facilities. He is currently leading a project on the use of generative AI to study how we can expand the space for participation in ongoing PD research efforts involving older adults as co-designers of welfare technologies.

Tone Bratteteig is Professor at the Department of informatics, University of Oslo, where she leads the research group Design of information systems. She has a long history with Participatory Design and is particularly interested in mutual learning and how such two-way learning processes can result in novel designs. Current AI / Machine Learning technologies represent a shift in what kind of work tasks the technology can perform, hence it becomes even more important to explore its possibilities and to co-design with the future users how their future sociotechnical environment can become.