Communities & Technologies 2023

🥳 Congrats to Sarah Armouch, @vasilisvla & @ShelinaVisram for winning a Best Paper award for 'Supporting innovation in a context of uncertainty: the role of design and technology' at @comtech2023 in Finland! ➡️ dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Great talk from Rikke Hagensby Jensen on the role of “collective, fun and aestetically pleasing experiences for energy communities to provoke and trigger new way of understanding eco-feedback” @comtech2023 @C&T2023

Final session of today. Chris Muashekele presents his paper on Ancestral and Cultural Futuring: Speculative Design in an Indigenous OvaHimba context @eusset @LUTsoftware

Congratulation to Sarah Armouch for her Best Paper Award @C&T2023 for her work on “Supporting innovation in a context of uncertainty”. Thanks for sharing insights on how C&T researchers&practitioners can help enable social transformation in contexts of uncertainty. @comtech2023

Really proud of Lucas Anastasiou, who just submitted his PhD Thesis yesterday and then cached a flight to present our work with @ademoor and @bbrayshay @C&T2023. Well done Lucas! @kmiou @comtech2023 @larapicc

Exciting work from @GeerSling on combining community co-design with HCI for biodiversity. We need more eco-centred approaches in HCI @comtech2023 Check it out @ dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Fascinating findings on how Augmented Reality can be used to preserve cultural heritage and in particular communities' relationship with the ocean. “The app name is Eftu Letu Sida Hurib” which means: “One with the Ocean”. BEAUTIFUL!!! @MarlySamuel @comtech2023 @C&T2023.

Day two started. Karolina Drobotowicz is presenting her paper on Practitioners’ Perspectives on Inclusion and Civic Empowerment in Finnish Public Sector AI @eusset @LUTsoftware

Thanks Rosta Farzan for helping us navigate the challenges to enable digital transformation programmes for underrepresented communities. Community Collaborative Research at its best! @C&T2023, @comtech2023 @frostaf

We are at our community event now in Theatrum Olga (instagram.com/theatrumolga?i…) @LUTsoftware @eusset

Natasha Tylosky from @LUTsoftware @UniLUT is presenting her paper on User Experience for Non-Expert Audiences in Data Exploration @eusset

Tomorrow I will present our exciting paper on Biodiversity Urban Living Labs @comtech2023! We build on & extend the City Commons model of Balestrini et al. with a more-than-human perspective in the context of biodiversity. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1145/359374…

Communities & Technologies 2023 is officially starting!! #comtech2023

Main conference starts today in the beautiful Sibelius Hall with an interesting keynote by Professor Allan Owens on "Venturing into the forest of things: arts-based encounters" @eusset @LUTsoftware

Today we had our welcome reception on a boat on lake Vesijärvi. Tomorrow we start our main conference in Sibelius Hall @LUTsoftware @UniLUT @eusset

This week, #Lahti plays host to the 11th International Conference on Communities and Technologies. The event welcomes researchers, designers, educators, industry & students from the many disciplines on the interaction between community and technology. @UniLUT @eusset

Please remember that our welcome reception (Cruise on Lake Vesijärvi) is today and starts at 19:15. We will meet in front of Sibelius Hall at 18:50 sharp! The welcome reception is for all participants (workshops and conference) @LUTsoftware @eusset

Day two has begun and our workshops are underway. Here for example the workshop "Designing the City: Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Public Service Design" @LUTsoftware @UniLUT @eusset

Day two of C&T 2023 is starting with a day full of interesting workshops. We are waiting for you at the registration. Don't forget to grab your name tag for the welcome reception in the evening. We will be going on a boat to lake Vesijärvi @LUTsoftware @UniLUT

Communities & Technologies 2023 is starting today with workshops. Our volunteers are ready to register you 👋 @LUTsoftware @UniLUT