Curriculum Vitae
Finn KensingDirector, Professor, Dr. Scient. Center for IT Innovation University of Copenhagen Njalsgade 128, Bldg. 24, 5th floor 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
email: [email protected] mobile: +45 3066 8146
web: www.citi.ku.dk/organisation/kensing/ Private:
Svejgårdsvej 4, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark phone: + 45 3962 9899, mobile: +45 3066 8146
Born June 8th 1950. Nationality: Danish Research Areas
• Medical Informatics • Participatory Design
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work • Human -‐Computer Interaction
• Information Systems Recent projects
SCAUT www.scaut.dk
CITH-‐ Co Constructing IT and Healthcare www.cith.dk
sundheds ITnet – a knowledge network within Healthcare IT www.sundhedsit.net HIT -‐ a research program on IT and Healthcare, http://www.healthcareit.dk
DIWA -‐ a research program on de sign and use of interactive web-‐applications. MUST -‐ a research program on theories of and method for design of IT-‐applications. Editorial responsibilities
Co-‐editor of special issues of e.g. CSCW journal, International Journal of Medical Informatics, and IT&People
Advisor
IT strategic advisor to the Danish Board of Electronic Health Records and member of its international expert panel.
Education
2003 Dr. Scient. The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 1979 M.Sc. in Computer Science Aarhus University, Denmark.
Positions
2008...Director, Professor, Center for IT Innovation, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2005-‐2008 Head of Research Group: Design of Organizational IT, The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
1999-‐2008 Reader, The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
1986-‐99 Associate Professor and Docent, Comp. Science, Roskilde University, Denmark 1984-‐86 Assistant Professor, Comp. Science , Roskilde University, DK.
1979-‐84 Lecturer and Researcher, Comp. Science, Århus University, DK. Visiting Researcher
Four times invited for 6 month by Professor Terry Winograd, Computer Science, Stanford University, and Area Manager Lucy Suchman, Xerox PARC.
Award
2006: Recognized for exceptional research at ITU. Ph.D. Supervison
Program management team member for DMIT: Design and Management of Information Technology and DaRSIS: Danish Research School for Information Systems.
Supervision of 16 Ph.D. students. Management
Since 2008: Director for Center for IT Innovation, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: In charge of initiating and supporting interdisciplinary IT-‐research and IT-‐teaching across The Faculties of Health Sciences, Humanities , Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Science, and Social Sciences .
Since 1989: Program/project manager and primary fundraiser for 22 projects within 3 large research programs:
• 2003-‐ Project manager: Raising more than $ 4.5 mill since 2004 for HIT -‐ a research program on IT and Healthcare. So far HIT involves 15 researchers from ITU, DTU, KU and RU in cooperation with 5 hospitals and 5 IT-‐providers, The National Health Board, The National Board for Health Records, The Public National Health Portal, Corporate IT of the Copenhagen Region, The Municipality of Copenhagen. • 2000-‐2003: Project manager: DIWA -‐ a research program on design and use of
interactive web -‐ applications, that involved researchers from ITU, DTU, and RU in cooperation with e.g. Nodea, Novo Nordic, and The Web Bureau.
• 1989-‐2000: Project manager: MUST -‐ a research program on theories of and method for design of IT -‐applications, that involved researchers from RUC in cooperation with Novo Nordic, WM -‐Data, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, An American Airport, The National Film Board.
Further I have served as head of research group, department head, and head of studies at ITU and RU.
Publications
DissertationFinn Kensing: Methods and Practices in Participatory Design. ITU Press 2003. Journal Articles
B.S.B Rasmussen, L.K. Jensen, J. Froekjaer, K. Kidholm, F. Kensing, K.B. Yderstraede. A qualitative study of the key factors in implementing telemedical monitoring of diabetic foot ulcer patients. To appear in International Journal of Medical Informatics.
Bjørn P. and Kensing F. (Eds.). (2013) Special Issue on Information Infrastructures for Healthcare: The Global and Local Relation. International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 82, Issue 5, May 2013, pp. 281–282.
H.H. Petersen, M.C.J. Larsen, O.W Nielsen, F. Kensing, J.H. Svendsen: Patient satisfaction and suggestions for improvement of remote ICD monitoring. Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology, 2012 Vol. 34, Nr. 3, 2012, s. 317-‐24.
T. Andersen, P. Bjørn, F. Kensing and J. Moll: Designing for collaborative interpretation in telemonitoring: Re-‐introducing patients as diagnostic agents. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 80(8), 112-‐ 126.
F. Kensing, J. Simonsen and K. Bødker: Participatory IT Design -‐ an exemplary case. Journal of the Center for Information Studies, vol. 5, no 3, 2004. Yokohama City, Japan.
F. Kensing, J. Simonsen and K. Bødker: MUST -‐ a Method for Participatory Design. Human-‐ Computer Interaction, vol. 13, no 2, 1998.
J. Simonsen and F. Kensing: Make Room for Ethnography in Design. ACM -‐SIGDOC -‐ The Journal of Computer Documentation, vol. 22, no 1, 1998.
F. Kensing and J. Blomberg: PD meets CSCW -‐ Issues and Concerns. Computer Supported Cooperative Work -‐ The Journal of Collaborative Computing, v.7, n.3-‐4, 1998.
F. Kensing, J. Simonsen and K. Bødker: Participatory Design at a Radio Station. Computer Supported Cooperative Work -‐ The Journal of Collaborative Computing, v.7, n.3-‐4, 1998. F. Kensing: Prompted Reflections -‐ a technique for understanding complex work. ACM interactions, vol. 5, no. 1, 1998.
J. Simonsen and F. Kensing: Using Ethnography in Contextual Design. Communications of the ACM, vol. 40, no. 7, July 1997.
K. Bødker and F. Kensing: Design in an Organizational Context -‐ an Experiment. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, vol. 6, no 1, 1994.
F. Kensing and A. Munk -‐Madsen: Participatory Design: Structure in the Toolbox. Communications of the ACM, vol. 36, no. 4, 1993.
Refereed Conference Papers
T. Andersen, F. Kensing, L. Kjellberg and J. Moll. From Research Prototypes to a Marketable E-‐Health System -‐ reflections on challenges and mitigation strategies. To appear in proceed-‐ ings of Context Sensitive Health Informatics Conference from August 15-‐16, Brazil, 2015. Andersen T, Bansler J, Kensing F, Moll J and Nielsen K. Alignment of Concerns: A Design Rationale for Patient Participation in eHealth. Proceeding of the 47th Hawaiian International Conference on System Science, pp. HICSS’47, USA, 2014. (2587-‐2596).
T. Andersen, F. Kensing, J. Moll. A Research Programme for E-‐Health: Patient Knowledge & Machine Learning. Fourth International Workshop on Infrastructures for Health Care (2014). Trento. Italy.
F. Kensing: Personal Health Records: Reflections on an Ongoing Project. American Medical Informatics Association, Proceedings of the Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare. Washington, October 2011.
T.O. Andersen and F. Kensing: Designing Personal Health Records – Patients as Co – producers. Workshop on CSCW Research in Healthcare: Past, Present and Future. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Savannah, USA, 2010.
T.O. Andersen and F. Kensing: Standards in laboratory infrastructure -‐ on three dimensions for design. Second International Workshop on Infrastructures for Health Care -‐ Connecting practices across institutional and professional boundaries Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009. K.M. Lyng, M. S. Corneliussen, and F. Kensing: Clinical information infrastructure -‐ a critical issue when designing clinical IT. Second International Workshop on Infrastructures for Health Car e -‐ Connecting practices across institutional and professional boundaries. Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009.
F. Kensing, Hrönn Sigurðardóttir, and Arjen Stoop: MUST -‐ A participatory method for designing sustainable health IT. Proceedings of MEDINFO 2007, Brisbane, Australia. L. Vogelsang and F. Kensing: A framework for conceptualizing aspects of systems
development method use in organizations. Proceedings of ECIS2006. Gotenburg, Sweden. N. Johannsen and F. Kensing: Empowerment Reconsidered. Proceedings of Conference on Critical Computing – Between Sense and Sensibility, Århus, Denmark, 2005.
J. Bansler, E. Havn and F. Kensing: IT -‐ Support for Shared Care. Proceedings of the 3rd Scandinavian Conference on Health Informatics, Ålborg, Denmark, 2005.
F. Kensing, D. L. Strand, J. Bansler and E. Havn; Empowering Patients: PD in Healthcare. Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2004.
F. Kensing, J. Simonsen and K. Bødker: Participatory IT Design -‐ an exemplary case. In N. Ueno et al. Proceeding s from International Conference on Participatory Design of Information. Musashi Insititute of Technology. Yokohama, Japan, 2003.
F. Kensing: Participatory Design in a Commercial Context -‐ a conceptual framework. Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference, New York, USA, pp. 116 -‐ 126, 2000. F. Kensing: Method Design and Dissemination. In J. Pries-‐Heje et al (eds): Proceedings of The Seventh European Conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1999. F. Kensing, J. Simonsen and K. Bødker : Designing for Cooperation at a Radio Station. In J. Hughes et al (eds.): Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Kluwer Academic Publishers, September 1997.
F. Kensing, J. Simonsen and K. Bødker: MUST -‐ a Method for Participatory Design. In J. Blomberg et al.: Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference, Cambridge, USA, November 1996.
J. Simonsen and F. Kensing: Take Users Seriously, but Take a Deeper Look: Organizational and Technical Effects from Designing with an Ethnographically Inspired Approach. In Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference, North Carolina, USA, Nov. 1994. F. Kensing and T. Winograd: The Language/Action Approach to Design of Computer Support for Cooperative Work: A Preliminary Study in Work Mapping. In R. Stamper et al. (eds.): Collaborative Work, Social Communication and Information Systems. North-‐Holland, 1991. F. Kensing: Generation of Visions in Systems Development -‐ A Supplement to the Toolbox. In P. Docherty et al.: Syste ms Design for Human Development and Productivity: Participation and Beyond, Springer Verlag, 1987.
F. Kensing: Property Determination by Prototyping. In R Budde et al.: Approaches to Prototyping, Springer Verlag, 1984.
F. Kensing: Towards Evaluation of Methods for Property Determination. In T. Bemelmans (ed.): Beyond Productivity: Information Systems Development for Organizational
Effectiveness, North Holland, 1984.
F. Kensing: The Trade Unions Influence on Technological Change. In U. Briefs et al.: Systems Design For, With and By the Users, North Holland, 1983.
Monographs
K. Bødker, F. Kensing and J. Simonsen: Participatory IT Design. Designing for Business and Workplace Realities. MIT Press 2004.
F. Kensing: Methods and Practices in Participatory Design. ITU Press 2003.
K. Bødker, F. Kensing and J. Simonsen: Professionel IT-‐forundersøgelse -‐ grundlaget for bæredygtige IT-‐anvendelser. Samfundslitteratur, 2000. (In Danish, for English see above)
N. E. Andersen, F Kensing et al. : Professional Systems Development: Experience, Ideas and Action, Prentice-‐Hall, 1990.
N. E. Andersen, F. Kensing et al.: Professionel Systemudvikling: Erfaringer, muligheder og handling, Teknisk Forlag, 1986. (in Danish, for English see above)
H, Jakobsen, F. Kensing, M. Kyng, and L. Mathiassen: Computers and Trade Union Activities, Fremad, 1981. (In Danish)
Book Chapters
K. Bødker, F. Kensing, and J. Simonsen: Participatory Design in Information Systems Development. To appear in H. Isomäki and S. Pekkola: Reframing Humans in Information Systems Development. Springer Verlag, 2010.
K. Bødker, F. Kensing and J. Simonsen: Changing Work Practices in Design. In Dittrich, Y. et al.: Social Thinking -‐ Software Practice. MIT Press, 2002.
J. Simonsen, F. Kensing,and K. Bødker: MUST -‐ En metode til forundersøgelse med
brugerdeltagelse. In B. Fibiger et al.: Design af Multimedier Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 1997. (in Danish).
F. Kensing and K. H. Madsen: Generating Visions: Future Workshops and Metaphorical Design. In Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems, edited by Joan Greenbaum and Morten Kyng, Erlbaum, 1991.
F. Kensing: The Self-‐Organization Paradigm in Systems Development -‐ Latest fashion or an imperative? In G. Bjerknes et al.: Organizational Competance in System Development, Ålborg University Centre, 1988.
F. Kensing: Handlingsorienteret partsforskning med fagbevægelsen. In Å. Sandberg (ed.): Forskning for forandring, Arbeidslivscentrum, Stockholm, 1981. (In Danish).
