Participatory Information Technology Centre

The PIT centre brings the citizen into focus
as a participant in design and in use of IT

Future Events

Thu 02 May: 10:00-17:00 | Kunsthal Aarhus
Local Area Artworks at New G // AFGANG 13 Exhibitions in Kunsthal Aarhus
Local Area Artworks will be installed at Guirlanden's New G exhibition and the AFGANG 13 exhibition form the Jutland Art Academy in Kunsthal Aarhus from May 2 to June 2, 2013.
Tue 28 May: 13:15-14:00 | Ada-333
PITalk with Yvonne Rogers: Can a diet of data make you healthy?
Self-quantifying and self-tracking devices are becoming mainstream. Examples include FitBit, Wii games and an assortment of mobile apps (e.g. Boozerlyzer), that aim to give people new aggregate and profiled data about their behaviours and bodily functions to help them improve their sleep, moods and drinking habits. Real-time feedback about their everyday habits is provided through graphs and relative scores.
Tue 28 May: 14:00-16:00 | Kunsthal Aarhus
Panel Discussion about Local Area Artworks at Kunsthal Aarhus
Final panel discussion with discussion of experiences with the Local Area Artworks project. Speakers: Associate professor Geoff Cox, Postdoc Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose, Postdoc Matthias Korn, and PhD Student Anna Maria Polli (final list of speakers to be confirmed)
Sat 21 Sep: 10:00-16:00 | Cyprus
ECSCW 2013 WS2: CSCW at the Boundary of Work and Life
This workshop will explore how CSCW themes, concepts and sensibilities can be extended and applied to practices blurring the boundary between work and life. Technology has moved from workplaces to become part of nearly every aspect of everyday life. Similarly, CSCW research spans not only work settings and practices, but also other life domains, from family life, to gaming, tourism and other leisure activities. However, the neat distinction between which activities are work-related and which are not is becoming less and less meaningful as often the spheres of work and life blur into each other. Similarly, the use of technology is not limited to specific work vs. non-work situations. This workshop will discuss how to look at this blurring of practices, spheres of life and expectations: is it a problematic issue that should be addressed, or a new way of working and living that people are increasingly embracing? How people coordinate and interact when work tasks, personal tasks and leisure tasks blur into each other, and how to support/facilitate/mediate this through design?
Sun 22 Sep: 10:00-16:00 | Cyprus
ECSCW 2013 WS1: Participatory Publics: Civic technology and local communities
New forms of community technologies are focused on supporting local, geographically connected communities directly through neighborhoods and civic activity. The workshop will address the following questions: What constitutes participation in community settings and how is it supported/augmented through IT? How do we understand the relationships between participation, community and technology in these (emerging) settings? It will be based on examples of technology supported participatory publics brought to the workshop by participants.