The key words for my research are surveillance and ethics, and as far as I can see it is advantageous to see the subject as part of a cross-scientific research field. I come from a philosophic background which affects my approach to Human Centered Informatics.

As a lecturer and counsellor I have worked with IT-ethics, the philosophy of technology, and surveillance within many topics: At work (employee surveillance), entertainment (video games, Web 2.0 and social software), and health care (electronic patient records).

My PhD dissertation is basically about the surveillance than we encounter today, both as individuals and as part of society. I’m interested in surveillance in broad terms, but for my dissertation I chose to focus on body, ethics, and experience.

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I research usability and adoption in health-informatics and in computer mediated communication, learning, and collaboration. ICT use means a remediation of existing communication and work processes and basically my interest is in understanding these processes and through that give input for implementing and evaluating ICT-systems.

I have a special interest in the healthcare system and has been part of setting up the cross-scientific Master in Health-informatics as well as the Virtual Center of Health-informatics at Aalborg University.

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I began my research career in 1984 with a PhD Fellowship at Roskilde University about ICT and learning. I finished with a background in social sciences and psychology in 1983, the period where the PC had its big breakthrough and begun to spread to all businesses and spheres. I remember being to a seminar arranged by IBM where they presented their vision of one computer per child. At the time that sounded pretty futuristic.

Since then I’ve been within the ICT and learning field and specifically within the academic field called “computer supported collaborative learning”, the field interested in collaborative learning through ICT. I do practical work, both locally and globally. At AAU I’ve been part of developing AAU’s remote education concept based on ICT and problem and project oriented work processes, which for instance are used in out Master educations.

Globally I participate in capacity building projects that are about integrating ICT on a humanistic informatics basis for instance with university collaborations in Latin America and Asia. With basic research, I’m especially interested in social theories of learning and how ICT can mediate human learning processes. The developments with the Internet and networked learning especially interest me.

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My basic research interests can be summed up in three short words: “time”, “logic”, and “ethics”. With “time” I’m especially occupied with ideahistory of the concept of time and science philosophical deliberations on the use of the concept of time in different academic contexts. With “logic” I’m especially interested in the history of logic and the relationship between rationality and science. With “ethics” I’m especially occupied with ethical argumentation and by the use of ethics on problems caused due to modern technologies – including the information technologies.

Ideas about time, logic, and ethics were thought together in an exciting way by A. N. Prior (1914-69). Together with Per Hasle I have worked some years with analysing Prior’s works, (re)publishing selected Prior-works, as well as carrying on Prior’s theoretical ideas on time, logic, and ethics. See, for instance, our Prior-site.

I'm leader of the Research Network concerning IT-Ethics and chairman of the Kaj Munk Forskningscentret.

Together with Per Hasle, I am responsible for the elite education in Persuasive Design (PD), where I especially take care of the courses in “logic and temporality” as well as other topics related to PD and ethics.

My research publications and more can be seen on VBN and my homepage.

My name is Thomas Ryberg and I started as a PhD scholar in 2004. I wrote my PhD about young people, technology, and learning. It is because I’m interested in the interplay between new technologies and the possibilities it presents for learning processes. I’m especially interested in how IT can be used to support more project oriented and dialogic learning processes and how new IT-services like social software and Web 2.0-servics can be a part of remaking learning environments.

The interesting part for me is to be able to think new technology and progressive learning processes together and through that create innovative and creative learning environments that fit a modern knowledge and network society. This requires a certain interest in technology, but a ballast of learning theory as well, both of these I got during my time at Human Centered Informatics.

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I have many research interests, but I am especially interested in adoption of ICT in organisations. Adoption of ICT is a critical phase for an organisation as it is during adoption that both the organisation and the potential of the technology can be realised in a constructive collaboration – a failed adoption, on the other hand, can get the organisation into serious trouble.

Apart from Human Centered Informatics, I’m involved with the Information Architecture graduate programme and the Master in ICT and Learning. You can find information about my publications and the research projects I participate in on VBN ».

I’m associated with Human Centered Informatics as a lecturer and my research is connected to the Kaj Munk research Center here at the Department of Communication and Psychology. I teach subjects such as knowledge and formalising, data linguistics, ontology, programming, databases, and artificial intelligence.

My research at the Kaj Munk Research Center is in short about developing principles, theories and methods for how to search big volumes of text in interesting ways, naturally with a focus on the texts from Kaj Munk.

Apparently, I’m some of the most hardcore we have on the institute when it comes to computer science. Still, I believe you’ll find me very human as a lecturer . You can see more on my homepage ».