About Human Centered Informatics

Hunan Centered Informatics is about the ability to analyse, comprehend, and understand the complex human, organisational, and technological contexts that any use of an ICT-system will enter. But it is also about the ability to design, recreate, and change both the ICT-system and their context of use. It is about the ability to see the potential for innovation in new technologies, like social software and Web 2.0, and to use these to create positive, meaningful, and useful changes that account for ethical, social, political, and human concerns - because it is the human, not the technology that has to be central.

Changing and recreating ICT-use in organisations and complex work-relations is far from only a technological development process. On the contrary, it is primarily about social and organisational development, about communication between the many interested parties, about inclusion of new users, about user driven innovation organisation development, ethical concerns, and learning.

Human Centered Informatics is about creating the best opportunities for knowledge and learning to unfold. The challenge may be to develop and design IT-supported learning, where pedagogic and learning concerns are important or the challenge may be to represent, formalise, structuralise, and organise knowledge, and create useful information architectures.

But you should also read what the current students are working on, their projects and interests - it will give you an impression of the breadth of the studies. You can read more, where previous students are working and what they do.

On these pages you can also read more about the academic focus on the Main Areas page, and you can read more about both the Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Human Centered Informatics - or you can read more about the elite education in persuasive design . (In Danish)  You can also read the curriculum for the educations, and see some course examples.