The ECOSPACE-supported 2nd Workshop on Open Design Spaces supporting User Innovation successfully took place at Humboldt University in Berlin at September, 6th 2009 in conjunction with the German HCI conference Mensch & Computer 2009.

The workshop theme of Open Design Spaces addressed the recent socio-technical trends (including the European Living Labs community) to exploit the opportunit

During this year's INTERACT 2009 - 12th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - held at Uppsala, Sweden the workshop Towards a manifesto for Living Lab co-creation took place, organized by Asbjørn Følstad, Petter Bae Brandtzæg, Jan Gulliksen, Pirjo Näkki & Mikael Börjeson.

Practitioners and researchers of the field, including ECOSPACE researchers, gathered to contribute to the

The ODS 2009 International Workshop that took place in March 2009 being co-organized by Ecospace researchers from Fraunhofer FIT just published it's post-proceedings with the International Institute for Socio-Informatics.

Read more (in german) about the upcoming 2nd Workshop on Open Design Spaces in Berlin, Germany in September 2009.

OAuth Core 1.0 Rev A, Draft 3, by: Eran Hammer-Lahav (ed), Community Draft

Authors of the "OAuth Core 1.0" specification have issued Rev A, Draft 3 and solicit comments through May 25, 2009.  This is espected to be the last draft.  The OAuth protocol enables websites or applications (Consumers) to access Protected Resources from a web service (Service Provider) via an API, without requiring

By Jeff Potts, Blog

The emerging Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard was the main buzz at the AIIM conference in Philadelphia this week (followed closely by social networking and Enterprise 2.0).

Why does CMIS garner so much attention? Because as EMC's David Choy said, "Unless they are starting from scratch, everybody implementing ECM has an interoperability prob

Today the main program of this year's End User Development Conference (EUD 2009) started in Siegen, Germany.

Following Margaret Burnett's invited talk about "What is End-User Software Engineering and Why does it matter?", a number of presentations related to some of Ecospace's main topics took place, e.g. Michael Spahn from SAP Research reporting on their development of user-customizable Enter

With more than 30 participants from countries like Argentina, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom as well as the US the ODS 2009 International Workshop succesfully took place on Monday, 2nd March 2009 in Siegen, Germany during this year's End User Development Conference (EUD 2009), co-chaired and co-organized by Ecospace researchers from Fraunhofer FIT.

Read more abo