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Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary research field concerned with how science and technology shapes and affects society and vice versa. The field has existed for roughly 50 years and emphasizes empirical studies of science and technology as practices. This means that knowledge and technology is seen as products of heterogeneous, situated, contingent and ‘messy’ processes in which social actors, materiality, other technologies, concepts and theories take part. The field of STS draws on extensive resources such as constructivism, post structuralism, process philosophy, social anthropology, critical theory, actor network theory, feminist studies, ethnography, work place studies, phenomenology and others.

At the centre, STS forms a methodological and conceptual resource for studying the role of technology and especially IT in a range of everyday and work life settings. STS helps us attend to the more or less visible and trivial aspects of the interaction between human actors and technologies. Our research often focuses on how humans and technologies forms - or attempts to form – functioning assemblages capable of action. The meticulous and tedious work of making something work is one of our central concerns.

The STS centre was established in 2000 and has over the years hosted a range of substantial national and international conferences, seminars and guests.

On behalf of the centre, the steering committee:

Researchers

Research areas

  • Healthcare practices and technologies
  • Surveillance practices and technologies
  • Organization, work and technology
  • Philosophy of technology
  • Governance, performance and technology
  • Social media and methods
  • Self-tracking and subjectivity
  • Empowerment and technology
  • Design practices and participation
  • Project management and innovation
  • Constructivism, democracy and normativity

Publications from our members

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Contribution to book anthology

Pedersen, A. M. & Bossen, C. (2021). Data Work in Healthcare: An Ethnography of a BI Unit. In InfraHealth 2021: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Infrastructures for Healthcare European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET). https://doi.org/10.18420/ihc2021_006
Pedersen, A. M. & Bossen, C. (2025). Making healthcare data-driven: Ordering, experimenting with, and discovering data. In InfraHealth 2025: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Infrastructures in Healthcare 2025 (pp. 1). Article 010 European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET). https://doi.org/10.48340/ihc2025_p010
Øhrstrøm, P., Albrechtslund, A. & Albretsen, J. (2006). Panoptic Research in Ethical Perspective. In Reader for EURECA Workshop 4 (pp. 1-24). Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, The University of Manchester.
Leimbach, T. & Bachlechner, D. (2015). Assessing Big Data: Results and experiences from Germany. In C. Scherz, T. Michalek, L. Hennen, J. Hahn & S. Seitz (Eds.), The next horizon of technology assessment: Proceedings from the PACITA 2015 Conference (pp. 243-248). http://pacita.strast.cz/files/Publikace/Proceedings-Berlin-v3.2-FINAL_3.pdf
Lauritsen, P. & Kaasgaard, K. (1997). Computer Programs and Clinical Contexts. In C. Pappas, N. Maglaveras & J.-R. Scherrer (Eds.), Medical Informatics Europe '97 (pp. 756-760). IOS Press.
Kusk, K. & Nouwens, M. (2025). How Website Owners Use Consent Management Platforms: An Interview Study. In CHI EA 2025 - Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 324 https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3720002
Kusk, K., Nouwens, M. & Lee, M. K. (2026). Moderating the Workplace: Governing Communication Channels for Platform Workers. In N. Oliver, D. A. Shamma, H. Candello, P. Cesar, P. Lopes, A. Bozzon, T. Kosch, V. Liao, X. Ma, V. Artizzu, F. Draxler, G. Lopez, A. V. Reinschluessel, X. Tong & P. O. Toups Dugas (Eds.), CHI 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 335 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790554
Kaasgaard, K. & Lauritsen, P. (1997). Participatory Design at a Psychiatric Daycenter. In C. Pappas, N. Maglaveras & J.-R. Scherrer (Eds.), Medical Informatics Europe '97 (pp. 816-820). IOS Press.
Jørgensen, J. B. & Bossen, C. (2002). Executable Use Cases for Pervasive Healthcare. In MOCA 2002: Second Workshop on Modeling of Objects, Components and Agents (pp. 89-103). Datalogi, Aarhus Universitet.
Jørgensen, J. B. & Bossen, C. (2003). Requirements Engineering for a Pervasive Health Care System. In Proceedings of the 11th International Requirements Engineering Conference (pp. 55-64). <Forlag uden navn>.
Jespersen, J. L., Albrechtslund, A., Øhrstrøm, P., Hasle, P. & Albretsen, J. (2007). Surveillance, Persuasion, and Panopticon. In Y. De Kort, W. IJsselsteijn, C. Midden, B. Eggen & B. J. Fogg (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Persuasive Technology (pp. 109-120). Springer.
Homewood, S., Karlsson, A. & Vallgårda, A. (2020). Removal as a Method: A Fourth Wave HCI Approach to Understanding the Experience of Self-Tracking. In DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 1779–1791). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395425
Hansen, N. B., Dindler, C., Halskov, K., Iversen, O. S., Bossen, C., Basballe, D. A. & Schouten, B. (2019). How participatory designworks: Mechanisms and effects. In Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction, OzCHI 2019 (pp. 30-41). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369460
Hansen, N. B., Dindler, C., Halskov, K., Iversen, O. S., Bossen, C., Basballe, D. A. & Schouten, B. (2019). How Participatory Design Works: Mechanisms and Effects. In OzCHI: Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Proccedings
Dindler, C., Iversen, O. S., Bossen, C., Kaspersen, M. H. & Dalsgaard, P. (2026). Enacting Utopias: A Participatory Design Approach to AI. In Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2026 (PDC '26) Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3796624.3796657
Danholt, P., Bødker, K., Hertzum, M. & Simonsen, J. (2004). Healthcare IT and Patient Empowerment: The Case of Diabetes Treatment. In A. Clement, D. Schuler, P. V. D. Besselaar, F. D. Cindio & A. Bond (Eds.), Artful Integration: Interweaving Media, Materials and Practices. PDC 2004 Proceedings. (Vol. 2, pp. 80-83). Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. http://jespersimonsen.dk/Downloads/HITdiabetesPDC2004.pdf
Danholt, P. (2005). How is Usercentered Design Interested in Users? A posthumanist approach. In Proceedings of the 28th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia (IRIS) IRIS Association.
Danholt, P. & Bødker, K. (2005). Implementing a Diabetes EPR in Copenhagen Hospital Corporation. In O. Hejlesen & C. Nøhr (Eds.), SHI2005 Proceedings: 3rd Scandinavian conference on Health Informatics (pp. 19-23). Aalborg University.
Danholt, P. (2005). Prototypes as Performative. In Proceedings of the Fourth Decennial Aarhus Conference (pp. 1-9). Aarhus Universitet.
Danholt, P. & Bødker, K. (2005). The Implementation Process of a Diabetes EPR. In Proceedings of the Fourth Decennial Aarhus Conference (pp. 187-191). AMC.
Chen, Y., Gui, X., Bossen, C., Herskovic, V., Verdezoto, N., Ma, X., Bagalkot, N. & Ploderer, B. (2019). Unpacking the infrastructuring work of patients and caregivers around the world. In CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 3299021 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3299021
Bossen, C. & Jensen, L. G. (2013). Clinical overview: A framework for analysis. In MEDINFO 2013 - Proceedings of the 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (1-2 ed., pp. 1116). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-1116
Bossen, C. & Grönvall, E. (2015). Collaboration in-between The Care Hotel and Designing for Flexible Use: The Care Hotel and Designing for Flexible Use. In CSCW '15 : Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 1289-1301). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675243
Bossen, C. & Dalsgård, P. (2005). Conceptualization and Appropriation: The Evolving Use of a Collaborative Knowledge Management System. In Between Sense and Sensibility: Critical Computing Aarhus 2005 Proceedings (pp. 99-108). Association for Computing Machinery.
Bossen, C. & Jørgensen, J. B. (2004). Context-descriptive Prototypes and Their Application to Medicine Administration. In Across the Spectrum: Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques (pp. 297-306). Association for Computing Machinery.
Bossen, C., Chandhiramowuli, S., Comber, R., Møller, N. H., Lampinen, A., Pine, K. H. & Taylor, A. S. (2025). Data/Work in Crisis. In Conference Proceedings: Computing X Crisis - 6th Decennial Aarhus Conference, AAR Adjunct 2025 Article 24 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3737609.3747089
Bossen, C. (2002). Ethnography in Design: Tool-kit or Analytic Science? In PDC 2002: Proceedings of the Seventh Biennal Participatory Design Conference (pp. 338-43). Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
Bossen, C., Dindler, C. & Iversen, O. S. (2016). Evaluation in participatory design: a literature survey. In PDC 2016: Participatory Design in an Era of Participation - Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference; Full Papers (Vol. 1, pp. 151-160). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2940299.2940303
Bossen, C., Dindler, C., Garde, J. & Pipek, V. (2014). Evaluation, sustainability and long-term effects of participatory design projects. In Proceedings of the 13th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Industry Cases, Workshop Descriptions, Doctoral Consortium papers, and Keynote abstracts, PDC '14 - Volume 2 (pp. 219-220 ). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662210
Bossen, C. & Jensen, L. G. (2014). How Physicians ‘Achieve Overview’: A Case-based Study in a Hospital Ward. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on CSCW (pp. 257-268). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531620
Bossen, C., Dindler, C. & Iversen, O. S. (2012). Impediments to User Gains: Experiences from a Critical Participatory Design Project. In Proceedings of Participatory Design Conference (pp. 31-40). Association for Computing Machinery.
Bossen, C. & Jensen, L. W. K. (2008). Implications of Shared Interactive Displays for Work at a Surgery Ward: Coordination, Articulation Work and Context-awareness. In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (pp. 464-469). IEEE Computer Society Press.
Bossen, C., Ehn, P., Karasti, H., Di Salvo, C., Clement, A., Pipek, V. & Dittrich, Y. (2014). Infrastructuring, collaboration and evolving socio-material practices of changing our world. In Proceedings of the 18th International Software Product Line Conference: Companion Volume for Workshops, Demonstrations and Tools (pp. 221-222). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662211
Bossen, C., Jensen, L. G. & Witt, F. (2012). Medical Secretaries’ Care of Records: The Cooperative Work of a Non-clinical Group. In Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Vol. 2012, pp. 821-830). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2145204.2145341
Bossen, C. (2006). Participation, Power, Critique: Constructing a Standard for Electronic Patient Records. In  Expanding Boundaries in Design. Proceedings of the 2006 Participatory Design Conference (pp. 95-104). Association for Computing Machinery. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1147261.1147276
Bossen, C., Dindler, C. & Iversen, O. S. (2018). Program Theory for Participatory Design. In Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference, 2018, Genk Belgium Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3210604.3210638
Bossen, C. (2006).   Representations at Work: A national Standard for Electronic Health Records. In Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2006: 20th Anniversary (pp. 69-78). Association for Computing Machinery.
Bossen, C. & Foss, M. (2016). The collaborative work of hospital porters: accountability, visibility and configurations of work. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016: Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 965-979). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2820002
Bossen, C. (2002). The Parameters of Common Information Spaces: The Heterogeneity of Cooperative Work at a Hospital Ward. In CSCW 2002: Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Conference Proceedings (pp. 176-185). Association for Computing Machinery.
Bossen, C., Dindler, C. & Iversen, O. S. (2010). User gains and PD aims: Assessment from a participatory design project. In Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Conference on Participatory Design: Participation: the challenge (pp. 141-150). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/1900441.1900461
Bardram, J. E. & Bossen, C. (2005). A web of coordinative artifacts: collaborative work at a hospital ward. In GROUP 05 (pp. 168-176). Association for Computing Machinery.
Bardram, J. E., Bossen, C. & Thomsen, A. B. (2005). Designing for Transformations in Collaboration: A Study of the Deployment of Homecare Technology. In GROUP´05: Proceedings of teh 2005 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work (pp. 294-303). Association for Computing Machinery.
Bardram, J. E., Bossen, C. & Thomsen, A. (2005). Designing for transformations in collaboration: a study of the deployment of homecare technology. In GROUP 05 (pp. 294-303). Association for Computing Machinery.
Bardram, J. E. & Bossen, C. (2003). Moving to get aHead: Local Mobility and Collaborative Work. In ECSCW 2003: Proceedings of the Eighth european Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 355-374). Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Bardram, J. E., Bossen, C., Lykke-Olesen, A., Madsen, K. H. & Nielsen, R. (2002). Virtual Video Prototyping for Healthcare Systems. In Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques (pp. 167 - 177). Association for Computing Machinery.
Bardram, J. E., Bossen, C., Madsen, K. H., Nielsen, R. & Lykke-Olesen, A. (2002). Virtual Video Prototyping of Pervasive Healthcare Systems. In DIS2002, Designing Interactive Systems
Bachlechner, D. & Leimbach, T. (2016). Big data challenges: impact, potential responses and research needs. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Innovative Business Practices for the Transformation of Societies, EmergiTech 2016 (pp. 257-264). Article 7737349 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EmergiTech.2016.7737349
Amsha, K. A., Grönvall, E., Saad-Sulonen, J. & Bossen, C. (2017). Understanding and supporting emergent and temporary collaboration across and beyond community and organizational boundaries. In C and T 2017 - 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Conference Proceedings (pp. 331-333). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3083671.3083717
Albrechtslund, A. (2007). House 2.0: Towards an Ethics for Surveillance in Intelligent Living and Working Environments. In L. M. Hinman (Ed.), Proceedings from CEPE 2007: Seventh International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (pp. 7-16). University of San Diego, USA.
Albrechtslund, A. (2005). The Postmodern Panopticon: Surveillance and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing. In P. Brey, F. Grodzinsky & L. Introna (Eds.), Ethics of New Information Technology: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE 2005) (pp. 11-20). Center for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT), Enschede, the Netherlands.

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