Sisse Finken
Academic Interests
Anthropology of technology; care and care technologies; work, practices and design; assemblages and reconfigurations; discourses and materiality; ethnographic studies; visual studies; archives
Teaching
Qualitative Research Methods in IS-research: INF5220
Advise a PhD-student and various Master students in areas like: Design and work cases on care and care technologies, Participatory Design, Social Media, Design history.
Higher education and employment history
Appointments
Member of the Ph.D.-board
Member of the program committee Digital Media
Research project:
Autonomy and Automation in an information society for all (A3). Project leader in case C on Distributed Health Care: configuring care and care technologies - empirically driven studies on work and daily life in smart house settings.
Cooperation
GERIA
Oslo Kommune
Aalborg University, Denmark
Norrbotten Country Council, Sweden
Publications
- Finken, Sisse (2010). Changing the Gender of Design, In Pirjo Elovaara; Johanna Sefyrin; May-Britt Öhman & Christina Björkman (ed.), Traveling Thoughtfulness - feminist technoscience stories. Umeå University,Department of Informatics. ISBN 978-91-7459-094-4. artikel. s 85 - 93
- Finken, Sisse & Stuedahl, Dagny (2008). Silence as an analytical category for PD, In Jesper Simonsen; Toni Robertson & David Hakken (ed.), Proceedings of Participatory Design Conference. ACM Press. ISBN 978-0-9818561-0-0. KAPITTEL. s 170 - 173
- Bratteteig, Tone; Finken, Sisse & Mörtberg, Christina M (2011). Shifting relations and moving artefacts: on women's work in smart houses.
- Finken, Sisse (2011). Foucault’s research strategy in research and design.
- Finken, Sisse (2011). HomeWork. The smart house - public care and care technology in private homes.
- Finken, Sisse (2011). Notions of home and care technology within the elder care sector.
- Finken, Sisse & Mörtberg, Christina M (2011). The Thinking House: configurings of an infrastructure of care.
- Finken, Sisse; Mörtberg, Christina M; van der Velden, Maja & Bratteteig, Tone (2011). The Becoming of Places: Stories of meaning and matter from a university metro station through still pictures.
- Finken, Sisse (2010). Pink, Gender and Design.
- Finken, Sisse (2010). The thinking house, the thinking plan-makers: the thinking politics of care.
- Bratteteig, Tone; Finken, Sisse & van der Velden, Maja (2009). Autonomy and Automation in an ‘Information Society for All’.
- van der Velden, Maja; Bratteteig, Tone & Finken, Sisse (2009). Entangled matter: thinking differently about materials in design. .
- van der Velden, Maja; Bratteteig, Tone; Finken, Sisse & Mörtberg, Christina M (2009). Autonomy and Automation in an Information Society for All.
- van der Velden, Maja; Bratteteig, Tone; Finken, Sisse & Mörtberg, Christina M (2009). Autonomy and Automation in an Information Society for All, In Judith Ann Molka-Danielsen (ed.), Proceedings of the 32nd Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, IRIS 32 - Inclusive design. Høgskolen i Molde. ISBN 9788279621201. KAPITTEL.
- Finken, Sisse & Stuedahl, Dagny (2008). Silence as an analytical category for PD.