Volker Wulf

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Volker Wulf (born February 23, 1962 in Iserlohn ) is a German business IT specialist and has held the Chair of Business Information Systems and New Media at the University of Siegen since 2002 . He is considered to be the co-founder of the new discipline socio-informatics .

Life

Volker Wulf completed a double degree in computer science and business administration at the RWTH Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen and the University of Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI. His doctorate at the University of Dortmund in 1996 was followed by several visiting and substitute professorships at the universities of Hamburg and Freiburg. His habilitation in computer science at the University of Hamburg was followed by a research stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge (USA) in 2001 .

Wulf has been a professor at the University of Siegen since 2002 and at the same time heads a research group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FhG-FIT) , Sankt Augustin. In 2006/07 he spent a Fulbright Scholar research semester at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Stanford University in Palo Alto. In February 2011, Wulf was elected Dean of Faculty III Economics, Business Informatics and Business Law at the University of Siegen.

In addition, since 2006 he has been Managing Director of the Institute for Media Research (IfM) at the University of Siegen. Wulf's research focus is on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Knowledge Management (KM), Computer Supported Cooperative Learning (CSCL), software engineering and ubiquitous computing . In these research fields he has developed a user-oriented approach to the design of IT products. In doing so, empirical work on the investigation of working and living practices in the field of application, typically following an ethnographic research pattern, is combined with the user-oriented development of innovative applications. The investigation of the appropriation of IT products by the users plays a central role in the design. Technologically, there is a special focus on flexible software architectures that can be adapted by end users (end user development).

In 2018, Wulf became a member of the CHI Academy due to his research in the field of computer-human interaction.

Volker Wulf's list of publications includes around 350 mostly internationally peer-reviewed publications, including the books Expertise Sharing: Beyond Knowledge Management and Social Capital and Information Technology .

Work on socio-informatics

Volker Wulf initially dealt with the effects of the penetration of the living environment with information and communication technology (ICT). From this he derived the principle and the functional necessity of placing people at the center of this development and developing user-oriented systems and technologies tailored to people. As a research assistant at the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Bonn , he set up the project area Software Ergonomics and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ProSEC) from 1994 . In 1996 Wulf did his doctorate on the subject of conflict management in distributed systems and was then habilitated in 2000 with the thesis on the adaptable design of groupware .

During this time, Wulf founded the Bonn International Institute for Socio-Informatics (IISI) together with other scientists such as Volkmar Pipek and Markus Rohde , which is dedicated to the interdisciplinary research of the applications of informatics in social systems. At the international level, Wulf participated in the founding of the EUSSET European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies.

From 2002 Wulf established his chair in the research field of socio-informatics at the University of Siegen, which uses novel methods and procedures such as the design case study or integrated organizational and technical development (OTE). Practice-oriented research projects included "come_In" - intercultural learning by means of computer-controlled project work, for which Wulf was awarded the 2010 Wolfgang Heilmann Prize of the integrata foundation and the media prize of the Deutsche Telekom Foundation , and "Landmark" - navigation infrastructure for the fire brigade in burning buildings, which won the national competition 365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas in 2011 .

Publications

  • Volker Wulf; Volkmar Pipek; Dave Randall, Markus Rohde; Kjeld Schmidt; Gunnar Stevens (eds): Socio Informatics - A Practice-based Perspective on the Design and Use of IT Artefacts, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018
  • Volkmar Pipek; Volker Wulf; Aditya Johri: Bridging Artifacts and Actors: Expertise Sharing in Organizational Ecosystems , in: Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing (JCSCW), Vol. 21, No 2-3, 2012, 261-282
  • Volker Wulf; Markus Rohde; Volkmar Pipek; Gunnar Stevens: Engaging with Practices: Design Case Studies as a Research Framework in CSCW , in: Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011), ACM-Press, New York 2011, 505-512
  • Volkmar Pipek; Volker Wulf: Infrastructuring: Towards an Integrated Perspective on the Design and Use of Information Technology , in: Journal of the Association of Information System (JAIS), Vol. 10, Issue 5, May 2009, 306-332
  • Gunnar Stevens; Volker Wulf: Computer-Supported Access Control , in: ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (ToCHI), Vol. 16, Issue 3, 2009, Article 12
  • Volker Wulf; Volkmar Pipek; Markus Won: Component-based Tailorability: Towards Highly Flexible Software Applications , in: International Journal on Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), Vol. 66, No. 1, 2008, 1 - 22

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professor Wulf accepted into the CHI Academy . University of Siegen, April 26, 2018. Retrieved January 14, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Wulf, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business IT specialist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn