Community end-user development:Patterns, platforms, possibilities and problems
Susanne Bødker, Peter Lyle · 2017
This volume includes extended abstracts describing work-in-progress, doctoral consortium and the workshop that were presented during the 6th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2017) which was held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands on June 13-15, 2017.IS-EUD is a bi-annual event that gathers researchers interested to extend our knowledge about how to design end-user development technologies and to provide scientific accounts of phenomena surrounding end-user development practices.IS-EUD cuts across application areas such as ubiquitous and wearable computing, online communities, domotics, robotics, games, etc.IS-EUD 2017 in Eindhoven invited contributions on the topics of empowerment and materiality, on how EUD technologies can empower end-users to magnify their reach and control over the physical world, to allow them to engage actively in societal trends and transformations.The theme of the conference was designated as "that was business this is personal", aiming to emphasize the personal involvement and engagement of end-users, the application of end-user programming beyond the professional environment looking also at discretionary use of technologies.Papers and submissions in all categories addressed this specific theme as topics that have been traditionally covered by the broader area of end-user development such as domain specific tools, spreadsheets, and end user aspects.This volume was put together by the members of the organising committee responsible for the works-in-progress, doctoral consortium and workshops programme.We are grateful for the help of all members of the organizing committee and the reviewers for their voluntary work.