Research interests
Digital Welfare, Information and Communication Technology for Develeopment (ICTD; ICT4D), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Lars Rune Christensen research is on the intersection between information technology and ethnography. His focus is on developing a systematic, conceptual foundation for understanding, designing and integrating computational artifacts in practice, especially in relation to digital welfare in Denmark and in the Global South.
At the ITU he is primary investigator of “Rohingya mHealth: Increasing Access to Healthcare for the Rohingya Community in the Refugee Camps in Bangladesh”, funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation. The partners in the project will extend, enhance and evaluate ongoing humanitarian efforts directed at creating an mHealth system and increase access to healthcare for the Rohingya. The partners are the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) and Friendship (an NGO registered in Bangladesh).
In Denmark, his research is on digitalisation in the Danish public sector and he is head of a work package within EcoKnow (ecoknow.org) funded by the Danish Innovation Fund. The research project centres on developing solutions for the effective digitalisation of knowledge work processes that empower case workers and citizens to plan evidence-based optimal process flows for the individual case, while guaranteeing both efficiency and compliance with the law.
Lars holds a PhD in humancentric computing and has published extensively on the relationships between humans, their practices, and information technology.
Research projects (funded)
Rohingya mHealth: Increasing Access to Healthcare for the Rohingya Community in the Refugee Camps in Bangladesh, with Friendship (an NGO) and Novo Nordisk Fonden
EcoKnow: Effective, Co-created & Compliant Case Management for Knowledge Workers
TRACE: Clinical Efficacy, Benefits and Usability of t-VNS
CompArt: Computational Artifacts
Infinit: Public and Private Partnerships in Healthcare Innovation.
PhD scholars
Jannik Friberg Lindegaard
Anette C.M. Petersen
Hasib Ahsan
Selected publications
Petersen, A. C. M., Christensen, L. R. and Hildebrandt, T. T. (2020): The Role of Discretion in the Age of Automation. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices (Jan 2020)
Christensen, L.R., Ahsan, H., Rashid, M. & Das, B.K. (2019). Are You Magicians? The Collaborative Work of an Agricultural Information Service, In the Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development. Ahmedabad, India. ACM.
Christensen, L. R., Ahsan, H. and Akand, E. Krishi Kontho: an agricultural information service in Bangladesh. In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction(Oslo, Norway, 2018). ACM.
Lindegaard, J.F. & Christensen, L.R. (2018) Allusive Machines: Encounters with Android Life. In the Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction(Oslo, Norway, 2018). ACM.
Christensen, Lars Rune & Thomas Hildebrandt (2017). Modelling Cooperative Work at a Medical Department. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies. Troyes, France. ACM.
Christensen, L.R. (2016). On Intertext in Chemotherapy: an Ethnography of Text in Medical Practice. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices. Volume 25, Issue 1, pp 1-38
Christensen, L.R. & Harper, R.H. (2016). The Many Faces of Computational Artifacts. COOP 16: 12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Trento, Italy, May 22th – May 27th 2016.
Christensen, L.R. & Bertelsen, O.W. (2015). A View of Causation for CSCW: Manipulation and Control in the Material Field of Work. In Wulf, V.; Randall, D.; Schmidt, K. (eds): Designing Socially Embedded Technologies in the Real-World, Springer, London, 2015.
Christensen, L. R. (2015). Intertext: On Connecting Text in the Building Process. In Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW), Oslo, 19 - 23 September, 2015. Edited by N. Boulus-Rødje, G. Ellingsen, T. Bratteteig, M. Aanestad, and P. Bjorn, pp. 103-123: Springer, London.
Christensen, L.R. & Bjørn, P. (2014). Documentscape: Intertextuality, Sequentiality & Autonomy at Work. CHI '14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, April 26th – Maj 1st, 2014.
Christensen, L.R. (2014). Techno-anthropology for Design, In Børsen, T. & Botin, L. (eds.) What is Techno-anthropology? Aalborg University Press.
Christensen, L.R., Jensen, R.E. & Bjørn, P. (2014). Creating Relation Work: Characteristics for Local and Global Collaboration. COOP 14: 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Nice, France, May 27th – May 30th 2014.
Christensen, L. R. (2013). Coordinative Practices in the Building Process: An Ethnographic Perspective. Springer. London.
Christensen, L.R. (2013). On Text in Oncology. Paper presented at The 4th international workshop on Infrastructures for Healthcare, Tromsø, Norway, 13/06/13 - 14/06/13
Christensen, L. R. (2014). Practices of Stigmergy in the Building Process. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices. Vol.23, Issue 1, Pages 1- 19.
Bossen, C., Christensen, L.R., Grönvall, E., Vestergaard, L.S. (2013). CareCoor: Augmenting the coordination of cooperative home care work. International Journal of Medical Informatics Vol. 82, Issue 5, Pages e189-e199
Christensen, L.R. (2012). The Trouble with ‘Knowledge Transfer’: On Conduit Metaphors and Semantic Pathologies in Our Understanding of Didactic Practice. COOP 2012: 10th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Marseille, France, May 29th – June 1st 2012. Springer, London. 111-126.
Christensen, L. R. & Grönvall, E. (2011). Challenges and Opportunities for Collaborative Technologies for Home Care Work. In proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Aarhus, Denmark, September 24-28, 2011. Springer, London. 61-81.
Christensen, L.R. & Grönvall, E. (2011). The Augmented Binder: Supporting Cooperative Home Care Work. In proceedings of 3rd International Workshop Infrastructures in Healthcare, IT- University, Copenhagen, 23rd June – 24 June. 2011.
Bjørn, P. & Christensen, L.R. (2011) Relation work: Creating Socio-technical Connections in Global Engineering. In proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Aarhus, Denmark, September 24-28, 2011. Springer, London. 133-153.
Christensen, L.R. (2011). Revisiting the Practice-Oriented Research Program. In proceedings of the Eleventh Danish HCI Research Symposium, Copenhagen Denmark, November 23rd 2011.
Christensen, L. R. (2010). Next of Kin: Supporting Family Members Taking Care of the Elderly. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2010. Munchen, Germany, March 22-25, 2010.
Christensen, L. R. (2008). The Logic of Practices of Stigmergy: Representational Artifacts in Architectural Design. In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (San Diego, CA, USA, November 8-12, 2008). CSCW '08. ACM, New York, NY, 559-568.
Christensen, L. R. (2007). Practices of Stigmergy in Architectural Work. In Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM Conference on Conference on Supporting Group Work (Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, November 04 - 07, 2007). GROUP '07. ACM, New York, NY, 11-20.
Teaching
Master i it-ledelse and Global Business Informatics