Nordic Contributions in IS Research : 6th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2015, Oulu, Finland, August 9-12, 2015, Proceedings / edited by Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, Netta Iivari, Kari Kuutti, Anssi Öörni, Mikko Rajanen.

The power of a good story (or, The great potential of information systems history) -- Design for and with disadvantaged users -- Assembling fragments into continuous design: On participatory design with old people -- Children and web 2.0: What they do, what we fear, and what is done to make them safe -- Leveraging the usage of sensors and the social web: Towards systems for socially challenging situations -- Co-design for development: Lessons learnt from an information systems project for underserved communities -- Emerging IS history research and design for preservation and usability -- A consideration for researcher career retrospectives in information systems and organization studies -- Integrating contemporary content management and long-term digital preservation: A design problem -- Procuring usability: Experiences from usability testing in tender evaluation -- Artefacts, tools and generalizing usability test results -- Creative design and development -- A group creativity support system for dynamic idea evaluation -- User experience of mobile coaching for stress-management to tackle prevalent health complaints -- Balance of hedonic and utilitarian values in information systems use -- How replacement of project manager unfolds in IS projects -- Design with and by users -- Co-creation of patient-oriented services: Design of electronic booking for Norwegian healthcare -- Chances and limits of end-user development: A conceptual model -- Impact of constraints and rules of user involvement methods for IS concept creation and specification -- Extending participatory design principles to structured user-generated content.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 6th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2015, held in Oulu, Finland, in August 2015. The theme for this book as well as for the conference is “Design for, with, and by Users.” This theme has characterized information systems research for decades, and it is still a vibrant topic, especially so within the Scandinavian tradition. The 16 full papers accepted for SCIS 2015 were selected from 44 submissions. In addition, two keynote extended abstracts and one keynote paper are included.