Reframing Humans in Information Systems Development

Hannakaisa Isomäki (Ph.D., Information Systems, Tampere University, 2002) is Research Director and an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology, Jyväskylä University, Finland. She also holds an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Arts & Design. Her research interests intersect topics of Human-centred Information Systems, User Experience, E-learning, and Information Security Culture. She has authored several compilation works and published over 80 research articles such as publications in Information Systems Journal, International Journal of Technology Human Interaction and Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. She has also been involved in many national and international scientific evaluation tasks. Samuli Pekkola (Ph.D., Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä, 2003) is Professor of Information and Knowledge Management at Tampere University of Technology, Finland, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research focuses on individual users in different manifestations of information systems, information systems management, and around participatory information systems development methods. His main research interests include MIS, OSS for public sector, ISD, PD, CSCW, HCI and enterprise architectures. His research has been published in journals such as The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Organizational and End-user Computing, British Journal of Educational Technology, and Journal of Network and Computer Applications. He is the Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems.