https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/kanal/269The ACM-W Europe womENcourage Celebration of Women in Computing is a scientific event, and also an event aimed at networking and exploring career opportunities for women in computer science and related disciplines. This conference brings together undergraduate, Masters, and PhD students, as well as researchers and professionals, to present and share their achievements and experience in computer science. The program includes technical presentations and also discussions related to career issues in academic and industrial research.svCopyright (C) 2026 Uppsala universitet, MedfarmDoITOpening by womENcourage co-chair Virginia Grande Welcome and ACM overview by Professor Alexander Wolf, ACM Presidenthttps://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/5362Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:11:04 +0000Moderator: Dru Lavigne, Technical Documentation Specialist at iXsystems Panelists: Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation; Allan Jude, VP of operations at ScaleEngine Inc.; Dan Langille has worked with open source projects since 1998; Benedict Reuschling, Computer science department, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt. This panel consists of panelists who have first-hand experience in the positive benefits of open source involvement as part of one's career path. While they are all engaged in the same open source project, their careers vary: management, entrepreneurship, development, documentation, and academia. Participants will have the opportunity to learn how one gets started with an open source community, what benefits they can gain, how to apply those benefits to their own career path, and the advantages of continued involvement even after one's career is well underway.https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/5400Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:33:40 +0000Opening by womENcourag co-chair Virginia Grande Welcome and ACM-W overview by Professor Valerie Barr, ACM-W Chair.https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/5431Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:50:01 +0000Åsa Cajander, Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, Uppsala University How do you succeed in the area of computer science? My research has shown that having grit is more important than IQ or any other personality trait, and that grit together with the student’s overall view of success matters the most. If you work hard, and do not give up when it is really tough, then you are likely to have a good career in any subject, including computer science. However, if you are a woman in computer science success also correlates to you handling the male dominated field, and being the token figure. This can be seen as another kind of grit. The norm of the field is connected to the computer science nerd who has no interests but technology, and that this personality trait is required to be a part of the community. In this keynote I will tell some of my stories about how it is to be a woman in the field, and give some insights into the kind of grit that it requires to be a successful token figure.https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/5432Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:57:10 +0000Moderator: Dr. Anke Brock, Research Scientist in Human-Computer Interaction at Inria Bordeaux, France. Panelists: Dr. Stéphanie Fleck, Associate professor at the University of Lorraine, France; Jane Richardson, Director, EMEA, Oracle Academy. The classical image of education—a teacher writing on a blackboard in front of a class—has become outdated. Innovative technologies, such as augmented reality, tangible interaction, and tabletops, promise richer interactions and more engagement in education and learning. Technology has also led to the creation of online learning and massive open online courses (MOOCs), which allow people everywhere in the world to access any courses taught from anywhere. In this panel, experts working on different interactive educational systems will present their approach and discuss the possibilities and the risks associated to these new learning opportunities. This panel will also provide a space to discuss challenges and future avenues for such interactive educational systems.https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/5396Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:55:06 +0000Moderator: Dr. Jessica Cauchard, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Panelists: Dr. Anke Brock is a Research Scientist in Human-Computer Interaction at Inria Bordeaux, France; Monika Podsiadlo, Technical Program Manager on the Text-To-Speech team at Google London; Dr. Mario Romero, Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of High-Performance Computing and Visualization (HPCViz) at KTH. This panel is designed to inspire womENcourage attendees by showing them the broad range of career options that they have with a computer science (CS) degree. We expect to broaden the attendees’ horizons when thinking about future jobs by having a panel composed of successful and inspiring panelists, who have either chosen an unusual career path or who have found a very interesting field to focus on. The panelists will be coming both from academia and industry to bring different perspectives to the panel. Students often think that a degree in computer science opens the door to programming and other IT jobs, but rarely know about the whole range of options that is available to them. We expect that this panel will inspire students and other attendees to seek their own path in the career, keeping in mind the exciting opportunities that exist and that they can work toward.https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/5398Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:05:51 +0000Marie-Paule Cani, Professor of Computer Science, Grenoble University Despite our great expressive skills, we humans lack an easy way of conveying the 3D shapes we imagine, even more so for dynamic shapes that change over time. Over centuries we relied on drawing and sculpture to convey shapes. However, these tools require significant expertise and time investment, especially when one aims to describe complex or dynamic shapes. With the advent of virtual environments one would expect digital modeling to replace these traditional tools. Unfortunately, conventional techniques in the area have failed, since even trained computer artists still create with traditional media and only use the computer to reproduce already designed content. Could digital media be turned into a tool, even more expressive and simpler to use than a pen, to convey and refine both static and dynamic 3D shapes? This would make shape design directly possible in virtual form, from early drafting to progressive refinement and finalization of an idea. To this end, models for shape and motion need to be redefined from a user-centered perspective. This talk will present our recent work towards “responsive shapes”, namely high level models that take form, refine, move and deform based on user intent, expressed through intuitive interaction gestures.https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/video/5399Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:07:54 +0000