End-User Development (EUD) aims to empower end-users to create their own digital technologies to meet their specific needs.
Handling data and performing analysis has become a key skill in many professions across a wide range of domains and is at the core of scientific discovery in a wide range of scientific disciplines. End users are experts in their field. Improving the ability of people without a computing background to develop digital systems will enable them to do their jobs more efficiently and to participate effectively in shaping our digital future.
Empowering individuals across society to create software, databases, interactive websites, mobile apps, physical computing devices and IoT systems is key to democratising the digital transformation. Especially as machine learning becomes ubiquitous, tools and methods for end-user development are essential to ensure broad participation.
A major shift is underway with foundation models and large language models. These models open up new directions for end-user development and a potential for societal change. These technologies are already facilitating software development processes (e.g. co-pilot), but pose major challenges for software quality.
IS-EUD is a bi-annual event that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in advancing our knowledge about the design of end-user development technologies and providing scientific accounts of phenomena surrounding end-user development practices. The conference welcomes contributions on:
Simple and efficient environments for end-user development
Large language models (LLMs) to empower end-user development
No-code, low-code, and visual languages to create software and systems
Theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development
New processes, methods and techniques for end-user development
Approaches empowering users to create, modify and tailor digital artefacts
Case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of EUD’
We look forward to receiving your contributions: papers, short talks, demos and posters. It is planned that accepted papers (both regular and short) will be published in the archival proceedings (by Springer in LNCS) and presented in the plenary sessions of the conference. The conference is 16-18 of June in Munich and the submission deadline is February 2025.
Curious about the last IS-EUD conference? Check out the program and the results from IS-EUD 2023.