Speakers – Curriculum Vitae
Paul Hekkert
Dr. Paul Hekkert is full professor of form theory at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology. There he chairs the section design aesthetics and supervises a research group carrying out research on our sense perception and (emotional) experience of products. Paul has published on product experience and aesthetics in major international journals and is co-editor of “Design and Emotion: The experience of everyday things” [2004] and “Product experience” [2008]. He is co-founder and chairman of the Design and Emotion society [www.designandemotion.org] and has co-organized four consecutive international Design & Emotion conferences. Together with a colleague/designer, he also developed an interaction-centred design approach, called Vision in Product design (ViP) that is widely applied in both education and industry. They presently work on a book in which this approach is laid down. Paul serves as a member of the editorial boards of The Design Journal, Empirical Studies of the Arts, and the International Journal of Design.
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Thomas Jacobsen
Thomas Jacobsen (PhD) is Associate Professor of Psychology (Oberassistent) at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Leipzig, Germany. His main research focus is on the Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience of pre-attentive cognitive processing of language and non-language sounds. He also works on the Neurocognitive Psychology of Aesthetics.
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Meinald T. Thielsch
Dr. Meinald T. Thielsch studied psychology at the University of Münster. Since 2004 he works as a research associate in the Psychological Institute 1 at the chair of psychological diagnostics and media psychology. He did his PHD in psychology and information systems, his doctoral thesis deals with the topic of web site aesthetics. HCI and especially web site aesthetics, usability and online research are the main research interests of Meinald Thielsch, furthermore he is working in the area of psychological diagnostics, e-learning and evaluation. Besides his university work he consults companies, mostly in the area of software development and web site improvement.
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Christoph Johannes Häberle
1984 | final examination |
1985 | FHT Esslingen; branch of study: production and automatisation, Dipl.-Ing. FH |
1989 | Dekra AG, Stuttgart: certification |
1990 | Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart: development, design of flexible production plants |
1992 | Studies industrial design, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, Dipl.-Ing. Des. |
1994 | Scholarship Landesgraduiertenförderung of the country of Baden-Württemberg and scholarship of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) |
1996 | Graduation philosophy/design, Bergische Universität, Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Dr. phil |
1998 | Karl Miescher-prize, Deutsches Farbenzentrum |
2000 | Professorship Packaging design and Marketing, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart |
2005 | Dean of studies Masterstudiengang Packaging, Design and Marketing, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart |
Cooperation in various research projects on colours, studies on colour preference and consumption attitude i.e. for IAO Stuttgart Fraunhofer Institut, Beiersdorf AG (D), Dr. Scheller Cosmetics AG (D), Masterfoods GmbH (D), Néstle GmbH (D), Robert Bosch GmbH (D), Schwarzkopf & Henkel GmbH & Co. KG (D), Unilever GmbH (D), Wala Heilmittel GmbH (D) etc.
Peter Wright
Peter Wright is Research Professor in Human-centred Design in the Cultural, Communications and Computing Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University. His background is applied cognitive science and he has a PhD in experimental psychology. He has worked in departments of psychology, linguistics, computer science and now, art and design. His research areas are human-computer interaction and user experience research. He has developed new methods for studying human-technology interactions including methods based on the principles of distributed cognition, participatory design, and experience-centred design. In 2003 in co-edited Funology which characterised state of the art research in affective interaction design. In 2004 he co-authored, Technology as Experience (MIT Press) which sets out conceptual and philosophical foundations for experience-centred design. His recent research awards include, Theory and method for experience-centred design, Landscape of Cross-generational Engagement, My Exhibition, and Technologies to Support the Self-management of Rehabilitation Therapy.
Marc Hassenzahl
Prof. Dr. Marc Hassenzahl is Professor for Economic Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction at the Folkwang University. During his time as free-lance usability consultant, usability engineer at Siemens Corporate Technology, senior consultant for the User Interface Design GmbH, and researcher at the University of Technology Darmstadt, he led or was involved in numerous Human-Computer Interaction projects ranging from the gathering of usability requirements for a new Siemens CT scanner to the development of a tool to measure product quality for Nokia. He is currently president of the German Chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association. Among his interests are usability engineering, user experience, aesthetics, new analysis and evaluation methods for the design of interactive products. He is particular interested in the positive affective and motivational aspects of interactive technologies, such as joy, fun, pride, surprise – in short: User Experience. Games, in this respect, are thought of as "models" to better understand underlying affective and motivational processes and games design as a discipline knowledgeable of how to design for them.Since 1997, he published over 30 journal papers / book chapters and gave over 40 talks. He co-organized a whole series of conference workshops on User Experience starting with the "Funology"-workshop on CHI 2002 (with Mark Blythe and Andrew Monk). In 2006, he edited a special issue of Behaviour and Information Technology on "Empirical Studies of the User Experience" together with Noam Tractinsky (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev).www.marc-hassenzahl.de
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Axel Platz
Axel Platz studied communication design. After completing his studies, he started as an interface designer in the central design department of Siemens AG. In the context of design projects, especially in the field of medical engineering, he worked on the design of man-machine interaction. Today, he is in the company's research sector responsible for the specialist field "UI Concepts and Visual Design". A number of his projects have received awards, most recently the design for an operating unit for an X-ray generator won the "red dot award" from the Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Kees Overbeeke
Eindhoven University of Technology
Kees Overbeeke studied psychology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1974). After working there he moved to the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology where he gained his PhD (1988) on spatial perception on flat screens. He headed the group of Form Theory as Associate Professor until his move to the Department of Industrial Design of the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2002. During the academic year 2005-2006 he was Distinguished Nierenberg Chair at Design Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh. He now heads the Designing Quality in Interaction group at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
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