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The Advisory Board - alphabetically
The newly formed advisory board - still under construction
- John M. Carroll
- Robert Fabricant
- Jonas Lowgren
- Jon Kolko
- David Malouf
- Peter Morville
- Daniel Rosenberg
The Editorial Team
Responsible for adding content, correcting errors, responding to inqueries.
The Reviewing Board
Responsible for assisting the peer reviewing process, finding qualified reviewers, and doing some of the reviewing. Here are the guidelines for reviewing.
- Martin Brynskov
- Peter Dalsgaard
- Thomas Memmel
- Jeppe Stouby Mortensen
- Karsten Nebe
- Rune Nørager
- Jacob Orquin
- Mads Soegaard
- John Sorflaten
The Advisory Board - alphabetically
The newly formed advisory board - still under construction
John M. Carroll
... is Edward Frymoyer Chair Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include methods and theory in human-computer interaction, particularly as applied to networking tools for collaborative learning and problem solving, and the design of interactive information systems. His books include Making Use (MIT Press, 2000), HCI in the New Millennium (Addison-Wesley, 2001), Usability Engineering (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2002, with M.B. Rosson) and HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2003), Rationale-based soft...Read more >>
Robert Fabricant
Robert Fabricant is the Vice President of Creative for frog design where he leads frog's efforts to expand the impact of design into new markets and industries. An expert in design for social innovation, Robert is lead partner in Project Masiluleke, an initiative that harnesses the power of mobile technology to combat the world's worst HIV and AIDS epidemic in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Robert is an adjunct professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where he teaches a foundation course in Interaction Design. In 2009, he joined the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York a...Read more >>
Jonas Lowgren
Jonas Löwgren is an interaction designer, researcher and teacher. Currently employed as professor of interaction design at Malmö University, Sweden. Main areas of expertise include cross-media products, interactive visualization and the design theory of digital materials...Read more >>
Jon Kolko
Jon Kolko is an Associate Creative Director at frog design, and the Director of the Austin Center for Design. He has worked extensively in the professional world of interaction design, working around complicated technological constraints in order to best solve the problems of Fortune 500 clients. His work has extended into the worlds of consumer electronics, supply chain management, demand planning, and customer-relationship management, and he has worked with clients such as AT&T, HP, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ford, IBM, Palm and other leaders of the Global 2000. The underlying theme of ...Read more >>
David Malouf
David Malouf is currently a Professor of Interaction Design in the Industrial Design Department of the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD). Before taking this position, David was a Sr. Interaction Design for Motorola Enterprise Mobility where he designed software, webware, and hardware interactions and interfaces. Motorola was the last in a 15 year journey of practicing interaction design, information architecture, ui design, project management and other roles and positions working almsot exclusively with thin client technologies. David is also one of the primary founders and ...Read more >>
Peter Morville
Peter Morville is president and founder of Semantic Studios, a leading information architecture, user experience, and findability consultancy. He is best known for helping to create the discipline of information architecture, and he serves as a passionate advocate for the critical roles that search and findability play in defining the user experience. Peter's new book Search Patterns (co-created with Jeffery Callender) illustrates patterns of behavior and design across the categories of web, e-commerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and realtime search and discovery;...Read more >>
Daniel Rosenberg
Daniel Rosenberg is a Senior Vice President at SAP, the largest Enterprise Applications Software company in the world. In this capacity he directs user experience design and usability activities across all SAP product lines. His team is also responsible for UCD methodology definition, corporate UI standards and Accessibility. Prior to joining SAP he was Vice President of R&D for UI Design at Oracle Corporation. Previous corporate positions include the role of User Interface Architect for Borland International and Ashton-Tate. While at Borland, he designed the first Windows GUI for Bo...Read more >>
The Editorial Team
Responsible for adding content, correcting errors, responding to inqueries.
Peter Dalsgaard
Peter Dalsgaard is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Media Studies at Aarhus University with close ties to the Center for Digital Urban Living and CAVI, the Center for Advanced Visualization and Interaction. "My field of research is interaction design. I have a particular interest in the design of engaging interactive environments and the ways in which digital technologies transform the experiences and practices of urban life. The pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey is a great inspiration for my work, and in my PhD dissertation as well as in my academic p...Read more >>
Rikke Friis Dam
Rikke Friis Dam is an independent consultant, filmmaker, and photographer. As a consultant, Rikke Friis Dam helps businesses implement social media strategies and tools. As a filmmaker, she has made documentaries about life in far-away places like Mongolia. Her upcoming documentary is on burial rituals in Madagascar. As a photographer, she has made several exhibitions on as different subjects as marine life and street art. Rikke holds a Master's Degree in philosophy and a degree in journalism....Read more >>
Jeppe Stouby Mortensen
Jeppe Stouby Mortensen works as an Architect and 3D designer at Schmidt Hammer & Lassen in Aarhus, Denmark. Previously, Jeppe has been a founding partner of Sektor4, a Danish 3D Design company, and worked as a lecturer at the University of Aarhus. ...Read more >>
Rune Nørager
Rune Nørager is a design psychologist from Aarhus University. Although there is no formal profession called design psychology as such, this approach seems to fit the academic and professional competencies of Rune Nørager that has characterized his career so far. Rune splits his time between design-people, where he brings upfront research to a range of hi-tech companies, and Aalborg University where he carries out his research as an Associate professor at the department of Product and engineering psychology. Design psychology attempts to digest and communicate the insights ...Read more >>
Jacob Orquin
Jacob Orquin is employed as a PhD researcher at Department of Marketing and Statistics at Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University. Jacob is also partner in the Danish user experience and usability company UserPilot. Main interests: usability, user experience, cognition, eye tracking, cognitive semiotics, consumer psychology, visual cognition Contact: Department of Marketing and Statistics, MAPP Haslegårdsvej 10, 8210 Århus V. Tlf.: +45 8648 6884, Fax: +45 8615 3988, Mob.: +45 2217 8621 E-mail: jalo@asb.dk. ...Read more >>
Mads Soegaard
About me I work at The Danish National Technological Institute. Previously, I've worked as a lecturer at the Department of Information and Media Studies at the University of Aarhus. I've been a PHD student at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Aarhus. Also, I've worked in the eBusiness Think Tank of DaimlerChrysler Services' (in the corporate headquarters in Berlin). Until March 2000 I was one of three partners in Csite.com, a web development company of about 11 people. Contact infoHome address: Mads Soegaard Chr. Molbechs Vej 4 DK-8000 Aarhus C....Read more >>
The Reviewing Board
Responsible for assisting the peer reviewing process, finding qualified reviewers, and doing some of the reviewing. Here are the guidelines for reviewing.
Martin Brynskov
Martin is assistant professor in interaction technologies at the Department of Information and Media Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. He is also director of the Civic Communication group at the Center for Digital Urban Living, a Danish national research center. Working closely together with journalists, media organizations, muncipalities, artists, and industrial partners, he investigates the consequences of digitization and explores new forms of mediation within a variety of domains with special focus on the role of social interaction and mobile/pervasive media. The research ...Read more >>
Peter Dalsgaard
Peter Dalsgaard is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Media Studies at Aarhus University with close ties to the Center for Digital Urban Living and CAVI, the Center for Advanced Visualization and Interaction. "My field of research is interaction design. I have a particular interest in the design of engaging interactive environments and the ways in which digital technologies transform the experiences and practices of urban life. The pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey is a great inspiration for my work, and in my PhD dissertation as well as in my academic p...Read more >>
Thomas Memmel
Thomas Memmel was a research assistant at the University of Konstanz at the chair for human-computer interaction of Prof. Harald Reiterer. He holds a BSc (2002) and MSc (2005) in Computer Science. He was involved in a DaimlerChrysler AG funded PhD program and has previously taken part in other national and international HCI related projects with a special focus on automotive information systems engineering. Since 2009, Thomas Memmel works for Zuehlke Engineering in Switzerland as Usability Engineering Consultant and Requirements Engineering Trainer....Read more >>
Jeppe Stouby Mortensen
Jeppe Stouby Mortensen works as an Architect and 3D designer at Schmidt Hammer & Lassen in Aarhus, Denmark. Previously, Jeppe has been a founding partner of Sektor4, a Danish 3D Design company, and worked as a lecturer at the University of Aarhus. ...Read more >>
Karsten Nebe
Karsten Nebe, graduated in Computer Science, and Psychology as minor subject, at the University of Paderborn. In 2002 he started working as Usability Engineer at the Cooperative Computing & Communication Laboratory (C-LAB) Paderborn, which is a joint research and development laboratory operated by Siemens IT Solutions & Services GmbH & Co OHG and the University of Paderborn. He worked as Consultant within several projects and supported the integration of User Centered Design (UCD) activities into the product development lifecycle of the organizations. Today he is the group leader of ...Read more >>
Rune Nørager
Rune Nørager is a design psychologist from Aarhus University. Although there is no formal profession called design psychology as such, this approach seems to fit the academic and professional competencies of Rune Nørager that has characterized his career so far. Rune splits his time between design-people, where he brings upfront research to a range of hi-tech companies, and Aalborg University where he carries out his research as an Associate professor at the department of Product and engineering psychology. Design psychology attempts to digest and communicate the insights ...Read more >>
Jacob Orquin
Jacob Orquin is employed as a PhD researcher at Department of Marketing and Statistics at Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University. Jacob is also partner in the Danish user experience and usability company UserPilot. Main interests: usability, user experience, cognition, eye tracking, cognitive semiotics, consumer psychology, visual cognition Contact: Department of Marketing and Statistics, MAPP Haslegårdsvej 10, 8210 Århus V. Tlf.: +45 8648 6884, Fax: +45 8615 3988, Mob.: +45 2217 8621 E-mail: jalo@asb.dk. ...Read more >>
Mads Soegaard
About me I work at The Danish National Technological Institute. Previously, I've worked as a lecturer at the Department of Information and Media Studies at the University of Aarhus. I've been a PHD student at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Aarhus. Also, I've worked in the eBusiness Think Tank of DaimlerChrysler Services' (in the corporate headquarters in Berlin). Until March 2000 I was one of three partners in Csite.com, a web development company of about 11 people. Contact infoHome address: Mads Soegaard Chr. Molbechs Vej 4 DK-8000 Aarhus C....Read more >>
John Sorflaten
• Now making high-end consulting experience affordable. I'm on my own with a world-class team of graphic artists, coders, Flash and other media experts. We bring user-friendly down to earth for your site. I'm fast, not-so-furious, but practical because your money means a lot to you. I'll do your research on what your customers/visitors want, and better, what they feel about your product and service. I'll advise on a persuasion package, tapping web tools to unleash motivated interaction by your site visitors. • Background: 25 years experience human factors work in all phases of web...Read more >>
Alumni
Elhanan Gazit
Dr. Hanan Gazit (VRider) serves as the Israeli DIGRA Chapter ,, promoting the DIGRA's vision and the use of virtual worlds and digital games for instruction, learning & business in all sectors. Dr. Gazit is a researcher and a lecturer at H.I.T-Holon Institute of Technology, Israel. Research interests: * Interactions and social networks in virtual worlds and digital games. * Design effective serious games. * Measuring skill acquisition and Virtual-Real World transfer. * Using computerized tools for analyzing interactions. Selected publications: Selected publications: * Gazit, E. (i...Read more >>
Bill Papantoniou
Bill Papantoniou is researcher at the Ergonomics Unit of the National Technical University of Athens. He also teaches Ergonomics in the AKTO Industrial Design school and works in projects involving the support of human work (physical and cognitive). Bill graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and specialized in Production Engineering. He then proceded in studying Ergonomics, focusing on the analysis and design of information systems supporting complex cognitive work which lead to a PhD in Cognitive Ergonomics from NTUA. Researc...Read more >>
Jonas Therkildsen
Jonas Therkildsen is partner and information architect at Sorthvid ApS. Sorthvid is a small webagency located i Copenhagen, Denmark. We do large-scale information architecture and user-experience on the web. ...Read more >>
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