Teaching and Supervision 
   


Since autumn 2008 (lecturer at University of Strathclyde) 

Teaching 'Approaches to Multimedia', and HCI related courses, supervision of student projects etc.
- Approaches to Multimedia (2nd year), includes 6 week Physical Computing project
- HCI (now part of two-part course on 'User and Data Modeling' in the course of the move to a 20 credit module organisation) together with Dr. Mark Dunlop
- Designing Usable Systems (advanced HCI course for the 5th year M'Eng students) with Dr. Mark Dunlop
- Topics 1 module on Interaction Design

PhD Supervision

Supervisor for Patrick Tobias Fischer (started Sept. 2009)
Second Supervisor for Frøy Birte Bjorneseth   (viva in winter 2010, graduated 2011)
Supervisor for Trevor Hogan (started June 2011) (external part-time PhD student)
Supervisor for Loraine Clarke (started Oct 2011)

Supervision and Thesis Committees

External Examination

External Examiner for Astrid Twenebowa Larssen, Doctor of Philosophy, "How it Feels Not Just How it Looks. Towards an Understanding of Kinaesthetic and Proprioceptive Experience of Interaction with Technology". University of Technology Sydney, 2010

External Examiner. Doctor of Philosophy Thesis (confidential). University of Queensland 2007.

External Examiner for Dean Hargreaves, Master of Philosophy Thesis 'Internet Based Support for Farmers Situated Learning and Planning. University of Queensland 2006.

Direct Supervision

Supervising of final year projects (Bachelor and MEng) in the Strathclyde programs (in 4th year).

Supervisor. Matthias Stifter. Master in Informatics Thesis. Quantitative Analyse des Besucherverhaltens - Evaluierung der Ausstellung medien.welten des Technischen Museums Wien mittels automatisch-protokollierten Besucherinteraktionen.  TU Vienna, Austria 2005

Supervisor. Margit Blauhut, Christian Ritzinger. Bachelor in Media Informatics final year project thesis.
    Besucherleitsysteme Museumskomplex Innere Stadt.
    (Analysis of the visitor guidance systems in the museum area of Vienna inner city) TU Vienna, Austria 2004

Supervisor. Stefan Schmied, Daniela Ochs, Manuela Sellner. Bachelor in Media Informatics final year project thesis.
    Interaktive Installationen in Museen – Ideenskizzen und Prototypen für das Pathologisch Anatomische Museum    
   (idea sketches and prototypes for the pathological-anatomical museum in Vienna) TU Vienna, Austria 2004

Teaching outside of Strathclyde and TU Vienna:

Autumn 2007/08


Co-Teaching at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Department of Design, Interfacedesign. Project course 'Remote Intimacy' in the Module 2.131 Design of Physical and Virtual Interfaces with Prof. Reto Wettach


2006 (New Zealand)

- 3-5 July 06: 3 day workshop on Interaction Design taught with Mark Billinghurst and Amanda Mander
- 7. July 06: Interaction Design Tutorial at NZ-CHI'06  in Christchurch
- development of teaching materials for a 4-5 day workshop


Autumn Term 2005

Associate Tutor/ Lecturer for Integrated Studies I, University of Sussex, UK, a seminar within the HCT masters degree program
(convenor: Prof. Geraldine Fitzpatrick)

2003/04 (acting assistant prof TU Vienna)

Interaction Design course, seminars on research methods in Media-Informatics, on experimental design methods for Multimedia, Tangible Computing, interdisciplinary research seminar, and individual supervision of student projects (see Vienna website)

2003

Interaktivität erleben und gestalten. Eine Einführung ins Interaktionsdesign
3-5.9.2003 at the ditact in Salzburg (Austrian women's IT summer studies)
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Before 2003

Course (Seminar) "Sinn für die Sinne -- Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Real Reality"
with Willi Bruns and Bernd Robben in WS 97/98, University of Bremen, Dept. of Informatics

Programming Course Java,
with Prof. Silke Seehusen (FH Lübeck),
 at the Informatica Feminale in Bremen, Summer university for women in computer science during summer 98 

Graspable Interfaces: a Valuable Tool for Cooperative Modeling & Design.  
23. October 2001. Guest talk in Ernesto Arias' class on Research Issues & Methods in Planning and Design' ENVD 3122. Dept. of Architecture and Urban Planning. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
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Verantwortung in IT-Berufen.
  30.6. 2001
Guest talk about  "Responsibility in IT-Work" in Seminar "InformatikerInnen -- hochbezahlte Gurus oder nützliche Idioten" (led by Prof. Thomas Risse and Prof. Meyer-Braun) for the Technical Informatics studies program of Bremen University of Applied Sciences (Studiengang Technische Informatik der Hochschule Bremen)

Before 1997 (at Technical University Darmstadt)

- 01.07.92 - 31.12.94: student member of HDA-Tutorengruppe (student facilitators at  Higher education center) of the Technical University Darmstadt, responsible for developing and conducting courses on rhetoric, facilitation methods for tutors of exercise classes and for 1st-years orientation week tutors, and team training for software engineering

- 1988 - 1992:  organization, planning and supervision of computer science newcomers orientation week, supervision of other tutors and preparation of materials 

Work as Student Teacher:
- summer term  1993: student teacher for tutorials in Computer Science 4 (theory of computing)
- summer term 1992: student teacher for tutorials in  Computer Science 4 (theory of computing)
- student tutor for repetitorium in CS 4 in summer 1993
- winter term  1991/92: student teacher for tutorials in Computer Science 1
- winter term  1989/90: student teacher for tutorials in Computer Science 1