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Nicole Schadewitz
Nicole is a Lecturer in Design in the Design and Innovation Group since February 2008. She is mainly involved in the production of the new Design Thinking course.
Nicole’s interests include Cross-cultural Design Learning, Collaboration in Design, Design Patterns, Interaction Design and Design for Emerging Markets.
Visit my Wiki on Cross-cultural Collaboration.
Contact Information
Contact Information
Email: n.schadewitz@open.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1908 653618
Fax: +44 (0)1908 654052
Room: N2056, Venables building
Selected Publications
Schadewitz, N. (May 2009). Analyzing Cross-Cultural Collaborative Design Interactions Aiming at Contextual Innovation. In Sharon Poggenpohl, Keiichi Sato (eds.) Design Integrations. Intellect Books.
Jachna, T, Santo, Y, Schadewitz N. (2007). Deep Space. International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC). Volume 5, Number 1, 146-160(15)
Schadewitz, N., Jachna, T. (2007). Introducing New Methodologies for Identifying Design Patterns for Internationalization and Localization. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII, July 22-27, Beijing, China.
Schadewitz, N., Adler, P-J. Wallace, J., Roberts, J. (2006). The STAR Interaction Design Summer Schools Framework. Proceedings of WONDERGROUND, International Deign Research Conference, November 01-03, Lisbon, Portugal.
Schadewitz, N. (2005). Interface and Interaction Design Patterns for Intercultural Collaboration. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Internationalization of Products and Systems, July 07-09, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Current Projects
Cross-cultural Collaboration Wiki
Building on my PhD research, I try to further develop a design patterns collecion supporting cross-cultural collaboration. I set up a Wiki http://crossculturalcollaboration.pbwiki.com to encourage academics and professionals, who had experiences with collaboration across cultures, to share recurring problems and sucess stories in design patterns format.
Atelier-D CDI
In an atelier model of learning novices learn alongside more experienced peers. An open atmosphere for social networking and collaboration is created. Overseeing the activities of peers increases curiosity and is often the first incentive to stop by and ask: What are you doing? Social networking applications support this question. In online applications such as Facebook or Twitter users frequently change their statement about what they are doing. This allows friends and peers get a sense of co-presence and co-activity. It creates an opportunity for further interaction due to overlaps in place, time and activity.This CDI seeks to investigate how such a simple question can develop an online atelier atmosphere in distributed cooperative design learning.
Have a look at the Virtual Design Studio on Facebook.
Design Summer Schools
Collegues and I investigate in how models of design sommer schools evolved over the past century and what role of these unique educational settings can take in the education of designers in academic and professional environments.
Social Mobile Networks
I am interested in collaborative technologies and social networking applications. Currently I am starting collaborating with a Hong Kong based company in developing new applications for collaborative work. I work with a researcher in India investigating mobile social networking design opportunities for the “bottom of the pyramid”.
CV
Qualifications
Dipl.Des/MDes in Communication Design
Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, Germany (2002)
Ph.D. Design Patterns for Cross-Cultural Collaboration
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2008)
Previous Posts
Research Associate
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2007-2008)
Exhibitions and Awards
2003: Participant in the Exhibition “Times like these” with the video installation “Alltagsmutationen - Mutations” Goethe Institute, Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2001: Junior Award "Best German Book Design 2000" with the book "Koerpertransparent", Deutsche Buch Guilde, Frankfurt, Germany
2000: Participant in the Exhibition "Village Gutenberg" " with the video installation "…und wieder", Mainz, Germany
Affiliations
CONVIVIO - The European User-Centred Design Network
IxDA - Interaction Design Association
ACM – American Computing Machinery Association
DRS - Design Research Society
Page Last Updated: 15 July, 2009