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Designing Technologies for Meaningful Work: A Conversation with Marc Hassenzahl and Shadan Sadeghian

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    Speaker: Marc Hassenzahl

    Professor at University of Siegen, Germany

    Marc Hassenzahl is Professor for “Ubiquitous Design” in the Department of Business Computing at the University of Siegen, Germany. He is a trained psychologist with a doctoral degree in decision-making. With his group of designers and psychologists, he explores the theory and practice of designing meaningful and transforming interactive technologies, for example, in the context of behavioral change. Professor Hassenzahl currently participates in six national and international research projects (HIVE, GINA, PRATIKAPP [BMBF], AIPS [DFG], e-VITA [EU], DOC2GO [LeitmarktNRW]). While the main theme of all projects is to explore technology as a means to create meaningful everyday experiences, the projects range from meaningful robots (GINA) to behavior change in the health domain. All projects follow a participative, intervention-oriented, empirical, wellbeing- and value-driven approach. Prof. Hassenzahl also engages in joint research with companies, such as Honda, Daimler, or Siemens Healthcare on theoretical, methodical and practical issues of experience and interaction design.


    Professor Hassenzahl is author of “Experience Design. Technology for all the right reasons” (MorganClaypool), co-author of “Psychologie in der nutzerzentrierten Produktgestaltung. Mensch–Technik–Interaktion–Erlebnis” (“People, Technology, Interaction, Experience”) (Springer, with Sarah Diefenbach) and more than 160 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers as well as book chapters at the seams of psychology, computer science, design research and interaction/industrial design. In 2016, he was awarded Design and Emotion Societies’ „Slow Glow Award” for his general contribution to the area of Experience Design. He is member of the editorial boards of Interacting with Computers, TOCHI and International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, as well as regularly serving on program committees (CHI, DIS).

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