a w a r d s + o t h e r t h i n g s
a w a r d s + o t h e r t h i n g s
awards
:: INPS Award for Undergraduate Excellence, INPS, Italy, 1987, 1988, & 1989.
:: International Summer School of Industrial Design Award, Politecnico di Milano, 1994.
:: I-Cubed/Telstra Scholarship for PhD studies, Telstra Corporation and Interactive Information Institute at RMIT, 2000 and 2001.
:: BHERT Award for Outstanding Achievement in Collaboration in Education and Training. Business/Higher Education Round Table (BHERT), 2000.
:: Best of Conference - 29th Annual Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference (OBTC) - The Courage to Teach - Chapman University, CA June 2002. (brief article here)
:: 2005 RMIT Linkage Grant Award for project "Learning by Design: Creating pedagogical frameworks for knowledge building in the 21st Century" - Prof. Kalantzis, Prof. Yelland and Dr. Cope (Chief Investigators), Dr Burrows and Dr Loi (Senior Research Fellows), Dr Wardlaw and Rachael Dunstan (Research Assistants).
:: 2005 RMIT Discovery Grant Award for project "Pedagogies for eLearning" - Prof. Kalantzis, Prof. Yelland and Dr. Cope (Chief Investigators), Dr Burrows and Dr Loi (Senior Research Fellows), Dr Wardlaw and Rachael Dunstan (Research Assistants).
:: Group Research Award in recognition of creating and implementing an innovative Consumer Experience Enabling Program (CEEP) that established a structured and meaningful way to solidify customer deal closures and deliver outstanding customer service, 3 May 2008, Intel Corporation, Portland OR, USA.
:: Intel Division Recognition Award (For driving a critical user experience perspective & presence into Intel Developers Forum 2009), 2009. Intel Corporation, Portland OR.
:: Intel Division Recognition Award (For interfacing, sharing, and enabling customers to bring products based on CE 3100 and Widget Channel to market), 2009. Intel Corporation, Portland OR.
:: Intel Spontaneous Recognition Award (For driving a highly influential NGUI research and usage initiative that has had broad reach across business units and externally with DHG's Winter CBOA). 2009. Intel Corporation, Portland OR.
:: Intel Spontaneous Recognition Award (For driving a compelling UX direction for CES, including the development of Intel's own My Media widget, our first internally driven fully prototyped widget). 2009. Intel Corporation, Portland OR.
:: Intel Division Recognition Award (In recognition of successfully defining, designing, developing and demoing the MyMedia Widget for CES09, Intel's first internally driven widget for the Widget Channel). 2009. Intel Corporation, Portland OR.
:: Intel’s Division Recognition Award (In recognition of creating and implementing an innovative Consumer Experience Enabling Program (CEEP) that established a structured and meaningful way to solidify customer deal closures and deliver outstanding customer service). 2008. Intel Corporation, Portland OR.
:: Intel Spontaneous Recognition Award (For your creativity, flexibility and diligence in designing and facilitating widget creation for IDF - Ads, HEMs, My Media). 2008. Intel Corporation, Portland OR.
:: Intel Spontaneous Recognition Award (For delivering a powerful vision & model for the use of design enabling inside Intel). 2008. Intel Corporation, Portland OR.
advisory boards & committees appointments
:: Program Committee, ALPIS - Alpine Information Systems seminars promoting the Social Study of Information Systems in the Mediterranean region and the emergence of a European/Mediterranean identity for the scientific community on Information Systems, Carisolo TN, Italy, February 10-15, 2006.
:: Organizing Committee, e-Learning Symposium, RMIT’s Storey Hall in Melbourne, 3-5 December 2006
:: Advisory Board, International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
:: Editor, Design Principles and Practices: an International Journal
:: Advisory Council, The Center for Children’s Learning, Portland Children Museum
:: Program Committee, Journal of Computers in Human Behavior, Special Issue: Future networked interactive media systems and services for the new-senior communities.
:: Associate Editor, The International Journal of Learning.
:: Conference Committee and Participatory Installation Chair, PDC08 - Participatory Design Conference 2008.
:: Program Co-chair, PDC10 - Participatory Design Conference 2010.
professional memberships
CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility); Include Network; ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).
reviewer for...
:: PDC - Participatory Design Conference
:: CHI, Research Into Practice Conference
:: DRS - Design Research Society Conference
:: R2P - Research into Practice
:: EPIC - Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference
:: Artifact Journal
:: JCHB - Journal of Computers In Human Behavior
:: Intel Technology Journal
:: IJAandT - International Journal of Arts and Technology)
:: ozCHI (Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference)
references + citations
:: The triadic relationship between persons, tools and a new collectivity, Taste the Knowlegde (blog), http://vward.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/the-triadic-relationship-between-persons-tools-and-a-new-collectivity/
:: Simon Persighetti: Practice as Research Presentation, Pedestrian Culture (blog), http://www.csulb.edu/~gbach/persighetti.html
:: Mobile Thesis, Purse Lips Square Jaw (blog), http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org/2004/06/mobile-thesis.php
:: Website makeover underway (blog) ,http://schome.open.ac.uk/wikiworks/index.php/Schome_techy_bliki
:: Richness and Complexity: Technology as a Vehicle to Negotiate Culture and Identity (blog), http://www.digitalliveart.com/papers.html
:: lokale betekenis (blog), http://www.zijlmo.nl/mo/du/contentdossierlees.php?overhaal=12&dossiercat=lokalebetekenis
:: Representation in Research: not a crisis but a challenge (lecture), http://insite.education.monash.edu.au/news/docs/woods-lecture-oct2007.ppt
:: Information for the Graphic Design teacher (blog), http://designteaching.wordpress.com/
:: Verse in Methodology (paper), http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/about/conferences/verse4.pdf
:: Perspectives on Cooperative Design (PhD Thesis), http://www.diva-portal.org/diva/getDocument?urn_nbn_se_kth_diva-4495-2__fulltext.pdf
:: L’audiovisione: dal rumorista and sub-woofer (thesis), http://www.alessandropollutri.it/intro/personal%20doc/lavori%20Uni/Musica%20e%20com%20visuale/Audio-visione.pdf
:: Changing the Change: a call to action (blog entry), Core77, http://www.core77.com/blog/events/changing_the_change_a_call_to_action_10470.asp
:: The object of interaction (paper), http://www.ozchi.org/2006/pdf/WORKSHOP-2.pdf
:: Designing a design consulting methodology (paper), http://www.virtual-communities.net.au/files/papers/vaughan%20akama%20-%20design%20design%20consulting%20method.pdf
:: Perspectives of Cooperative Design (PhD Thesis), http://www.diva-portal.org/diva/getDocument?urn_nbn_se_kth_diva-4495-2__fulltext.pdf
selected feature articles
:: Borrack, M. 1999, ‘Public cyber space opens’, Moreland Sentinel, June 7.
:: Bruch, A. 2000, ‘I-cubed’s THT wins award for outstanding achievement in collaboration in education and training’, iiiMAG, December, p. 7.
:: Mason, Dean 2001, ‘Exploring the future of book publishing’, RMIT Openline, June 1, p. 2.
:: Loi, D. 2002, ‘project-mu wins Best of Conference award’, RMIT Openline, August, p.7.
:: RMIT Media & Communications, 2002, ‘PEA Project’, RMIT News, August 15.
:: RDU, 2002, ‘Project-MU shows the value of Interdisciplinary research’, Business Research News, (23)2, pp.1-2
:: Adams, David 2005, ‘Industrial Strength’, The Age (My Career special insert), November 23, p. 30.
:: RMIT Media and Communications 2006, RMIT designers go ape over orang-utans, RMIT News, February 6.
:: Macnamara, Lisa 2006, ‘Project of the Apes’, The Australian (Higher Education), February 8, p. 25.
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