Profin Dr.in Geraldine Fitzpatrick

Personal

Birthplace: Brisbane, Australia

Language: English (learning German)

Education

1993-1998: PhD in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering --awarded Dean’s Commendation-- The University of Queensland, Australia Title: The Locales Framework: Understanding and Designing for Cooperative Work (also published as a monograph in Kluwer CSCW Book series) 1989-1992: Bachelor of Information Technology, 1st Class Honours --awarded University Medal-- The University of Queensland, Australia 1983: Certificate in Midwifery --awarded Milton Prize-- 1976-1979: Certificate in General Nursing

Employment / Academic Career Path

Institution Position Dates Key activities Vienna University of Technology

Professor of Technology Design and Assessment Head of Institute; Head of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Group

Oct 2009 – present

Institute leadership of Multidisciplinary Design Group, Human Computer Interaction Group including Centre for applied and Assistive Technologies HCI Group - http://igw.tuwien.ac.at/hci Establishing interdisciplinary research and teaching agenda in HCI and related areas Supervising PhD and Masters students.

University of Sussex

Senior Lecturer, Director Interact Lab

June 2003 – Sept 2009

Lead a research group, managing multiple inter-disciplinary research projects; Supervising PhD and Masters students; Teach UG and PG HCI and related courses.

Sapient Ltd London

Senior Manager (User Experience)

April 2001 – June 2003

Business and technology consultancy. Client-driven user research, experience modelling, participatory design, business development, management of research teams, collaboration with design and development teams

Distributed Systems Technology Centre & Centre for Online

Snr Research Scientist Project leader

Sept 99 – Jan 2001 June 98 – Jan 2001

Establish/lead research group; manage multi-disciplinary collaborations. Research into Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), event notification systems, health informatics, telemedicine, knowledge management.

TU Wien / Vienna University of Technology

Institut für Gestaltungs- und Wirkungsforschung / Institute for Design and Assessment of Technology

Argentinierstraße 8, 187-2, 1040 Wien

Health, Australia

Consultancy work for a variety of clients.

Hospital & community healthcare

Clinical and management positions

1979 – 1997

Various positions including: midwife, charge nurse, ENT Theatres/OPD; antenatal educator; Private midwifery practice

Statement of Main Research Areas

My research is about people and technology. It lies at the intersection of technical, social science and design disciplines with a focus on supporting social interaction and collaboration.

Broad topic areas include: Pervasive and mobile computing; Human computer interaction (HCI); Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW); and Health informatics/telecare/Ambient Assisted Living. I am particularly interested in new pervasive, networked and tangible applications, and how these can be designed to fit in with everyday contexts of work, play and daily life.

Current areas of focus include: supporting older people living at home, integrating healthcare and other quality of life perspectives such as support for leisure/social needs; embodied interactions and implications for design; interpreting emerging insights from neuroscience to support social interactions; and personal reflection/behaviour change with pervasive applications.

I have particular expertise in applying qualitative ethnographically informed methods for studying user contexts and technologies in use.

Selected Most Important Professional / Peer Service

• Invited keynote presentations at international scientific conferences incl: o Pervasive Health 2014, Oldenburg 2014 o ECCE14, Vienna 2014 o NTA6-Technology Assessment14, Vienna 2014 o Workshop in Interactive Systems in Healthcare, Washington, 2013 o Global Ageing: Rising Challenges, Barcelona, 2013; o Perceptual Quality of Systems, Vienna, 2013; o Swedish CogSci Symposium, Gothenburg, 2013; o World Usability Day, Ljubljana, 2013; o COST TwinTIDE Closing Conference, Bari Italy, Oct, 2013 o Communities and Technologies, Brisbane, 2011; o Infrastructures in Healthcare, Trento Norway, 2011; o Design 4 Health, Sheffield UK, 2011; o Forum Alpbach – Health stream, 2008; o NECTAR Canadian Research Network 2006; OzCHI 2005.

• Peer review panels: o Member UK EPSRC Peer Review College 2006-present; o Various invited reviewer, member of Evaluation Panels for research councils

(Norway, Portugal, NZ, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Ireland, Austria) • Journal Editorships:

o Assoc Ed, CSCW Journal; Review/Editorial board JPoP, IxDA; HIJ. Frontiers. • Conference Program Chair roles:

o Papers co-chair CHI11, CHI10; Subcommittee co-chair CHI09; Program co-chair ECSCW03; Video co-chair CSCW04; Showcase chair CSCW11; Exploratory Papers co-chair PDC06; Assoc program chair CHI03,CHI05,CHI06, CSCW02,CSCW06,CSCW13; DC co-chair Interact15, GROUP14, C&T13, CSCW13, CSCW10

• International steering committees, advisory boards incl: o Invited member CSCW International Steering Committee 2012-2014 o Advisory Board member: Informatics, Uni of Zurich; Center for communication

anc computing, ITU Copenhagen; Computational Artefacts, Copenhangen;

Australian eHealth Research Centre; Work Foundation iSociety project; Steering committee PHANTOM TEL project UK

• International Evaluation panel member: o Dept of Informatics, Uni of Zurich; o Dept of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Uni of Cyprus

• Over 50 other invited presentations – international and national • External / PhD Thesis Examiner – 20 PhD theses:

o England, Scotland, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.

Research Projects

Co-investigator or principle investigator in over 20 funded collaborative multidisciplinary research grants 2003-2014.

Current and selected past research Projects:

Dates Funder Project Name Role Amount 9/14-8/16 ZIT ILUM Support for Urban Mobility Co-I EUR67773 05/14-04/17

EU AAL FFG Benefit

Give &Take: Designing a reciprocal exchange service for a good and engaged senior life

Co-I EUR1369483 (240,762 to TUW)

09/12-03/14

FFG Benefit Lebensnetz (well being using computer game approaches for dementia prevention and therapy)

Collaborator

EUR206,000 (27,000 to TUW)

01/12-12/14

ÖAW-DOC-SLOVAK

Supporting social and emotional skills learning

PI EUR90000

9/11-8/13 EU AAL Stimulate: seniors & leisure travel Co-I EUR240,000 01/09-06/12

EPSRC / Wellcome Trust

Enhancing and improving the quality of information in electronic patient records.

Co-I £587,982

07/07-09/10

EPSRC Motivating Mobility: Interactive systems to promote physical activity & leisure for people with limited mobility.

Co-I

£450,000

08/00 – 07/06

EPSRC Equator IRC: technological innovation in physical and digital life (Final grade: outstanding)

PI £1,114,470

Key International Cooperation Partner Institutions last 5 years:

Non-EU: Currie, Uni of British Columbia CA; Borycki, Uni of Victoria CA; O’Brien, Kaiser Permanente, Westborook, Uni of NSW, AU; Dykes, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, US; Favela, CICESE, Mexico; Vetere, Uni of Melbourne Australia; UK: GPRD; Cassel, Brighton and Sussex Medical School; Good, Carroll, Sussex Uni; Henwood, Brighton Uni; Dowding, Uni of Leeds; Uni of Southampton; Rodden, Uni of Nottingham; Sheffield-Hallam Uni; Dundee Uni; Luckin, London Knowledge Lab; Chalmers, Uni of Glasgow; Hamer, NIHR; Hardiker, Uni of Salford; Johnson, Bradford Inst of Health Research; Other EU: IT Copenhagen; Tudor & Cybercultus, Lux; E-Seniors, Au fil des Cevennes, DMMR, France; Utrecht School of Arts, NL;

Teaching and Research Supervision

• 10 PhDs supervised to completion; 9 current PhD students; >100 Masters and Bachelor theses. Including TU Informatics Epilog prize – Best Masters thesis 2012

Publications

Published monograph and over 150 peer-reviewed publications. • H-index: 31; Citations 3566– (Google Scholar – as at Jan 2015) • Best paper awards: AHCI2014; OzCHI2012; Health Informatics 2000; HICSS 1997;

Best Demonstration: Creativity and Cognition 2009; Highly commended / nominated best papers: CHI2010; AIED 2005;