PDC2012

PDC2012 student volunteers

To help us at PDC2012 we have put together a great team of 11 student volunteers. Six international students and five local students from Roskilde University are contributing their valuable assistance. You will be able to recognize them by the scarf they are wearing and you can always contact them if you have any questions. The students volunteers are entitled to free registration in exchange of assistance with, for instance:

General conference preparation
On-site registration of conference participants
Working at the registration desk
Giving a helping hand at receptions and during breaks between presentations
Preparation, support and takedown of presentations
General troubleshooting

The student volunteers are:

Alexis Hope	Alexis just finished her M.S. in the department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. During her M.S. she worked on a project to design and develop a portable, low-cost ultrasound system for midwives, and she also worked on a project called 'Hackademia' -- a semi-formal learning group that introduces non-technical students to technical skills, and presents them with open-ended design challenges. In the fall, she will begin a PhD program in Technology & Social Behavior at Northwestern University.
Arnvør Torkilsheyggi	Arnvør is a PhD student at Roskilde University, working on my PhD-project titled “IT-supported Clinical Communication”. I am interested in the implementation and use of electronic whiteboards at emergency departments and other departments in Danish hospitals, in particular how the use of these whiteboards can support the communication and coordination between clinicians. Further I am also interested in the motivation and participation of the users (the clinicians) in the ongoing design and organizational implementation of the whiteboards.
Jonas Ahm	Jonas has a BA in Informatic and Communication from Roskilde University
Katrine Andersen	Katrine has a BA in Informatics and Communication from Roskilde University and will start on her Master next semester. She is fascinated by technologies, which can help people interact with each other and by the dynamics, which emerges when a group of people interact with a technology.
Maria Foverskov	Maria is a PhD Scholar from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design in Copenhagen, doing research on co-design and how to engage non-professional designers as active part-takers. Her PhD is titled Rehearsing and forming futures and is looking at the changing role of design/designers, when designers are co-designing into new fields of co-production of services and social innovation. Recently she has been part of establishing a living lab and building a community around social exercise activities in a public park in the suburbs of Copenhagen, to support senior citizens in maintaining their social network by the use of social media.
Markus Holzweber	Markus is from Roskilde University and he is passionate about the potential for technology to improve people’s lives. His research focuses on Management, Services Marketing and IT Service Design. He thinks that 'Word-of-mouth' (WOM) is an important source of information when customers make purchasing decisions, especially in the IT industry. He recently completed his studies at Roskilde University.
Matilde Bram Nielsen	Matilde has a bachelor degree in Communication & Informatics. This past semester she and her group have been developing an IT-solution for the PDC, which purpose is to work as a tool to increase the exchange of knowledge that takes place between the participants at the conference. Has a special interest in working as the link between clients and coders.
Michelle Sømmerly Christiansen	Michelle has a BA in Informatics and Communication from Roskilde University. Participatory Design 'philosophy' has throughout her education been a way of working which she, since having been introduced to it, again and again have returned to and used in her studies. “It is the way we are interdependent in a workflow that appeals to me. You cannot do everything alone, you need to use each other. And especially in relation to IT development, which is my passion, it is necessary to understand the many layers that have to be bonded together. But it is the people, who need it, and it is these, which decide a system's success, and those that I think the Participatory Design approach are able to include.”
Rachel Clarke	Rachel is an artist and PhD researcher at the Digital Interaction Research Group, Culture Lab, Newcastle University. Her research is on sensitive digital design strategies in cross-cultural contexts using participatory arts approaches. Previously she worked as a freelance digital media artist with national touring theatre companies and international arts and heritage organisations on participation and creative technology education and adoption. She enjoys eating smelly cheese and walking up big hills, but not at the same time.
Ting-Ray Chang	Ting-Ray is a PhD student in the Engineering Design Centre (EDC), University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the use of visual stimuli in participatory design process. She is an interaction designer and user researcher by training, and has been passionately involving users in various design projects. She loves observing people & cultures, and has travelled in 50 countries and lived in Taiwan, US, Holland, Finland, and UK.
Tobias Fuglsang	Tobias has a BA in Informatic and Communication from Roskilde University.