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The interdisciplinary VA-PEPR project team includes researchers with expertise in human-centred design, human-computer interaction, home automation, digital services, ambient assisted living, computer science, behavioural economics, socio-informatics, Open IoT and health.<\/div>\n

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Aurelio Todisco<\/div>
Design Research \/ Architecture<\/div>

Aurelio Todisco studied architecture at the University of Liechtenstein and human-centred design at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, where he has been a research associate in the Competence Centre Design & Management<\/a> since 2020. His research focuses on the interface of human-centred design, architecture and new technologies. In addition,\u00a0<\/span>Aurelio Todisco is also a freelance illustrator<\/a> and teaches Visual Thinking in the Bachelor Design Management International at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Aysun Ayta\u00e7<\/div>
Product Design<\/div>

Aysun Ayta\u00e7, PhD, design researcher at the Competence Centre Design and Management<\/a> at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU – Hochschule Luzern)<\/a>. She combines theories and approaches from material culture, visual culture, visual ethnography, everyday life, culture, everyday life creativity and design thinking to explore interactions between people and artefacts.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>

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Beat T\u00f6dtli<\/div>
Data Science and Data Analysis<\/div>

Beat\u00a0T\u00f6dtli, PhD, data scientist, researcher and lecturer\u00a0at\u00a0the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST- Ostschweizer Fachhochschule)<\/a>. He develops and teaches machine learning courses and has a background in industrial algorithm development for fraud detection.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Edith Maier<\/div>
Social Anthropology and Applied Linguistics<\/div>

Edith Maier, PhD, professor at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST – Ostschweizer Fachhochschule)<\/a> and has a background in applied linguistics, social anthropology and information science. More recently, her research focuses on cultural aspects of human-computer interaction and behavioural change support.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Jens O. Meissner<\/div>
Management and Organizational Studies<\/div>

Jens\u202fO.\u202fMeissner, PhD, professor of organizational design\u202fand head of the interdisciplinary <\/span>future <\/span>laboratory <\/span>CreaLab<\/span><\/a> at <\/span>Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU – <\/span>Hochschule<\/span> Luzern)<\/span><\/a>. His\u202fresearch <\/span>focuses <\/span>on <\/span>questions <\/span>around\u202forganizational resilience\u202fin the digital age.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>

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Jon Rogers<\/div>
Human Computer Interaction<\/div>

Jon Rogers, <\/span>professor of <\/span>design <\/span>at <\/span>Northumbria<\/span> University<\/span><\/a>\u202fwith twenty five years of experience working at the interface between <\/span>design<\/span> and emerging technologies. Following a recent\u202f<\/span>three year<\/span>\u202ffellowship based in\u202f<\/span>Mozilla<\/span>\u202fBerlin, he is co-directing\u202f<\/span>OpenDoTT<\/span><\/a>,\u202fan EU funded doctoral training <\/span>programme<\/span> with Mozilla in trusted <\/span>IoT<\/span>.<\/span> He is <\/span>exploring new narratives for the design of voice assistants in VA-PEPR project.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Melanie Rickenmann<\/div>
Mathematics<\/div>

Melanie <\/span><\/span>Rickenmann <\/span><\/span>is a research assistant at\u202fthe <\/span><\/span>Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST – <\/span><\/span>Ostschweizer<\/span><\/span> Fachhochschule<\/span><\/span>).<\/span><\/span><\/a> She works in various projects in data science and in <\/span><\/span>application <\/span><\/span>development<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Michael Doerk<\/div>
Psychology<\/div>

Michael Doerk, PhD, professor at the <\/span>Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU – <\/span>Hochschule<\/span> Luzern)<\/span><\/a>, a psychologist, expert in health promotion, social computing, risk and quality management and innovation management. He developed the award-winning HSLU business application<\/span> relax-concentrate-create <\/em><\/span><\/a>that captures VA-activities related to resource management that are central to the analytical part of this study.\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Michelle Murri<\/div>
Law<\/div>

Michelle Murri<\/span><\/span> is a research associate in the <\/span><\/span>School of Business<\/span><\/span><\/a> at <\/span><\/span>Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU – <\/span><\/span>Hochschule<\/span><\/span> Luzern).<\/span><\/span><\/a> She\u202freceived her Master\u2019s degree in\u202flaw\u202fand is particularly interested in data protection law.<\/span><\/span>\u202fShe supports the <\/span><\/span>project <\/span><\/span>management <\/span><\/span>in VA-PEPR research project.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>

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Minh-Nguyet Le<\/div>
Design Research & Intersectionality<\/div>

Minh-Nguyet Le is a Researcher at\u00a0Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU-Hochschule Luzern)<\/a>.\u00a0She is interested in more inclusive, egalitarian, and just ways of applying designing and therefore brings an intersectional lens in her approach to research and design.\u00a0She is currently pursuing doctorate at University of Potsdam in Germany in the field of public administration.\u00a0Formerly she was a researcher at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana Universit\u00e4t in L\u00fcneburg.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Mike Shorter<\/div>
Creative Technologist<\/div>

Dr. Mike Shorter is a Research Fellow at Northumbria University.<\/a> In his time, he’s worked as a Researcher, Creative Technologist, Product Designer, Craftsperson and Innovation Strategist. Across all these roles Mike consistently explores new technology with reflective and playful processes in order to make meaningful objects and experiences.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Paola Pierri<\/div>
Anthropology of Design and Technologies<\/div>

Dr. Paola Pierri is Senior Researcher at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU-Hochschule Luzern)<\/a>. She has a doctorate in Design Anthropology and a background in political theory. Her research explores the impact of digital technologies on societies and its implications for policy-making and for democracy more broadly. She has been researching on issues of digital inequalities as Research Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>

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Patricia Wolf<\/div>
Innovation Management<\/div>

Patricia Wolf<\/span><\/span>, PhD,<\/span><\/span> professor of innovation management and future research at <\/span><\/span>Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU – <\/span><\/span>Hochschule<\/span><\/span><\/a> Luzern).<\/span><\/span> She also teaches at ETH Zurich<\/a> since 2012 and she is a professor of integrative innovation management at the <\/span><\/span>University of Southern Denmark<\/span><\/span><\/a> since 2018. Her research focuses on the link between innovation, emergent technologies and social change<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>

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Sabine Junginger<\/div>
Design Research<\/div>

Sabine Junginger<\/span><\/span>, PhD, professor in the <\/span><\/span>Lucerne School of Art and Design<\/span><\/span> and head of the <\/span><\/span>Competence Centre Design and Management<\/span><\/span><\/a> at <\/span><\/span>Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU – <\/span><\/span>Hochschule<\/span><\/span> Luzern)<\/span><\/span><\/a>. She contributes her expertise on human-<\/span><\/span>centred<\/span><\/span> design and studies its contribution to social change and economic innovation in the context of digital transformation. For VA-PEPR, she looks at voice assistants with an eye to policy design and the design of future public services. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Tom Ulmer<\/div>
Data Analysis and IT Architecture<\/div>

Tom Ulmer<\/span><\/span> is a lecturer at\u202fthe <\/span><\/span>Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST – <\/span><\/span>Ostschweizer<\/span><\/span> Fachhochschule<\/span><\/span>)<\/span><\/span><\/a> and has a background in media design, computer sciences and human computer interaction. His main research interests include digital health, active assisted living as well as smart living. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Ulrich Reimer<\/div>
Computer Science<\/div>

Ulrich Reimer<\/span><\/span>, PhD, professor at the <\/span><\/span>Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST – <\/span><\/span>Ostschweizer<\/span><\/span> Fachhochschule<\/span><\/span>)<\/span><\/span><\/a> and computer scientist with a background in AI, semantic technologies and knowledge management. His current research focuses on <\/span><\/span>behavioural<\/span><\/span> change support systems for digital health,\u202fwith an emphasis on sensor data mining and self-learning to adapt to individual users.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Magalie Jost Naranjo<\/div>
Forschungskoordination<\/div>

Magalie Jost Naranjo<\/a>\u00a0is a research coordinator in the School of Art and Design at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts\u202f (HSLU – Hochschule Luzern)<\/a>. In VA-PEPR research project, she is responsible for coordinating the reporting to SNF and is responsible for the financial controlling and the financial reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Ute Klotz<\/div>
Informatics<\/div>

Ute Klotz<\/span><\/span>, PhD, co-leader of the focus group \u2018Technologies for Tomorrow\u2019s Digital Working World\u2019 in the interdisciplinary thematic cluster \u2018<\/span><\/span>Digital Transformation of the Workin<\/span><\/span>g World<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u2019 at <\/span><\/span>Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU – <\/span><\/span>Hochschule<\/span><\/span> Luzern)<\/span><\/span><\/a>. She deals with future studies and the interfaces between humans, work and technology. She is particularly interested in methods that make the future more tangible and predictable.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>

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Uwe Riss<\/div>
Information Systems<\/div>

Uwe Riss, Ph.D., lecturer and senior researcher at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST \u2013 Ostschweizer Fachhochschule)<\/a>, has conducted research in areas such as business information systems, natural sciences, and philosophy. Currently, his main interest is in the various aspects of digitalization.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>

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Vivien Luong - Former Team Member<\/div>
Research Coordination<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>
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Inesa Halilovic - Former Team Member<\/div>
Information Systems<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>
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Bettina Minder - Former Team Member<\/div>
Innovation Processes<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>
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Matthias Baldauf - Former Team Member<\/div>
Information systems<\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>
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Michelle Thorne - Former Team Member<\/div>
Open Data<\/div> <\/div>
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