Prof Heike Winschiers-Theophilus

LEAD RESEARCHER

Software Engineering Professor at Namibia University of Science & Technology

UNESCO CHAIR in Digital Technology Design with Indigenous People

Qualification

PhD, University of Hamburg
Master's Degree, Computer Science (University of Hamburg)

Research Interest:
Human-computer interaction and indigenous knowledge technologies, Design thinking in participatory heritage work

Publications:
Winschiers-Theophilus Heike, Chivuno-Kuria Shilumbe , Kapuire Gereon , Bidwell Nicola , Blake Edwin. 2010. Being participated: a community approach. In Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC '10). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1900441.1900443

Winschiers-Theophilus Heike, Chivuno-Kuria Shilumbe, Kapuire Gereon, Bidwell Nicola, Edwin Blake Edwin 2010. Being participated: a community approach. In Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC '10). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1900441.1900443

Cabrero Daniel , Winschiers-Theophilus Heike, Abdelnour-Nocera José. 2016. A Critique of Personas as representations of "the other" in Cross-Cultural Technology Design. In Proceedings of the First African Conference on Human Computer Interaction (AfriCHI '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 149–154. https://doi.org/10.1145/2998581.2998595 https://doi.org/10.1145/2998581.2998595