Prof. Heike Winschiers-Theophilus

Professor in Software Development and UNESCO Chair for Digital Technology Design with Indigenous People. She collaborates with Namibian indigenous minorities in community-based co-design of technologies in an effort to safeguard and revitalise Indigenous Knowledge systems, aiming for alternative and inclusive learning ecologies while enriching established research paradigms with indigenous knowledges.
Research Interest: 
Human-computer interaction, Indigenous knowledge technologies, and 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. 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