Professor Marianella Chamorro Koc

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Design,
Industrial Design

Biography

Marianella Chamorro-Koc BA (PUCP, Peru), MA (OSU, U.S.A.), PhD (QUT, Australia), is Professor in Industrial Design at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her research explores people’s interactions and engagement with technologies as part of the emerging technological shift to person-centred digital solutions. Her transdisciplinary applied research is and demonstrated in proof-of-concept prototypes of health-tech devices for people’s self-management of their health. She is a Scholar in Design for Health, advancing self-health technology innovations and championing viable local manufacturing transformation (e.g. CRC-P11 project). Her research is particularly significant in the context of Design for Health 4.0 and SME’s competitiveness in health innovation. Marianella is a Chief Investigator at Design Lab Program of Design for Health – a Tier 2 research lab- and is a member of Design Research Society (DRS). Her areas of research interests are:

Design for Health
Person-centred health tech devices
Human mobility and Disability
Human Centred Design and Experience Design
Novice-Expert Knowledge, Context-of-Use, and Usability
Community/people engagement with technology
Transformative Service Design for Wellbeing
Interactive product design
Design process

Career history

2022 - to date: Professor in Industrial Design, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty
2020 - 2022: Academic Lead Research Training for School of Design (ALRT), Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Faculty
2019 - to date: Associate Professor in Industrial Design, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty
2018 - 2020: School of Design Ethics Advisor (SREA) and Program Leader of Designing for Health at QUT Design Lab
2012 - 2019: Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty QUT
2013 - 2015: Post-graduate Coordinator for Industrial Design, School of Design
2010 - 2013: Subject Area Coordinator Industrial Design, School of Design
2007 – 2012: Lecturer in Industrial Design, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty QUT
2003-2007: Sessional Lecturer in Industrial Design, School of Design, Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, QUT
2000-2003: Expert contributor representing Peru: International Standard Organisation (ISO) - Working group TC159/SC4/WG11 for ISO/CD TS 20282-3 and ISO/IEC 250
1997-2003: Industrial Design Head of Discipline and Lecturer, Faculty of Art, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (Lima,Peru)
1995: Fulbright Scholar at Ohio State University (U.S.A.)
1991-1995: Industrial Design practice (Lima, Peru)

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Personal details

Positions

Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Design,
Industrial Design

Keywords

Design for Health, Person-centred Health Technologies, Experience Design, Human Mobility, Product Design, Health 4.0, Human Centre Design, Co-Design

Research field

Design

Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020

Qualifications

PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
Master of Arts (Ohio State University)

Professional memberships and associations

Professional and Group Associations

QUT Design Lab
PAS Lab Research Group
Design Research Society (DRS) member (since 2006)
Women in Technology QLD
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee, invited as expert member to the ISO TC 159 SW4 Working Group (1999-2003)

Teaching

Professor Marianella Chamorro-Koc is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). As a Design educator, her teaching areas focus on user research methods, design process, user product interface design, human factors and usability. The main areas of her teaching work are:

Higher Degree Training
Higher Degree Research Supervision
Industrial Design Studio
Interactive product design
User-centered design and product usability
Design for viable manufacturing
Immersive teaching experiences

Experience

Interests and Community Service

Educational Advisor for the BCC Lord Mayor (Brisbane Transportation Implementation plans - accessibility)
Educational Advisor for QMI and the QLD Government (Design led Advanced Manufacturing Strategy for Qld)
Recipient of National Competitive Research Grant: Linkage project Seamless Journeys to Work for Young People with Disabilities
Assessor for ARC Discovery grant scheme
Reviewer of Q1 Journals
Reviewer for Design Research Society international conferences: DRS and IASDR
Keynote speaker and Visiting Fellow: Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (Peru), Universidad El Bosque (Colombia), THI Ingolstadt University (Germany)

Publications

Chamorro-Koc, M., Peake, J., Meek, A. & Manimont, G. (2021). Self-efficacy and trust in consumers' use of health-technologies devices for sports. Heliyon, 7(8), Article e07794. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212610
Beatson, A., Riedel, A., Chamorro-Koc, M., Marston, G. & Stafford, L. (2021). Factors influencing the journey to work for young people with physical and/or neurological conditions. Disability and Rehabilitation, 43(9), 1270–1278. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/197263
Chamorro-Koc, M. & Kumarasuriyar, A. (2020). Insights from studio teaching practices in a Creative Industries Faculty in Australia. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 19(2), 172–185. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122110
Chamorro-Koc, M. & Caldwell, G. (2018). Designing for viable futures: Community engagement as social innovation. In K. Johnston & M. Taylor (Eds.), The handbook of communication engagement (Handbooks in Communication and Media) (pp. 301–310). John Wiley & Sons. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122109
Chamorro-Koc, M. & Caldwell, G. (2018). Viable futures through design: Community engagement experiences in the creative industries. Creativity Studies, 11(1), 213–229. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122524
Stafford, L., Marston, G., Chamorro-Koc, M., Beatson, A. & Drennan, J. (2017). Why one size fits all approach to transition in Disability Employment Services hinders employability of young people with physical and neurological disabilities in Australia. The Journal of Industrial Relations, 59(5), 631–651. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/110689
Adkins, B., Chamorro-Koc, M. & Stafford, L. (2015). New mobilities for accessible cities: Toward scenarios for seamless journeys. In D. Araya (Ed.), Smart cities as democratic ecologies (pp. 200–218). Palgrave Macmilan. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/91002
Chamorro-Koc, M., (2014). A design approach to the study of people's experiences with technologies in the context of public transport. International Journal of Design in Society, 7(2), 51–65. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/72264
Chamorro-Koc, M., Popovic, V. & Emmison, M. (2009). Human experience and product usability: Principles to assist the design of user-product interactions. Applied Ergonomics, 40(4), 648–656. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/14475
Chamorro-Koc, M. & Popovic, V. (2008). Using visual representation of concepts to explore users and designers' concepts of everyday products. Design Studies, 29(2), 142–159. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/224249

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Awards

Type: Award or Prize
Reference year: 2022
Details: "International Association for Universal Design (IAUD). Gold Award for Design. Project ""Vis-ability"", in partnership with QUT Art Museum and QUT Design Lab. Gold Award given for creating a culture of inclusion.
The IAUD International Design Awards are the only universal design awards in the world.
The International Association for Universal Design (IAUD) conducts activities aimed at achieving its basic objective: ""To contribute to the healthy development of society, and improve the welfare of humanity as a whole, through further disseminating and actualizing of Universal Design (UD)."""

Type: Award or Prize
Reference year: 2022
Details: Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning as part of the Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) program. Recognised as being among Australia’s most exceptional university teachers and demonstrating an outstanding contribution to student learning through your dedication to quality teaching.

Type: Award or Prize
Reference year: 2022
Details: Good Design Australia. National Design Award - Good Design Australia Award Winner in the category of Public Sector Services. Project: RE-DESIGNING HEALTHCARE - THE VALUE OF A DESIGN-LED APPROACH. During 2020-2021, designers and design researchers from the QUT Design Lab been agents of change in healthcare. In partnership with consumers, clinicians and leaderships teams across Queensland Health, we have worked to disrupt the system and co-create positive, design-led change, to improve the experience of hospitals for all. Award website: https://good-design.org/projects/re-designing-healthcare-the-value-of-a-design-led-approach/

Type: Award or Prize
Reference year: 2021
Details: Designers in Healthcare – Agents of Change received a prestigious Good Design Award Winner Accolade in the Social Impact category in recognition for outstanding design and innovation. This team award was given in recognition to our design research work with QLD Health and Clinical Excellence QLD through our program QUT HEAL led by Design Lab.

The Good Design Awards Jury commented: “A large scale, broad-spectrum look at bringing designers, practitioners and clinicians together. This type of engagement is radically needed the world over, as clinicians and designers rarely meet, but when they do it can be a heady mix of positivity and progress. The team and the expertise was beautifully balanced with focused attention to detail on the solutions. A really strong collaborative experience. Overall, a really impressive example of design for impact and a standout project that ticks every box for good design in this category. Congratulations.”

Dr. Brandon Gien, CEO of Good De ...

Type: Funding Award/Project
Reference year: 2021
Details: Australian Defence. Chief Investigator as part of a QUT team awarded a National competitive grant by Australian Defence Industry & Innovation Funds for the project Wearable Predictive Diagnostics (WPDs) for warfighter maintenance.

Type: Funding Award/Project
Reference year: 2021
Details: Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources. Chief Investigator of a national competitive CRC-P11 grant in partnership with company i-Orthotics, MyFootDr, Healthia Group, North West Hospital and Health Service (Mt Isa) and University of QLD for the project: Designed-led Advanced Manufacturing of Smart Orthotics for Remote Australia.

Type: Consultant/Advisor to Industry
Reference year: 2019
Details: I am Educational Advisor for Queensland Manufacturing Institute (QMI) in the DESIGN-LED THINKING STRATEGY FOR QUEENSLAND MANUFACTURING; which is driven by QLD Department of State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning. This strategy addresses the Queensland Government's Advanced Manufacturing 10 Year Road map and Action Plan, dedicated to increasing the adoption of leading-edge design, innovation, technologies, processes and practices. It will assist QLD manufacturing industry with a program to expand the current departmental design offering and see Queensland positioned as the leading Australian location for design graduates to be employed.

Type: Funding Award/Project
Reference year: 2016
Details: Australian Research Council. LP150100168: SEAMLESS JOURNEYS TO WORK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Type: Keynote or Plenary Speaker
Reference year: 2016
Details: EL BOSQUE Univeristy. Keynote Speech at EL BOSQUE University in Bogota (Colombia)
Title of the keynote speech: Research in the Creative Industries - QUT CIF experience
28th September 2016

Type: Visiting an External Institution
Reference year: 2016
Details: Invited by THI Ingolstadt University, Germany, for a 2-week visit to their UXD Discipline of their Electronic Engineer. The visit focused on collaborating on a students' project, shared by QUT and THI students. The project emerges from my current research work on People's Engagement with Technology for their Health and Wellness.

Selected research projects

Title: Seamless Journeys to Work for Young Adults with Physical Disabilities
Primary fund type: CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID: LP150100168
Start year: 2015
Keywords

Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.

Supervision

Current supervisions

A child-centred approach to re-thinking the design of Personal protective equipment for application in paediatric healthcare
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Levi Swann, Dr Shayne Beaver
A Human-Centred Wearability Framework for Menstrual Tracking in Athletes with Mobility Disabilities
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Gene Moyle, Professor Ajay Pandey
Designing for Safety: A Human-Centred Design approach for development of wearable technologies for firefighters
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Ajay Pandey, Dr Dan Cook
Ecological Futures for Women in Sports: A Cyborg Approach to Smart Wearables Design
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Rafael Gomez
Multimodal Neurosurgical Training Models
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Jared Donovan
Wearable Microfluidic Sensing Systems for the safety and well-being of the Firefighters and First responders
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Ajay Pandey

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)

Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)

Supervision topics

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Professor Marianella Chamorro Koc

Biography