Erwin Elling

Current

User Experience Designer at Eight Media

Past

Organizer of The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility at Chi Nederland
Developer at Eight Media
Graduate Intern at TNO Human Factors

Intern at TNO Human Factors

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Education

Universiteit Twente
Universiteit Twente

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Erwin Elling’s Experience

User Experience Designer

Eight Media

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

I perform a broad range of activities in the field of user experience, web development and project management. I help clients to define their concepts and business goals into realistic plans for their web presence and to turn these plans into usable online products.
Organizer of The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility

Chi Nederland

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2007 — June 2008 (9 months)

I was part of the team of volunteers that organized The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility. The 2008 version of the The Web and Beyond conference, a bi-annual conference of CHI Nederland (the official Dutch chapter of ACM Sigchi).

http://thewebandbeyond.nl/
Developer

Eight Media

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

October 2007 — April 2008 (7 months)

I started off working at Eight Media mostly as a backend developer of websites and webapps in Python using the Django framework.
Graduate Intern

TNO Human Factors

(Research industry)

August 2006 — July 2007 (1 year)

I graduated for the Masters' of Human Media Interaction and the studies of Business Information Technology at the University of Twente. For my graduation internship I did research with respect to the usability of meeting browsers - a kind of groupware for aiding teams to prepare for and carry out meetings.
Intern

TNO Human Factors

(Research industry)

April 2006 — July 2006 (4 months)

I did research into the pragmatic use of ontologies to add better search functionality to multimedia browsers for meetings.

Erwin Elling’s Education

Universiteit Twente

MSc. , Human Media Interaction , 2004 — 2007
Universiteit Twente

Ir. (MSc.) , Business Information Technology , 2000 — 2007

My extracurricular activities include: Minor Art, Media and Technology at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts; Minor International Business; Organized research project about international cooperation including micro research in India and a symposium on offshore outsourcing; Took part in international research project about virtual reality, including micro research in Brazil; Organized a debate about the state of education at the EWI Faculty of the University of Twente.

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Erwin Elling’s Interests:

user experience, user centered design, usability, agile development, social networking, web2.0, entrepreneurship, new media, art, connecting different people from different worlds, music