Wouter Sluis-Thiescheffer

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PhD on Creativity Assessment of Design Methods with Children at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

Past

Project Leader at Chi Nederland, Conference Team 2007
User System Interaction Designer at TUE

Education

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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Wouter Sluis-Thiescheffer’s Summary

Focused on comprehensible, concise design solutions. Experience in working with multicultural, multidisciplinary teams. Interested in projects on the first stages of product development, where the input of the user counts in idea development and contextual analysis.

Wouter Sluis-Thiescheffer’s Experience

PhD on Creativity Assessment of Design Methods with Children

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

September 2004 — Present (4 years 4 months)
Project Leader

Chi Nederland, Conference Team 2007

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2006 — July 2007 (8 months)

Being in charge of a team of 10 members, the Chi Nederland conference 2007, HCI methods: way to go? was organized in 6 months. Chi Nederland is the Dutch chapter of the international SIG-CHI, with currently 400 members.

Facts and Figures:
Location: Eindhoven (Netherlands)
Visitors and Participants: 300 (sold out)
Program: 3 tracks, 2 international keynotes (Tjeerd Hoek and Marc Hassenzahl)
Website: http://www.chi-conferentie.nl/2007/06/website
User System Interaction Designer

TUE

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2002 — September 2004 (2 years 1 month)

Educated in latest insights in User System Interaction on web-appplications, adaptive systems, speech interfaces, edutainment, software for children.
Hands-on experience in the development and evaluation of user centered applications,
Design Case: Read-It, a table-top application for five-to-seven-year old children (published at IDC2004)
Traineeship: design a videobrowser for large numbers of video's. A project at Philips Digital System Laboratories, Eindhoven (now Philips Applied Technologies).

Wouter Sluis-Thiescheffer’s Education

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

PDEng, User System Interaction, 2002 — 2004
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

MA, Clinical Linguistics, 1994 — 2002

Activities and Societies:

- 1995 -1996 Committee member of Aeolus: a foundation that supports disadvantaged children by organizing affordable sailing holidays,
- 1996 - 1997 President of Aeolus,
- 1997 - 1998 studying at University of Reading,
- 1998 - 2001 Racerowing