
Associate Professor Marianella Chamorro-Koc
Creative Industries Faculty,School of Design Office,
Industrial Design
Personal details
- Name
- Associate Professor Marianella Chamorro-Koc
- Position(s)
- Associate Professor
Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Design Office,
Industrial Design - Discipline *
- Design Practice and Management
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 2618
- m.chamorro@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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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
- Diseño@QUT Special Research Interest Group
- Design Institute of Australia (DIA) member (since 2008)
- Design Research Society (DRS) member (since 2006)
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee, invited as expert member to the ISO TC 159 SW4 Working Group (1999-2003)
- Keywords
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design for health, engagement with self-health tech, experiential knowledge, people's mobility, product design, community engagement with technology, context of use, experience design
Biography
Currently seeking PhD applications across experience design, design and emotion, wearable tech for design and health, and design with technology for empathy.Learn more around the project for Design with Technology for Empathy. Apply for QUT scholarships.
Marianella Chamorro-Koc BA (PUCP, Peru), MA (OSU, U.S.A.), PhD (QUT, Australia), is Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Driven to enhance people’s interactions with technologies, her work as a design lecturer and researcher focuses on Design for Health. This area comprises research for the design of personal health technologies (e.g. self-health trackers) and interactive sports gear. Marianella leads the QUT Design Lab Program of Design for Health and Wellbeing – a Tier 2 research lab-, she is co-founder of Diseño@QUT Special Interest group, and is a member of Design Research Society (DRS).
AsPro Chamorro-Koc’s areas of research interests are:
- Design for Health
- Self service technologies for self-health
- People’s mobility in Disability
- Experiential Knowledge, Context-of-Use, and Usability
- Community/people engagement with technology
- Interactive product design
- Design process
Career history
- 2018 – to date: School of Design Ethics Advisor (SREA) and Program Leader of Designing for Health at QUT Design Lab
- 2007 – to date: Senior 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)
Teaching
As a Design educator, Dr Chamorro-Koc’s teaching areas focus on user research methods, design process, user product interface design, human factors and usability. Dr Chamorro-Koc’s main areas of teaching are:
- Industrial Design Studio
- Immersive teaching experience
- Interactive product design
- User-centered design and product usability
- Design for viable manufacturing
Experience
Interests and Community Service
- 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 Journal: Applied Ergonomics
- 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, Popovic V, Emmison M, (2009) Human experience and product usability: Principles to assist the design of user-product interactions, Applied Ergonomics p648-656
- Chamorro-Koc M, Popovic V, (2008) Using visual representation of concepts to explore users and designers' concepts of everyday products, Design Studies p142-159
- Chamorro-Koc M, Kumarasuriyar A, (2020) Insights from studio teaching practices in a Creative Industries Faculty in Australia, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education p172-185
- Chamorro-Koc M, Caldwell G, (2018) Designing for viable futures: Community engagement as social innovation, The handbook of communication engagement (Handbooks in Communication and Media) p301-310
- Beatson A, Riedel A, Chamorro-Koc M, Marston G, Stafford L, (2019) Factors influencing the journey to work for young people with physical and/or neurological conditions, Disability and Rehabilitation p1-9
- Chamorro-Koc M, Caldwell G, (2018) Viable futures through design: Community engagement experiences in the creative industries, Creativity Studies p213-229
- 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 p631-651
- Chamorro-Koc M, Scott A, Coombs G, (2015) Bombs away: visual thinking and students' engagement in design studios contexts, Design and Technology Education p18-28
- Adkins B, Chamorro-Koc M, Stafford L, (2015) New mobilities for accessible cities: Toward scenarios for seamless journeys, Smart cities as democratic ecologies p200-218
- 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 p51-65
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Awards
Awards and recognition
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- LP150100168: SEAMLESS JOURNEYS TO WORK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
- Type
- Assessor, Examiner or Supervisor Role
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Reviewer for ARC DISCOVERY grant schemes. From 2016 to date.
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- 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 Professorships/Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Invited by THI Ingolstadt University for a 2week 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.
- Type
- Reviewer for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- I am expert reviewer in Q1 Journals: (i) Applied Ergonomics; (ii) IJD International Journal of Design, (iii) Journal of Engineering Education, (iv) Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing; and (v) International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- 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
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Tuned 'Inside-Out': Mediating engagement experiences with music on-the-go
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Rafael Gomez - Digitally Crafted Community Futures: A Dstributed Aproach to Rmedial Caft for Community Empowerment
Professional Doctorate, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Glenda Caldwell - Design for Wellbeing A psychological Approach to Designing Everyday Objects
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Thea Blackler - Emotion in Motion: Bodily Expressions of Emotion |
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Rafael Gomez, Dr Jared Donovan
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Engagement With Digital Health Technologies (2019)
- Product Ecosystems: Extrinsic Value in Product Design (2019)
- Transfunctional Living Walls-Designing Living Walls for Environmental and Social Benefits (2016)
- Anticipated User Experience in the Early Stages of Product Development (2014)
- Visceral Hedonic Rhetoric (2011)