QUT | Staff Profiles | Marianella Chamorro-Koc

Name

Dr Marianella Chamorro-Koc

Position(s)

Senior Lecturer
Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Design Office,
Industrial Design

Discipline *

Design Practice and Management

Phone

+61 7 3138 2618

Email

m.chamorro@qut.edu.au

Location

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Identifiers and profiles

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
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

engagement with technologies, self-health, experiential knowledge, people's mobility, product design, community engagement with technology, context of use, experience design

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Marianella Chamorro-Koc BA (PUCP, Peru), MA (OSU, U.S.A.), PhD (QUT, Australia), is Senior Lecturer 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).

Dr 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 engagement with technology
Interactive product design
Design process

Career history

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)

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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

This information has been contributed by Dr Marianella Chamorro-Koc.

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)

This information has been contributed by Dr Marianella Chamorro-Koc.

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 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: Applied Ergonomics is a Q1 Journal in the fields of Sciences and Engineering.

Current supervisions

Tuned 'Inside-Out': Mediating engagement experiences with music on-the-go
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Rafael Gomez
A DESIGNING DIGITALLY-ENABLED TRANSFORMATIVE SERVICES FOR VULNERABLE PEOPLE'S MOBILITY
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Amanda Beatson, Dr Sven Tuzovic
Functional Morphology of the Digital Jewellery Designer: An examination of the emerging culture of digital jewellery manufacturing and its potential role in industrial design and the digital arts
Professional Doctorate, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr 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

Dr Marianella Chamorro-Koc

Awards and recognition

Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)

Current supervisions

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)

Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)