Tell me and I will forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand. (Confucius)
Current Exceptional Commitment
Usability & User Experience
- Vice president of the German Usability Professionals’ Association (German UPA e.V.) (Link)
since September 2014 - Vice chairman of the working group ‘Qualitätsstandards’ (quality standards) in the German Usability Professionals’ Association (German UPA e.V.) (Link)
since August 2017 - Member of the working group ‘Qualitätsstandards’ (quality standards) in the German Usability Professionals’ Association (German UPA e.V.) (Link)
since October 2010
- Personal member and founding member of the International Usability and User Experience Qualification Board (UXQB) e.V. (Link)
since October 2013
- Member of the working group 13.2 ‘Methodology for User-Centred System Design’ within the International Federation for Information Processing Technical Committee on Human–Computer Interaction (IFIP TC13) (Link)
since September 2015
- Member of the group ‘Software-Ergonomie’ (software ergonomics) in the department on human-computer interaction of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.) (Link)
since September 2011
- Member of the working group ‘Digital Design’ of the Bitkom, the German Association for IT, Telecommunications and New Media (Link)
since September 2018
Previous Exceptional Commitment
Usability & User Experience
- Member of the working group ‘Usability Engineering & Software Ergonomie’ of the national accreditation body for the Federal Republic of Germany (DAkkS)
October 2010 – December 2015 - Administration member of the group ‘Software-Ergonomie’ (software ergonomics) in the department on human-computer interaction of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.) (Link)
September 2011 – September 2018 - Member of the group ‘(Be-)Greifbare Interaktion’ (tangible interaction) in the department on human-computer interaction of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.) (Link)
March 2012 – December 2018
Swimming
- Lecturer at the Swimming Association North Rhine-Westphalia (dt. Schwimmverband NRW)
January 2010 – December 2012 - Lecturer at the Swimming District Middle Rhine (dt. Schwimmbezirk Mittelrhein)
January 2009 – November 2010 - Trainer at the Swimming Club Nümbrecht (dt. Schwimmverein Nümbrecht e.V.)
Qualification: Trainer B, trainer aquafitness, trainer swimming for beginner
June 1997 – December 2012