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Professor Marianella Chamorro-Koc
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Design,
Industrial Design
Biography
Marianella Chamorro-Koc BA (PUCP, Peru), MA (OSU, U.S.A.), PhD (QUT, Australia), is Professor in Industrial Design at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her research explores people’s interactions and engagement with technologies as part of the emerging technological shift to person-centred digital solutions. Her transdisciplinary applied research is and demonstrated in proof-of-concept prototypes of health-tech devices for people’s self-management of their health. She is a Scholar in Design for Health, advancing self-health technology innovations and championing viable local manufacturing transformation (e.g. CRC-P11 project). Her research is particularly significant in the context of Design for Health 4.0 and SME’s competitiveness in health innovation. Marianella is a Chief Investigator at Design Lab Program of Design for Health – a Tier 2 research lab- and is a member of Design Research Society (DRS). Her areas of research interests are:- Design for Health
- Person-centred health tech devices
- Human mobility and Disability
- Human Centred Design and Experience Design
- Novice-Expert Knowledge, Context-of-Use, and Usability
- Community/people engagement with technology
- Transformative Service Design for Wellbeing
- Interactive product design
- Design process
- 2022 - to date: Professor in Industrial Design, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty
- 2020 - 2022: Academic Lead Research Training for School of Design (ALRT), Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Faculty
- 2019 - to date: Associate Professor in Industrial Design, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty
- 2018 - 2020: School of Design Ethics Advisor (SREA) and Program Leader of Designing for Health at QUT Design Lab
- 2012 - 2019: Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty QUT
- 2013 - 2015: Post-graduate Coordinator for Industrial Design, School of Design
- 2010 - 2013: Subject Area Coordinator Industrial Design, School of Design
- 2007 – 2012: 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)
Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Design,
Industrial Design
Keywords
Design for Health, Person-centred Health Technologies, Experience Design, Human Mobility, Product Design, Health 4.0, Human Centre Design, Co-Design
Research field
Design
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
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
- Design Research Society (DRS) member (since 2006)
- Women in Technology QLD
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee, invited as expert member to the ISO TC 159 SW4 Working Group (1999-2003)
Teaching
Professor Marianella Chamorro-Koc is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). As a Design educator, her teaching areas focus on user research methods, design process, user product interface design, human factors and usability. The main areas of her teaching work are:
- Higher Degree Training
- Higher Degree Research Supervision
- Industrial Design Studio
- Interactive product design
- User-centered design and product usability
- Design for viable manufacturing
- Immersive teaching experiences
Experience
Interests and Community Service
- Educational Advisor for the BCC Lord Mayor (Brisbane Transportation Implementation plans - accessibility)
- Educational Advisor for QMI and the QLD Government (Design led Advanced Manufacturing Strategy for Qld)
- 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 Journals
- 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., Peake, J., Meek, A. & Manimont, G. (2021). Self-efficacy and trust in consumers' use of health-technologies devices for sports. Heliyon, 7(8). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212610
- Beatson, A., Riedel, A., Chamorro-Koc, M., Marston, G. & Stafford, L. (2021). Factors influencing the journey to work for young people with physical and/or neurological conditions. Disability and Rehabilitation, 43(9), 1270–1278. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/197263
- Chamorro-Koc, M. & Kumarasuriyar, A. (2020). Insights from studio teaching practices in a Creative Industries Faculty in Australia. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 19(2), 172–185. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122110
- Chamorro-Koc, M. & Caldwell, G. (2018). Designing for viable futures: Community engagement as social innovation. In K. Johnston & M. Taylor (Eds.), The handbook of communication engagement (Handbooks in Communication and Media) (pp. 301–310). John Wiley & Sons. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122109
- Chamorro-Koc, M. & Caldwell, G. (2018). Viable futures through design: Community engagement experiences in the creative industries. Creativity Studies, 11(1), 213–229. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122524
- 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, 59(5), 631–651. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/110689
- Adkins, B., Chamorro-Koc, M. & Stafford, L. (2015). New mobilities for accessible cities: Toward scenarios for seamless journeys. In D. Araya (Ed.), Smart cities as democratic ecologies (pp. 200–218). Palgrave Macmilan. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/91002
- 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, 7(2), 51–65. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/72264
- Chamorro-Koc, M., Popovic, V. & Emmison, M. (2009). Human experience and product usability: Principles to assist the design of user-product interactions. Applied Ergonomics, 40(4), 648–656. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/14475
- Chamorro-Koc, M. & Popovic, V. (2008). Using visual representation of concepts to explore users and designers' concepts of everyday products. Design Studies, 29(2), 142–159. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/14254
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Marianella, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2022
- Details
- Recipient of a AAUT Citation Award: Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2022
- Details
- Gold Award for Design. Project "Vis-ability", in partnership with QUT Art Museum and QUT Design Lab. Gold Award given for creating a culture of inclusion.The IAUD International Design Awards are the only universal design awards in the world.The International Association for Universal Design (IAUD) conducts activities aimed at achieving its basic objective: "To contribute to the healthy development of society, and improve the welfare of humanity as a whole, through further disseminating and actualizing of Universal Design (UD)."
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2022
- Details
- National Design Award - Good Design Australia Award Winner in the category of Public Sector Services. Project: RE-DESIGNING HEALTHCARE ¿ THE VALUE OF A DESIGN-LED APPROACH. During 2020-2021, designers and design researchers from the QUT Design Lab been agents of change in healthcare. In partnership with consumers, clinicians and leaderships teams across Queensland Health, we have worked to disrupt the system and co-create positive, design-led change, to improve the experience of hospitals for all. Award website: https://good-design.org/projects/re-designing-healthcare-the-value-of-a-design-led-approach/
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- National Design Award - Good Design Australia Award Winner for the project: DESIGNERS IN HEALTHCARE AGENTS OF CHANGE. In 2021 through the Healthcare Accelerator Lab (HEAL) and in partnership with QLD Health, designers and design researchers from the QUT Design Lab been agents of change in healthcare. In partnership with consumers, clinicians and leaderships teams across Queensland Health, we have worked to disrupt the system and co-create positive, design-led change, to improve the experience of hospitals for all. Award website: https://good-design.org/projects/designers-in-healthcare-agents-of-change/
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- Chief Investigator of a national competitive CRC-P11 grant in partnership with company i-Orthotics, MyFootDr, Healthia Group, North West Hospital and Health Service (Mt Isa) and University of QLD for the project: Designed-led Advanced Manufacturing of Smart Orthotics for Remote Australia.
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- Chief Investigator as part of a QUT team awarded a National competitive grant by Australian Defence Industry & Innovation Funds for the project Wearable Predictive Diagnostics (WPDs) for warfighter maintenance.
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- I am Educational Advisor for Queensland Manufacturing Institute (QMI) in the DESIGN-LED THINKING STRATEGY FOR QUEENSLAND MANUFACTURING; which is driven by QLD Department of State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning. This strategy addresses the Queensland Government¿s Advanced Manufacturing 10 Year Road map and Action Plan, dedicated to increasing the adoption of leading-edge design, innovation, technologies, processes and practices. It will assist QLD manufacturing industry with a program to expand the current departmental design offering and see Queensland positioned as the leading Australian location for design graduates to be employed.
- 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 experience28th September 2016
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- LP150100168: SEAMLESS JOURNEYS TO WORK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
- 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.
Selected research projects
- 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
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Human-centred design framework for the design of wearable devices for home-based rehabilitation of shoulder movement
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Graham Kerr, Associate Professor Rafael Gomez
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Designing Digitally-Enabled Tranformative Services for Vulnerable People's Mobility (2021)
- Engagement With Digital Health Technologies (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)
Supervision topics
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.