Since 2009, Safak Korkut, M.A, has been working as a research assistant at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) at the Institute for Information Systems. Before that, he worked at the Academy of Art and Design (HGK) FHNW and the School of Business (HSW) FHNW as an interdisciplinary design researcher. After his studies at the HGK in the Master of Arts in Visual Communication and Iconic Research and the writing of a successful Master’s thesis entitled "Creating Individual Experiences Through Non-Linear Network Structures in Moving Images", he co-founded the company YAAY Visualizing Complexity, where he worked as a designer and data storyteller. Since 2010, he has worked in various visualization projects with YAAY, some of which were awarded International Design Awards. In 2015, as a member of YAAY, he conducted a design and data visualization workshop at the Design School of the University of Cincinnati (USA).

At the School of Business FHNW, Safak Korkut participates as a design and data visualization researcher in the Strategic Initiative Ageing Society (2015) in the Project Age Atlas and the CTI Project Biocompass (2016), in which an interface for the visualization of blood values was created. Before that, he was part of the team of the Strategic Initiative Scientific Communication (2012) and project leader of the team of the School of Art and Design in the Strategic Initiative Simulated Reality (2013). He works at the competence center New Trends & Innovations and teaches among other things Application-Oriented Video Communication and Production in the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (International Management), as well as Games and Gamification in Elective Social Media and Customer Experience in the Master of Science in International Management, Gamified Technologies towards New Business Models in the Elective Innovative Topics in Information Systems in the Master of Science in Business Information Systems, Business Photography in Business Networking and Social Media Elective. Together with Janine Jäger, he carries out various workshops on new technologies and interdisciplinary research models at the HSW and at external organizations and conferences. He has written scientific publications on the topics of Gamification, Learning Games, Data Analysis and Data Visualization in various fields together with other researchers. Since 2013, he has mentored bachelor and Master’s theses in the fields of Virtual Reality, New Technologies, Ambient Sensors, Gamification and Data Visualization.

Master of Science in Business Information Systems

• Lecturer in Innovative Technologies in Information Systems
• Co-supervisor of student projects in Applying Research Methodologies
• Co-supervisor of master’s theses

Master of Science in International Management

• Guest lecturer in Elective Module Social Media and Customer Experience

Master of Advanced Studies in Online Marketing Management

• Guest lecturer in Module Mobile and Cross Media

Bachelor of Science in Wirtschaftsinformatik (German)

• Supervisor and co-supervisor of student projects and bachelor’s theses

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (International Management)

• Minor in Digital Media

• Korkut, S., Dornberger, R., Frey, G., Jurkschat, A., & Lutz, J., (2019). Intuitive hand gestures for the interaction with information visualizations in virtual reality. Cham: Springer.
• Armingeon, M., Pleurat, K., & Zanwar, T., & Korkut, S., & Dornberger, R. (2019). A Case Study: Assessing Effectiveness of the Augmented Reality Application in Augusta Raurica. 6th European Conference, ECIL 2018, Oulu, Finland.
• Dornberger, R., Inglese, T., Korkut, S., & Zhong, V. J. (2018). In R. Dornberger (Eds.), Business Information Systems and Technology 4.0 (pp. 1-11). Cham: Springer.
• Korkut, S., Marchiori, E., Cantoni, L., (2018). Investigating the effects of headset-based Virtual Reality against desktop-based video experience in a long-term comparative study. Paper presented at Virtual Reality Conference 2018, Manchester.
• Korkut, S., Dornberger, R., Pochon, Y., Jia Zhong, V., (2018). Investigating the Democracy Behavior of Swarm Robots in the Case of a Best-of-n Selection. Bangalore, India.