Prof. Dr. Fred Van den Anker,

Teaching relating to training

• "Usability in Practice: from user-centred design to usability testing" seminar, 6 ECTS, autumn semester
• Supervising bachelor students’ projects
• Supervising workshop work for master’s students
• Supervising diploma work for bachelor’s and master’s degrees

Teaching relating to continuing education

• CAS Usability & User Experience (UX): Research, Design & Innovation
• The “Sozio-technische Systemgestaltung und Partizipation” (“socio-technical system design and participation”) course in the Business Psychology master's programme
• The “Medien- und Technikeinsatz” (“utilising media and technology”) course in the Corporate Development master's programme

Ongoing research and development

• The PESCO Platform for the exchange of services with developing countries
• New procedures for democratic urban development
• Development of a point-of-care application for regulating the concentration of medication in blood streams of patients who have undergone an organ transplant.

Completed

• Video consultation for treating and caring for paraplegics
• i-MOW – services and tools for integrated and mobile knowledge and office work
• Therapeutic drug monitoring device 
• Social media in teaching and learning scenarios 
• Cooperation skills in KoNet networks

Career to date

Fred van den Anker studied psychology at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and did his PhD in work and organisation psychology at Delft University of Technology (NL). Before he became a lecturer at FHNW’s School of Applied Psychology, he was a junior professor of work and organisation psychology at the University of Hamburg. The content of his work is focused on usability engineering/user-centred design and user-participation methods.