Prof. Dr Matthias Rauterberg, Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) [PDF]
G.W. Matthias Rauterberg received a B.S. in Psychology (1978) at the University of Marburg (Germany), a B.A. in Philosophy (1981) and a B.S. in Computer Science (1983), a M.S. in Psychology (1981) and a M.S. in Computer Science (1986) at the University of Hamburg (Germany), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science/ Mathematics (1995) at the University of Zurich (Switzerland).
He was a adjunct professor for ‘usability engineering’ in computer science and industrial engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, where later he was heading the Man-Machine Interaction research group (MMI). Since 1998 he is fulltime professor for ‘Human Communication Technology’ first at IPO, Center for User System Interaction Research, and later at the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, The Netherlands). From 1999 till 2001 he was director of IPO. From 2006 till 2016 he was the head of the Designed Intelligence research group at the department of Industrial Design of the TU/e.
He was the Swiss representative in the IFIP TC13 on ‘Human Computer Interaction’ (1994-2002) and the chairman of the IFIP WG13.1 on ‘HCI and Education’ (1998-2004). He is now the Dutch representative in the IFIP TC14 on ‘Entertainment Computing’ and was the founding vice-chair of this TC14 (since 2006). He was elected as IFIP TC14 chair for the term 2013-2017. He was also the chair of the IFIP WG14.3 on ‘Entertainment Theory’ (2004-2012). He was appointed as visiting professor at Kwansei Gakuin University (Japan) (2004-2007). He was guest professor of School of Design at Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China (2012-2015), at East China University of Sciene and Technology, Shanghai, China (2013-2016), and at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (2020). He received the German GI-HCI Award for the best Ph.D. in 1997 and the Swiss Technology Award for the BUILD-IT system in 1998. In 2007 he got the Silver Core Award from IFIP, and since 2020 he is elected Fellow of IFIP.
In 2004 he was nominated as a member of the ‘Cream of Science’ in the Netherlands (the 200 top-level Dutch researchers) and amongst the 10 top-level TU/e scientists. He has over 500 publications in international journals, conference proceedings, books, etc. He acts also as editor and member of the editorial board of several leading international journals. He is co-editor-in-chief of the international journal "Entertainment Computing" (Elsevier). Since 2021 he is retired and professor emeritus at TU/e.
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