the grimace project is one of the results of the thesis of my diploma student oliver spindler - a very cool implementation of some theories from scott mcclouds groundbreaking book making comics.
a dissertational student of mine, barbara ondrisek has won a dr. maria schaumayer-award for her dissertation about the security of electronic voting (which has been published as a book). congratulations!
naemi luckner, peter purgathofer: explorative design as an approach to understanding social online learning tools. international journal on advances in intelligent systems, vol 7, no 3&4, year 2014.
p. purgathofer: the many perspectives of quality of experience. keynote at the QoMEX 5th international workshop on quality of multimedia experience, klagenfurt, 05.05.2013.
since almost 10 years we are exploring new ways to organize and conduct teaching in large without the contraints of how it used to be. the project now answers to the name of »Aurora« - http://aurora.iguw.tuwien.ac.at
peter purgathofer spricht mit... is a podcast i have started publishing on a weekly basis in 2012. the concept is to have long and relaxed talks with experts, mostly in german language. all current episodes are on the podcast site.
peter purgathofer: once again, it’s teaching vs learning. keynote at ICL conference in Piešt’any, 21.9.2011
f. kayali, v. schwarz, g. götzenbrucker, j. pfeffer, b. franz, p. purgathofer: serious beats: transdisciplinary research methodologies for designing and evaluating a socially integrative serious music-based online game. DiGRA 2011, ›Think Design Play‹, conference on play and games, utrecht, sept. 2011.
master-level full year project with a focus on design theory and design-based research.
profound discussion of the friction between social and technological development (eg. copyright, privacy, spam, etc.).
i am one of the lecturers at the informatics »prolog«
a mostly workshop based course where each year another potentially disruptive (or, more moderately, transformative) technology is examined from various perspectives
peter purgathofer: eine kurze geschichte der steganographie. in: manuela brandstetter, marina schmidberger, sabine sommer (hg.): die funktion "verdeckter kommunikation", lit verlag, 2010
diane salter, peter purgathofer: students use of laptops in large lecture classes: distraction, partial attention or productive use? ed-media, toronto, 2010.
p. kotzé, p. purgathofer: developing exercises for teaching computing and information technology: a theoretical framework. vortrag: CSITEd 2007 - computer science and it education conference, mauritius; 16.11.2007 - 18.11.2007; in: csited 2007 - computer science and it education conference, (2007), 14 s.
peter purgathofer: eine kleine geschichte der überwachung. in sandro gaycken, constanze kurz:1984.exe - gesellschaftliche, politische und juristische aspekte moderner überwachungstechnologien. 2008
peter purgathofer: is informatics a design discipline? In: poiesis & praxis. december 2006, volume 4, issue 4, pp 303-314.
also, i pretend to be a photographer, media designer and, occasionally, a musician. also, i play pro evolution soccer on a (sometimes hopefully) semi-pro (LOL) level.
i regularily post the slides i use on slideshare.net. be advised however that my slides are not self-explanatory, but composted mostly of full-frame pictures and some quotes.