Michael Burmester

Prof. Dr. Michael Burmester studied psychology at the University of Regensburg and Wuppertal in Germany. He started his career as a human-computer interaction researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) in Stuttgart. In 1997, he joined Siemens Corporate Technology – User Interface Design as usability consultant and researcher for usability engineering. From 2000 to 2002, he was the head of the Munich office and the head of the Usability Engineering department of User Interface Design GmbH, a software and usability consultancy company. Since September 2002 he is professor for ergonomics and usability and head of the user experience research laboratory at the Stuttgart Media University (Hochschule der Medien, HdM). Furthermore, he is representative of the Information Experience and Design Research Group (IXL) and Vice Dean Research of the faculty information and communication. As project coordinator of the research project Design4Xperience, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, his research interests are to develop design strategies for positive user experience in work contexts.