Dr. Jasminko Novak

Guest Lecturer

Fields of Expertise: Collaboration Systems and Strategies, Human-System Interaction, Participatory Media, Information Management, Knowledge and Innovation Management

Research Services: Consulting on the Design of Information and Communication Flows in Networked Structures, Interaction in Networks, Innovation Workshops, Strategy Moderation, Strategic Consulting, Industry Keynotes, Studies, Piloting and Evaluation, Open Innovation

My research investigates the use of interactive media and cooperation technologies for the design of information flows, knowledge and cooperation networks which enable new forms of social and economic interactions. This work benefits from three interconnected lines of research and expertise:

eCollaboration / Information & Knowledge Management
strategies and technologies for collaboration and knowledge management in complex organizations and multi-stakeholder networks,
 
Participatory Media / User-Centric Media / Web 2.0
design of networked information and communication structures, social interaction and cooperation in networks, user-generated content, open innovation and integration of end-users as active co-creators in professional value chains,

Interactive Systems / Human-System Interaction
user-centred design and evaluation of interactive systems and services, design of socio-technical systems mediating interactions between individuals, organizations and institutions.
 
See: ACE-LAB

 
Recent Events and Talks:

EU Commission Expert Consultation Workshop "Future Internet of Creative Media", Brussels, 26-27.11.2007 

"From User-centric Media to Next-Generation Media Ecosystems", invited talk at Tekelec EAAA Annual Sales Conference, Bangkok, January, 2008

"Towards Next-Generation Media Ecosystems", invited talk at 3rd International IMS Workshop, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Berlin, 15-16.11.2007

Mobile Business Forum Leadership Workshop, "Next-Generation Media: Von der Konvergenz der Technik und Inhalte zur Konvergenz der Akteuere?", Impulsreferat und Moderation, Schloss Thun, 17.10.2007
Teilnehmer: Experten und Leader aus Medien, IT, Telekommunikation, Mobile Services, Forschung und Wissenschaft im deutschprachigen Raum

Recent Publications:

"User-Centric Media: Future and Challenges in European Research", Whitebook, European Commission, Expert Group on User-Centric Media, Coordinated by the DG Information Society, Networked Media Unit, October 2007, ISBN 978-92-79-06865-2

Novak, J. "Mine, Yours...Ours? Designing for Principal-Agent Collaboration in Interactive Value Creation", Proc. of Wirtschaftsinformatik 09, Vienna, February 2009 (to appear)

Novak, J., Schmidt, S., Aggeler, M., Schwabe, G., "Kooperative Medienumgebungen für das Reisebüro der Zukunft", Proc. der Mensch & Computer 2008, Lübeck, Sept. 2008

Schwabe, G., Novak, J., Aggeler, M., "Designing the Tourist Agency of the Future", 21st Bled eConference on eCollaboration: Overcoming Boundaries through Multi-Channel Interaction, Bled, June 2008

Aschoff, R., Novak, J., "The Mobile Campfire: A New Design Paradigm for Mobile Social Web Scenarios", Proc. of IEEE Human-System Interaction Conference, Krakow, May, 2008, IEEE Press / IEEE Digital Library 

Novak, J., Aggeler, M., Schwabe, G., "Designing Large-Display Workspaces for Cooperative Travel Consultancy", CHI 2008, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,  April 5-10, Florence, 2008, ACM Press

Aschoff, R., Novak, J., "The Mobile Forum: Real-Time Information Exchange in Mobile SMS Communities", CHI 2008, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,  April 5-10, Florence, 2008, ACM Press

Novak, J., "User-centric Media and Next-Generation Media Ecosystems", NMI 2007, Symposium New Media in the Information Society: Film, Television and Computers – in the Sign of Content”, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, Alcatel Stiftungs-Verbundkolleg Berlin, June 27-29, 2007

Novak, J., "Challenges and Opportunities for Visual Exploratory Search in User-generated Media Collections", Proc. of ACM CHI 2007 Workshop on Exploratory Search Interfaces, San Diego, CA,  ACM Digital Library, May, 2007

Novak, J., Voigt, B., "Mashups: Strukturelle Eigenschaften und Herausforderungen von End-User Development im Web 2.0", i-COM Zeitschrift für interaktive und kooperative Medien, Vol. 6/Issue 1, 2007
 
Novak, J., Voigt, B., "Mashing-up mashups: from collaborative mapping to community innovation toolkits", 2006; Proc. of MCIS 06 - Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Venice, October 05-08, 2006.
 
Novak, J., "Helping Knowledge Cross Boundaries: Using Knowledge Visualization to Support Cross-Community Sensemaking", Proc. of HICSS-40, 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, January 02-06, 2007.
 
Novak, J. "Multiperspektivische Wissensvisualisierung für Wissensaustausch in heterogenen Inter-Community Netzwerken", 8. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI-2007), Karlsruhe, February 28 - March 2, 2007.
 
See also complete list of publications.
Executive summary of professional profile. 

Resume
 
Dr. Jasminko Novak leads the Collaboration and Media Technologies Lab at the Information Management Research Group. Since April 2007 he also acts as Managing Chairman of the European Institute for Participatory Media, Berlin/ Zurich/Rome.  

Prior to that he worked as senior researcher, project manager and team leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication (now Fraunhofer IAIS). His responsibilities at Fraunhofer included the conception, acquisition and leadership of cooperative research projects (BMBF, EU-IST) with partners from academia, industry and public institutions. Among others, this includes the leadership of the “AWAKE” project for the development of new methods for collaborative knowledge visualisation and exchange in heterogeneous networks, which was nominated for the Cooperative Research Award of the Foundation for German Science (“Stiftungsverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft”, 2003). The results of this work were also part of his doctoral dissertation on collaborative knowledge visualization for cross-community knowledge exchange at the Institute for Informatics and Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen (summa cum laude).

The results of Mr. Novak's work have been published in international journals, conference proceedings (ACM, IEEE) and in several book contributions (Springer). He has co-founded the Center for International Education in Zagreb and has served as advisory board member of the Multimedia Institute in Zagreb. He also advises the European Commision in the Expert Groups on User-Centric Media and Future Internet and acts as expert evaluator for the World Bank and the Croatian Government.

Other areas of his work include hci, collaboration technologies and mobile & ubiquitous computing. Dr. Novak conceived and coordinated a pilot project for the creation of a German-Hungarian distributed research group on “Nomadic Knowledge Computing” (2005). In a research period at the Dept. of Computer Science, Systemics and Communication at the University of Milano-Bicocca (2003) he investigated new forms of supporting and managing knowledge-intensive innovation procesess with special focus on distruptive innovation and sustainability. 

Dr. Novak serves as a reviewer for a number of international conferences (CHI, ICIS, HICSS, WI) and journals as well as member of several Programm Committees (e.g. Mensch and Computer,  SIWIS Workshop at ECIS 2007, Multi-Conference on Business Informatics - MKWI 08). He is also member of the ACM SIGCHI and SIG-eCommerce, GI FB MCI, SIG-CHI and of the CONVIVIO Network for People-Centred Design of Interactive Systems.