Gloria Gomez, PhD co-founder, designer, researcher about me business activity applied research professional practice greeting cards teaching publications highlights interviews
EXPERTISE AREAS AND SPECIFIC TOPICS
- User experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design as these relate to human-centred product development with Bridging Design Prototypes
- Design for business, entrepreneurship, and strategic design as these relate to early product development in SMEs
- Interaction design as it relates to teaching and learning technologies (e.g., educational technology, interactive games, multimedia materials for educational activities)
- User groups and user behaviours in relation to the design of socially inclusive products in the areas of education and health
PROFILED BUSINESS ACTIVITY
OB3 - Online Forums Reimagined™
Recent publications:
- Gomez, G., Petsoglou, C., Fraser, C., Painter, G., Cornish, E., & Nilsson, J. (2024, 13 September 2024). Advancing ophthalmic education research at the Save Sight Institute. Eye2Eye, 28, 80-81. RANZCO
- Gomez, G., Avendaño Franco, A., Daellenbach, R., Davies, L., Kensington, M., Wakes, S., & Wright, E. (2023, 29 November - 1 December 2023). Online teaching: Design and health insights for future pedagogies. The 7th International Conference for Design Education Researchers, London, United Kingdom.
- Gomez, G., Jones, H., & Birt, J. (2022). Accessible content and digital equity.In C. Campbell, C. Porter, D. Logan-Fleming, & H. Jones (Eds.), Scanning the Ed Tech Horizon: The 2021-2022 Contextualising Horizon Report (pp. 26-29): ASCILITE.
- Gomez, G., Daellenbach, R., Davies, L., Kensington, M., & Petsoglou, C. (2022). Students and teachers co-designing media-rich document resources in an asynchronous virtual personal learning environment. Presented at INTED22, Valencia, Spain.
- Gomez, G. & Petsoglou, C. (2021). OB3 media-rich documents with embedded discussions: Lifting learning performance and engagement through interaction design. Presented at FLANZ 2021: Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand.
- Contreras, V., Gómez G. Navarro-Newball, A. (2019). Towards the gamification of assistive technology for professionals with severe impairments. Presented at 2019 International Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization (ICVRV).
PROFILED APPLIED DESIGN RESEARCH PROJECTS
Designing socially inclusive products
Preschool concept mapping: an interaction design perspective
List of current and past research projects
Recent publications:
- Gomez, G., Jones, H., & Birt, J. (2022). Accessible content and digital equity. In C. Campbell, C. Porter, D. Logan-Fleming, & H. Jones (Eds.), Scanning the Ed Tech Horizon: The 2021-2022 Contextualising Horizon Report (pp. 26-29): ASCILITE.
- Gomez, G. & Wakes, S. (2022). Un marco de diseño inclusivo para estudiantes novatos en diseño de bioingeniería y rehabilitación / An inclusive design framework for novice students doing bioengineering and rehabilitation design. Base Diseño e Innovación, Vol. 7 No. 6 (2022). Versión en Español / English version
- Gomez, G. (2022). The bridging design prototype approach: Strengthening the role of design as a strategic resource in small organisations in CITRENZ 22 Proceedings (pp. 37 - 47)
- Gomez, G. (2021). Bridging design prototypes & Autononomous design in PIVOT 2020 Proceedings (pp. 166 - 181)
- Contreras, V., Gómez G. Navarro-Newball, A. (2019). Towards the gamification of assistive technology for professionals with severe impairments. Presented at 2019 International Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization (ICVRV).
PROFILED PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE PROJECTS (1996 - 2010)
Early work as undergraduate design student
Key publications
- Cañas, A. J., Hill G., Carff R. , Suri N., Lott J., Eskridge T., Gómez G., Arroyo M., Carvajal R. (2004) CmapTools: A Knowledge Modeling and Sharing Environment. Paper presented at the First International Conference on Concept Mapping, Universidad Pública de Navarra: Pamplona, Spain.
- Gomez, G. (1999). Diseño gráfico para ambientes de aprendizaje interactivos para niños y niñas del Proyecto Ludomática. Revista de Informática Educativa, Vol 12(2), Noviembre, Santafé de Bogotá, 213 - 226.
- Gomez, G. , Bejarano, G., Díaz, M. L., Mariño, O. Trech, M, Vega, G. Zuluaga, J.C. (2000). Diseño de los Personajes Exploradores de la Ciudad Fantástica: Avance de documento técnico INF-00-02, Versión 1.0
- Gomez, G., Valencia, M., et al. (1999). Juego de roles vecinos y parientes, exploradores de la cultura: un proyecto colaborativo. In C. Pregnan, J. Sequeida, P. Leiva, P. Zanocco & L. Carvajal (Eds.), Juego, Aprendizaje y Creatividad (pp. 350). Santiago, Chile: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Educacion.
GREETING CARDS PROJECT
Greeting cards with an artistic twist. Just because cards | birthday cards | Christmas cards... and more to come, as the inspiration flows.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Current roles: supervision of postgraduate students in the areas of visual design, inclusive design, social design, and online medical education.
- Previous roles: teaching and supervision of master students of mixed engineering and design backgrounds on human-centred design methods including the Bridging Design Prototype approach.
HIGHLIGHTS
Article "Advancing ophthalmic education research at the Save Sight Institute.", Eye2Eye, 28, 80-81, 2024 RANZCO
Blog post "Bridging Design Prototypes (BDPs) – A design tool to resource sustainable, equitable, flexible learning", 5 December 2023, Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand (FLANZ)
Webinar When the wallabies meet with kiwis: Exploring student engagement. ASCILITE and FLANZ panel conversation. Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand, 21 September 2023.
Un marco teórico y cinco criterios para evaluar productos socialmente inclusivos. XIV Congreso de Enseñanza del Diseño 2023. Comisión A13 Metodologías de Diseño, Martes 1 de Agosto 2023, 15H00. En-línea desde la Universidad de Palermo, Argentina.
Diseñando productos socialmente inclusivos: Cómo hacer que nuestro diseño sea más socialmente inclusivo y accessible TRIBUTO Diseño Inclusivo, miércoles 10 de mayo 2023, 5:00 p.m. a 6:00 p.m. En-línea desde Corporación Universitaria Nacional de Colombia - CUN, Colombia.
Dr Gloria Gomez, co-founder of OB3 is one of the 30 women edtech leaders you should know, EduGrowth News, 7 March 2023
Diseñando productos socialmente inclusivos. Investigación en Diseño 2023. Red de Investigadores en Diseño. Segunda Edición. Comisión 13, Viernes 13 de Marzo 2023, 13H00. En-línea desde la Universidad de Palermo, Argentina.
Incrementando la participación en la educación a distancia, en-línea y asíncrona: Una perspectiva de diseño de interacción. Investigación en Diseño 2023. Red de Investigadores en Diseño. Segunda Edición. Comisión 5, Miércoles 1 de Marzo 2023, 17H30. En-línea desde la Universidad de Palermo, Argentina.
Section "Accessible Content and Digital Equity" in Scanning the Australasian Ed Tech Horizon: The 2021 - 2022 Contextualising Horizon Report. Section co-authored with Hazel Jones and James Birt. See pp. 26 - 29.
Artículo de investigación "Un marco de diseño inclusivo para estudiantes novatos en diseño de bioingeniería y rehabilitación" / Journal article "An inclusive design framework for novice students doing bioengineering and rehabilitation design" Base Diseño e Innovación, 7, 71 - 92. Co-authored with Sarah Wakes
Jurado en las presentaciones en-línea de proyectos de año 2022 de la Formación UXDI en Experiencias Digitales Formación UXDI es una especialización educativa de Experiencia de Usuario y Diseño Inclusivo basada en el aprendizaje grupal con proyectos reales ("Learning by Doing"). Fui invitada a evaluar 9 proyectos desarrollados en base a diferentes Objetivos del Desarrollo Sostenible de la ONU.
Talk "Community-centred design: Innovating with learners and educators using Bridging Design Prototypes". Ulearn22, October 12, Core Education
Design Educators Conversing with Health Educators on Lessons Learned from Teaching Online for More Than a Decade, Thursday, 22 September, 2022, Online from Pennsylavnia State University
At #DEL22 OB3 co-founder Gloria Gomez brought together health & design educators to talk about their experiences of online teaching. Read the writeup over on linkedin #higheducation #healtheducation #edtech #designhttps://t.co/G4yUGFMx3h pic.twitter.com/wy6soqAFBf
— Rodney Tamblyn (@ocnb3) October 3, 2022
Ponencia "Bridging Design Prototype": Fortalecimiento del Rol del Diseño como Recurso Estratégico en Organizaciones Pequeñas". Presentada el Congreso (Virtual) de Enseñanza del Diseño 2022
ePoster Presentation Human-centred design with Bridging Design Prototypes, Ditial Health Week 2022, Digital Health & Informatics Network, 15 - 17 February 2022, University of Sydney, Australia
Gloria Gomez led online discussion about the work "A World of Many Worlds" by Marisol de la Cadena & Mario Blaser, Pluriversal Design SIG, Design Research Society, 27 November 2020
Online discussion on the paper "Bridging Design Prototypes and Autonomous Design" hosted by the Design Literacy International Network. Access to announcement and video recording here
Authored paper titled "Reflecting how the Bridging Design Prototype approach could contribute to the concept of Autonomía". Presented at Pivot 2020: Designing a world of many centers,New Orleans,USA. Link to full paper
Co-authored poster with Vaslak Rojas titled "Adaptando metodologías de diseño industrial para el desarrollo de ayudas técnicas inclusivas para la diversidad funcional". Presented virtually at Festival de La Imagen 2020, Caldas, Colombia.
Co-authored paper with Sarah Wakes titled "A framework to support inclusive design teaching and product evaluation: application in overcoming barriers in food preparation for elderly visual impaired people" . Presented virtually at the Designing of Inclusive Learning Experience Conference, Italy, 2019.
Coral Session on User Centric Design, 2015 Active and Assisted Living (AAL) Forum in Belgium
Panel member at 2015 EU Design Days in Belgium
Speaker at ABIRA 2013 organised by Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano in Colombia
INTERVIEWS
- '194. Diseño de ambientes educativos (Colombia/ Nueva Zelandia)', Podcast 'Diseño y Diáspora', January 2021, Escuchar en Spotify o Escuchar en Anchor
- 'A Trip to Brussels lead[sic] to an Application', 20-09-2016. English version
- 'En tur til Bruxelles førte til en EU-ansøgning', 17-06-2015. Dansk version
- ‘Inclusive Design’, DI&S Newsletter, Issue 1, 2012, p. 5