Heike Winschiers-Theophilus

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2008-2024
Publications (10 Years): 74

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AfriCHI

PDC (2)

CHI Extended Abstracts

C&T

Publications

Chris Muashekele, Kasper Rodil, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Shorty Kandjengo
Recovering lost futures of the past: Situating alternative futures within an indigenous Afrocentric orientation and past trajectory. PDC (2024)
Katja Becker, Helvi Itenge, Selma Auala, Joseph-David Isaacs, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Co-design of an Extended Reality Escape Room with Primary School Students. IDC (2024)
Sebastian Mukumbira, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Implications of an ecospatial indigenous perspective on digital information organization and access. Int. J. Digit. Libr. 25 (2) (2024)
Naska Goagoses, Tomi Suovuo, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Calkin Suero Montero, Nicolas Pope, Erkki Rötkönen, Erkki Sutinen
A systematic review of social classroom climate in online and technology-enhanced learning environments in primary and secondary school. Educ. Inf. Technol. 29 (2) (2024)
Shaimaa Lazem, Muhammad Sadi Adamu, Yasmeen Abdrabou, Chris Muashekele, Sheena Erete, Jakita Thomas, Hafeni Mthoko, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Nicola J. Bidwell, Aderonke Sakpere, Anicia Peters
What if?.. Fabulating African HCI Futures within the Veil of HCI. AfriCHI (2023)
Jason Mendes, Selma Auala, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Tomi 'bgt' Suovuo, Erkki Sutinen, Calkin Suero Montero, Naska Goagoses
Bridging Spaces: A Student Perspective on Designing for Remote Presence with 3D Holograms. AfriCHI (2023)
Francisco Nunes, Joana Couto da Silva, Beatriz Félix, Ricardo Melo, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Naveen Bagalkot, Nervo Verdezoto, Shaimaa Lazem, Alastair van Heerden, Thulani Ngubane, Sarina Till, Melissa Densmore
African Co-Design: Past, Present, and Emerging. AfriCHI (2023)
Rumbidzai Chitakunye, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Vera De Cauwer, Sebastian Mukumbira
Developing an ethnobotanical application with and for Ovahimba communities. AfriCHI (2023)
Kaulyaalalwa Peter, Tinashe Kanengoni, Takunda Hwaire, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Windhoek Smart City Hunt App: Designing for Citizen Engagement. COMPASS (2023)
Naska Goagoses, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Erkki Rötkönen
Students' achievement goals: Goal approximation, engagement, and emotions in co-design activities and product. Int. J. Child Comput. Interact. 36 (2023)
Kaulyaalalwa Peter, Selma Auala, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
An AR Game for Primary Learners to Safeguard Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ovahimba Tribe. IMX (2023)
Emilie Maria Nybo Arendttorp, Selma Auala, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Kasper Rodil, Samkao Magot
A Community-Based Exploration Into Gesture-driven Locomotion Control in Virtual Reality. AfriCHI (2023)
Chris Muashekele, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Kasper Rodil, Alphons Koruhama
Ancestral and Cultural Futuring: Speculative Design in an Indigenous ovaHimba context. C&T (2023)
Chris Muashekele, Kasper Rodil, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Christof Magoath
Futuring from an indigenous community stance: projecting temporal duality from the past into the future. CHI Extended Abstracts (2023)
Chris Muashekele, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Kasper Rodil, Uariaike Mbinge
Infusing Futuring into Community-based Co-design: A Pathway to Innovative Technology Design with Indigenous Communities in Africa. AfriCHI (2023)
Freja B. K. Johansen, Mads Rosengreen Jørgensen, Thomas K. K. Kjeldsen, Samkao Magot, Shorty Kandjengo, Joseph-David Isaacs, Selma Auala, Rosetha Kays, Emilie Maria Nybo Arendttorp, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Kasper Rodil
Lets dance /Hi//Ka//Kusi with non-player character Ju/'Hoansi women in Virtual Reality. AfriCHI (2023)
Emilie Maria Nybo Arendttorp, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Kasper Rodil, Freja B. K. Johansen, Mads Rosengreen Jørgensen, Thomas K. K. Kjeldsen, Samkao Magot
Grab It, While You Can: A VR Gesture Evaluation of a Co-Designed Traditional Narrative by Indigenous People. CHI (2023)
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Naska Goagoses, Erkki Rötkönen, Tariq Zaman
Pushing political, cultural, and geographical boundaries: Distributed co-design with children from Namibia, Malaysia and Finland. Int. J. Child Comput. Interact. 31 (2022)
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Bridging worlds: indigenous knowledge in the digital world. JCDL (2022)
Tariq Zaman, David Lim, Isaac Makosa, Naska Goagoses, Erkki Rötkönen, Helvi Itenge, Daniel Yong Wen Tan, Sydney Mutelo, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
A Children-Created Virtual Learning Space Station. IMX (2022)
Naska Goagoses, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Tariq Zaman, Helvi Itenge, Erkki Rötkönen, Daniel Yong Wen Tan, Rachel Charlotte Smith
Facilitation Tools and Techniques for Distributed Online Co-Design with Children. NordiCHI (Adjunct) (2022)
Emilie Maria Nybo Arendttorp, Kasper Rodil, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Christof Magoath
Overcoming Legacy Bias: Re-Designing Gesture Interactions in Virtual Reality With a San Community in Namibia. CHI (2022)
Emilie Maria Nybo Arendttorp, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Helvi Itenge, Milo Marsfeldt Skovfoged
Save the Yummy Candyland: An Asymmetric Virtual Reality Game. CHI PLAY (2022)
Freja B. K. Johansen, Thomas K. K. Kjeldsen, Mads Rosengren Jørgensen, Samkao Magot, April Magot, Shorty Kandjengo, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Emilie Maria Nybo Arendttorp, Kasper Rodil
Hunting with the Ju/'hoansi in the Kalahari: A co-created VR gesture application. NordiCHI (Adjunct) (2022)
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Tariq Zaman, Donovan Maasz, Chris Muashekele, Uariaike Mbinge, Garen Jengan, Colin Stanley, Khairuddin Ab-Hamid
Indigenous Knowledge Fairs: a new approach to pluralistic knowledge dissemination in HCI. NordiCHI (Adjunct) (2022)
Pietari Keskinen, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Shilumbe Chivuno-Kuria, Anna Müller, Marko Nieminen
Digital microwork as a livelihood strategy in a Namibian informal settlement. Electron. J. Inf. Syst. Dev. Ctries. 88 (1) (2022)
Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Gopinaath Kannabiran, Simran Chopra, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Dilrukshi Gamage, Ebtisam Alabdulqader, Heather McKinnon, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Shaowen Bardzell
Feminist Voices about Ecological Issues in HCI. CHI Extended Abstracts (2022)
Helvi Itenge, Chris Muashekele, Michael Bosomefi Chamunorwa, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Margot Brereton, Alessandro Soro
Design and evaluation of a social and embodied multiplayer reading game to engage primary school learners in Namibia. Br. J. Educ. Technol. 53 (6) (2022)
Nicolas Pope, Sebastian Hahta, Erkki Rötkönen, Naska Goagoses, Jason Mendes, Erkki Sutinen, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Remote Presence: Live Holograms for a Social Classroom. IMX (2022)
Erkki Rötkönen, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Naska Goagoses, Tariq Zaman, Helvi Itenge, Daniel Yong Wen Tan, Erkki Sutinen
Creating Smart Connected Learning Ecosystems: A Hybrid Model for Design-Based Learning. IxD&A 52 (2022)
Chris Muashekele, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Gereon Koch Kapuire
Integrating a community-based co-designed wildlife activity recording tool into a multi-stakeholder conservation management system. AfriCHI (2021)
Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Dilrukshi Gamage, Christian Sturm, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Juan Fernando Maestre, Naveena Karusala, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Neha Kumar
Decolonizing HCI Across Borders. CHI Extended Abstracts (2021)
Edwin H. Blake, Uariaike Mbinge, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Donovan Maasz, Colin Stanley, Chris Paul Muashekele, Gereon Koch Kapuire
Going Beyond Empowered Design by Scaffolding Inter-community Engagement. C&T (2021)
Sebastian Mukumbira, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Chris Muashekele, Rumbidzai Chitakunye, Peter Wandai, Vera De Cauwer
Conservation tool design caught in the midst of transdisciplinary negotiations of data accuracy. AfriCHI (2021)
Naska Goagoses, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Michael Bosomefi Chamunorwa
The (Potential) Role of Technology for Young Children's Social-Emotional Learning: During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic. Digit. Gov. Res. Pract. 2 (1) (2021)
Helvi Itenge, Carolina Islas Sedano, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Virtually Escaping Lock Down - co-designing a mixed reality escape room narrative with Namibian learners-. AfriCHI (2021)
Peter Kaulbach, Helena Afrikaner, Brit Stichel, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Crafting Communication Protocols with a San Community in Namibia. AfriCHI (2021)
Erkki Rötkönen, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Naska Goagoses, Helvi Itenge, Gabriel Shinedima, Erkki Sutinen
Playing on the Globe: Facilitating virtual communications between Namibian and Finnish learners to co-design an interactive map game. IDC (2021)
Rachel Charlotte Smith, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Daria Loi, Rogério Abreu de Paula, Asnath Paula Kambunga, Marly Muudeni Samuel, Tariq Zaman
Decolonizing Design Practices: Towards Pluriversality. CHI Extended Abstracts (2021)
Pietari Keskinen, Marley Samuel, Helena Afrikaner, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
A community-initiated website development project: promoting a San community campsite initiative. AfriCHI (2021)
Elizabeth Ujarura Kamutuezu, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Anicia Peters
An Exploration of Factors Influencing the Adoption of ICT Enabled Entrepreneurship Applications in Namibian Rural Communities. CoRR (2021)
Pietari Keskinen, Niina Arvila, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Marko Nieminen
The Effect of Digital Community-Based Tourism Platform to Hosts' Livelihood. IDIA (2020)
Kasper Rodil, Donovan Maasz, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Moving Virtual Reality out of its Comfort Zone and Into the African Kalahari Desert Field: Experiences From Technological Co-Exploration With an Indigenous San Community in Namibia. VRST (2020)
Rachel Charlotte Smith, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Asnath Paula Kambunga, Sarala Krishnamurthy
Decolonizing Participatory Design: Memory Making in Namibia. PDC (1) (2020)
Naska Goagoses, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Tariq Zaman
Community protocols for researchers: using sketches to communicate interaction guidelines. AI Soc. 35 (3) (2020)
Kasper Rodil, Martin Kamp Larsen, Mikkel Laursen, Tobias Frost Andersen, Weronika Korbutt, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
A Demonstration of an interactive Virtual Reality Prototype for Exploring the Cultural Heritage of Southern African Rock Art. MobileHCI (Extended Abstracts) (2020)
Rachel Charlotte Smith, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Daria Loi, Asnath Paula Kambunga, Marly Muudeni Samuel, Rogerio DePaula
Decolonising Participatory Design Practices: Towards Participations Otherwise. PDC (2) (2020)
Niina Arvila, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Pietari Keskinen, Roosa Laurikainen, Marko Nieminen
Enabling successful crowdfunding for entrepreneurs in marginalized communities. Mindtrek (2020)
Michael Bosomefi Chamunorwa, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Tariq Zaman
Bridging Internet Coverage Gaps among Nomadic Pastoralists in Namibia. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (Companion Volume) (2020)
Asnath Paula Kambunga, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Rachel Charlotte Smith
Participatory Memory Making: Creating Postcolonial Dialogic Engagements with Namibian Youth. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (2020)
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Tariq Zaman, Colin Stanley
A classification of cultural engagements in community technology design: introducing a transcultural approach. AI Soc. 34 (3) (2019)
Chris Muashekele, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Gereon Koch Kapuire
Co-Design as a Means of Fostering Appropriation of Conservation Monitoring Technology by Indigenous Communities. C&T (2019)
Kasper Rodil, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Tutaleni I. Asino, Tariq Zaman
Preface. IxD&A 41 (2019)
Anicia Peters, Hafeni Mthoko, Shaimaa Lazem, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Maletsabisa Molapo
My heart is in Havana: designing with marginalized African communities. Interactions 26 (5) (2019)
Brit Stichel, Edwin H. Blake, Donovan Maasz, Colin Stanley, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Helena Afrikaner
Namibian Indigenous Communities Reflecting on Their Own Digital Representations. C&T (2019)
Brit Stichel, Helena Afrikaner, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Cameron MacRae
A mediated intermedia conversation around the perception and self-perceptions of the San. AfriCHI (2018)
Helvi Itenge-Wheeler, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Alessandro Soro, Margot Brereton
Child designers creating personas to diversify design perspectives and concepts for their own technology enhanced library. IDC (2018)
Maria Kauhondamwa, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Simson Kapembe, Hiskia Costa, Jan Guxab, Isay Kamati, Helena Afrikaner
Co-creating personal augmented reality accessories to enhance social well-being of urban San youth. AfriCHI (2018)
Helvi Itenge, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
People's primary school interactive tech library exhibition. AfriCHI (2018)
Asnath Paula Kambunga, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Naska Goagoses
Re-conceptualizing technology adoption in informal settlements based on a Namibian application. AfriCHI (2018)
Naska Goagoses, Asnath Paula Kambunga, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Enhancing commitment to participatory design initiatives. PDC (2) (2018)
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Anicia Peters
Community lab, Namibia University of Science and Technology. Interactions 24 (6) (2017)
Marley Samuel, Jennyfer Lawrence Taylor, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Marko Nieminen
Improving the flow of livelihood information among unemployed youth in an informal settlement of Windhoek, Namibia: Full paper. C&T (2017)
Ruben Ndjibu, Anicia N. Peters, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Fannes Namhunya
Gender-based Violence Campaign in Namibia: Traditional meets Technology for Societal Change. CHI Extended Abstracts (2017)
Gereon Koch Kapuire, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Margot Brereton
Deriving Engagement Protocols Within Community-Based Co-design Projects in Namibia. ICT4D (2017)
Anicia Peters, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Tuomo Kujala
HCI out of Namibia. Interactions 24 (4) (2017)
Colin Stanley, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Edwin H. Blake, Kasper Rodil, Gereon Koch Kapuire, Donovan Maasz, Michael Chamunorwa
Formulating "the obvious" as a task request to the crowd: an interactive design experience across cultural and geographical boundaries. PDC (2) (2016)
Daniel G. Cabrero, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, José L. Abdelnour-Nocera
A Critique of Personas as representations of "the other" in Cross-Cultural Technology Design. AfriCHI (2016)
Mark Mushiba, Peter Gallert, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
On Persuading an OvaHerero Community to Join the Wikipedia Community. CaTaC (2016)
Tariq Zaman, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Franklin George, Alvin Yeo Wee, Hasnain Falak, Naska Goagoses
Using sketches to communicate interaction protocols of an indigenous community. PDC (2) (2016)
Helvi Itenge-Wheeler, Essi Kuure, Margot Brereton, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Co-creating an enabling reading environment for and with Namibian children. PDC (1) (2016)
Daniel G. Cabrero, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, José L. Abdelnour-Nocera, Gereon Koch Kapuire
A hermeneutic inquiry into user-created personas in different Namibian locales. PDC (1) (2016)
Daniel G. Cabrero, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, José L. Abdelnour-Nocera
Reconceptualising Personas Across Cultures: Archetypes, Stereotypes & Collective Personas in Pastoral Namibia. CaTaC (2016)
Peter Gallert, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Gereon Koch Kapuire, Colin Stanley, Daniel G. Cabrero, Bobby Shabangu
Indigenous Knowledge for Wikipedia: A Case Study with an OvaHerero Community in Eastern Namibia. AfriCHI (2016)
Tariq Zaman, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Penan's Oroo' Short Message Signs (PO-SMS): Co-design of a Digital Jungle Sign Language Application. INTERACT (2) (2015)
Tariq Zaman, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Alvin W. Yeo, Lai Chiu Ting, Garen Jengan
Reviving an indigenous rainforest sign language: digital Oroo' adventure game. ICTD (2015)
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Tariq Zaman, Alvin W. Yeo
Reducing "white elephant" ICT4D projects: a community-researcher engagement. C&T (2015)
Gereon Koch Kapuire, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Edwin H. Blake
An insider perspective on community gains: A subjective account of a Namibian rural communities' perception of a long-term participatory design project. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. 74 (2015)
Kasper Rodil, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Indigenous Storytelling in Namibia: Sketching Concepts for Digitization. Culture Computing (2015)
Gereon Koch Kapuire, Daniel G. Cabrero, Colin Stanley, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Framing Technology Design in Ubuntu: Two Locales in Pastoral Namibia. OZCHI (2015)
Daniel G. Cabrero, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Hedvig Mendonca
User-Created Personas - A Micro-cultural Lens into Informal Settlement's Youth Life. HWID (2015)
Anicia N. Peters, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Brian E. Mennecke
Cultural influences on Facebook practices: A comparative study of college students in Namibia and the United States. Comput. Hum. Behav. 49 (2015)
Gereon Koch Kapuire, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Colin Stanley, Shilumbe Chivuno-Kuria, Kasper Rodil, McAlbert Katjivirue, Ernest Tjitendero
Community-based co-design in Okomakuara a contribution to 'design in the wild'. PDC (2) (2014)
Anicia N. Peters, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Nicola J. Bidwell, Arun Kumar, Daniel O. Ochieng, Fatoumata Camara, Susan M. Dray
Community centered collaborative HCI design / research in developing countries. CHI Extended Abstracts (2014)
Kasper Rodil, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Gereon Koch Kapuire, Colin Stanley, Shilumbe Chivuno-Kuria
Participatory exploration of digitalizing cultural content: getting married. are we ready? PDC (2) (2014)
Kasper Rodil, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Colin Stanley, Gereon Koch Kapuire, Matthias Rehm
An approach to user interface design with two indigenous groups in Namibia. OZCHI (2014)
Elia Theophilus, Beate Zorn, Naska Goagoses, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Michel U. Onwordi
The e-Baobab: connecting citizens on various matters. PDC (2) (2014)
Anicia N. Peters, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Kagonya Awori, Nicola J. Bidwell, Edwin H. Blake, Arun Kumar, Shilumbe Chivuno-Kuria
Collaborating with communities in Africa: a hitchhikers guide. CHI Extended Abstracts (2014)
Anicia Peters, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Brian E. Mennecke
Bridging the digital divide through facebook friendships: a cross-cultural study. CSCW Companion (2013)
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Kasper Rodil, Tariq Zaman, Alvin W. Yeo, Kasper Løvborg Jensen
Mobile technologies for preservation of indigenous knowledge in rural communities. CITA (2013)
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Nicola J. Bidwell
Toward an Afro-Centric Indigenous HCI Paradigm. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact. 29 (4) (2013)
Kasper Rodil, Matthias Rehm, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Homestead Creator: Using Card Sorting in Search for Culture-Aware Categorizations of Interface Objects. INTERACT (1) (2013)
Colin Stanley, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Michel U. Onwordi, Gereon Koch Kapuire
Rural communities crowdsource technology development: a Namibian expedition. ICTD (2) (2013)
Kasper Rodil, Kasper Løvborg Jensen, Matthias Rehm, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Identifying and Representing Elements of Local Contexts in Namibia. HCI (3) (2013)
Naska Winschiers-Goagoses, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Kasper Rodil, Gereon Koch Kapuire, Kasper Løvborg Jensen
Design Democratization with Communities: Drawing Toward Locally Meaningful Design. Int. J. Sociotechnology Knowl. Dev. 4 (4) (2012)
Kasper Rodil, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Kasper Løvborg Jensen
Enhancing cross-cultural participation through creative visual exploration. PDC (1) (2012)
Kasper Løvborg Jensen, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Kasper Rodil
Tapping into local lore: toward scalable local mapping and tagging for rural Africa using mobile devices. NordiCHI (2012)
Kasper Rodil, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Kasper Løvborg Jensen, Matthias Rehm
Homestead creator: a tool for indigenous designers. NordiCHI (2012)
Kasper Løvborg Jensen, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Kasper Rodil, Naska Winschiers-Goagoses, Gereon Koch Kapuire, Richard Kamukuenjandje
Putting it in perspective: designing a 3D visualization to contextualize indigenous knowledge in rural Namibia. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (2012)
Nicola J. Bidwell, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Audio pacemaker: walking, talking indigenous knowledge. SAICSIT (2012)

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