Jo Dugstad Wake conducts research on Human-computer interaction, interaction design and user experience and usability evaluation. Wake has a PhD from the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, at the University of Bergen, from 2013. His dissertation was about the design, implementation and evaluation of location-based games for learning.
Wake has experience with user-driven development of digital applications within a range of domains, inkluding health work and school settings. Currently, he is most interested in immersive technolgies, extended and virtual reality and digital twins. Wake has lead several studies which has involved participatory design, prototyping and evaluation of new technology, and has published extensively within this area. Wake is especially interested in how the development of inventive technology involves early testing of prototypes with users, to ensures relevance and usability of the technology, and how users can be facilitated as co-designers. He has experience with how development of digital technology for mental health is an interplay between establishing clinical needes, prototyping, user testing, validations with RCTs, to implementation and commercialisation. Wake also has practical experience with conducting RCTs through participation in a series of studies within music therapy.
