Teaching relating to training

• "Usability in Practice: from user-centred design to usability testing" seminar, 6 ECTS, autumn semester
• Supervising bachelor students’ projects
• Supervising workshop work for master’s students
• Supervising diploma work for bachelor’s and master’s degrees

Teaching relating to continuing education

• Successfully implementing CAS usability and user experience 
• The “Sozio-technische Systemgestaltung und Partizipation” (“socio-technical system design and participation”) course in the Business Psychology master's programme
• The “Medien- und Technikeinsatz” (“utilising media and technology”) course in the Corporate Development master's programme

Ongoing research and development

• The PESCO Platform for the exchange of services with developing countries
• New procedures for democratic urban development
• Development of a point-of-care application for regulating the concentration of medication in blood streams of patients who have undergone an organ transplant.

Completed

• Video consultation for treating and caring for paraplegics
• i-MOW – services and tools for integrated and mobile knowledge and office work
• Therapeutic drug monitoring device 
• Social media in teaching and learning scenarios 
• Cooperation skills in KoNet networks

Career to date

Fred van den Anker studied psychology at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and did his PhD in work and organisation psychology at Delft University of Technology (NL). Before he became a lecturer at FHNW’s School of Applied Psychology, he was a junior professor of work and organisation psychology at the University of Hamburg. The content of his work is focused on usability engineering/user-centred design and user-participation methods.

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Van den Anker, F, Klammer, J. & Schäfer, A. (2014). Co-design of train coaches for mobile work. Wirtschaftspsychologie, 16(4-2014), 96-104.
Klammer, J., Van den Anker, F.W.G. & Janneck, M. (accepted). Critical success factors for establishing online user participation in system design: An evaluation in healthcare. International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in IT (IJSODIT).

Klammer, J., Van den Anker, F., Froehlich, J.K., & de Groote, Z. (2014). Successful community management: What drives user participation in online research communities?. Paper presented at the 2014 General Online Research Conference (GOR). Cologne, DE.

Edinger, E.-V., Reimer, R. T.D., Klammer, J., Konrad, J., Mathez, J., Göldi, S., Papanikolaou, M., Dörhöfer, S., Pimmer, C., Van den Anker, F., Zölch, M. (2013). Doing Social Media. Social Media in Lehr- und Lernszenarien der Aus-und Weiterbildung. Einsatzkonzept. URL: http://blogs.fhnw.ch/SMinLehre/files/2012/06/Einsatzkonzept_Social_Media.pdf.  

Klammer, J., Van den Anker, F.W.G. & Janneck, M. (2011). Participatory service innovation in healthcare: The case of videoconsultation for paraplegics. In: Proceedings of Participatory Innovation Conference, p. 293-300.

Klammer, J. & Anker, F.W.G. van den. (2011). Social media for organizational participation. European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Workshop on socialmedia@work. Aarhus, 25. Sept.

Van den Anker, F.W.G. & Klammer, J. (2011). What will you see today? What will you do tomorrow? User generated content for service design. Touchpoint - The Journal of Service Design, 2 (3), 38-39.

Van den Anker, F.W.G. & Klammer, J. (2011). Blended Participatory Design: Combining social media with face-to-face methods to support user participation. Berliner Werkstatt für Mensch-Maschine Systeme 2011. 184-185.

Ulbrich, S., Troitzsch, H., Van den Anker, F., Plüss, A. & Huber, C. (2011). How teams in network organisations develop collaborative capability: processes, critical incidents, and success factors. Journal of Production Planning and Control, 22 (5), 488-500.

Klammer, J., Van den Anker, F.W.G., Janneck, M. (2010). Embedding Participatory Design Processes into Everyday Work Activities: The Case of Video Consultation Services for Paraplegics. In: Proceedings of PDC 2010, p. 219-222.

Ulbrich, S., Troitzsch, H., Van den Anker, F.W.G., Plüss, A. & Huber, C. (2009). Collaborative Capability of Teams in Network Organizations. In: L.M.Camarinha-Matos, I. Paraskakis & H. Afsarmanesh (Eds.): Leveraging Knowledge for Innovation in Collaborative Networks. PRO-VE 2009, IFIP AICT 307, 149-156.

Van den Anker, F.W.G., Troitzsch, H. & Ulbrich, S. (2009). Organizational design of collaboration in network organizations: the role of management in an Austrian innovation network. International Product Development Management Conference Proceedings, 2009, Twente, The Netherlands, June 6-8, 2009.

Van den Anker, F.W.G. & Sarodnick, F. (2008), Organisationsgestaltung in Kooperationsnetzwerken: Gestaltungsfragen, -optionen und Entscheidungskriterien. Wirtschaftspsychologie, 10 (1), p. 93-99.

Van den Anker, F.W.G., Bamberg, E., Nühse, K., Sarodnick, F. & Strasse, C. (Hrsg.). (2006). Arbeit in virtuellen Unternehmen. Anforderungsanalyse und Entwicklung von Gestaltungs-vorschlägen für Kleinunternehmen und Freelancer in Netzwerken. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag.

Sarodnick, F., Van den Anker, F.W.G., Mumme, M. & Bamberg, E. (2006), Organisation virtueller, kooperativer Arbeit in Netzwerken: Kooperationsformen, Prozesse und Unterstützung. In: F.W.G. van den Anker, E. Bamberg, F. Sarodnick, K.-D. Fröhner, M. Reuter, K. Nühse & C. Strasse (Hrsg.): Arbeit in virtuellen Unternehmen: Anforderungsanalyse und Entwicklung von Gestaltungsvorschlägen für Kleinunternehmen und Freelancer in Netzwerken. Cuvillier Verlag.

Van den Anker, F.W.G. & Schulze, H. (2006). Scenario-based design of ICT-supported work. In W. Karwowski (Ed.), 2nd Edition of the International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors. London: Taylor and Francis.

Van den Anker, F.W.G., Sarodnick, F. & Mumme, M. (2005), Kooperative Arbeit in virtuellen Unternehmen: kollektive Selbstregulation und Möglichkeiten der Unterstützung. In Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft e.V. (Hrsg.): Personalmanagement und Arbeitsgestaltung: Träger von Innovation, Gesundheit und Leistung. 51. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft, 22. - 24. März 2005 , Universität Heidelberg, p. 673-677. Dortmund: GfA-Press.

Van den Anker, F.W.G. (2004), Die organisation vernetzter Kleinunternehmen und Freelancer: eine empirische Analyse. In: M. Engelien and K. Meißner (Hrsg.): Virtuelle Organisation und Neue Medien. Proceedings of the Workshop GeNeMe, Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien, 2004, p. 313-324. Lohmar-Köln: Josef Eul Verlag.

Van den Anker, F.W.G., Bamberg, E. & Strasse, C. (2003), Small enterprises and freelancers in networks: Forms of virtual work organization. In: H. Luczak & K.J. Zink (Eds): Human Factors in Organizational Design and Management-7, p. 269-274. Santa Monica, USA: IEA Press.

Van den Anker, F.W.G. (2003), Scenarios@work. Developing and evaluating scenarios related to cooperative work mediated by mobile multimedia communications. Wageningen: Ponsen & Looijen.

Van  den Anker, F.W.G. (2002), Mobile Multimedia Communications: A method for its early evaluation. In: E. Cifre, M. Salanova & M.D. Martinez-Perez (Eds.): New Information Technology and Work Psychology. European trends towards fitting individual, job and organizational characteristics to new information technology. Castello de la Plana: Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume.

Van den Anker, F.W.G. & Andriessen, J.H.T.H. (2000), De ontwikkeling en evaluatie van toekomstscenario’s. De mobiele multimedia communicatie case. Gedrag & Organisatie, p. 312-326.

Van den Anker, F.W.G. & Lichtveld, R.A. (2000), Early evaluation of new technologies. The case for mobile multimedia communications in emergency medicine. In: C. Vincent & B. de Mol (Eds.): Safety in medicine, p.193-215. Oxford: Elsevier Science.

Van den Anker, F.W.G. & Warmoeskerken, M. (2000), The usefulness of remote support through multimedia communications for copier service tasks: an experimental evaluation. Second international symposium for Mobile Multimedia Systems and Applications, Delft, 9-10 november 2000.

Van den Anker, F.W.G., Warmoeskerken, M. & Arnold, A.G. (2000), De gebruiker en de multimediale belofte. De waarde van hulp op afstand via multimedia communicatie voor technische taken. Tijdschrift voor Ergonomie, 25 (3), p. 74-84.

Van den Anker, F.W.G. & Arnold, A.G. (1998), The usefulness of mobile multimedia comunications: a case study. Displays, 18 (4), p. 193-197.

Van den Anker, F.W.G. & Arnold, A.G. (1997), Mobile multimedia communication: a task- and user-centered approach to future systems development. In: M.J. Smith, G. Salvendy & R.J. Koubek (Eds.): Advances in Human Factors/Ergonomics, Proceedings HCI International '97, San Francisco, USA, vol. 2, p. 651-654. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.

Van den Anker, F.W.G. & Arnold, A.G. (1997), Managing safety with mobile multimedia communication (MMC). In: P. Seppälä, T. Luopajärvi, C. Nygard & M. Mattila (Eds.): Proceedings of the 13th triennial congress of the International Ergonomics Association, Tampere, Finland, p.118-120.

Arnold, A.G. & Van den Anker, F.W.G. (1997), Evaluation Methodology Telematics Systems: Quality for Users and Context. SIGCHI Bulletin, 29, p. 72-76. 

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