Heiko Spallek Research Influences

Influences

Summary
My research focuses on applied informatics with the goal to efficiently use informatics principles in order to improve dental education. Many of my research projects have a foundation in the fields of education, usability engineering, medical and dental informatics and computer science. Also, my work is influenced by various stimuli coming from consulting assignments and my own training and teaching experience.

Figure 5: Impulses: other research, consulting assignments, teaching experience, own training

Other Research

Dental Informatics / Medical Informatics

• Evaluation Methods in Medical Informatics (Friedman)
• Dental Informatics: Strategic Issues for the Dental Profession (Rienhoff, Zimmerman, Salley)
• How Should Dental Informatics Evolve? (Schleyer)

Usability / Human Computer Interaction / Information Design

• Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity (Nielsen)
• Usable information technology (Nielsen)
• Persuasive Technology (Fogg)
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Tufte)
• The Design of Everyday Things (Norman)
• Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine (Norman)
• The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity (Cooper)
• The Human Interface (Raskin)

Digital Environment

• Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation (Tapscott)
• The Social Life of Information (Brown, Duguid)
• The Media Equation:How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media like Real People and Places (Reeves, Nass)
• Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities (Kim)

Evaluation of Educational Resources

• Evaluation Methods in Medical Informatics (Friedman)
• The research we should be doing (Friedman)
• Media will never influence learning (Clark)
• The research we should be doing (Friedman)
• Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Anderson & Krathwohl)
• Thinking About Answers: The Application of Cognitive Processes to Survey Methodology (Sudman, Bradburn, Schwarz)
• Mail and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design Method (Dillman)

Web Design

• Creating Killer Web Sites (Siegel)
• Release 2.1: a design for living in the digital age (Dyson)

Adaptive Hypermedia

• ELM-ART: An adaptive versatile system for Web-based instruction International (Weber, Brusilovsky)
• Adaptive hypermedia. User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction (Brusilovsky)
• Adaptive and Intelligent Technologies for Web-based Education (Brusilovsky)
• The Atomic Components of Thought (Anderson, Lebriere)
• 9th International Conference on User Modeling

Business and Innovation

• E-Commerce User Experience (Nielsen)
• The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from Ideo, America's Leading Design Firm (Kelley, Littman)
• Creativity in product innovation (Goldberg, Mazursky)
• Leading the Revolution (Hamel)
• Engines of Prosperity: Templates for the Information Age (Ungson, Trudel)
• Futurize Your Enterprise: Business Strategy in the Age of the E-customer (Siegel)
• Competing for the Future (Hamel, Prahalad)
• Post-Capitalist Society (Drucker)
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Gladwell)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Gladwell)
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Levitt)
  

Teaching & Writing

• Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace (Williams)
• How to speak how to listen (Adler)

 

Consulting Assignments

Web promotion
GABA International AG

Database-driven appointment tool
FreeVis

Web design & custom content management system
alz augenklinik münchen

Various consulting
S3 Web Technologies, LLC

Publishing and eCommerce
SPALLEK.COM

Community building Website
Certified Contractors Network

Website for non-profit organization
DGII

Own Training

Information technology and business training
MSBA, Computer and Information Science, Fox School of Business and Management, Philadelphia, 2000

Research Training
PhD in Dental Material Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, 1993

Professional Training
DMD, Humboldt University Berlin, School of Dentistry (Charité), 1993

Teaching Experience

Information technology teaching for predoctoral students
Introduction to Computing (1996-2003)

Informatics training for graduate students
Dental Informatics Research (1997-2003)
Management of Information Infrastructures (1997-2003)

Online Continuing Dental Education courses for dental professionals
Dentistry on the Internet (1997-2001)

Hands-on Continuing Dental Education courses for dental professionals
Discover the power of the Internet (1998-1999)

Faculty development workshop for dental educators
Educational implications for copyright in a digital world (1998)

Hands-on periodontal surgery courses
Clinical Periodontology – Basics of the non-surgical therapy & Periodontal Surgery (1993-1996)

Lecture for Medical Informatics students
Usability Engineering & Website Design Projects (2003)