Master of Digital Experience Innovation Faculty

The faculty of the Master of Digital Experience Innovation program are experienced in their respective fields, and excited about being a part of a program that's like no other.

Wendi Adair

Associate Professor, Psychology

wladair@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x38143

Wendi's research focuses on negotiation and conflict management in the global marketplace. Much of her work investigates the universality of negotiation theory that has been largely developed in the West (information exchange, persuasion, decision-making biases, reciprocity, offer-counter offers) and defines cultural norms for negotiation strategies, sequences, and stages in multiple national cultures. Other areas of research include the role of context in communication, behavioral adaptation, and third culture building in cross-cultural interactions. Her research on reciprocity in cross-cultural negotiations has received awards from both the American Psychological Association and the International Association for Conflict Management. Her work identifying the different paths that U.S. and Japanese negotiators take to generate joint gains was recognized with an award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

See Wendi's full profile for information about her publications.

 

Paul Doherty

Continuing Lecturer (permanent faculty), Director, International Entrepreneurship

pdoherty@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x23007

Currently a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Paul has also been a faculty member in the faculty of Engineering. Previous appointments included: Director, Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (CBET) in the Faculty of Engineering, Associate Director, Academic Programs (CBET), Assistant Professor, School of Business and Economics (WLU), Research Professor, Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of Waterloo and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Western Ontario (UWO). He is a past Fellow of CIGI and has managed several large multi-million dollar industrial R&D programs in the energy, environment and advanced materials space.

Paul's current research is in the fields of innovation, business ethics and strategy, business cluster analysis and the management and commercialization of ideas. He is heavily involved in developing innovative ideas and accelerating business opportunities. He is the founder/co-founder of several start-up companies and acts as a consultant in the energy industry.

 

Glen Drummond

Chief Innovation Officer, Quarry Integrated Communications

gdrummond@quarry.com
519-664-2999 x 2226

As our Chief Innovation Officer, Glen has been a driving force in Quarry's entry into several now-core areas of expertise: website design and development way back in 1993, usability in 1999 and, since then, marketing personas, search marketing and relationship nurturing through marketing automation. He has also been instrumental in the research and development of BrandErgonomics®. Much of his direct client consulting time is now spent in the field of clean technology, where he and his team are building a vertically focused expertise.

Find Glen's full profile on the Quarry website.

 

Kevin Harrigan

Professor, Drama & Speech Communication, Head of Gambling Research Team

kevinh@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x36652

Kevin Harrigan is a professor at the University of Waterloo where he teaches courses in multimedia and computer game design and conduct research on slot machine addictions. For more information on his research, see his Gambling Research Website.

 

Christine McWebb

Director, Academic Programs, Associate Professor

cmcwebb@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32465

Christine McWebb holds a PhD in French from the University of Western Ontario, and is an Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies at the University of Waterloo, as well as the Director, Academic Programs at the Waterloo Stratford Campus. Before coming to Waterloo, McWebb worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta (1999-2003). She has published extensively in the areas of late medieval literature/culture, the interaction between text and iconography, scientific discourse in literature, and Digital Humanities. McWebb is director of the internationally known MARGOT project. As director and a researcher of MARGOT, she leads several international collaborative projects in the area of Digital Humanities, such as the development of image annotation software and the creation of enriched databases of medieval manuscripts. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in French and German literature/culture, translation studies, and Digital Humanities. She is a member of the editorial board of the e-journals Medieval Philology: Journal for Medieval French Studies (Johns Hopkins UP), @analyses. Revue de critique et de théorie littéraire (University of Ottawa), and of the national advisory board of Digital Studies (SDH/SEMI).”

For more information about Christine's research, see her full profile.

 

John Michela

Associate Professor, Psychology and Management Sciences

jmichela@watarts.uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x2164

John is an Associate Professor of Management Sciences and Psychology. With an undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland in Psychology, and a Masters and Ph.D. from the University of California in Social Psychology, John has covered a number of research topics in HR, organizational behaviour and leadership vision. His current research topics include organizational Behvariour and Human Resource contributions to innovation, Leadership Vision in Organizational and Community Development, Organizational climate and culture, and the levels of analysis problem in organizational research and Quantitative methods. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the Canadian Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (USA) and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

For more information about John, see his full profile.

 

Raymond Pirouz

Author, Consultant & Lecturer

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Raymond Pirouz is an author, consultant and lecturer at the intersection of design, technology, commerce and culture. An alumni of the Art Center College of Design, where he graduated with honors, Pirouz began his career as an advertising art director and later established a design studio where he consulted on projects for Adobe, c|net, Caltech, Macromedia, NASA/JPL, USC, Virgin Records and for clients representing American Century Mutual Funds, American Honda, Cathay Pacific, Fidelity Federal Bank, Panasonic, Toyota and others. Before transitioning to consult and teach full-time, Pirouz served as Director of Marketing at lynda.com, a subscription-based online publisher of video training material for teachers, students and creative professionals working with digital media. Pirouz is the author of three books and has been featured in publications including Wired, Communication Arts, the AIGA Journal of Design, the Independent of London and books including Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer¹s Edge, Education of an E-Designer and How to Design Logos, Symbols & Icons: 24 Internationally Renowned Studios Reveal How They Develop Trademarks for Print and New Media. Pirouz has served as a judge for design and advertising competitions, spoken at a number of conferences and taught at UCLA Extension and the Art Center College of Design. Pirouz currently lectures at the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California Irvine, the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and the Master of Digital Experience Innovation (MDEI) program at the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus.

 

Neil Randall

Director, The Games Institute, Associate Professor, English

nrandall@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x33397

Neil's years at the University of Waterloo have been spent helping to build the Rhetoric and Professional Writing/Communication Design programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels while establishing a profile in the practice of professional communication and documentation. To those ends, he has published numerous how-to computer books and many feature articles, columns, and reviews in computer magazines such as PC Magazine, Smart Computing, PC Computing, PC Gamer, etc. In addition, he has consulted with a variety of technology companies on topics such as proposal writing, copyright and patent issues, and public relations. Also in the professional writing line, he recently begun to design and work on the production of board games of the complex simulation kind, and in the past he was a music columnist and a computer columnist for the local newspaper. All of this activity has found its way into his classes and his research, as has his long-time fascination with the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien.

For more information on Neil and his research, see his full profile.

 

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