Fuad Ali Mustafa EL-Qirem
Nationality: Jordanian
Address: Amman, Jordan
email :fouad.q@zuj.edu.jo
Personal Profile
Expert on Jordanian (or Arab countries) cultural variables and how culture affects the computer usage in Jordan (or Arab countries). Also interesting on Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research and how culture affects HCI and how can we improve the usage and usability of computer.
Education and Qualifications
Date 2009 University of Sunderland, UK. Qualification PhD in computing, Human Computer Interaction.
Thesis Title:CULTURAL FACTORS IN USERS’ EVALUATIONS OF USER INTERFACES AND INTERACTIONS: Exploration and representation of usage in Jordanian contexts. Supervisor: professor Gilbert Cockton.
Date 2003 University of Sunderland, UK. Qualification Master degree in project management.
Date 2002 Jordan University of Science and Technology. Qualification civil engineer.
Research Interests
HCI research and the relation between culture and HCI, and how culture affects the computer usage. Co-developed a ‘Diamond Model’ of Culture, which organizes a wide range of cultural variables from the HCI literature and related work. The key point of the model is that most cultural variables are not about the ‘look and feel’ of cultural markers as covered in most of the HCI literature, but instead impact how users evaluate their usage. Developed the relation between culture and HCI.Also, developing the teachingtechniques and methodology to improve student general knowledge.
Conferences and paper published
- Attend to IWIPS 2005 conference in 2005, Amsterdam.
- Cooperate in paper at NordiCHI 2006 conference, the subject was Modified Contextual Design as a Field Evaluation Method.
- Fuad EL-Qirem, Gilbert Cockton, M. Lotfi. (2007). Title of paper: “Cultural Differences in Severity and Impact of User Frustration” at IWIPS 2007 conference in Mexico. Product and Systems Internationalisation Inc, ISBN0 -9722184-5-9.
- Fuad EL-Qirem and Gilbert Cockton. “Computer Usage and User Experience in Jordan: Development and Application of the Diamond Model of Territorial Factors”. Publisher: Springer. Human-Computer Interaction: Towards Mobile and Intelligent Interaction Environments Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 6763, 2011, pp. 490-499 (2011).
- S. Al-Daajeh, R. Al-Qutais, and F. EL-Qirem. (2012). “A Tactic-Based Framework to Evaluate the Relationships between the Software Product Quality Attributes”. International Journal of Software Engineering, Vo. 5, No. 1, 2012, pp. 5-26.
- S. Al-Daajeh, R. Al-Qutaish, and F. Al-Qirem. (2011). “Engineering Dependability to Embedded Systems Software via Tactics”, International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications, Vol. 5, No. 4, 2011, pp. 45-62.
- Fuad EL-Qirem and Gilbert Cockton. (2015). “Dramatic Sketches: A New Interaction Design Resource for Communicating Contextual Communication Factors”. Publisher: Springer. Human-Computer Interaction: Towards Mobile and Intelligent Interaction Environments. Journal Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 9180, 2015, pp. 176-185.
Skills
Arabic and English Languages
Teaching skills (course on how to teach at university, from University
of Sunderland)
Have lead several seminars for undergraduate and postgraduate
students in the computer science department.
Certificates and experience
- Certificate from QAA (Quality Assurance Agency), the title of the certificate was “International quality assurance programme” October 2013 in London / UK.
- Certificate from the Association of Arab Universities, (preparation of external evaluates and the field visit to accredit the academic program) in the AL-ZAYTOONAH University of Jordan, November/2013
- Certificate of attendance at a workshop at the Third International Arab Conference for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. The title of the workshop was (Using Baldrige system of internal audit) on April 2013.
- Certificate from the Association of Arab Universities, (specialized in the basics of balanced performance and applications card session) in Petra University, Jordan, July 2013.
- Establishing a student community group called (IT club) to support student and also help the community to improve.
Current job
Head of multimedia system department at Al-Zaytoonah university of Jordan. Amman, Jordan, and assistant Dean for Quality assurance at IT faculty.