Informational Environments : Effects of Use, Effective Designs

Jürgen Buder studied psychology in Göttingen (diploma) and moved to Tübingen in 1995. There, he was working at the German Institute for Research on Distance Education (DIFF; 1995-2000) and at the Department of Applied Cognitive Psychology and Media Psychology of the Institute for Psychology at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (2000-2008). In 2002, he received a Faculty Award for his PhD thesis on knowledge exchange. Since 2008, he is at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) where he became Deputy Head of the Knowledge Exchange Lab in 2012. He also coordinated the scientific development of the Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Tübingen Informational Environments (2010-2017) and the Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Tübingen Cognitive Interfaces (since 2017).

Friedrich W. Hesse studied psychology at the Universities of Marburg and Düsseldorf, received his doctorate at the RWTH Aachen and qualified as Professor of Psychology at the University of Göttingen. He was research fellow at the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) and at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He was Head of the Department of Applied Cognitive Science at the German Institute of Research for Distance Education (DIFF) and for two years director at the Laboratoire Européen de Recherche sur les Apprentissages et les Nouvelles Technologies (LERANT) in France funded by CNRS. He is the Founding Director of the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) and at present Head of the Knowledge Exchange Lab. He is Scientific Vice-President of the Leibniz Association (an umbrella organization for 91 research institutes in Germany) and is holding the Chair of the Department for Applied Cognitive Psychology and Media Psychology at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Friedrich Hesse has been initiator and speaker for the first Virtual Graduate School Knowledge acquisition and knowledge exchange with new media funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society DFG), the DFG Priority Programme Net-based Knowledge Communication in Groups, the DFG Research Group Analysis and Promotion of Effective Processes of Learning and Instruction, the Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Tübingen Informational Environments, and currently the Leibniz- WissenschaftsCampus Tübingen Cognitive Interfaces.