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Dr. Fuad Ali EL-Qirem

fouad.q@zuj.edu.jo

Title: Associate Professor
Country: Jordan
Affiliation: Faculty of Architecture and Design, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, Amman ,Jordan

About:

Dr. Fuad Ali EL-Qirem is an associate professor of human computer interaction at ALZaytoonah university of Jordan. Dean of Architecture and Design faculty at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan. He received his B.S from Jordan University of science and technology and his master and PhD from Sunderland University, UK. Dr. Fuad Ali EL-Qirem research interests are HCI research and the relation between culture and HCI, and how culture affects the computer usage. He 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. He developed the relation between Jordanian culture and HCI. Also, he works in virtual reality technology to express more users’ experience and application of VR in education techniques. Dr. Fuad Ali EL-Qirem officer of Amman ACM SIGCHI Chapter (The Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) which is part of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGCHI, USA. Also he is certificated as an “International quality assurance programme” from QAA (Quality Assurance Agency) London / UK. He worked in many projects and research.​