Rate My Professor Lorna Macdonald

Macdonald holds a Certificate IV of Assessment and Workplace Training from the Global Institute for Learning and Development, a Bachelor of Design Studies from Queensland College of Art, and a Bachelor (Honours) from The University of Queensland. Her research interests include design education—specifically the teaching and assessment of design and design process in a human-centred computing context—and developing and evaluating tools to support students-as-designers as they navigate unfamiliar design problems and contexts. She explores tangible and alternative interactions, leveraging the tactile and material experience in day-to-day interactions with technology. Her doctoral research focuses on the design of playful, location-dependent interactive experiences that utilize locative technologies in public spaces or privately owned locations to reveal hidden traces, augment the physical world, educate, and engender a sense of belonging. Key publications are 'Design guidance for location-based play: a review of research frameworks' (2020, co-authored with Ben Matthews and Stephen Viller, Design Research Society), 'Designing for Location Dependence - A Framework' (2017, The University of Queensland), 'The Pedagogical Practice of Locative Experience' (2006, co-authored with Ann Morrison, Ian MacColl, and Matthew Simpson, Leonardo Electronic Almanac), and 'Designing for Location-Dependence' (2005, Digital Arts and Culture Conference).