About The Researchers
Alicia Dudek
The Story:
Alicia was raised in a Polish microcosm within Oklahoma, rendering her accent nearly unplaceable. She MacGyvered her way through school and university, building solutions out of whatever materials were on hand. Now, after international business and design ethnography, she wants to craft business games and immersive communication tools to promote effective mastery of information.
The Numbers:
MSc Design Ethnography, Sept. 2010, University of Dundee
BS International Business and Spanish, May 2008, University of Tulsa
BS Business Administration and Marketing, May 2008, University of Tulsa
Rachel Shadoan
The Story:
Rachel was born in Oklahoma, where she started out as a harpist, met Alicia, tried her hand a piloting, and became a computer scientist. And this was all before she and Alicia moved to Scotland to round things out by becoming design ethnographers! She wants to make numbers friendly and approachable for participants and qualitative researchers using data mining and data visualization techniques.
The Numbers:
MSc Design Ethnography, Sept. 2010, University of Dundee
BS Computer Science, August 2009, University of Oklahoma
