• Master of Arts in Sociology and Politial Science, RTWH Aachen, Germany
  • Mathematical-Technical Assistent, RWTH Aachen & GEI Gesytec, Germany
  • PhD in applied Philosophy, University of Twente, NL

  • Cultural and organisational aspects of information and communication systems
  • cross-cultural analsyis
  • research methodology

Research Supervision:

Director of Studies

Second Supervisor

  • Judy Wilson: Computer support for a person's cognitive map in a navigational setting
  • Nermeen Essawi: Integrated supply chain management
  • Research student training programme - Research and Professional skills, Research Methods
  • CMT4021 - Postgraduate and Professional Skills
  • Cross-cultural Interaction Design

Positions:

  • Director of Postgraduate Programmes
  • Leader of the Research Student Training Programme
  • Principal Lecturer

Personal Web Page:

http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/elke/

Publications:

  • Jagne, J., Smith, S. and Duncker, E. (2006) Assessment techniques in cross-cultural usability evaluation. IADIS WWW/Internet International Conference 2006, Murcia, Best Conference Paper.
  • Ni, M. and Duncker, E. (2005) Issues of cross-cultural distance learning. EARLI conference 2005 Latvia
  • Fields, B. and Duncker, E. (2003) Articulating Resources: The impact of electronic health records on cross-professional healthcare work, Adams and Kostova (eds.) Healthcare Digital Libraries '03, ECDL Trondheim, Norway.
  • Duncker, E. (2002) Cross-cutural use of the library metaphor. Marchionini, Hersh (eds.) JCDL 2002 Proceedings of the second ACM/IEEE joint Conference on digital LibrariesJuly 2002, Portland, Oregon, USA, 224-231
  • Duncker, E. (2001) Multidisciplinary communication and cooperation, Science, Technology and Human Values, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, (26)3, Summer 2001
  • Duncker, E. (2000), How LINCs were Made, Alignment and Exclusion in American Medical Informatics, The Information Society, Vol 16(3).
  • Duncker, E., and Disco, (1998), Multidisciplinary Research at the University of Twente: The Challenges Of Heterogeneous Cooperation, Mumford Series, Twente University Press, Enschede, NL.

Languages spoken

  • German (native)
  • Dutch (fluent)
  • English (fluent)