Schmeil Andreas (PhD student)

Andreas holds a German Master’s degree in Computer Science from Ulm University. His research at the NewMinE Lab focuses on Visual Collaboration and Learning Practices in 3D Virtual Environments. He aims to help improve remote team collaboration  and distance learning by visual communication and embodied group interaction.

Andreas is a member of the Red-Ink Doctoral School and member of the knowledge-communication.org team.

In the past, he has worked as a freelancing software engineer, as a research associate at Fraunhofer IAO, and most recently as a research assistant at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand, HIT Lab NZ.

Andreas is working on virtual worlds, collaborative virtual environments, computer-supported collaborative work, virtual campus

Download Andreas’ CV (PDF)

Contact Andreas at

Tel. +41 (0)58 666 4674
Mail: andreas.schmeil@lu.unisi.ch
Skype: aschmeil

Rapanta Chrysi (PhD student)

Chrysi was born in Greece, where she graduated in Psychology in 2004. After that she moved to Spain (Barcelona, Malaga, Granada) where she spent her time learning and answering questions such as ‘What is creativity?’, ‘How do people learn?’, ‘How can we evaluate argumentation?’ etc.

Finally the Spanish decided to give her the research sufficiency, so that they could get rid of her, but they didn’t give her money to finish the Phd she was developing there. So she returned to Greece where she was doing the stuff she knew to do (teaching and counseling) but she was still searching for the Perfect Phd. And she found it in Newmine Lab of Lugano!

Chrysi is currently working on: Design methodology, Communication patterns, Informal reasoning, eLearning

Contact Chrysi at

Tel.:  +41586664760
Mail: chrysi.rapanta@lu.unisi.ch
skype: xrysa_rapanda