NewMinE Lab - new media in education laboratory

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

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Contact Andreas at

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

De Ascaniis Silvia (PhD student)

She is a collaborator of the eLearning Lab (eLab) at the Università della Svizzera Italiana and she is part of the Red Ink Pro*Doc programme, within which she is developing a PhD in the field that overlaps education, argumentation theory and ICTs.

She was born in Giulianova (Italy) but she has been living in Lugano since 2001, where she completed the Bachelor (2004) and the Master in Communication Sciences (2007) at the Università della Svizzera Italiana.

She likes spending her free-time cooking for her friends, reading fantasy stories, training open air sports.

Silvia is working on mobile devices, financial training, computer-supported argument visualization tools, ancient rhetoric

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Contact Silvia at

Tel.: +41 (0)58 666 47 60
Mobile (personal): 076.5828855
silvia.de.ascaniis@lu.unisi.ch
skype: deascans