User:Marcmiquel

Hi!

My name is Marc Miquel. I'm from Igualada, a small city near Barcelona, Catalonia. I went to the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, where I studied Telecommunication Eng. and a MSc Master's degree in Applied Telecommunications and Engineering Management. At the same time, I also studied a Humanities BA at the Open University of Catalonia. I got my PhD at the Pompeu Fabra University in Communication (Human-Computer Interaction), where I researched without funding different aspects of Wikipedia editor engagement and the content diversity (i.e. culture gap, geography gap, etc.). Following that, in 2016 I joined the TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme / Pompeu Fabra University where I've been teaching User Experience, Game balance, Human-Computer Interaction, Quality Assurance, among other topics. At the same time, I've also been researching on content diversity in collaboration with researchers from the research centre Eurecat to set up the project Wikipedia Diversity Observatory.

Some of the projects I’ve been involved in have been strongly oriented towards a better society. Aside from Wikimedia, I got involved in a project to fight Dark User Experience named Dark Patterns “darkpatterns.org, "interfaces designed to trick you". I contributed to launch the first version of the website and wrote some articles in UX Magazine and a book chapter about the topic to support the project and reflect on the ethics of design. I am also a game designer, and I had the chance to design and publish some games both digital and physical (two card games to explain Catalonia’s culture in a funny way).