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Farrukh Sahar´s Portfolio Farrukh Sahar PhD Student Majors: User Experience Tampere University of Technology Human-Centered Technology (IHTE) Tampere University of Technology Korkeakoulunkatu 6, P.O. Box 589, 33101 Tampere, Finland Room TF217 Phone: +358 40 3730 157 http://www.cs.tut.fi/ihte/

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Farrukh Sahar´s Portfolio

Farrukh SaharPhD Student

Majors: User Experience

Tampere University of Technology

Human-Centered Technology (IHTE)

Tampere University of Technology

Korkeakoulunkatu 6, P.O. Box 589, 33101

Tampere, Finland Room TF217

Phone: +358 40 3730 157

http://www.cs.tut.fi/ihte/

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Contents

• As a UX specialist……

• Specialties

• Education

• Professional Experience

• PhD Research Case 1: Long-term User

Experience Evaluation of Suunto Quest

• Publications

• Teaching Roles

• Peer Review Roles

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As a UX specialist..

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• I have unique combination of leadership and business development

competencies strengthened with UX professional skills both

specialist and management roles from innovation to end products. I

conceptualize and orchestrate UX strategy that effectively reinforce

user engagement and loyalty and I excel at making UX goals,

innovation, time and technological constraints match with business

challenges.

• I have earned considerable experiences on different

R&D projects during my PhD studies in Finland and

past professional career as a R&D executive in

Pakistan, and as a project assistant in Sweden. I am

an experienced and passionate ICT industry

professional specializing in UX area with excellent

communication skills and ability to work in

multidisciplinary, multi-cultural, and global

organizations.

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Specialties

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• I have substantial expertise on conducting structured interviews,

semi-structured interviews, paper-based questionnaires, online

questionnaires, usability tests, surveys, electronic diary study,

UX Curve method, user experience (UX) evaluation, long-term

UX evaluation, multi-component products UX evaluation, and

use case testing.

• In addition, during my postgrad studies, I have developed my

personal skills e.g. in task analysis, usability and UX research

methods, UX evaluation and design methods, contextual

inquiries, personas, user scenarios, storyboards, wireframes,

user experience design, PLEX cards, experience driven design,

paper prototyping, focus groups, participant observation,

human-centered design, and project management. These

experiences have polished my abilities to analyze the problems from

users´ perspective in order to provide optimal solutions complied

with users´ requirements.

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Education

• July, 2011-Present Tampere University of Technology, Finland

PhD student at Dept. of Pervasive computing

Majors: User Experience

• 2007-2009 Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden

M.S. in Computer Science

Majors: Usability

GPA 3.8/5

Thesis Grade: 4.0/5

• 2004-2006 University of Balochistan, Pakistan

Master´s in Computer Science

Majors: Computer Sciences

GPA 3.53/4

• 2002-2004 PIMSAT, Pakistan.

BS in Information technology

Majors: Information Technology

GPA 3.9/4

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Professional Experience

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• Jan 10 - Sept 10 Research and Development Executive

Combnet Broadband Communications, Pakistan

• My role was to deliver the solutions on projects and coordinate with the project

services team. Execute all elements of the research and project management

process.

• Sept 09 - Nov 09 Project Assistant

Blekinge Tekniska Högskola - Ronneby, Sweden

• My role was to fulfill the project requirements and perform evaluation after

redesigning the overall system architecture. Leading, controlling and monitoring the

overall execution of the project.

• March 09 - June 09 Project Assistant

Blekinge Tekniska Högskola - Ronneby, Sweden

• My role was to participate in the designing, execution, analysis, and evaluation of

research project. Provide strategic leadership regarding the use and implementation

of IT.

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PhD Research Case 1: Long-term

User Experience Evaluation of

Suunto Quest

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• In July, 2011 I started my journey as a PhD student at TUT. During

the Licentiate degree, I have finished a research study with Finnish

company Suunto. The research case is based on long-term UX

evaluation of multi-component product named “Suunto Quest”.

During the Licentiate degree, I have written 2 research papers and

the papers have submitted to the conferences.

The titles of the research papers are:

1) Identifying the User Experience Factors of a Multi-Component

Sports Product.

2) Comparing the Efficiency of Electronic Diary and UX Curve

Methods in Multi-Component Product Study.

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Publications (1/2)• Four refereed proceedings

1. F. Sahar, A. Khan, and M. Asim “An investigation on citizen Access to eHealth Services in County

of Blekinge, Sweden”, 2nd International Conference on Business, Technology and Engineering

(ICBTE-2010). Ref: IUIC/ICBTE10/FPAL116.

2. F. Sahar “Web Based Intelligent Decision Support System for Type 2 Diabetes Patients". IACSIT

International Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 5, October 2013.

3. S. T. Raza and F. Sahar “An Investigation on Perspective of Usability and Functionality of Mobile

Phones for Elderly". IACSIT International Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 3,

June 2013.

4. F. Sahar, S. T. Raza, and M. N. Nasir “Communication Tools in Offshore Development with

Scrum". IACSIT International Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 4, August 2013.

• Two research papers submitted to the conferences as a first - author

1. Identifying the User Experience Factors of a Multi-Component Sports Product.

2. Comparing the Efficiency of Electronic Diary and UX Curve Methods in Multi-Component Product

Study.

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Publications (2/2)

• One accepted workshop paper

1. T. Kymäläinen, F. Sahar and J. Palvianen, ” White knights of the smart city”, Creative-Science

2014 (Shanghai, 30th June - 1st July 2014).

PUBLISHED SHORT BOOK

1. F. Sahar and M. Asim “An investigation on Blekinge County Council eHealth services

requirements of citizens and Blekinge County Council eHealth services Strategy for citizens”, With

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG Dudweiler Landstraße 99 66123 Saarbrücken

Germany.

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Teaching Roles

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1. Sept 11 - Oct 11 Teaching Assistant

Tampere University of Technology, Finland

• My role was to assist the course IHTE-7106 introduction to human behaviour.

2. Sept 09 - Nov 09 Project Assistant

Blekinge Tekniska Högskola - Ronneby, Sweden

• My role was to assist the supervision of M.Sc thesis students.

3. March 09 - June 09 Project Assistant

Blekinge Tekniska Högskola - Ronneby, Sweden

• My role was to assist the supervision of M.Sc thesis students.

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Peer Review Roles

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1. I acted as a reviewer for “Elsevier, Journal of Network and Computer

Applications” United States of America.

2. I acted as a reviewer for “Hawaii International Conference on Systems

Sciences”, United States of America.

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