About
Nenad Pavel is an associate professor at the department of product design at Oslo Metropolitan University. Nenad is a design researcher and has doctoral degree from the educational science program from Oslo Metropolitan University and master’s degree in product design. He has ten years of experience in designing products and UX. His academic experience includes ten years of teaching design, coordinating projects between industry and academia, developing research applications and university curricula. Nenad is a member of research groups design for health and design, culture and sustainability where he contributes to the areas of human-technology relations, design pedagogy, design for health and wellbeing. Nenad’s areas of expertise include design research especially participatory design and design science, design driven innovation, user experience design, and digital prototyping.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Humanities Industrial and product design Architecture and design Technology Social sciences
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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Designing an intelligent gamified solution for treatment of scoliosis among children and adolescents
This PhD project focuses on understanding needs of youth with idiopathic scoliosis and to examine how the needs can be improved by using a digital solution – e.g. a smartphone application.
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Designing an intelligent personalized vest for scoliosis brace to improve treatment and monitoring of scoliosis in adolescents
The project will design an intelligent personalized vest for scoliosis brace with wearable sensors.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Pavel, Nenad
(2023).
Educating designers with 3D printers: a postphenomenological perspective on maker and design pedagogy.
17 p.
Design and Technology Education: An International Journal.
Vol. 28.
https://openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/DATE/article/view/
Medola, Fausto Orsi;
Pavel, Nenad
; Ramos Baleotti, Luciana; Darc Piculo Santos, Aline; Moya Ferrari, Ana Lya; Coelho Figliolia, Amanda
(2021).
Phenomenological Approach to Product Design Pedagogy: A Study on Students’ Experiences in Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Settings.
Design and Technology Education: An International Journal.
Vol. 26.
https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/DATE/article/view/2956
Pavel, Nenad
(2021).
Designing and Learning by Technological Mediation:
Adoption, Adaptation, Attainment.
13 p.
FormAkademisk - Forskningstidsskriftet for design og designdidaktikk.
Vol. 14.
https://doi.org/10.7577/FORMAKADEMISK.3620
Pavel, Nenad
; Medola, Fausto Orsl;
Berg, Arild
;
Brevik, Birger
(2020).
Multistable Technologies and Pedagogy for Resilience: A Postphenomenological Case Study of Learning by 3D printing.
Design and Technology Education: An International Journal.
Vol. 25.
https://oda.oslomet.no/bitstream/handle/10642/8220
Pavel, Nenad ; Zitkus, Emilene (2018). NORWAY-UK COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABILITY IN DESIGN EDUCATION. Bohemia, Erik; Kovacevic, Ahmed; Buck, Lyndon; Childs, Peter; Green, Stephen; Hall, Ashley (Ed.). Proceedings of E&PDE 2018 - 20th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, Diversity or Conformity, Dyson School of Engineering, Imperial College, London. 6th - 7th September 2018. The Design Society.
Berg, Arild ; Bohemia, Erik; Buck, Lyndon; Gulden, Tore ; Kovacevic, Ahmed; Pavel, Nenad (2017). Proceedings of E&PDE 2017 - International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education. Building Community: Design Education for a Sustainable Future. ISBN: 978-1-904670-84-1. 1000 p. The Design Society.
Sandnes, Frode Eika
; Lianguzov, Yuriy; Rodrigues, Osmar Vicente;
Lieng, Henrik
; Medola, Fausto Orsi;
Pavel, Nenad
(2017).
Supporting Collaborative Ideation Through Freehand Sketching of 3D-Shapes in 2D Using Colour.
Luo, Y (Ed.).
Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2017. p. 123-134.
Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66805-5_16
Pavel, Nenad (2017). How Designers Learn. Berg, Arild; Bohemia, Erik; Buck, Lyndon; Gulden, Tore; Kovacevic, Ahmed; Pavel, Nenad (Ed.). Proceedings of E&PDE 2017 - International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education. Building Community: Design Education for a Sustainable Future . p. 304-309. The Design Society.
Pavel, Nenad ; Zitkus, Emilene (2017). EXTENDING PRODUCT AFFORDANCES TO USER MANUALS. Berg, Arild; Bohemia, Erik; Buck, Lyndon; Gulden, Tore; Kovacevic, Ahmed; Pavel, Nenad (Ed.). Proceedings of E&PDE 2017 - International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education. Building Community: Design Education for a Sustainable Future . p. 198-203. The Design Society.
Pavel, Nenad ; Skjelbred, Bente (2016). Learning through design for wellbeing. Bohemia, Erik; Buck, Lyndon; Eriksen, Kaare; Kovacevic, Ahmed; Ovesen, Nis; Tollestrup, Christian (Ed.). Design Education: Collaboration and Cross-Disciplinarity. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, Aalborg University, Denmark, 8th-9th September 2016. p. 108-113. The Design Society.