Human–Computer Interaction on Human-Computer Interaction | TU Wien

Emma Jean McDonnell

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Under Construction.

Contact

emma.mcdonnell@tuwien.ac.at

Ema Benčíková

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Ema Benčíková (she/they) works as a student researcher at the research project ACCESSTECH. She is primarily involved in developing and designing accessible participatory action research methods for working with crip_queer communities.

Ema is a Vienna based curator, theatre director and care worker. 2019-2024 she was the director of a neurodivergent community theater Stopy Snov in Bratislava. In 2025, she curated exhibitions at ŠKUC Gallery in Ljubljana and at Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna. Last year they were a fellow of the intersectional organization kültüř gemma! She is collaborating on crip_queer community outreach programming at the performance theatre brut nordwest.

Nicole Fersch

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Technician at the Human-Computer Interaction department at TU Wien. Here for technical support, ordering materials and to keep everything in check.

Contact

Tel: +43 664 88457744
eMail: nicole.fersch@tuwien.ac.at

Office Hours

My office hours vary every few months, so if you want to know where I’m at you can check this calendar: https://kalender.digital/4a74eb21a1edd607095b

About

I’m a trained IT-technician and worked in IT support for six years, at a private educational institution. Now I work part time at the Human Computer Interaction group at TU Wien as a technician and part time as a secretary in the administration office of the Computer Graphics group.

Shuyin Zheng

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Shuyin is a pre-doc project assistant in the research project “JuMp!” (https://www.angstfreimobil.at/jump-das-neue-projekt/). JuMp! focuses on Vienna’s (sub-)urban youth and their use of public transport. The goal is to understand the role technology plays in (sub-)urban youth mobility, and to use participatory design & speculative design to help shaping a car-free urban future.

Shuyin is also a game developer & designer. Her game-related work focuses on (reflective) game design and game-based learning in higher education. She holds a master’s degree in Media and Human-centered Computing from TU Wien, and a bachelor’s degree in Sinology from University of Vienna.

Anna Dobrosovestnova

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I am a researcher specializing in human-robot interaction (HRI), with a focus on real-world deployments and the social, affective, and political dimensions of our interactions with robots. My interdisciplinary background—spanning semiotics, cultural studies, cognitive science, and Science and Technology Studies (STS)—informs my approach to understanding how meaning is produced in human-technology relations. I completed my PhD in 2025 under the supervision of Professor Astrid Weiss at TU Wien, where my research examined Starship delivery robots and their integration into public urban spaces. Building on this, my current work explores the notion of “publicness”—how public spaces are constituted, who gets included or excluded, and how robots reshape these dynamics.

Julia Dominiak

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Contact: julia.dominiak@tuwien.ac.at

Lou Leopold

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Lou is a researcher and psychologist on the ACCESSTECH project. Their main interests are critical disability theory and research methods (for now). In their dissertation, they center disabled perspective on gender-based violence and seek to translate the key outcomes of their research into technological design. Their research approach and methods are guided by the expertise and ideas of disabled people who have experienced gender-based violence.

Contact: marie-louise.leopold@tuwien.ac.at

Paweł W. Woźniak

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Head of Research Unit

Paweł W. Woźniak is professor and head of research unit at TU Wien. Previously, he was associate professor at Interaction design, Chalmers University of Technology, assistant professor for Human-Centred Computing at Utrecht University and postdoctoral fellow at the Chair for Human-Computer Interaction and Socio-Cognitive Systems, University of Stuttgart.

Paweł received his PhD degree in Human-Computer Interaction from Chalmers in 2016. Paweł’s key interests lie in the intersection of technologies, sport and wellbeing. His focus is on understanding the everyday experiences of physical activity to design better technologies that support wellbeing. To this end, he conducts studies in personal informatics, building an understanding of how uses gather, process and reflect upon data about their lives.

Sara Mlakar

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I am a PhD candidate at TU Wien and FH Oberösterreich where I combine interaction design, art, and HCI research under the umbrella of Odd Interactions. In the past, I have been strongly involved in the field of smart textile interfaces which remains a big part of my work to this day. Additionally, I am (co-)organizing many workshops on various topics that focus on co-creating technology with lay people.

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Rafael Vrecar

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Rafael Vrecar finished his Bachelor’s degree in Software & Information Engineering in October 2020, the corresponding Bachelor with Honors in 2021, and the following Master’s program Media and Human-Centered Computing in May 2022 – all at TU Wien. He started his PhD in June of 2022.

His research fields include Usable Security and Security Perception (from a Human-Computer Interaction perspective), Security on Apple platforms, and optimizing workflows without compromising security aspects. He also has experience in Human-Robot Interaction.

Michael Pollak

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Michael Pollak in his role as senior lecturer mainly supports the “ways of thinking in informatics” lecture, hosted by the Human Computer Interaction group. He also supervises a number of bachelor thesis and projects as well as the advanced coding course. Besides his work at TU Wien Michael Pollak is a software developer and entrepreneur based out of the woodquater, rural lower Austria. He is specialised in plugin development for the LMS Moodle, specialised e-commerce solutions and prototyping.

Alexander Schmidt

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Contact: alexander.g.schmidt@tuwien.ac.at

Astrid Weiss

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Astrid Weiss is Assistant Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Group at the Vienna University of Technology. She holds a master’s degree in sociology, a PhD in social sciences and Human-Computer Interaction, and a venia docendi in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Salzburg. She is particularly interested in the impact technology has on everyday life and what motivates people to reject or accept technology. The reseqrch question currently driving her work is: Do we really perceive and react differently to Embodied Artificial Intelligence than to any other technology? Astrid Weiss is considered one of the pioneers in combining empirical social research and robotics. She has published in conferences such as HRI, RO-MAN, and ICSR and journals such as International Journal of Social Robotics, Autonomous Robots, and the Journal of HRI. She is a regularly member of Program and Organizing Committees related to HRI research.

Brigitte Prem

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Contact

Tel: +43 1 58801 187703
eMail: brigitte.prem@tuwien.ac.at

Argentinierstraße 8, 5. Stock A-1040 Vienna, Austria

Clara-Maria Kutsch

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Contact: clara-maria.kutsch@tuwien.ac.at

Ekat Osipova

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Ekat is a PhD researcher in the project ACCESSTECH. Their doctoral thesis focuses on neurodivergent experiences related to intimacy and technology; it explores the possibilities in research and design for intimacy from a neurodivergent standpoint.

Ekat is passionate about working inter- and transdisciplinarily and applies a range of critical qualitative methods in their work. Their research is guided by queer feminist and crip studies. In their work, they are dedicated to highlighting marginalized perspectives on technologies and scientific knowledge.

Evropi Stefanidi

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Evropi Stefanidi is a PostDoc in the Human-Computer Interaction Group at TU Wien. She holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete, Greece, and a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Bremen, Germany.

Her main research interests include technologies for well-being and empowerment, with a particular focus on children and families. Her work strives to support and empower marginalized and vulnerable populations. She is also interested in technologies for data tracking and reflection, and how these can support both physical and mental health. She has been involved in conducting multiple literature reviews across a variety of areas in HCI, including technologies for ADHD children and autoethnographic approaches.

Felix Fussenegger

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

With my work I am exploring how technology can be designed to empower people with disabilities to lead self-determined lives. My research examines the transformative potential of new technologies, while critically examining their impact on individuals and society to ensure that they serve as tools for empowerment rather than exclusion.

Contact felix.fussenegger@student.tuwien.ac.at

Florian Stierle

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Contact: florian.stierle@tuwien.ac.at

Geraldine Fitzpatrick

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Contact

Tel: +43 1 58801 - 187 03
eMail: <geraldine.fitzpatrick @ tuwien .ac .at>

Note I am a Retired Professor at TU Wien, as of Oct 2023, and no longer taking on BSc, MSc, PhD students, or peer review requests. I continue working on the Changing Academic Life podcast series (thanks to the HCI Group for support) and doing consulting/training/academic development work towards developing great people and cultures in academia.

What drives me: I focus on people-centred perspectives in complex environments, with an emphasis on enabling positive growth and development and doing more of what is working well. I have expressed this as women-centred midwifery practice in my clinical life as a midwife, as human-centred technology research and teaching in my academic life as a computer scientist, and as facilitating the crafting of a good academic life and of good academic leadership in my professional development work.

Janis Lena Meißner

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

post-doc researcher with a focus on inclusion in processes of digital transformation
currently teaching the courses “Computational Aspects of Digital Fabrication” and “Free and Open Technologies”

Janis joined the HCI research group of TU Wien after obtaining her doctoral degree in Digital Civics at Open Lab (Newcastle University). She holds a MSc in Media Informatics and previously worked in the IT-department of an Austrian governmental institution and as a consultant for a software company.

Katharina Brunnmayr

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Contact: katharina.brunnmayr@tuwien.ac.at

Katharina Werner

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Katharina Werner is project assistant at the HCI group and concentrates her research on the involvement of older people in design and evaluation processes of assistive technologies. She gained vast experience in this area working in a number of national and international research projects. These projects are mainly in the field of Active and (Ambient) Assisted Living (e.g. Give&Take, Softcare, LLM, KSERA and eHoome). Her expertise’s are within the areas of user experience, participatory design methods, human computer and human robot interaction especially in the field of AAL.

Katta Spiel

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Katta is an Assistant Professor for “Critical Access in Embodied Computing” and lead a small team as part of the ERC Starting Grant ACCESSTECH (Experiencing Access with Interactive Computing). They research marginalised perspectives on technology. Their work informs design and engineering in critical ways to support the development of technologies that account for the diverse realities they operate in. Their research is situated at the intersection of Computer Science, Design and Cultural Studies. Drawing on methods from (Critical) Participatory Design and Action Research, they collaborate with deaf, disabled, neurodivergent and/or nonbinary peers in conducting explorations of novel potentials for designs, methodological contributions to Human-Computer Interaction and innovative technological artefacts.

Kay Kender

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Research interests

My research focuses on queer and disabled experiences with social technologies and online communities, applying critical, participatory and speculative design methods, ethnographic methods, as well as other qualitative methods centred around design. My PhD looks at the design of social media through the lens of design power, to understand how technologies can further marginalise queer and neurodivergent people, but also in what ways they support their thriving.

My teaching includes critical design, as well as a diverse range of speculative design and storytelling workshops around the topics of gender and access.

Margit Pohl

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Forschungsinteressen/Research Interests

Human-Computer Interaction, Kognitive Psychologie/Cognitive Psychology, E-Learning, Informationsvisualisierung/Information Visualisation, Gender Studies

Contact

Tel: +43-1-58801-187-53
Fax: +43-1-58801-918703
eMail: margit.pohl@tuwien.ac.at

Argentinierstraße 8, 2. Stock A-1040 Vienna, Austria

Sprechstunde: Nach persönlicher Vereinbarung

Curriculum Vitae

Studium der Wirtschaftsinformatik und Psychologie an der Universität Wien
Diplomarbeit in Wirtschaftsinformatik über “Ein werttheoretisches Modell in einer Leontief-Ökonomie”
Dissertation in Psychologie über “Geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede im Sprachverhalten”
seit 1991 tätig an der TU Wien
Habilitation an der TU Wien über “Hypertext und analoge Wissensrepräsentation” (Fach: Human-Computer Interaction)

Education/Ausbildung

Habilitation (Univ.Doz.), Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, focus on: Human-Computer Interaction, 2002
Doctor of Philosophy (Dr.), Psychology, University of Vienna, focus on: Cognitive Psychology, 1993
Master of Science (Mag.), Information Systems, University of Vienna, focus on: Econometrics,1989
current position: Associate Professor (Vienna University of Technology)

Projekte/Projects (Auswahl)

“Business Awareness on Sustainable Innovation Strategies - BASIS”, 2000-2002. finanziert von: European Commission, Directorate General XIII, Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research
“MobiLearn” – Mobile Learning: Medieninformatik Any-Time Any-Where. 2002-2004. finanziert von: Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur (Initiative “Neue Medien in der Lehre an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen”). www.mobilearn.at
“Ecodesign”. 2003 – 2004. finanziert von: Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur / Europäischer Sozialfonds (ESF). www.ecodesign.at/ulg
“Interactive Information Visualization: Exploring and Supporting Human Reasoning Processes”, 2004-2006. finanziert von: WWTF. ieg.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/projects/in2vis
“Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age”, 2008-2010, financed by: European Commission, DG Information Society and Media
“VisuExplore - Winning new medical insights based on visual exploration.” 2008-2011, financed by FFG - Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH
“Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology (Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise)”, 2010-2017, financed by: FFG -Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft
“GenSiSys – Gendergerechte Gestaltung von Arbeitsplätzen im Bereich sicherheitskritischer Systeme (Gender sensitive Design of workplaces in control rooms) “. 2013 – 2015, financed by: Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG)
“VALCRI – Visual Analytics for Sense-making in Criminal Intelligence”. 2014 – 2017, financed by the European Commission, Framework Programs
“Urban Food Spots – Development of the basics for gender and diversity sensitive cooling stations for foodsharing in urban areas”. 2015 – 2017, financed by: Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG)
“PAIR – Pairwise Visual Comparison of Directed Acyclic Graphs: A HCI Perspective” 2016 – 2019, financed by FWF (under the D-A-CH program)
2020 – 2022 SEVA (“Self-Explanatory Visual Analytics for Data-Driven Insight Discovery“), funded by FFG

Publikationen/Publications (Auswahl)

PDF to a comprehensive list of publications by Margit Pohl

Meagan Loerakker

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Hello there! I am a PhD student at TU Wien’s Human Computer Interaction research group. Prior to the PhD, I completed my bachelor and master studies in the Netherlands, and briefly studied in Sweden.

My research interests involve the design of technologies for healthcare, sport and well-being. In my work, I aim to study how to design effective feedback in sport and health technologies for a variety of purposes, including performance, mental health and bodily awareness. Besides that, I am also interested in how to design technologies to promote reflection processes, and creating data visualisations that are more understandable and approachable.

Monika Zauner

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Sprechzeiten: MO & DI 08:00–13:00 sowie nach Terminvereinbarung

M monika.zauner@tuwien.ac.at

T +43 (0)1 58801 18703

Naemi Luckner

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Naemi Luckner works at the Vienna University of Technology with a focus on game design, e-learning and sharing technologies. She has contributed work to various projects in these fields, such as ‘Aurora’, an e-learning project with the aim of letting students take responsibility of their own learning process; ‘Give&Take’, a project about creating a platform for skill and knowledge exchange within a neighbourhood; ‘Lebensnetz’, a game to help overcome cognitive decline through a mix of playful activities; or ‘Mirror’ a project developing an interface for physical therapists to use in their practice and games to motivate patients to repeat their physiotherapeutic exercises.

Oliver Suchanek

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Contact: oliver.suchanek@tuwien.ac.at

Paul Panek

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Paul has studied communication engineering at Vienna Univ. of Technology and holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree. Since 1993 Paul has been working in national and EU-funded R&D projects in the area of Rehabilitation Engineering, Assistive Technology and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL).

More about me

My main interests are to develop new assistive solutions together with users and to apply innovative prototype systems in real life settings in order to explore the actual impact and benefit.

Peter Purgathofer

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Forschungsinteressen/Research Interests

Human-Computer Interaction and UX Design, Human-Centered Informatics, Game Design and Positive Impact Games, Digital Culture and Learning, Informatics and Society, Diversity in Informatics

Contact

fon: +43-1-58801-187-23
mail: peter.purgathofer@tuwien.ac.at
my home on the web: peter.purgathofer.net

Sprechstunde/Office hours: Tuesday 10:15-12:00 during the semester; please write email regarding out-of-semester availability.

i am associate professor at the vienna university of technology, faculty of informatics, at the institute of design and assessment of technology, human-computer interaction group.

Resources

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Resources

On this page we collect resources for further reading and example documents that can provide guidance in creating your own ethics documents.

Research Ethics Guidance

AOIR Association of Internet Researchers Ethics
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) UK Ethics framework - very comprehensive and the standard in the UK
Training and Resources in Research Ethics Evaluation (TREE): free online course in research ethics - focus on health research involving human participants
Ethics guidance for Computer Science research by Manchester University
Guidance on seeking informed consent and some tips for writing consent forms from University of Virginia
Ethics Issues Table - Checklist in the context of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in Horizon 2020 (European Union)
Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans tri-council policy statement of three main councils in Canada.
Resources specific for ICTD/ICT4D research

Data Collection, Anonymisation and Data Protection

What is personal data – A quick reference guide
Anonymisation Guidance by the LSE
Finnish Social Science Data Archive, Anonymization
UK Data Archive: Create and manage data - consent and ethics
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR): Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving.
EU’s article 29 working group: Opinion 05/2014 on “Anonymisation Techniques onto the web”.

Example Ethics Documents

Research Ethics Statement (en), Parent Information Sheet (de) and Parent Consent Form (de) from the OutsideTheBox Project (Designing Technology with autistic children)
Parent Consent from the ECHOES Project (Designing with autistic children)
Consent Form from the eHome Project (deutsch)

Codes of Conduct

TU Wien Code of Conduct for scientific work
TU Wien, Informatik Code of Ethics
ACM Code of Ethics, professional code of conduct
IEEE Code of Ethics

Ethics in authoring and reviewing

Ethical guidelines for peer-reviewers

Robin Angelini

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

My name is Robin Angelini and I am a Deaf PhD researcher on ACCESSTECH project. My research focuses on the intersection of Deaf Technology, critical access, and emerging technologies. Specifically, I’m interested in the relationship between the designing and development of emerging technologies and the acceptance within the deaf communities. I’m dedicated to exploring deaf-centered approaches to technologies, ensuring that designs are created with, rather than for, the deaf communities, prioritizing their desires and needs.

Ruadhan James Flynn

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Contact: ruadhan.flynn@tuwien.ac.at

Basic principles for human participation in research

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Basic principles for human participation in research

Involving people in research: voluntary and safe participation

When human beings are involved in research, two basic principles are central from the point of view of ethics. First, the participation has to be voluntary. Nobody should be coerced or tricked into participating in research. It is good to remember that coercion can take different forms. In university settings, for example, it is important that students do not get the impression that they must participate in research of their instructors and supervisors. Similarly, in the social and health care settings it is important to clearly separate research participation from service provision.

Ethics Self-Assessment Template

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

What should be in an ethics self-assessment document?

The following structure provides a template to guide researchers through important aspects of ethics.

1) Context Provide information about your work / project / study to set the scene. Such information should include: funding, motivation, expected scientific outcomes, study design, methods used, reasons for this particular research being important…

2) Overall Ethical Issues Describe the ethical issues raised by the objectives of your research, its respective results or findings and the potential consequences of your research outcomes. Provide details about how the identified overall ethical issues will be addressed.

Quick Research Ethics Self-Check

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Quick Research Ethics Self-Check

The following is a set of questions that probe whether your research is ethically sensitive and if it is low risk or high risk. The questions are adapted from the ethics self-assessment tool at the University of Sussex.

Will your research likely need a research ethics review?

It is highly likely that you will need ethical review if you intend your research to involve the following:

Human participants (with or without consent)
If you anticipate that the research exposes any person, participant or not, including yourself, to physical or psychological harm
If you will have access to personal information that allows you to identify individuals or to confidential corporate or company information
If the research project may present a risk to the environment or society
If you anticipate any conflicts of interest
If your funding body or other involved organisations require ethics approval

Is my research considered high risk?

If you answer any of the following questions with yes, your research will be considered high risk and will likely require in-depth engagement with ethics procedures.

APH-Alarm - Gesture based alarming

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Comprehensive safety solution for people with Aphasia.

Project Homepage: https://aph-alarm-project.com/index.php/en/

Team: Paul Panek, Peter Mayer, Katharina Werner

Our group is responsible for ethics, user interface design and testing. A set of pictograms has been developed in close cooperation with the users. An agile evaluation of iterative prototypes is being done and a field testing of the final prototype is under preparation.

The project APH started in May 2020 and will be completed in April 2023.

Breaking The Wall

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

With Breaking The Wall we explore how to use technology to involve the audience in music performances. We design and develop different interactive systems together with artists. These systems will be deployed in public concerts of the artists in spring 2017 in the Kuppelsaal of the Vienna University of Technology. During all concerts the spectators can participate in various ways in the live performances.

Project Homepage: http://www.piglab.org/breakingthewall

Team: Fares Kayali, Oliver Hödl, Peter Purgathofer, Geraldine Fitzpatrick

Caring Robots // Robotic Care

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Caring Robots // Robotic Care is a 5-years project, started in 2022, funded by the FWF #Connecting Minds program.

It involves 4 key researchers from TU Wien and one from University of Salzburg. Our goal is to develop and implement novel and desirable roles of robotic technology that proof useful, safe, meaningful, and wanted.

We aim for a participatory, open and reflective design process that involves a broad range of stakeholders from the care sector, with the ultimate goal to create desirable technological futures of care rather than merely acceptable ones. The gained insights shall contribute to a novel ethically aligned design approach for robotic care technology.

CoSi4U - Human Factors in Using Collaboration Systems in Companies

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The CoSi4U (Human Factors in Using Collaboration Systems in Companies) project is a cooperation project with FRINK Advanced Services GmbH. FRINK Advanced Services GmbH developed a tool for analysing collaboration data in companies. The goal of the project is to support the company in finding a user-friendly design in order to help analysts to handle this data and to make relationships between them visible.

Team: Simone Kriglstein (contact person) and Nikolaus Suchy

CVAST - Centre of Visual Analytics Science and Technology

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Centre of Visual Analytics Science and Technology (CVAST) is one of the Laura Bassi Centres of Excellence. The goals of CVAST are twofold. The first goal is the integration of the outstanding capabilities of humans in terms of visual information exploration with the enormous processing power of computers to form a powerful knowledge discovery environment. The second goal is to scientifically assess the usability and utility of such discovery environments while bridging the gap between theory and practice for selected application scenarios. To achieve these goals we cooperate with several partners from industry.

Designing for resilience with unaccompanied migrant youth

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unaccompanied migrant youth (UMY) must cope with adversities before, during, and after their flight to Austria without adult relatives. Mental health support could contribute to promoting resilience in UMY and help them to cope with their adverse situation; however, despite increasing evidence that technology could make mental health support more accessible, there is a lack of knowledge regarding how to design technology-enabled resilience support for this vulnerable and marginalized population. This project explores how to potentially support resilience promotion in UMY with the help of technology. I use qualitative and design methods to (1) gain a deep understanding of the context of UMY in Vienna, Austria; (2) identify pathways to integrate technology-enabled resilience support; and (3) explore possibilities to design technology-enabled support for this space. The findings highlight a complex interplay among social-ecological factors in supporting and hindering resilience promotion that cannot be ignored when designing technology-enabled resilience support for this context. Otherwise, the technological solutions could not be as supportive as possible and even fail to provide support. Thus, the outcome of this project proposes and exemplifies a shift from an individual to a social-ecological approach to researching and designing technology-enabled resilience support. The first outcome of this project is a descriptive account mapping the social-ecological factors such as macro-systemic factors (e.g., legal policies) and micro-systemic factors (e.g., social and physical factors in the everyday living situation) that support and hinder resilience. The second outcome of this project is a map of potential pathways and possibilities for technology-enabled resilience support in this context, which is presented as part of a design framework. This design framework focuses on two main pathways to integrate technology-enabled support for UMY in this context: through direct technology-enabled support for UMY and by supporting resilience in UMY through their mentors. The thrid contribution of this project is an understanding of how to apply the design framework to the research and design of technology-enabled support for this and other contexts, such as low- and middle-income countries. The framework could help researchers to develop technological solutions that are capable of integration into the social-ecological interplay and relations. The design examples resulting from this project instantiate some possibilities of technology-enabled resilience support for UMY and could be further developed and evaluated in future studies.

Developing an inclusive technological toolkit to support prevention approaches

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Within this project, a technological toolkit is being developed, which will allow young people, mediated by caregivers, to create customizable applications to support their own mental health and wellbeing, based on evidence-based interventions.

The necessity for this project emerges out of two intertwined problems. First, the homogenous nature of existing approaches to promote youth mental health (YMH), as they are often text-based, even as they are progressively being translated into the digital sphere. Yet the group “adolescents”, which is, within this project, defined as youth roughly between the age of 14 and 25, can’t be considered homogenous by any sensible metric. An intervention which is highly engaging for one might be of no interest, or not even accessible, for another (Castro, Barrera, & Martinez, 2004). For example, the existing emphasis on text-based measures to promote mental health does exclude migrant youth who do not yet have access to the language in which those measures are presented. While an increasingly broad landscape of more heterogeneous YMH interventions is currently opening up, those interventions are usually not customizable, which results in the same exclusion effects, and in resting the burden of identifying a suitable intervention on the ability and willingness of adolescents to comb through all available options, until they find one that works for them. On top of that, for YMH interventions to be used in the first place, they have to be engaging, which Hagen, Collin, Metcalf, Rahilly, & Swainston (2012) point out as one of the key challenges when developing technological YMH interventions. Second, the aforementioned lack of available customization presents a lost opportunity to address hedonic adaptation (Kahneman, Diener, & Schwarz, 1999). Engagement decreases over time, as applications lose their novelty. This loss of engagement does not, however, coincide necessarily with decrease in usefulness or effectiveness. People may lose interest over time, even if continued use of an application would still be beneficial. Allowing for customization, for changing features of an application, allowing adding and removing of features, should decrease the effects of hedonic adaption, or at least delay them, and thus extend the period of active use of an application, which in turn likely increases the overall effect an YMH application can have on its user.

Development of sensor-based systems for older people

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

In this project, we are trying to uncover the problems developers are facing in the development of sensor-based monitoring systems to support older people living alone. For this we use qualitative methods to investigate what happens during the development. We are particularly interested in the development processes, how different stakeholder-needs are determined, and other factors that might contribute to outcomes that are less successful than expected.

Team: Jean Hallewell Haslwanter, Geraldine Fitzpatrick

Digital Intelligent Assistant for Nursing Applications in Dementia Care

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Less routine monitoring tasks for nurses and gaining more time for compassion and personal care taking for people with dementia.

Project Homepage: http://www.diana-project.eu/

Team: Paul Panek, Peter Mayer

The objective of DIANA is to improve the life and safety of mild to severely cognitive impaired persons 65+ while assisting nurses and care givers by providing novel technological solutions. The enabling technology will analyse action and behaviour changes while ensuring data privacy. Furthermore, the project will study innovative ways how our data can be seamlessly integrated into the nurses working routine with the goal to free valuable time for personalized care. For mild to medium impaired persons the project is going to research means how to assist and guide people in activities of daily living. One activity where this will be tested focuses on toileting. DIANA has the unique goal of increasing people’s autonomy and digitizing nursing assistance in this highly challenging area.

Exceptional Norms

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

By thinking through Exceptional Norms, we investigate how technologies, particularly those related to embodied computing, literally encode normative assumptions and expectations in their artefacts. We conduct critical analysis of existing work which we augment with the development of artifacts in a manner of research through design to account for the vast varieties of human bodies.

Project Homepage: https://exceptional-norms.at

Team: Katta Spiel

Computing technologies in our environment moved from being large mainframe setups increasingly towards, on and even inside human bodies. Innovative technologies like wearables, on-body tattoos or somaesthetic mats engage bodies in interaction. However, a thorough and critical investigation into the conceptualisation of human bodies in interaction with these technologies albeit highly relevant for the research community, is missing so far. With this FWF supported Hertha-Firnberg project hosted by the Human-Computer Interaction Group at TU Wien, we critically analyse how bodies are constructed within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design, conduct participatory design with people whose bodies are marginalised by technologies and create two robust research products materialising alternatives to the status quo. Our work details the epistemological and designerly consequences as well as potential counter strategies to dominant normative assumptions.

Give&Take - Designing a reciprocal exchange service for a good and engaged senior life

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Give&Take co-designs an innovative digital platform that enables senior citizens to reciprocally exchange services and resources, creating new opportunities for senior citizens to contribute to society as volunteers and caregivers in their local communities. The GiveTake project is funded under the EU’s AAL programme.

Project Homepage: givetake.eu

Through social and digital media innovation the Give&Take project:

Strengthens the quality of life of senior citizens through occupation and social engagement as a key to mental, social and physical fitness.*
Explores the societal potential of informal community support and civic engagement for tasks currently supported by the public sector.*
Improves the ability of senior citizens to live as independently as possible.*

A shift from public care services to informal community support and civil engagement not only empowers seniors but also prevents dependencies and increased public consumption – several national and European projects have demonstrated how volunteering networks are defining new learning opportunities and ways to contribute to society. The senior citizens have untapped knowledge and experience, time and energy, as well as their own financial resources to contribute as citizens, volunteers, and particularly as workers and consumers.

ILUM - Augmenting urban mobility through digital information systems

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

ILUM combines urban mobility with ICT. Pillars for local orientation are augmented as an interactive guide-system for pedestrians in Vienna. Our goal is the elaboration of interaction application scenarios and actual digital prototypes.

Project Homepage: http://www.ilum.wien

Team: Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Oliver Hödl, Katta Spiel, Katharina Werner

Partners: is-design, High Performance Vienna, Subzero Software, iDrDesign

iToilet - ICT-enhanced Toilet Supporting Active Life

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The iToilet project addresses older persons who are living independently at home and the needs they have when using a toilet.

Project Homepage: http://itoilet-project.eu

Team: Paul Panek, Peter Mayer, Georg Ehrenfels

The iToilet project targeted the needs of older persons who are living independently at home when using a toilet. The project aimed at developing an ICT enhanced toilet system, which is able to empower older persons to live more independently and with increased dignity. iToilet also aimed at reducing the workload of the care persons when providing personal assistance on the toilet.

LARAH - Location-aware Assistant Robots At Home

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

LARAH (Location-aware Assistant Robots At Home) aimed at providing older persons with an assistive robot, to provide support and safety in their own homes. This project developed a visual indoor localization solution for mobile assistive robots. The advanced localization technology proposed in LARAH will improve the assessment of the own position of the robot, and support tasks such as, finding and bringing objects, opening doors, and in finding persons in case of an emergency (e.g. fall).

Lav4All - Lavatory for All

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The utilization of a plane toilet represents difficulties for many mobility reduced persons. Often they aren’t able at all to use the on board toilet, especially within short distance or medium-haul flights. Depending on mobility restrictions various requirements for accessible on-board toilets exist which cannot be implemented because of technical limitations of the plane or because of economical conditions of the airlines.

Team: Paul Panek, Peter Mayer

Homepage: https://www.aat.tuwien.ac.at/lav4all/

Project Partners: netwiss OG, FH JOANNEUM Graz, TU - Institut für Verkehrswissenschaften, Rodlauer Consulting GmbH, FACC AG, Verein Raltec

MAXimizeMe

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

XXLMontage für alle (Diversitätfördernde Individualisierung von Arbeitssystemen in der industriellen Baustellenmontage):

MAXimizeMe is a 2-years project, started in 2021 funded by Digifonds. Within MAXimizeMe we aim to achieve a better understanding of how aspects, such as age, gender, education or socioeconomic background impact the interaction with (autonomous) work systems in manufacturing or assembly.

The result of MAXimizeMe will be a collection of diversity-sensitive design guidelines that take into account relevant aspects for workforce allocation, work execution and resource provision in industrial site assembly in such a way that all employees can perform their work activities as long as possible, in a targeted manner and with optimized quality and efficiency.

MySafeWC - Dehydration trends on the toilet

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The basis of assistive products such as “iToilet” with integrated nursing documentation could be expanded sensibly and innovatively by further methods of data analysis in the daily use of toilets.

Project Homepage: https://www.aat.tuwien.ac.at/mysafewc

Team: Peter Mayer, Paul Panek

By intelligently assessing body water levels across the toilet seat, but also through usage statistics and other parameters, the safety of autonomously living elderly users alone could be improved by early detection of the trend towards dehydration and deviant behavior, or by remembering the toilet visit. Together with users and supervisors, the project aimed to identify practical requirements and assess the risk and market prospects of a product or a necessary implementing R & D project through laboratory simulation of appropriate technologies.

OutsideTheBox

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

With OutsideTheBox we will think laterally and outside of typical boxes and categorisations. We will design new technologies with autistic children which are not exclusively driven by functional limitations, but engage children in all their diversity and with all their differences.

Project Homepage: http://outsidethebox.at

Team: Christopher Frauenberger, Julia Makhaeva, Katta Spiel

Technology has changed our lives. We find the cinema on Google Maps, use public transport with tickets on our mobile and let our watch tell us how many calories we have burnt and what is left in the fridge. And although people with autism are often drawn to technology, we know little about their ideas for future roles of technologies.

PAIR – Pairwise Visual Comparison of Directed Acyclic Graphs: A HCI Perspective

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The goal of this project is to improve visualizations for pairwise network comparisons via new cognition-driven design guidelines. This project will specifically concentrate on the visual comparison of directed acyclic graphs in node-link diagrams. Such comparison is needed, for example, in the analysis of phylogenetic trees in biology or in the assessment of contagion in financial networks. In these cases, the domain experts concentrate on finding commonalities and differences between the two networks being compared. This analysis is often undertaken in a visualized form. Visual exploration enables to identify where the differences are located and thereby to extract insights from these differences. Effective visual network comparison requires a well-designed visualization. Effective visualization uses guidelines, which are inter alia derived from research in cognitive psychology and human-computer interaction (HCI). Until now, HCI research has mainly focused on deriving guidelines for the visualization of single networks. There are still many open research questions concerning the comparison of two or more networks in node-link diagrams

RisIoT

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

RISIoT (Risks of the Internet of Things) is a market analysis and risk assessment to accelerate the adoption of the Internet of Things in Austrian enterprises.

Team: Peter Mayer, Geraldine Fitzpatrick Project Partners: IDC Central Europe GmbH, Austrian Institute of Technology - Digital Safety & Security Department, Oesterreichische Computer Gesellschaft

2016 is the year of the Internet of Things (IoT) and analysts predict that IoT offers a chance to redefine many sectors and accelerate growth. Reports suggest there will be 25 billion internet-connected things by 2020 and with more and more companies investing and making an impact in smart technology, IoT applications in the enterprise can be manifold. Fast-moving companies are establishing entirely new product and service hybrids that disrupt their own markets and generate fresh revenue streams. Smart production processes in the factory of the future, more efficient traffic regulations in smart cities, smart home applications, and intelligent power regulations, etc. are only some prominent application fields for IoT. Still we are facing major challenges that hamper broad IoT adoption in enterprises. Understanding of IoT is still far from widespread. More than 60% of Western European organizations are not familiar or do not plan to invest in IoT. Also in Austria we observe a lack of belief in this emerging technology. The hesitation in IoT adoption can be explained to a certain extend by security and data privacy concerns. IoT is becoming an increasingly attractive target for cybercriminals, and data security, the protection of privacy and digital identity are serious issues to tackle. Anyway, the adoption of IoT on long-term is undoubtable, and we have to find ways to support enterprises on their journey towards IoT adoption and digital transformation to increase efficiency, productivity and competitiveness. This is where RISIoT gets involved. The exploratory project aims to support organizations in regard to IoT adoption by providing them with insights into the IoT market, its opportunities and risks. In detail RISIoT delivers a comprehensive analysis of the Austrian IoT market in comparison with the European and global situation. It covers market potentials, use cases, and successful lighthouse projects. To tackle major security concerns in IoT adoption the study specifically explores IoT risk assessment. It identifies and describes high-level IoT risks and recommends further actions to deal with industry and use case specific risks, e.g. in the field of smart homes, and active and assisted living (AAL). Outcomes will be an Internet of Things Market Report and high-level Risk Matrix for enterprises and an Internet of Things R&D Guide highlighting focus areas for future research and development. RISIoT suggests courses for action for economy and research to push investments in the Austrian IoT ecosystem, to support a positive future of IoT on the Austrian market, and to ensure knowledge transfer between the scientific world and the goto- market environment. RISIoT will provide an impulse and initial trust for planned IoT use case specific risk modelling and assessment as well as other similar future initiatives.

RoboGen

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

RoboGen is a 3-years project, started in 2018 funded by the FGG (FemTech project).

The goal in RoboGen is to develop a prototype with a learning agent that, through feedback from users, makes gender-sensitive options accessible to all users and thus enables gender-sensitive human-robot interaction. The beneficiaries are senior citizens of 50+ and people with chronic diseases (mainly diabetes and hypertension).

Technologically, the focus of the project is on the upcoming, low-priced social robots in a price range around € 1,000, which are also affordable for “ordinary citizens”.

SCHAUKASTEN - Sehförderung für Kleinkinder

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

SCHAUKASTEN - Sehförderung für Kleinkinder (1.12.2016 - 31.1.2018), financed by: Hauptverband der österreichischen Sozialversicherungsträger

SCHAUKASTEN seeks to conceptualize, co-design and implement novel interactive toys that motivate young children with visual impairments to keep up with their often dull but crucially important optical exerices.

Children with distinct visual impairment shall exercise their vision as soon as possible in order not to go blind. This exercise in vision constitutes an important building block for later leading an autonomous life.

SEL4Home - Supporting children’s social-emotional learning at home

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A principal challenge for existing social-emotional learning (SEL) programs is to provide reinforcement of the learnt competencies in everyday contexts and beyond the in-school lessons. SEL4Home project starts to bridge this gap by exploring how novel technologies can extend the programming into the homes of learners.

We collaborate with SEL developers and researchers at Committee for Children—the developers of Second Step, used by more than 8 millions of children in USA; as well as the VIBE group at Microsoft Research.

Shared Space

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Exploring Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction: What makes people accept or reject companion robots?

SharedSpace is a 3-years project, started in 2018 funded by the FWF (Elise Richter programme). The working hypothesis of this project is that the interaction of lay people with a social companion robot (in this project the commercially available robot Anki Vector) changes over time and that its adoption and acceptance differ in terms of the socio-demographic qualities of the involved households.

SocialPlayTechnologies

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Social play is key for successful inclusion of children with disabilities and has significant impact on their wellbeing and development. Typical traits in autism, such as impaired social and communication skills and repetitive behaviours, make social play particularly challenging for children diagnosed on the spectrum, exposing them to a wide range of mental health risks. This project investigates how technology can help support social play activities in mixed, co-located groups of autistic and neuro-typical children, aged 6 to 8 years. We aim to develop smart play objects, which can intelligently react to social situations to scaffold interactive play experiences of autistic children and their typically developing peers. For such objects to be meaningful to different children, it is key to involve them actively in their design.

Sparkling Games

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Together with secondary school students we investigate how concepts from the field of game-based learning can be used to develop learning methods and materials covering the topic informatics and society.

Project Homepage: http://www.piglab.org/sparklinggames

Team: Fares Kayali, Peter Purgathofer

Project Partners (Scientific): Gerit Götzenbrucker und Vera Schwarz (Universität Wien)

Starting with a detailed analysis of existing learning and mainstream commercial games, students step by step conceptualise and develop games and game-like materials to support teaching areas including copyright and intellectual property, privacy, surveillance, social media, and big data. The project leads to a transfer of academic skills to students, who gain expertise in the areas of game design and serious games as well as in social science research methods intended to assess and reflect on their creations.

T4ME2 Toilet4me too - Personalised toilets for active living

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The T4ME2 project addresses older people and the needs they have when using a toilet outside home in semi-public environments (e.g. toilets located in community centres, shopping malls, museums, theatres, hotels).

Project Homepage: http://toiletforme.com/ and http://www.toilet4me-project.eu/t4me2.html

Team: Paul Panek, Peter Mayer

The short previous Toilet4me project studied the development and provision of an ICT-enhanced toilet system which is able to adapt itself to the individual needs and preferences of the older person currently using the toilet similar to the iToilet project for home use.

Teaching conflict resolution through Minecraft

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Minecraft multiplayer servers allow millions of children from around the world to build, play and problem solve together in a shared virtual space. As conflicts between players are common, these online spaces offer unique opportunity to help children develop effective conflict resolution skills that would then transfer to real-world settings.

This project draws on 40 years of conflict resolution curricula in Prevention Science to develop in-game tools that embedded learning into the Minecraft gameplay. To explore this space, we collaborate with leading game researchers (Katie Salen, Mimi Ito) as well as SEL developers at Committee for Children (the developers of Second Step, used by more than 8 millions of children in USA).

TEAM - Technology Enabled Mental Health for Young People

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

TEAM (Technology Enabled Mental Health for Young People), is a 4-year Innovation Training Network (ITN), funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions initiative. There has been considerable research and many commercial products for improving physical health. However, the use of technology to support mental health lags far behind. The aim of the training network is to deliver new applications and technologies that support rapid, large-scale early assessment, prevention and treatment of mental health issues in young people.

The Got-IT Project

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Got-IT will deliver an online toolkit to assist the design of inclusive eHealth solutions targeting the promotion of healthy lifestyles among older adults with low eHealth literacy, promoting citizen empowerment and contributing to the fight against health disparities in Europe.

The creation of the toolkit will be performed in continuous collaboration with the end-users of the eHealth solutions (underprivileged older adults) and the end-users of the toolkit (eHealth developers). A strategy targeting sustainable engagement of end-users of the toolkit will aim at community building beyond the end of the project.

Toilet4me - Personalised toilets for active living

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Toilet4me project addressed older people and the needs they have when using a toilet outside home in semi-public environments (e.g. toilets located in community centres, shopping malls, museums, theatres, hotels).

Project Homepage: http://toilet4me-project.eu/

Team: Paul Panek, Peter Mayer

The vision of Toilet4me was to develop and provide an ICT-enhanced toilet system which is able to adapt itself to the individual needs and preferences of the older person currently using the toilet.

TrustRobots Doctoral College

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

From September 2018 TU Wien has established an interdisciplinary Doctoral College (DC) on “Trust in Robots – Trusting Robots” to foster cutting-edge research in robotics and AI at the TU Wien. The main objective of the DC is to comprehensively analyse “trust” in the context of robot technology from various perspectives including but not limited to social sciences and economics, computer science and mathematics, electrical and mechanical engineering, and architecture.

UNIKATE

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The UNIKATE Prize rewards ideas for new technological developments that enable people with disabilities to have more self-determination and more equal participation in society. The prize is aimed at students with creative ideas and a technical background who want to develop an inclusive technology - a UNIKAT - together with a person with disabilities.

Project Homepage: https://www.behindertenrat.at/projekte/unikate-ideenwettbewerb

Team: Paul Panek, Peter Mayer, Georg Edelmayer, Christopher Frauenberger

The call is open each year until beginning of November. The call text (in German) can be found here: https://www.behindertenrat.at/2022/01/unikate-start-der-ausschreibung/

Urban Food Spots

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Urban Food Spots – Development of the basics for gender and diversity sensitive cooling stations for foodsharing in urban areas (2015 – 2017), financed by: Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG)

70.000 tons of originally packed or opened food of households, industry or trade, are disposed of into Viennese residual waste, while at the same time 22,7 % of the inhabitants are at risk of poverty. To take counteractive measures, this project develops the base for an area-wide, low-threshold offer to share food on a local level, including all relevant gender and diversity aspects in the development of cooling stations. The so called UrbanFoodSp ots consist of a cooling station and an information system. The UrbanFoodSpots assemble the needs of the various groups of users and will be developed to be realised in different places and organisational forms.

Versteckte Technologien? Exploring the Hidden Technologigcal Labour of Service Workers

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Digitalisation has transformed work, jobs, and working environments. Research has paid a lot of attention to topics such as “industry 4.0”, gig economy and digital employment. However, it is often overlooked how digitalisation has also affected the (often female-dominated) occupations of the service sector. Which (hidden) technological labour do retail employees or mobile care workers perform on a daily basis?

This research question is addressed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers that brings together feminist perspectives from social, spatial and technological sciences. The aim is to place explicit focus on the rarely visible technologies and digital competencies that service workers already employ in their service provision. By bringing their often hidden efforts to the frontstage, we seek to contribute to political debates on revaluating these often underrated and underpaid occupations.

Visual Analytics for Sense-Making in Criminal Intelligence Analysis

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The VALCRI project is funded by the EC to undertake R&D with a view to developing an integrated software support system for police forces across partner countries. This software system, known as VALCRI, will be used by police analysts to investigate crimes and crime-related behaviour, complementing and enhancing current police capabilities. The consortium includes partners and activities aimed at designing the technology from cognitive, legal, ethical and privacy perspectives so that the rights of the individual to security and liberty will be respected while ensuring the good of society.

Viz4PAIS - Visualization Techniques for Process-Aware Information Systems

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Viz4PAIS (Visualization Techniques for Process-Aware Information Systems) project is an initiative from the Workflow Systems and Technology Research Group, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna and we are one of their partners. The goals of the project are (a) to develop and design user centered visualization approaches and (b) to create a community to unify and nurture the development of process visualization topics as a continuing research area.

WAALTeR

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The AAL project - short for Active & Assisted Living - aims to develop age-approriate assistance systems for an active, independent and self-determined life.

WAALTeR is the research project of the “Wiener AAL Testing Region”, that is: the Vienna AAL Testing Region.

In this Vienna AAL testing region, we examine how technological assistance in the everyday lives of senior citizens support their activity and mobility, social interactions, safety and health - and how they can contribute to raising the quality of life for older adults in Vienna.

Way·Key - mobility assistant for people with dementia

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

In Austria about 1.2% of the population or a total of ca. 130.000 persons are affected by dementia. The increase of life expectancy will lead to a growing number of people affected in the future. Maintaining mobility can at least help delay the advance of dementia symptoms. Lack of movement is considered to be one of the prevalent risk factors for dementia in the USA and Europe. Encouraging mobility of people with dementia poses risks like getting lost or falling. For this reason technological solutions mostly focus on monitoring and restricting or even inhibiting the mobility of persons with dementia. Often considered stakeholder groups in the design and implementation of technological solutions are care personnel and relatives, making persons with dementia only passive users in the functional chain. Whenever attempts were made to increase independent mobility of people, smartphones or smart watches were used, which are known to be difficult to handle for this user group.

WCBuddy - Supporting Use of Toilet by Guidance

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Based on project partners’ products “iToilet” and “fearless”, the feasibility of supporting cognitively impaired people while using the toilet will be explored.

Project Homepage: https://www.aat.tuwien.ac.at/wcbuddy

Team: Paul Panek, Peter Mayer

By means of intelligent recognition of relevant usage actions (fearless, iToilet sensors) customized usage instructions are to be given via the dialog system of iToilet. This should promote the autonomy of the users in a taboo area and relieve the caregiver. The project aims to identify user / supervisor requirements from practice and risk assessment regarding an implementing R & D project and the market outlook through laboratory simulation of appropriate technologies. The project was successfully completed. On June 29, 2020, the successful demonstration of a WCBuddy laboratory prototype took place at the day care center Lichtblick in Steyr. The prototype reacts to user behavior with configurable instructions as an image or video in combination with text and audio. A functional demonstrator has been set up in the laboratory of TUW. The technical, economic and ethical findings developed together with experts are documented in the final report.