My research - short overview of topics and methods: Designing Interactive Systems (Method) Innovative Interaction (Technologies) Informal Learning (Application Domain) plus I am talking about a pretty mature strand of research - reflective learning - I have done, together a lot with my PhD student Angela Fessl, and two more recent, ongoing PhDs and strands of investigation; around gestures with Granit Luzhnica, and around innovative interaction for maintenance in largely automated production environments with Carla Barreiros.

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Designing Interactive Systems –
Computer-Mediated Knowledge
Work and Learning
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Viktoria Pammer-Schindler - Knowledge Technologies Institute

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PhD Students
Designing Interactive
Systems (Methods):
§ Understanding activity
§ Iterative design and development of ICT
§ Evaluation of ICT in relationship to
activity
Innovative interaction
(Technologies):
§ Mobile and ubiquitous computing
§ Interaction based on location, speech,
gestures; hardware interfaces, virtual
reality interfaces…
Informal Learning
(Application domain)
§ Reflective learning, experiential learning
(learning from and through experience)
§ Knowledge transfer from theory to
practice / from science to industry
Team
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Ass.-Prof. Dr.
Viktoria Pammer-
Schindler
Carla
Barreiros
Granit
Luzhnica
Angela Fessl

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Research Highlights
§ Papers
§ In 2016, already got 2 conference papers (3DUI, BCI) and 3 journal papers
(twice IJTEL, EAI Collab Computing) accepted
§ 4 more journal papers with good chances in submission, all to Impact-Factor
journals (toCHI – in “major revisions” round; JKM, 2x IEEE TLT)
§ Collaboration / Internationalisation
§ Research visit at Leibniz Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany in
summer 2016 (Prof. Ulrike Cress)
§ Research visit at Siegen University in autumn 2016 (Prof. Volker Wulf)
§ Continued collaboration with Ruhr Univ. Bochum (Prof. Michael Prilla) and NTNU
Trondheim (Prof. Monica Divitini, Ass.-Prof. Birgit Krogstie) on reflective
learning
§ Continued collaboration with Tallin University (Prof. Tobias Ley) on informal
learning, innovative interaction paradigms for informal learning, and knowledge
trasnfer
§ Community service in the European research community for technology-enhanced
learning (workshops and conference organisation at ECTEL)
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Example Research Procedure – Reflective
Learning at Work
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User Studies: How Reflective Learning at Work
happens in five Testbeds NOW (before interventions)
Basis for good full papers!
Stakeholder-oriented , iterative software design
Evaluation goals: Functionality, usability, technology
acceptance
Examples: Study on motivation/barriers on collecting
physiological data; trial of mood tracking in a single team
(virttual meetings)
Long-term field trials, e.g., 4 weeks of time
tracking in two companies with 10 users each
Evaluation goals: Usage, learning, impact on
users’ behaviour, impact on organisation
1ICALT short paper, 2ECTEL full
papers, 1ECSCW full paper, one
workshop paper (at ECTEL), 1
journal paper (IJTEL)
1demo (NordiCHI),
1workshop and 1short
paper at ECTEL, 1
works-in-progress at
CHI
1 Journal Paper
(IJTEL), 1 short and 1
full paper at ECTEL, 3
papers in submission at
IF journals, plus 1 more
in writing

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Gesture-based and haptic interfaces – Use
case: Learning how to grasp
Gesture Detection based
on a custom data glove
(3DUI)
Haptic display –
Communicating via tactile
signals
Grasp-controlled
games
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Innovative interaction in industry – use case:
maintenance of largely automated production lines
§ Representations of nature have
a positive effect on humans’
stress levels, overall wellbeing
§ Maintenance of largely
automated production lines
requires diligence, attention,
care…
§ Idea: represent “vital”
information about automated
production lines in a manner that
is
§ Easy and fast to understand
§ Contributes to healthy work
environment for maintenance staff
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http://kti.tugraz.at/staff/viktoriapammer
Viktoria.pammer-schindler@tugraz.at
@viktoriapammer
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