Janis Lena Meißner
Univ.Ass.in Dipl.-Ing. / PhD
About
Janis Lena Meißner is a post-doc researcher at the HCI research group of TU Wien. She obtained her PhD in Digital Civics at Open Lab (Newcastle University) and holds a BSc and MSc in Media Informatics (TU Wien). She previously worked in the IT-department of an Austrian governmental institution as well as in consulting services for a software company. She is a co-founding member of fempower.tech, a group of intersectional feminists who raise awareness of feminist issues in HCI.
Janis's research interests are in productive creative practices of non-expert technology users and their ways of meaning-making with digital tools. Her work is committed to addressing social issues with the design and use of technologies - that is, to raising critical questions of social justice in design and empowerment of technology users. She has a particular interest in experimenting with participatory and creative research methods and how co-design can be used as a means to establish healthy give-and-take-relationships between researcher and researched.
In her research she has engaged with:
- urban knitters, their use of social media and the 'Tools for Wools' prototype
- the DIY-Making practices of makers-in-the-making: people with disabilities using 3D-printers for 'empowering hacks'; charity workers and service users creating the Partnership Quilt; organisers and users of a Men Shed combining tradtitional skills with new digital technologies
- potentials for telemonitoring in the treatment of chronic heart failure
- the hidden technological labour of workers in female dominated occupations (i.e. retail employees and mobile care workers)
Role
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PostDoc Researcher
Human Computer Interaction, E193-05
Courses
2022W
- Computational Aspects of Digital Fabrication / 193.124 / VU
- Free and Open Technologies / 193.067 / VU
Publications
Note: Due to the rollout of TU Wien’s new publication database, the list below may be slightly outdated. Once the migration is complete, everything will be up to date again.
- The Hidden Technological Labour of Service Workers in Health and Beauty Shops / Meißner, J. L., Pretterhofer, N., Bergmann, N., & Haselsteiner, E. (2022). The Hidden Technological Labour of Service Workers in Health and Beauty Shops. In Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2022) (pp. 1–12). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3533406.3533413 / Project: AK-DL4.0
- Feminist human–computer interaction: Struggles for past, contemporary and futuristic feminist theories in digital innovation / Bellini, R., Meißner, J. L., Mitchell Finnigan, S., & Strohmayer, A. (2022). Feminist human–computer interaction: Struggles for past, contemporary and futuristic feminist theories in digital innovation. Feminist Theory, 23(2), 143–149. https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001221082291
- Auf der Suche nach versteckter technologischer Arbeit / Bergmann, N., Pretterhofer, N., Meißner, J. L., & Haselsteiner, E. (2021). Auf der Suche nach versteckter technologischer Arbeit (No. 1). https://doi.org/10.34726/2141
- Sichtbar ist, was gesehen werden soll: Versteckte technologische Arbeit im stationären Einzelhandel / Bergmann, N., Meissner, J. L., Haselsteiner, E., & Pretterhofer, N. (2021). Sichtbar ist, was gesehen werden soll: Versteckte technologische Arbeit im stationären Einzelhandel. SWS-Rundschau, 61(4), 391–411. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/138830 / Project: AK-DL4.0
- The Hidden Technological Labour of Service Workers in Health and Beauty Shops / Meissner, J. L., Bergmann, N., Haselsteiner, E., & Pretterhofer, N. (2021). The Hidden Technological Labour of Service Workers in Health and Beauty Shops. In 2022 Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work. Community Informatics Research Network Conference, https://sites.google.com/view/cirn2021/home, International. https://sites.google.com/view/cirn2021/home. https://doi.org/10.1145/3533406.3533413 / Project: AK-DL4.0
- Auf der Suche nach versteckter technologischer Arbeit. Analyse zweier frauendominierter Dienstleistungsberufe im Kontext der Digitalisierung. / Bergmann, N., Pretterhofer, N., Meissner, J. L., & Haselsteiner, E. (2021). Auf der Suche nach versteckter technologischer Arbeit. Analyse zweier frauendominierter Dienstleistungsberufe im Kontext der Digitalisierung. (No. 1). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/40458 / Project: AK-DL4.0
- The Partnership Quilt: An Interactive Living Archive of Sex Worker Voices / Strohmayer, A., & Meissner, J. (2020). The Partnership Quilt: An Interactive Living Archive of Sex Worker Voices. Curator: The Museum Journal, 63(2), 275–279. https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12360
- Endbericht der TU Wien zur Studie "Barrieren und Motivatoren im Zusammenhang mit der Verwendung von Telemonitoring durch Patientinnen/Patienten mit chronischer Herzinsuffizienz" / Schwaninger, I., Meissner, J. L., & Fitzpatrick, G. (2020). Endbericht der TU Wien zur Studie “Barrieren und Motivatoren im Zusammenhang mit der Verwendung von Telemonitoring durch Patientinnen/Patienten mit chronischer Herzinsuffizienz.” http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/40465 / Project: CCIV Telecare