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Janis Lena Meißner

Projektass.in Dipl.-Ing.in / PhD

Janis Lena Meißner

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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)

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