Janis Lena Meißner
Projektass.in Dipl.-Ing.in / 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
Publications
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Everyone is a Maker? A Critical Lens on the Maker Movement’s Promises of Technology Democratisation
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Meißner, J. L. (2024, October 18). Everyone is a Maker? A Critical Lens on the Maker Movement’s Promises of Technology Democratisation [Presentation]. Ethik & Nachhaltigkeit – FHS-übergreifendes interdisziplinäres Symposium zum Auftakt des Wintersemesters 2024/25, Fachhochschule Salzburg, Austria.
Project: ACCESSTECH (2024–2029) -
The Risk of Materialized Cultural Reproduction in and through Online 3D-Model Databases
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Meißner, J. L., Osipova, E., Kender, S.-K., & Luckner, N. (2024, September 20). The Risk of Materialized Cultural Reproduction in and through Online 3D-Model Databases [Conference Presentation]. 10. Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung (ÖGGF), Graz, Austria.
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From Participation to Solidarity: A Case Study on Access of Maker Spaces from Deaf and Hearing Perspectives: Von Partizipation zu Solidarität: Eine Fallstudie zur Zugänglichkeit von Makerspaces aus Gehörloser und Hörender Perspektive
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Suchanek, O., Meissner, J. L., Angelini, R., & Spiel, K. (2024). From Participation to Solidarity: A Case Study on Access of Maker Spaces from Deaf and Hearing Perspectives: Von Partizipation zu Solidarität: Eine Fallstudie zur Zugänglichkeit von Makerspaces aus Gehörloser und Hörender Perspektive. In Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2024 (pp. 140–155). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3670653.3670670
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Cripping STS: forging solidarities through the lens of access
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Osipova, E., Meißner, J. L., Spiel, K., Kender, S.-K., & Angelini, R. (2024, July 17). Cripping STS: forging solidarities through the lens of access [Conference Presentation]. EASST-4S 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands (the).
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From “Makers-in-the-making” to “Empowering Hacks”
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Meißner, J. L. (2024, July 16). From “Makers-in-the-making” to “Empowering Hacks” [Conference Presentation]. EASST-4S 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands (the).
Project: ACCESSTECH (2024–2029) - Making Useful Stuff: Ein technikphilosophischer Blick auf das Maker Movement / Meißner, J. L. (2024, January 9). Making Useful Stuff: Ein technikphilosophischer Blick auf das Maker Movement [Presentation]. Gastvortrag Kunstuniversität Linz, Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria.
- Can't Touch This? Is This Touch? It's So Fluffy I'm Gonna Die! -- Material and Tangible Research Methods in HCI / Burtscher, S. M., Kender, S.-K., Meißner, J. L., Posch, I., & Strohmayer, A. (2024). Can’t Touch This? Is This Touch? It’s So Fluffy I’m Gonna Die! -- Material and Tangible Research Methods in HCI. In MuC ’24: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2024. MuC ’24: Mensch und Computer 2024, Karlsruhe, Germany. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. https://doi.org/10.18420/muc2024-mci-ws04-103
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Das Handwerk der inklusiven Hochschullehre
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Meißner, J. L. (2023, December 15). Das Handwerk der inklusiven Hochschullehre. FNMA Magazin, 04/2023, 33–35. https://doi.org/10.34726/5448
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The Hidden Technological Labour of Service Workers in Health and Beauty Shops
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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
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Feminist human–computer interaction: Struggles for past, contemporary and futuristic feminist theories in digital innovation
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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
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Auf der Suche nach versteckter technologischer Arbeit
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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
Download: Endbericht für ein im Rahmen des AK Digitalisierungsfonds Arbeit 4.0, Call „Gleichstellung im Digitalen Wandel“, durchgeführtes Forschungsprojekt (2.86 MB) -
The Hidden Technological Labour of Service Workers in Health and Beauty Shops
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Meissner, J. L., Bergmann, N., Haselsteiner, E., & Pretterhofer, N. (2021). The Hidden Technological Labour of Service Workers in Health and Beauty Shops. In L. Stillman & M. Anwar (Eds.), 2022 Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (pp. 1–12). https://sites.google.com/view/cirn2021/home. https://doi.org/10.1145/3533406.3533413
Project: AK-DL4.0 (2020–2021) -
Sichtbar ist, was gesehen werden soll: Versteckte technologische Arbeit im stationären Einzelhandel
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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 (2020–2021) -
Auf der Suche nach versteckter technologischer Arbeit. Analyse zweier frauendominierter Dienstleistungsberufe im Kontext der Digitalisierung.
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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 (2020–2021) - "We come together as one...and hope for solidarity to live on" / Strohmayer, A., Meißner, J. L., Wilson, A., Charlton, S., & McIntyre, L. (2020). “We come together as one...and hope for solidarity to live on.” In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020, Eindhoven, Netherlands (the). https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395452
- 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
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Endbericht der TU Wien zur Studie "Barrieren und Motivatoren im Zusammenhang mit der Verwendung von Telemonitoring durch Patientinnen/Patienten mit chronischer Herzinsuffizienz"
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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 (2020–2021)
Supervisions
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Examining the usability of self service technologies in the retail sector
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Völkl, A. (2024). Examining the usability of self service technologies in the retail sector [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.109721
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Investigating creativity support opportunities through digital tools in dance
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Buchberger, S. (2024). Investigating creativity support opportunities through digital tools in dance [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2024.114635
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