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Katta Spiel

Assistant Prof. Dr.x techn. / BSc B.A. MSc

Research Focus

  • Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology: 100%

Research Areas

  • Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Technology Assessment, Participatory Design, Access & Accessibility, Disability Studies, Textile Technologies
Katta Spiel

About

I research marginalised perspectives on embodied computing through a lens of Critical Access. My work informs design and engineering supporting the development of technologies that account for the diverse realities they operate in. In my interdisciplinary collaborations with neurodivergent and/or nonbinary peers, I conduct explorations of novel potentials for designs, methodologies and innovative technological artefacts.

Roles

  • Assistant Professor
    Human Computer Interaction, E193-05
  • Curriculum Coordinator
    Master Media and Human-Centered Computing (Substitute)
  • Faculty Council
    Substitute Member
  • Curriculum Commission for Informatics
    Principal Member

Contact

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2025

2024

2023

  • Tackling the Lack of a Practical Guide in Disability-Centered Research / McDonnell, E. J., Mack, K. A., Gerling, K., Spiel, K., Bennett, C. L., Brewer, R. N., Williams, R. M., & Tigwell, G. W. (2023). Tackling the Lack of a Practical Guide in Disability-Centered Research. In ASSETS ’23: Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 1–5). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597638.3615650
  • How to Ethically Engage Fat People in HCI Research / Payne, B. H., Taylor, J., Spiel, K., & Fiesler, C. (2023). How to Ethically Engage Fat People in HCI Research. In C. Fiesler, L. Terveen, & M. Ames (Eds.), CSCW ’23 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 117–121). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3584931.3606987
  • Banal Autistic Social Media: A Found Footage Autoethnography / Kender, K., & Spiel, K. (2023). Banal Autistic Social Media: A Found Footage Autoethnography. In ASSETS ’23: Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 1–7). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597638.3614552
  • Criptopias: Speculative Stories Exploring Worlds Worth Wanting / Angelini, R., Burtscher, S., Fussenegger, F., Kender, K., Spiel, K., Steinbrecher, F., & Suchanek, O. (2023). Criptopias: Speculative Stories Exploring Worlds Worth Wanting. In CHI’23. Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–10). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3582743
    Download: PDF (11.3 MB)
    Project: Exceptional Norms (2020–2023)
  • Tackling Discrimination in Tech: The Anti-Bias Cards (ABC) in Use / Burtscher, S., & Spiel, K. (2023). Tackling Discrimination in Tech: The Anti-Bias Cards (ABC) in Use. In A. Schmidt, K. Väänänen, T. Goyal, P. O. Kristensson, & A. N. Peters (Eds.), CHI EA ’23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–6). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585592
    Project: Exceptional Norms (2020–2023)
  • Participatory Research as a Path to Community-Informed, Gender-Fair Machine Translation / Gromann, D., Lardelli, M., Spiel, K., Burtscher, S. M., Klausner, L. D., Mettinger, A., Miladinovic, I., Schefer-Wenzel, S., Duh, D., & Bühn, K. (2023). Participatory Research as a Path to Community-Informed, Gender-Fair Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (pp. 49–59). European Association for Machine Translation. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/191180
  • Designing Technology for Neurodivergent Self-determination: Challenges and Opportunities / Gollasch, D., Branig, M., Gerling, K., Gulliksen, J., Metatla, O., Spiel, K., & Weber, G. (2023). Designing Technology for Neurodivergent Self-determination: Challenges and Opportunities. In J. Abdelnour Nocera, M. Larusdottir, H. Petrie, A. Piccinno, & M. Winckler (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023 : 19th IFIP TC13 International Conference, York, UK, August 28 – September 1, 2023, Proceedings, Part IV (pp. 621–626). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42293-5_83
  • How can we can create an equitable CHI / Grady, S., Bauer, C., Wehbe, R., Spiel, K., Muller, M., & Harrington, C. (2023). How can we can create an equitable CHI. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–3). https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3583746
  • Practicing Humility: Design as Response, Not as Solution / Spiel, K. (2023). Practicing Humility: Design as Response, Not as Solution. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-023-00436-2
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  • Complex Dynamics: Disability, Assistive Technology, and the LGBTQIA+ Community Center Experience in the United States / Crawford, K. A., Spiel, K., & Hamidi, F. (2023). Complex Dynamics: Disability, Assistive Technology, and the LGBTQIA+ Community Center Experience in the United States. In ASSETS ’23: Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 427–441). https://doi.org/10.34726/5232
    Download: paper (684 KB)

2022

  • Reflections on Ableism in Participatory Technology Design / Gerling, K., Kender, S.-K., Spiel, K., Van der Oord, S., Bayens, D., Depoortere, A., & Aufheimer, M. (2022). Reflections on Ableism in Participatory Technology Design. In K. Marky, U. Grünefeld, & T. Kosch (Eds.), Mensch und Computer 2022 - Workshopband. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. https://doi.org/10.18420/muc2022-mci-ws02-224
  • FaceSavr™: Designing Technologies with Allistic Adults to Battle Emotion Echolalia / Kender, K., & Spiel, K. (2022). FaceSavrTM: Designing Technologies with Allistic Adults to Battle Emotion Echolalia. In CHI EA ’22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–8). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3516383
    Project: Exceptional Norms (2020–2023)

2021

2020

  • This is not the new normal / Sabie, A.-C., Brunnmayr, K., Weinberger, K., Singer, R. S., Vrecar, R., & Spiel, K. (2020, July). This is not the new normal. Interactions, 27(4), 12–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3406111
  • Desiging Social Play Things / Frauenberger, C., Kender, S.-K., Scheepmaker, L., Werner, K., & Spiel, K. (2020). Desiging Social Play Things. In NordiCHI ’20: Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society (pp. 1–12). ACM. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/58435

2019

2018

  • Participatory Design - State of the Art and Potential for Interaction Design / Spiel, K. (2018). Participatory Design - State of the Art and Potential for Interaction Design. University of Ontario, Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/86746
  • Tending the Trees: Strategies in Caring for Online Communities / Spiel, K. (2018). Tending the Trees: Strategies in Caring for Online Communities. University of Michigan, School of Information, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America (the). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/86745
  • Understanding Material Speculation and Object Oriented Inquiry, / Spiel, K. (2018). Understanding Material Speculation and Object Oriented Inquiry,. Faculty Meeting HCI in Engineering at the Games Institute in Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/86744
  • The Things We Play with Roles of Technology in Social Play / Scheepmaker, L., Frauenberger, C., & Spiel, K. (2018). The Things We Play with Roles of Technology in Social Play. In Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. CHI Play ’18, Melbourne, Australia. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3242671.3242695
    Project: Social Play Technologies (2017–2020)
  • Limits of Empathy-Neurodiversity as a Framework for Participatory Design / Spiel, K. (2018). Limits of Empathy-Neurodiversity as a Framework for Participatory Design. Neurodiversity and Design Discussion Forum, Dublin, Ireland. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/86747
  • Evaluating experiences of autistic children with technologies in co-design / Spiel, K. (2018). Evaluating experiences of autistic children with technologies in co-design [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2018.62060
    Download: PDF (94.3 MB)
  • Design considerations towards long-term engagement in games for health / Kayali, F., Luckner, N., Purgathofer, P., Spiel, K., & Fitzpatrick, G. (2018). Design considerations towards long-term engagement in games for health. In S. Dahlskog, S. Deterding, J. M. Font, M. Khandaker, C. M. Olsson, S. Risi, & C. Salge (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3235765.3235789
  • Fitter, Happier,More Productive? Normative Ontologies of Fitness Trackers / Spiel, K., Kayali, F., Horvath, L., Penkler, M., Harrer, S., Sicart, M., & Hammer, J. (2018). Fitter, Happier,More Productive? Normative Ontologies of Fitness Trackers. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Acm Sigchi, Austria. ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188401
  • Collaborative Mixed Reality Games / Alharthi, S. A., Spiel, K., Hamilton, W. A., Bonsignore, E., & Toups, Z. O. (2018). Collaborative Mixed Reality Games. In Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Acm Sigchi, Austria. ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3273013
  • Micro-ethics for participatory design with marginalised children / Spiel, K., Brulé, E., Frauenberger, C., Bailly, G., & Fitzpatrick, G. (2018). Micro-ethics for participatory design with marginalised children. In Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Full Papers - Volume 1. Acm Sigchi, Austria. ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3210586.3210603
    Project: OutsideTheBox (2014–2017)
  • Feminist HCI / Bellini, R., Strohmayer, A., Alabdulqader, E., Ahmed, A. A., Spiel, K., Bardzell, S., & Balaam, M. (2018). Feminist HCI. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Acm Sigchi, Austria. ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3185370
  • Games and Play SIG / Nacke, L. E., Mirza-Babaei, P., Spiel, K., Toups, Z. O., & Isbister, K. (2018). Games and Play SIG. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3185360
  • Supporting Care as a Layer of Concern: Nurturing Attitudes in Online Community Moderation / Yu, B., Spiel, K., & Watts, L. (2018). Supporting Care as a Layer of Concern: Nurturing Attitudes in Online Community Moderation. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/39544
  • Negotiating Marginalised Identities in and through Participatory Design / Spiel, K., Scheepmaker, L., Frauenberger, C., & Posch, I. (2018). Negotiating Marginalised Identities in and through Participatory Design. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/39543
    Project: Social Play Technologies (2017–2020)
  • Sex Toys and Neurodiversity / Spiel, K., Brulé, E., Nacke, L., Harrer, S., & Grenzfurthner, J. (2018). Sex Toys and Neurodiversity. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/39542

2017

  • Critical Experience / Spiel, K. (2017). Critical Experience. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017), Denver, CO, United States of America (the). https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3027118
    Project: OutsideTheBox (2014–2017)
  • Not another Z piece!" - Adaptive Difficulty inTETRIS / Spiel, K., Bertel, S., & Kayali, F. (2017). Not another Z piece!" - Adaptive Difficulty inTETRIS. In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2017 (pp. 5126–5131). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/56954
  • When Empathy Is Not Enough / Spiel, K., Frauenberger, C., Hornecker, E., & Fitzpatrick, G. (2017). When Empathy Is Not Enough. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017), Denver, CO, United States of America (the). ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025785
    Project: OutsideTheBox (2014–2017)
  • Participatory Evaluation with Autistic Children / Spiel, K., Malinverni, L., Good, J., & Frauenberger, C. (2017). Participatory Evaluation with Autistic Children. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017), Denver, CO, United States of America (the). ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025851
    Project: OutsideTheBox (2014–2017)
  • Blending Methods / Frauenberger, C., Makhaeva, J., & Spiel, K. (2017). Blending Methods. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children. International Conference for Interaction Design and Children (IDC), Tampere, Finland. ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3078072.3079727
    Project: OutsideTheBox (2014–2017)
  • Beyond Empathy - Including Marginalised Users in Participatory Research / Spiel, K. (2017). Beyond Empathy - Including Marginalised Users in Participatory Research. Beyond Empathy - Including Marginalised Users in Participatory Research, Brighton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/86510
    Project: OutsideTheBox (2014–2017)
  • Eluding Experiences - The Broken Promises of Player Experience Questionnaires / Spiel, K. (2017). Eluding Experiences - The Broken Promises of Player Experience Questionnaires. Seminar Series of the HCI Games Group, Waterloo, Kanada, Non-EU. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/86555
  • Verschränkte Spielwelten / Spiel, K., & Horvath, L. (2017). Verschränkte Spielwelten. Privacy Week 2017, Volkskundemuseum, Wien, Austria. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/86554
    Project: OutsideTheBox (2014–2017)
  • Demo Hour / Bengler, B., Martin, F., Bryan-Kinns, N., Frauenberger, C., Makhaeva, J., Spiel, K., Vishkaie, R., & Jones, L. (2017). Demo Hour. Interactions, 25(1), 8–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3162013
  • Experiences of Autistic Children with Technologies / Spiel, K., Frauenberger, C., & Fitzpatrick, G. (2017). Experiences of Autistic Children with Technologies. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 11, 50–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2016.10.007
    Project: OutsideTheBox (2014–2017)
  • Just Don't Make It Too Predictable: Structuring Academic Work with ADHD / Spiel, K. (2017). Just Don’t Make It Too Predictable: Structuring Academic Work with ADHD. The Sociological Review -- Blog, HTTPS://WWW.THESOCIOLOGICALREVIEW.COM/BLOG/JUST-DON-T-MAKE-IT-TOO-PREDICTABLE-STRUCTURING-ACADEMIC-WORK-WITH-ADHD.HTML. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/147804
  • Creating Community Fountains by (Re-)Designing the Digital Layer of Way-finding Pillars / Spiel, K., Werner, K., Hödl, O., Ehrenstrasser, E., & Fitzpatrick, G. (2017). Creating Community Fountains by (Re-)Designing the Digital Layer of Way-finding Pillars. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services -- MobileHCI 2017, Wien, Austria. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/56931
    Project: ILUM (2014–2016)

2016

2015

 

  • Best Paper Award
    2025 / Paper: Speculating Deaf Tech: Reimagining Technologies Centering Deaf People / Japan
  • Best Poster Award
    2023 / CSCW 2023 / USA
  • Pride Biz Award 2022
    2022 / Pride Biz / Austria
  • Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien in der Sparte Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaft, Technik
    2022 / Stadt Wien / Austria
  • Best Paper Honourable Mention Award
    2022 / Mensch und Computer 2022 / Germany
  • Best Paper Award
    2022 / Mensch und Computer 2022 / Germany
  • Best Paper 2020
    2021 / International Journal of Human-Computer Studies / USA
  • Best Paper Award & Diversity and Inclusion Award
    2021 / SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems / USA
  • Best Pictorial Award
    2021 / SIGCHI Creativity & Cognition / USA
  • Diversity and Inclusion Award
    2021 / SIGCHI Conference on Tangible Embodied and Embedded Interaction / USA
  • Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
    2020 / Mensch und Computer / Germany
  • Exceptional Norms
    2020 / Firnberg-Programm / Austria
  • Evaluating the Experiences of Autistic Children with Technologies in Co-Design
    2020 / SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award / USA
  • Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
    2019 / SIGCHI CHIPLAY / USA
  • Diversity & Inclusion Award
    2019 / Communities & Technologies / USA
  • Best Paper Honourable Mention Award
    2018 / Foundations of Digital Games Conference / USA

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Until then, please visit Katta Spiel’s research profile in TISS .