#Human-Computer Interaction

The area of Human-Computer Interaction investigates how new media and technologies change the way in which humans and machines work together – from digital communication for senior citizens and new forms of communication and production in Industry 4.0 to virtual worlds of entertainment and art.

Projects

Josef Ressel Center Industrial Data Lab

Josef Ressel Centre for Knowledge-Assisted Visual Analytics for Industrial Manufacturing Data.

Tovies

A Toolkit for Virtual Education Spaces

DIHOST 2.0

A platform that brings digital innovations to small and medium-sized companies in Eastern Austria.

Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies

Visual Heritage

Visual Analytics and Computer Vision Meet Cultural Heritage.

E³UDRES² 2.0

Promoting Smart and Sustainable Regions as an Engaged and Entrepreneurial European University.

PhD Program Visual Heritage

XR2Resilience

An Extended Reality training program to improve the resilience of health care workers.

LEAPXR

Linking Education and Applied Practice for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

VReeze

Developing an Open-Source Virtual Reality for improving treatment of Freezing of Gait.

Trust AI - A platform for interactive and trustworthy artificial intelligence.

Explainable and trustworthy AI solution in an easy-to-use platform for SMEs.

Publications

Westfahl, S. (2025, September 26). XR für Ergotherapie und Planetare Gesundheit [Demo & Poster]. European Researchers" Night, Graz. https://www.lifeisscience.at/

Feilacher, D., Girsule, B., Lehner, S., Heller, M., Smith, H., & Jakl, A. (2025). Smart Companion: An Audio-visual Lying Person Detection System Integrated in a Robot Vacuum Cleaner. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Sensors and Electronic Instrumentation Advances (SEIA" 2025), 57–62. https://www.seia-conference.com/seia_2025_proceedings.html

Rind, A., Boucher, M., De Jesus Oliveira, V. A., Grassinger, F., Stoiber, C., Tekaya, N., & Zauchinger, M. (2025, May 22). Daten erlebbar machen [Demo & Poster]. E³UDRES² Science Festival, St. Pölten. https://eudres.eu/scifest-stp-2025

Westfahl, S. (2025, May 19). GreenTouch: Co-Creating XR for Planetary Health in Occupational Therapy. IAFeS Netties Conference on Innovation & Impact, St. Pölten.

Bibtex

Jakl, A., Feilacher, D., Lehner, S., Girsule, B., & Heller, M. (2025). From Lab to Living Room: The Smart Companion"s Journey in Real-World Fall Detection and User Engagement Powered by an AI-Driven Vacuum Cleaning Robot. Abstractband: 18. Forschungsforum Der Österreichischen Fachhochschulen : 7. - 8. Mai 2025, 59–60. https://doi.org/10.34895/hcw.0027

Wagner, M., Stoiber, C., Rind, A., Größbacher, S., Böck, A., Vrablicz, J., Felberbauer, T., Moser, T., & Aigner, W. (2025). JR-Centre for Knowledge-Assisted Visual Analytics for Industrial Manufacturing Data. Abstractband: 18. Forschungsforum Der Österreichischen Fachhochschulen : 7. - 8. Mai 2025, 528–530. https://doi.org/10.34895/hcw.0027

Proksa, F. (2025, July 3). Interdisciplinary Alliances with Artistic and AI-Driven Research [Vortrag]. Tricky Women – Best Practice, International Forum, Vienna, Filmmusem. https://online.trickywomen.at/p/25_Sup_Pro_Best_Practice

Lehner, S. (2025). The design and discursive construction of a ‘speaking’ vacuum cleaning robot for assistive purposes: Findings on communication ideologies from a current research and development project. AI-Linguistica. Linguistic Studies on AI-Generated Texts and Discourses, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.62408/ai-ling.v2i1.16

Aigner, W. (2025, January 13). Wintergraph 2025 - Research Area - Data Visualization. 18th Visual Computing Winter Workshop Austria (Wintergraph 2025), Kaprun.

Bibtex

Aigner, W., Lenzi, S., Rönnberg, N., Enge, K., & Rind, A. (Eds.). (2025). What you hear is what you see? Integrating sonification and visualization (Dagstuhl Seminar 25072). Dagstuhl Reports, 15(2), 63–88. https://doi.org/10.4230/DagRep.15.2.63

News

08/22/2025