#Participation
This research area aims to promote social participation and diversity, to strengthen the voice of clients, and to foster self-representation and self-organisation.
Publications
Lackner, T., Grebe, A., Vogt, G., Baumann, C., Petrovic-Majer, S., Stegen, C., Vitovec, U., Bögner, P., Semanek, B., & Kühschelm, O. (2026, August 13). Enhancing Lower Austria"s Rural Industrial Heritage – New Approaches Through Citizen Science. Proceedings of the Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2026. Austrian Citizen Science Conference. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21913622
Labadie-Tamayo, R., Slijepčević, D., Chen, X., Böck, A. J., Babic, A., Freimann, L., Atzmüller, C., & Zeppelzauer, M. (2026). Distilling knowledge from large language models: A concept bottleneck model for hate and counter speech recognition. Information Processing & Management, 63(2, Part A), 104309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2025.104309
Baumann, C., Petrovic-Majer, S., Stegen, C., Semanek, B., Vogt, G., & Lackner, T. (2026, February 24). Industrie im Dorf. In Shortpitch 1 [Presentation]. Österreichische Citizen Science Konferenz 2026. https://www.citizen-science.at/oecsk2026/programm
Feilacher, D., Jakl, A., Girsule, B., Lehner, S., Smith, H., Dominka, S., & Heller, M. (2025). Enhancing Home Safety through Multisensory Robotic Detection of Fallen Persons and Fall Hazard Warning. Sensors & Transducers, 271(4), 13–23. https://sensorsportal.com/p_3384.html
Babic, A., Chen, X., Slijepčević, D., Böck, A. J., & Zeppelzauer, M. (2025). CounterHelp: Promoting Online Civil Courage Among Young People Through AI-Generated Counter Speech. Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 13513–13515. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746027.3754473
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
Anderluh, A., Hackl, R., Mesbahi, Z., Pellegrini, T., & Raffler, C. (2025). Consumers’ affinity to the circular economy: Empirical evidence utilizing the circular economy cube. Journal of Cleaner Production, 525, 146539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.146539
Labadie-Tamayo, R., Böck, A. J., Chen, X., & Zeppelzauer, M. (2025). FHSTP@EXIST 2025 Benchmark: Sexism Detection with Transparent Speech Concept Bottleneck Models⋆. 12. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.20924
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
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