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From autumn 2008 I was a SICSA lecturer at the University of Strathclyde , co-leading the Mobiquitous Lab in Glasgow, UK. Before, I worked at several places, including the UK's Open University, Sussex University, the Vienna University of Technology, and the HitLabNZ, following my PhD in Bremen, Germany.
I will be one of the Doctoral Consortium chairs for CHI 2022
The VolkswagenStiftung-funded ReThiCare project started April 2019. This interdisciplinary project (with BUW Product Design, STS-studies at TU Chemnitz and Robotics researchers from the University of Southern Denmark) explores the design space of robotic, technical assistance in care - avoiding the dominant rhetoric and image of anthropomorphic, complex robots and instead focusing on unobtrusive, mundane helpe r-machines, gadgets and furniture (embedded with robotic intelligence). We collaborate with a care
Tactile Data