Mirjam Augstein's post-doctoral dissertation titled “Personalized and Collaborative Interaction - Individuals and Teams in Human-Centered Computing” is comprised of a total of 13 scientific publications spanning the phases of a human-centered design process to specific topics in the field of personalized interaction and collaboration. She addresses issues relating to analyzing usage context within interactive systems, requirements analysis, design, and implementing and evaluating interactive systems. In the process, she introduces methodological contributions as well as conceptual, empirical and technical aspects, such as a human-centered taxonomy of interaction modalities and devices, a study on (“involuntary”) remote collaboration, and prototypes for new interactive devices designed to assist disabled individuals.

About Mirjam Augstein
Mirjam Augstein studied Engineering for Computer-Based Learning (CBL) at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (Hagenberg Campus) between 2002 and 2006. Afterwards, she enrolled at the JKU and successfully completed a doctorate degree in computer sciences at the JKU Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences in 2011. She returned to the Hagenberg campus in 2010 as an assistant professor before accepting her current professorship position there in 2012. Mirjam Augstein has actively focused on human-computer interaction topics for over 10 years, concentrating on personalization, personalized interaction and collaboration, particularly hybrid collaboration. She is the author of over 60 scientific publications, has won a Microsoft Productivity Research Grant, and was twice presented with the Science Award for Inclusion through Science and Technology (WINTEC) by the Austrian Ministry of Social Affairs.

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