R & T
01 | Research
My postdoctoral research focuses on navigation in physical and non-physical spaces. I am particularly interested in
- the differences and commonalities of real and electronic landmarks
- the influence of spatial abilities on navigation in information spaces
- the information needs driving VGI (Volunteered Geographic Information)
- ways to nudge geographic information behaviour
- the influence context has on mobile local search
02 | Thesis
My PhD thesis which was successfully defended in July 2016 focuses on the survey-based measurement of the salience of objects. These values can be used to explain routes to users of pedestrian navigation systems.
The fulltext is available here.
03 | Teaching (alphabetical order)
Basics and Applications of Machine Learning [Lab]
Summer 2018
Case Studies on Navigation (Seminar; in cooperation with Christina Bauer)
Summer 2018
Empirical Methods. An Introduction [Lec] (strong focus on statistics; as of Summer 2011 in cooperation with David Elsweiler).
Winter 2010/2011 | Summer 2011 | Winter 2011/2012 | Summer 2012 | Winter 2012/2013 | Summer 2013 | Summer 2014 | Summer 2015 | Summer 2016 | Summer 2017
Data analysis in Information Science [S]
Winter 2013/2014 | Winter 2014/2015 | Summer 2015 | Winter 2015/2016
Database Management Systems [Lec+Lab]
Summer 2016 | Winter 2016/2017
Navigation in Physical and Non-Physical Spaces (Master's Seminar)
Winter 2018/2019
Persuasion based on Linguistics [S] (in cooperation with Bernd Ludwig and David Elsweiler)
SoSe 2016
Prep Course Probabilistic Evaluation [Lab]
Winter 2012/2013 | Summer 2015
Research Seminar on GIScience [S] (in cooperation with Melanie A. Kilian)
Summer 2017
Research Seminar on Human Information Behaviour [S] (in cooperation with Melanie A. Kilian)
Winter 2016/2017
Seminar on Soundmarks and Landmarks [S]
Winter 2015/2016 (in cooperation with Dr. Solveig Ottmann)
Software Engineering [Lec]
Summer 2011 | Winter 2011/2012 | Summer 2017
Survey- and Experiment Design [Lec+Lab] (in cooperation with David Elsweiler)
Summer 2018
User Centered Design und Human Information Behaviour [Lec + Lab]
Winter 2017/2018 | Winter 2018/2019
CV
Since August 2016
Post-Doc at the Chair for Information Science, University of Regensburg
July2016
Dr. phil.; title of thesis: Empirically Measuring Salience of Objects for Use in Pedestrian Navigation
October 2010 - July 2016
Researcher and doctoral student at the Chair for Information Science, University of Regensburg
November 2008 - October 2010
Technical Consultant for IT Service Management / E-Tracking
September 2008
Master's degree in European Ethnology and Information Science"
2003-2008
Scholarship by the Bavarian Government
2003 - 2008
Undergraduate studies in European Ethnology and Information Science at the University of Regensburg and the University of Newcastle (NSW, Australia, 2 semesters).
Publications
Activities
Conferences
2019: General Co-Chair (in cooperation with Kathleen Stewart and Bernd Ludwig) of the 14th Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2019) in Regensburg
2014: Local Chair der International Conference on Information Interaction in Context (IIiX 2014) in Regensburg
Tutorials
2019: Tutorial on PLS Path Modeling for Information Retrieval at ECIR '18 (in cooperation with David Elsweiler)
2018: Tutorial on PLS Path Modeling for Information Retrieval at CHIIR '18 (in cooperation with David Elsweiler)
Workshops
2018: Workshop: Making Salience Personal – In Search for Personalized Landmarks im Rahmen der AGILE 2018 (in cooperation with Eva Nuhn (Augsburg), Sabine Timpf (Augsburg), Bernd Ludwig (Regensburg)
Reviewer
since 2018: Reviewer for the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human-Computer Interactive Information Retrieval (CHIIR)
since 2016: Reviewer for the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI)
Positions and Responsibilities
since 2017: Appointed second supervisor for Information Science M.A.
since 2016: Appointed first and second supervisor for Information Science B.A.
since 12/2013: Elected member of the Steering Committee of the Department of Information and Media, Language and Culture (University of Regensburg)
