Janis Lena Meißner ist eine Universitätsassistentin (Post-Doc Forscherin) an der Human Computer Interaction Forschungsgruppe der TU Wien. Sie hat ihr Doktorat in Digital Civics am Open Lab (Newcastle University, UK) absolviert und hält einen Bachelor- und Masterabschluss in Medieninformatik. Vor ihrer akademischen Laufbahn hat sie in der IT-Abteilung des österreichischen Nationalfonds für Opfer des Nationalsozialismus und als Consultant in einem internationalen Software-Unternehmen gearbeitet. Janis ist zudem Mitbegründerin von fempower.tech, einer Gruppe intesektionaler Feminist*innen, die das kritische Bewusstsein für feministische Themen in HCI stärken wollen.
Janis Lena Meißner is a post-doc researcher at the HCI research group of TU Wien. She obtained her PhD in Digital Civics at Open Lab (Newcastle University) and holds a BSc and MSc in Media Informatics (TU Wien). She previously worked in the IT-department of an Austrian governmental institution as well as in consulting services for a software company. She is a co-founding member of fempower.tech, a group of intersectional feminists who raise awareness of feminist issues in HCI.
Janis's research interests are in productive creative practices of non-expert technology users and their ways of meaning-making with digital tools. Her work is committed to addressing social issues with the design and use of technologies - that is, to raising critical questions of social justice in design and empowerment of technology users. She has a particular interest in experimenting with participatory and creative research methods and how co-design can be used as a means to establish healthy give-and-take-relationships between researcher and researched.
In her research she has engaged with:
