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Kathrin Bednar

Kathrin Bednar MSc, MSc, BA
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Kathrin Bednar works and teaches at the Institute for Information Systems and Society of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien). She has an interdisciplinary background in psychology, philosophy and cognitive science and has been teaching classes on human-centered design and sustainable IT. Her general research interests focus on the impact of technology on our lives and psychological wellbeing. Currently, Kathrin is looking into different views of human nature and technology.
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Affiliation

CV

since 2017
Research and Teaching Associate (prae doc)

Researcher Identifier

Awards and Honors

2020-2021
DOC Fellowship (ÖAW / Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Classifications

Expertise

  • IT ethics
  • Human centered design
  • Cognitive science
  • Human nature and technology
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
  • Values and technology design

Activities

Membership in scientific association
  since 2018 International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Working Group 9.5 ("Our Digital Lives") - Secretary
Reviewer for a scientific journal
  2020 International Journal of Information Management - Reviewer
  2019-2020 Information Systems Journal (ISJ) - Reviewer
Reviewer for an international conference
  2020 International Human Choice and Computers Conference (HCC) - Reviewer
  2019 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) - Reviewer
  2019 Ethicomp Conference - Reviewer
  2018 Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI) - Reviewer
  2016 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) - Reviewer
Attendance scientific meeting (Conference etc.)
  2018 Human Choice and Computers Conference (HCC13): “This changes everything”
  2018 Ethicomp 2018: "Creating, changing, and coalescing ways of life with technologies"
  2017 CEPE/Ethicomp 2017: “Values in emerging science and technology”
  2016 Lab Launch - The Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab
Other scientific activities
  since 2019 International VSD Community Seminar - Member
  since 2016 Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab - Member

Publications

Journal article

2020 Bednar, Kathrin, Voracek, Martin, Tran, Ulrich S. 2020. Common factors underlying the five facets of mindfulness and proposed mechanisms: A psychometric study among meditators and non-meditators. Mindfulness. open access (Details)
2019 Bednar, Kathrin, Spiekermann-Hoff, Sarah, Langheinrich, Marc. 2019. Engineering Privacy by Design: Are engineers ready to live up to the challenge? Information Society. 35 (3), 122-142. open access (Details)

Chapter in edited volume

2020 Bednar, Kathrin, Winkler, Till. 2020. Ontologies and knowledge graphs: A new way to represent and communicate values in technology design. In: Societal challenges in the smart society, Hrsg. Mario Arias-Oliva, Jorge Pelegrín-Borondo, Kiyoshi Murata, Ana María Lara Palma, 257-269. Logroño: Universidad de La Rioja. open access (Details)

Contribution to conference proceedings

2020 Bednar, Kathrin. 2020. Exploring human nature in a technology-driven society. In Human-centric computing in a data-driven society: 14th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC14 2020 Tokyo, Japan, September 9–11, 2020, Proceedings, Hrsg. David Kreps, Taro Komukai, T. V. Gopal, Kaori Ishii, 281-290. Cham: Springer. (Details)
  Bednar, Kathrin, Winkler, Till. 2020. Ontologies and knowledge graphs: A new way to represent and communicate values in technology design. In Paradigm Shifts in ICT Ethics: Proceedings of the ETHICOMP 2020, Hrsg. Jorge Pelegrín-Borondo, Mario Arias-Oliva, Kiyoshi Murata, Ana María Lara Palma, 203-206. Logroño: Universidad de La Rioja. (Details)
  Bednar, Kathrin, Spiekermann-Hoff, Sarah. 2020. The power to design: Exploring utilitarianism, deontology and virtue ethics in three technology case studies. In Paradigm Shifts in ICT Ethics: Proceedings of the ETHICOMP 2020, Hrsg. Jorge Pelegrín-Borondo, Mario Arias-Oliva, Kiyoshi Murata, Ana María Lara Palma, 396-399. Logroño: Universidad de La Rioja. (Details)
2018 Bednar, Kathrin, Spiekermann-Hoff, Sarah. 2018. Aware but not in control: A qualitative value analysis of the effects of new technologies. In This changes everything - ICT and climate change: What can we do? Hrsg. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, 202-218. Cham: Springer. (Details)

Paper presented at an academic conference or symposium

2020 Bednar, Kathrin, Winkler, Till. 2020. Ontologies and knowledge graphs: A new way to represent and communicate values in technology design. ETHICOMP 2020 [online], Logroño, La Rioja, Spanien, 15.06.-06.07. (Details)
  Bednar, Kathrin. 2020. The power to design: Exploring utilitarianism, deontology and virtue ethics in three technology case studies. ETHICOMP 2020 [online], Logroño, La Rioja, Spanien, 15.06.-06.07. (Details)
2018 Bednar, Kathrin. 2018. Aware but not in control: A qualitative value analysis of the effects of new technologies. 13th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC13 2018, Poznan, Polen, 19.09.-21.09. (Details)
2017 Bednar, Kathrin. 2017. Understanding software engineers’ attitude towards information privacy. CEPE/ETHICOMP 2017, Turin, Italien, 05.06.-08.06. (Details)

Working/discussion paper, preprint

2020 Bednar, Kathrin, Spiekermann-Hoff, Sarah. 2020. On the power of ethics: How value-based thinking fosters creative and sustainable IT innovation. Working Papers / Institute for IS & Society. (Details)
2019 Spiekermann-Hoff, Sarah, Winkler, Till, Bednar, Kathrin. 2019. A Telemedicine Case Study for the early phases of Value based Engineering. Working Paper Series/Institute for IS & Society Vol. 1. (Details)

Projects

2020
Exploring views of human nature and technology (2020-2021) (Details)
2017
Developing and testing the value-based IT design approach (2017-2019) (Details)
2016
Interview study on engineers’ attitude towards privacy (2016-2017) (Details)