PhD student in Informatics at TU Wien, Austria
Topic: ‘Designing for resilience with unaccompanied migrant youth’
M.Sc. in Interaction Design (Two Year Master) at Malmö University, Sweden
B.A. in Fine Arts and Multimedia at LMU Munich, Germany
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Innovative Training Networks (ITN) – TEAM (Technology Enabled Mental Health for Young People)
Max Weber-Program Scholarship of the Elite Network of Bavaria
Research grants for a student project at the Faculty of History and the Arts at LMU Munich, Germany
Honorable Mention Award at Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021) – top 5%
Honorable Mention Award at Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020) – top 5%
Best Concept-Award in the Student Design Challenge at the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI)
currently
past experiences
Conferences
| 2020 | Conference Co-Chair at 2nd Digital Child Mental Health Conference, One-Day Conference organized by TEAM ITN, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2018 | Program Committee member at Digital Child Mental Health Conference, One-Day Conference organized by TEAM ITN, London, UK |
| 2016 | Conference Co-Chair and Program Co-Chair for SIDeR’16 – 12th Student Interaction Design Research Conference with the topic Human | Nature in Malmö, Sweden |
Seminars
| 2018 | Emerging Youth Mental Health Technologies – Opportunities and Limitations, Seminar for Mental Health Practitioners, Anna Freud Centre for Children and Families, London, UK |
| 2014 | fairy-tales-telling bags – workshop with Stadtbibliothek Milbertshofen with Anna Blumenkranz |
Community
| since 2017 | Mentor at connecting people, Asylkoordination Austria |
| 2009 – 2010 | European Volunteer at an institution for unemployed youths called Ung Resurs in Motala, Sweden |
2017
re:publica 2017, Berlin, Germany
Presentation and Exhibition, Track: Mobility & City,
New Year’s Reception of the Max Weber-Program of the Elite Network of Bavaria, Munich, Germany
Presentation and Exhibition: ‘Critical Consumption’ Intervention
2015
The Conference, Malmö, Sweden
Exhibition: ‘Hyperemployment’ Intervention
Arduino Day, MINC, Malmö, Sweden
Exhibition: ‘It’s all in me: Writing Immigrant Women’s History’
Somatic Archiving Symposium, Medea, Malmö, Sweden, Exhibition: ‘Fear Division: Archiving the Intangible’
Malmö Live, Malmö,
Exhibition: ‘Awaken Optimistorkestern’
Echt[e] Zeit für Medienkunst, Munich, Germany
Exhibition: ‘Senseparation’
2014
100 Word Pilgrimage, Munich, Germany
Exhibition: Augmented Reality Project, a Collaboration between Artists based in London, UK and Munich, Germany
8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI), Munich, Germany
Participation in Student Design Challenge: ‘Moment of Memory’
2013
WEXEL, Munich, Germany
4m-art, Munich, Germany
Aaber Award 2013, Munich, Germany
Peer-reviewed Conference publications – Full Papers:
Tachtler, F., Talhouk, R., Michel, T., Slovák, P. & Fitzpatrick, G. (2021). Unaccompanied Migrant Youth and Mental Health Technologies: A Social-Ecological Approach to Understanding and Designing. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21), May 8–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445470, Honorable Mention
Tachtler, F., Michel, T., Slovák, P. & Fitzpatrick, G. (2020). Supporting the Supporters of Unaccompanied Migrant Youth: Designing for Social-ecological Resilience. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–14. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376458, Honorable Mention (Premier HCI publication venue according to Google Scholar, Acceptance Rate: 23,8%)
Peer-reviewed Conference publications – Extended Abstracts:
Tachtler, F. (2019). Exploring the Use of Technology for Supporting Resilience in Unaccompanied Migrant Youth (Talk). In Book of Abstracts of 18th International Congress of European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP 2019), page 29
Fitzpatrick, G., Slovak, P., Tachtler, F., Michel, T. (2018). Building bridges: Technology-Enabled Mental Health and Wellbeing (Talk). In Book of Abstracts of 9th European Conference on Positive Psychology (ECPP 2018), ISBN: 9789630599153; Paper ID 539, 2 pages
Tachtler, F. (2017, June). Best Way to Go?: Intriguing Citizens to Investigate What Is Behind Smart City Technologies. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 28-33). ACM. (Category: Work-in-progress)
Koelemeijer, D., Tachtler (2016). Fear Division; Archiving the Intangible. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’16) (pp.309-312). ACM.
(Category: Interactivity)
Koelemeijer, D., Tachtler, F. et al. (2015). Fear Division; Archiving the Intangible. In Proceedings of the 11th Student Interaction Design Research conference (SIDeR 2015).
Guminski, K., Tachtler, F. (2013). Moment of Memory. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Entertainment Computing. Springer.
(Category: Interactive art)
Journal Publications:
Michel, T., Tachtler, F., Slovák, P. & Fitzpatrick, G. (2020). A review of youth mental health promotion apps towards their fit with youth media preferences. In EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technologies, 2 (2019), 17
Workshop and Special Interest Group Proposals:
Tachtler, F., Aal, K., Ertl, T., Diethei, D., Niess, J., Khwaja, M., Talhouk, R., Nunes Vilaza, G., Lazem, S., Singh, A., Barry, M., Wulf, V. & Fitzpatrick, G. (2021). Artificially Intelligent Technology for the Margins: A Multidisciplinary Design Agenda. accepted for publication in: CHI ´21 Extended Abstracts, May 8-13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan“, ACM Digital Library, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages
Krüger, M., Aal, K., Wulf, K., Tachtler, F., Talhouk, R., Bustamante Duarte, A. M., Fisher, K., Yafi, E. & Charitonos, K. (2019). Technology at/of the border: a workshop about stories and experiences. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies – Transforming Communities (C& T ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 336–342. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3328320.3328408
Talhouk, R., Aal, K., Weibert, A., Krüger, M., Wulf, V., Fisher, K., Tachtler, F., Shahid, S., Ahmed, S. I., Bustamante Duarte, A.M. (2019). Refugees & HCI SIG: Situating HCI Within Humanitarian Research. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper SIG14, 1–4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3311754
Workshop Contributions:
Tachtler, F. (2020). Reflecting on Mental Health Resources for Unaccompanied Migrant Youth from the Perspective of the Social-Ecological Model of Resilience. In CHI’20 Workshop on Technology Ecosystems: Rethinking Resources for Mental Health
Tachtler, F. (2019). How can technology support mentors in promoting mental wellbeing of unaccompanied migrant youth? (poster presentation). In CHI’19 Symposium on Computing and Mental Health
Tachtler, F. (2018). Designing for resilience with unaccompanied migrant youth (poster presentation). In CHI’18 Symposium on Computing and Mental Health
Tachtler, F. (2017). Designing for Resilience with Unaccompanied Migrant Youth from the Arab World. In DIS’17 Workshop on Design4Arabs Workshop
Invited Articles:
Tachtler, F. (2019). Keep your head up! Wie in Großbritannien das Wohlbefinden psychisch gefährdeter junger Flüchtlinge gestärkt wird. asyl aktuell – Gesundheit: Kräfte stärken, 2, 10-13
Tachtler, F. (2016, August 5). Berührung mit persönlichen Ängsten – Installation von Franziska Tachtler bei der CHI in San José. Retrieved from https://www.elitenetzwerk.bayern.de/
Thesis:
Tachtler, F. (2016). Best way to go? Intriguing citizens to investigate what is behind smart city technologies (Master Thesis). Malmö University, Sweden
Advisor: Per-Anders Hillgren (Malmö University, Sweden)
Tachtler, F. (2015). PeerRadio and PeerLight. Supporting elderly people in experiencing social moments from home (Master Thesis). Malmö University, Sweden
Advisor: Pelle Ehn (Malmö University, Sweden)