EDUCATION
PhD with Distinction in Informatics at TU Wien, Austria
M.Sc. in Interaction Design (Two Year Master) at Malmö University, Sweden
B.A. in Fine Arts and Multimedia at LMU Munich, Germany
I am passionate about utilizing my design and analytical skill-set for developing technological solutions that are accessible to everyone. My work focuses on a holistic examination of complex problems. I have conducted co-design studies with people with diverse backgrounds such as unaccompanied migrant youths, volunteer helpers, psychologists and social workers in Germany, Sweden, Great Britain, and Austria.
PhD with Distinction in Informatics at TU Wien, Austria
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 grant 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 2014)
Organization of Conferences
Conference Co-Chair at 2nd Digital Child Mental Health Conference (2020), Barcelona, Spain
Program Committee member at Digital Child Mental Health Conference (2018), London, UK
Conference Co-Chair and Program Co-Chair for the 12th Student Interaction Design Research Conference (2016), Malmö, Sweden
Presentations, Participations, and Workshop Facilitation at International Conferences
E.g., ICEC 2013, TEI 2014, DIS 2016, CHI 2016/2018/2019/2020/2021, C&T 2019, MobileHCI 2020
Currently
Past Experiences
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%)
Conference publications – Extended Abstracts:
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.
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.
Guminski, K., Tachtler, F. (2013). Moment of Memory. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Entertainment Computing. Springer.
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
Thesis:
Tachtler, F. (2022). Promoting Resilience in Unaccompanied Migrant Youth: A Social-ecological Design Framework for Technology-enabled Support (PhD Thesis). TU Wien, Austria
Advisor: Prof. Geraldine Fitzpatrick (TU Wien, Austria), Second advisor: Dr. Petr Slovák (King’s College London, UK)
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)
2017
re:publica 2017, Berlin, Germany
New Year’s Reception of the Max Weber-Program of the Elite Network of Bavaria, Munich, Germany
2015
The Conference, Malmö, Sweden
Arduino Day, MINC, Malmö, Sweden
Somatic Archiving Symposium, Medea, Malmö, Sweden
Malmö Live, Malmö, Sweden
Echt[e] Zeit für Medienkunst, Munich, Germany
2014
100 Word Pilgrimage, Munich, Germany
2013
WEXEL, Munich, Germany
4m-art, Munich, Germany
Aaber Award, Munich, Germany