Miscellaneous Activities

René Röpke has been appointed Game Competition and Exhibition Chair for the Games and Learning Alliance Conference 2025 (GALA), alongside Kristina Risley from the University of Southampton, UK. The international conference will take place this year in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and gathers leading voices from academia, industry, and education in the field of serious and game-based learning.

The CTS//circle.responsibleComputing is hosting the last brown bag talk of the semester on Digital Laziness: Why the Real AI Risk Is Human Surrender with Dr. Patrizia Ecker who is researcher, author, and founder of the AI Literacy Alliance.

As part of an inspiring exchange with the University of Twente, the Center for Technology and Society (CTS) at TU Wien hosted an interdisciplinary workshop on the responsible use of AI, as well as the participation of the guests in the TECH DESIGN SPRINT 2025 – two formats that exemplify international collaboration and ethics-oriented technology development in action.

As a recognised scientist and expert in learning technologies research, René Röpke has been invited as a keynote speaker and will open the Academic/Learning Analytics network meeting with his talk. The talk will take place on 28 May at TU Wien.

We’ve done it again! The third round of the CTS//AK.designSprint has taken place. And this year, we have once again underpinned our focus on “Technology-Driven Social Innovation” with this renewed cooperation.

We welcome workshop contributions to the ECSCW 2025 Pre-Conference Workshop on the Malicious Use of AI on July 1st in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Submission deadline is June 10th 2025

The CTS//circle.responsibleComputing is hosting our next brown bag talk on Perception vs. Reality: The Illusion of Security – Why We (Erroneously) Trust Technologies in the Age of AI Revolution with Rafael Vrecar.

This April, Kevin Blasiak was invited to take part in the 2025 Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy, hosted at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and co-organized by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, the American Austrian Foundation, and the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation.

In march, there was a lot going on in the CTS meeting room at TU Wien: 15 curious girls came to visit to get to know the university and lose their shyness about a technical university. The afternoon began with an exciting quiz about the university, computer science and women in technology, which warmed up the visitors and aroused their curiosity.

Kevin Blasiak was invited to participate in the 2025 Paris Defence and Strategy Forum as part of its academic stream, contributing to high-level discussions on the future of international security.

The CTS//circle.responsibleComputing is hosting our first brown bag talk of the year 2025 on Educational Games for Digital Education: Uncovering learners’ misconceptions with Assistant Professor Dr. rer. nat. René Röpke. Please join us in person or online.

The CTS//circle.responsibleComputing is hosting the last brown bag talk of the year 2024 on Unsettled Everyday Lives and Young People’s (Non)Digital Access to Urban Public Space. An Intersectional Research Project on Social Inequality with Alvie Augustin. Please join us in person or online.

The CTS//circle.responsibleComputing is hosting the second brown bag talk of the new semester on Relational matters: Arts-based Spatial Education & Media Ecology with Theresa Schütz. Please join us in person or online.

The CTS//circle.responsibleComputing is pleased to announce the recent publication of a catchword article with CTS co-authorship titled “Shadowbanning” in Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE).

The CTS//circle.responsibleComputing hosted the first brown bag talk in the new semester on Perspectives on Designing Interactive Technologies for Wellbeing with Prof. tekn. dr Paweł W. Woźniak. A recording of our session is available online.

Anna Franzkowiak (Head of CTS) and Heimo Sandtner (Rector of FH Campus Wien) welcomed guests to the joint Robotic Lunch in the newly opened FH Campus Wien building on 26 September 2024. The four presentations, accompanied by a good buffet, came from programme directors, department heads and dedicated students. The audience was also a mix of interested experts from various disciplines who were eager to discuss.

On September the 23rd, 2024, the latest exhibition of the Cultural Collisions project was opened, among others by the Vice Rector of Teaching at TU Wien, Jasmin Gründling-Riener.

Like the activities of the CTS, this project also aims to combine critical, scientific thinking with creative approaches and thus make those involved and the stakeholders even better prepared for the challenges of the future.

Exciting discussions and an insightful process lie behind the participants of the Tech Design Sprint 2024 recently organised by CTS (Center for Technology & Society) and AK Vienna.

A week full of exciting discussions, international networking and new perspectives lies behind the participants of the 8th EUSSET Summer School. From 23 to 26 August 2024, young researchers from all over the world met at TU Wien to immerse themselves in the world of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).

This past semester, the CTS//circle.responsibleComputing hosted an engaging and thought-provoking Brown Bag Seminar Series, “Exploring The Frontiers of Responsible Computing.”

CTS participated in the 2024 Terrorism and Social Media (TASM) international conference, held on 18-19 June at Swansea University’s Bay Campus in Wales, UK.

The CTS//circle.responsibleComputing is pleased to announce the recent publication of an IS Tutorial Article titled “Trigger Warning: This Study Contains Extremist Content. Research Strategies for Investigations of Online Extremism and Terrorism in the Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS) by Kevin Blasiak, Marten Risius & Sabine Matook.

On 27 June 2024, the Center for Technology and Society (CTS) held its annual Midsommar event. Not only did we celebrate the start of summer, but also our 5th anniversary.

The YOUTH Spring School took place from 10 to 14 June as part of the YOUTH project funded by the CTS. In the context of the project, the aim was to further develop the transdisciplinary and intersectional methodological framework for researching social inequality among young people and to engage in a translocal and transdisciplinary exchange with international academic partners and NGOs. In this regard, the YOUTH Spring School was conceived as an educational format based on the principles of academic co-production, in which the consortium partners of the project and NGOs from different regions of the world as well as international students jointly produce new forms of urban knowledge that are relevant for young people, universities and society in general. The Spring School focussed on the question of how the use of technology affects young people’s (in)equal access to and use of public space.

The CTS//circle.responsibleComputing is hosting the third talk on “Designing and Executing User Studies: Best Practices for Responsible Computing” in their brown bag seminar series, “Exploring the Frontiers of Responsible Computing.” Join us in person or watch the livestream

The CTS//circle.responsibleComputing is hosting the second talk on “Co-Creation and Participation of Citizens in Urban Planningin” their brown bag seminar series, “Exploring the Frontiers of Responsible Computing.” Join us in person or watch the livestream on YouTube

The CTS//circle.responsibleComputing recently hosted the first talk in their new brown bag seminar series, “Exploring the Frontiers of Responsible Computing.” You can watch a recording of the talk on YouTube

MASTERMIND TALK: Digitalization, digital change and change management (TU Vienna, Hilda Tellioglu)

This year, the CTS is focusing, amongst other topics, on robotics. The continued advancement of robotics technology holds the potential to revolutionize industries, enhance productivity, and transform the way humans interact with machines, leading to unprecedented levels of automation and innovation. Likewise, the consequences of this development could impact society and include a redefinition of work structures, adjustments to educational systems, and a broad debate on the ethical and social impacts of automation and artificial intelligence. For this reason, we are featuring a series of insights and research activities from all our CTS houses.

The Center for Technology and Society invites you to its second annual Midsommar event. We are also celebrating our 5th anniversary.

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