Dr. Matthias Korn mail: mkorn@binaervarianz.de

 

Welcome! (top)

THIS IS A HISTORICAL WEBSITE, FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES ONLY. During my academic career, I was a postdoc in the group on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Media at the University of Siegen, in the Philanthropic Informatics Lab of Amy Voida at the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), and in the interdisciplinary research center on Participatory IT (PIT) at Aarhus University. In May 2013, I received a PhD degree from Aarhus University with my dissertation titled “Situating Engagement: Ubiquitous Infrastructures for In-Situ Civic Engagement.” Susanne Bødker was my thesis advisor. In the winter of 2011/12, I was a visiting scholar at the Mobile Life Centre in Stockholm, Sweden. I graduated in information systems from the University of Siegen with a Dipl.-Wirt.Inform. degree in the summer of 2009. In Siegen, I have been a student research assistant in the group of Volker Wulf and Volkmar Pipek. In my studies, I have previously been at TU Ilmenau, Germany and Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

 

Publications (top)

Edited Books

• Matthias Korn, Wolfgang Reißmann, Tobias Röhl, and David Sittler (Eds.). 2019. Infrastructuring Publics, 288 pages. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  [bibtex] [web]

Book Chapters

• Matthias Korn, Wolfgang Reißmann, Tobias Röhl, and David Sittler. 2019. Infrastructuring Publics. A Research Perspective. In Matthias Korn, Wolfgang Reißmann, Tobias Röhl, and David Sittler (Eds.), Infrastructuring Publics, 11-47. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
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• Gunnar Stevens, Markus Rohde, Matthias Korn, and Volker Wulf. 2018. Grounded Design: A Research Paradigm in Practice-Based Computing. In Volker Wulf, Volkmar Pipek, Dave Randall, Markus Rohde, Kjeld Schmidt, and Gunnar Stevens (Eds.), Socio-Informatics. A Practice-Based Perspective on the Design and Use of IT Artifacts, 23-46. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  [bibtex] [web] [web]

Journal Articles

• Gaia Mosconi, Qinyu Li, Dave Randall, Helena Karasti, Peter Tolmie, Jana Barutzky, Matthias Korn, and Volkmar Pipek. 2019. Three Gaps in Opening Science. Computer Supported Cooperative Work 28, 3-4 (June 2019), 749-789.
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• Laura Kocksch, Matthias Korn, Andreas Poller, and Susann Wagenknecht. 2018. Caring for IT Security: Accountabilities, Moralities, and Oscillations in IT Security Practices. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2, CSCW, Article 92 (November 2018), 20 pages.
  [preprint] [bibtex] [web]
• Gaia Mosconi, Matthias Korn, Christian Reuter, Peter Tolmie, Maurizio Teli, and Volkmar Pipek. 2017. From Facebook to the Neighbourhood: Infrastructuring of Hybrid Community Engagement. Computer Supported Cooperative Work 26, 4-6 (December 2017), 959-1003.
  [pdf] [preprint] [bibtex] [web]

Refereed Conference Papers

• Matthias Korn and Susann Wagenknecht. 2017. Friction in Arenas of Repair: Hacking, Security Research, and Mobile Phone Infrastructure. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2475-2488.
  [pdf] [preprint] [bibtex] [web]
• Ellie Harmon, Matthias Korn, and Amy Voida. 2017. Supporting Everyday Philanthropy: Care Work In Situ and at Scale. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1631-1645.
  [pdf] [preprint] [bibtex] [web]
• Susann Wagenknecht and Matthias Korn. 2016. Hacking as Transgressive Infrastructuring: Mobile Phone Networks and the German Chaos Computer Club. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1104-1117.
  [pdf] [preprint] [bibtex] [web]
• Matthias Korn and Amy Voida. 2015. Creating Friction: Infrastructuring Civic Engagement in Everyday Life. In Proceedings of The Fifth Decennial Aarhus Conference on Critical Alternatives (AA '15). Aarhus University Press, 145-156.
  [pdf] [preprint] [slides] [bibtex] [web] [web]
• Amy Voida, Zheng Yao, and Matthias Korn. 2015. (Infra)structures of Volunteering. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1704-1716.
  [pdf] [preprint] [bibtex] [web]
• Susanne Bødker, Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose, Matthias Korn, and Anna Maria Polli. 2014. Participatory IT in Semi-public Spaces. In Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational (NordiCHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 765-774.
  [pdf] [preprint] [video|youtube|vimeo] [bibtex] [web]
• Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose, Matthias Korn, and Henrik Blunck. 2014. WiFi Proximity Detection in Mobile Web Applications. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 123-128.
  [pdf] [preprint] [bibtex] [web]
• Matthias Korn and Jon Back. 2012. Talking it Further: From Feelings and Memories to Civic Discussions In and About Places. In Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design (NordiCHI '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 189-198.
  [pdf] [preprint] [bibtex] [web]
• Matthias Korn and Susanne Bødker. 2012. Looking ahead: How field trials can work in iterative and exploratory design of ubicomp systems. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 21-30.
  [pdf] [preprint] [slides] [bibtex] [web]
• Morten Bohøj, Nikolaj G. Borchorst, Susanne Bødker, Matthias Korn, and Pär-Ola Zander. 2011. Public Deliberation in Municipal Planning: Supporting Action and Reflection with Mobile Technology. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 88-97.
  [pdf] [preprint] [bibtex] [web]

Refereed Conference Posters

• Anna Maria Polli, Matthias Korn, and Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose. 2013. Local Area Artworks: Collaborative Art Interpretation On-Site. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Adjunct Publication (UbiComp '13 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 79-82.
  [pdf] [preprint] [bibtex] [web]
• Matthias Korn, Raghid Kawash, and Lisbet Andersen. 2010. Surprise Trips: A System to Augment the Natural Experience of Exploration. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference Adjunct Papers on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '10 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 413-414.
  [pdf] [preprint] [poster] [bibtex] [web]
• Matthias Korn and Michael Veith. 2009. Learning Support through Scaffolding Collaborative Project Work. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning - Volume 2 (CSCL'09). International Society of the Learning Sciences, 73-75.
  [pdf] [poster] [bibtex] [web]
• Matthias Korn and Michael Veith. 2009. Scaffolding Collaborative Project Work in End-User Development. In Christopher Scaffidi, Gunnar Stevens (Eds.), Proceedings of the Work-in-Progress Session of the Second International Symposium on End User Development (IS-EUD 2009), International Reports on Socio-Informatics 6, 1, 9-12.
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Position Papers

• Matthias Korn, Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho, Amanda Langer, Phillipe Zotz, Volker Wulf, and Volkmar Pipek. 2017. Nomadic Culture in Academic Settings: Pervasive Commuting and Institutional Support as Defining Elements. In Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho, Chiara Rossitto, Airi Lampinen, Luigina Ciolfi, and Breda Gray (Eds.), Proceedings of the ECSCW 2017 Workshop on Nomadic Cultures Beyond Work Practices, International Reports on Socio-Informatics 14, 3, 21-27
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• Matthias Korn and Volkmar Pipek. 2017. Appropriation Infrastructures for Research Communities of Practice. In Workshop on E-Infrastructures for Research Collaboration: The Case of the Social Sciences and Humanities, CSCW 2017.
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• Matthias Korn, Marén Schorch, Volkmar Pipek, Matthew Bietz, Carsten Østerlund, Rob Procter, David Ribes, and Robin Williams. 2017. E-Infrastructures for Research Collaboration: The Case of the Social Sciences and Humanities. In Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '17 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 415-420.
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• Ellie Harmon, Matthias Korn, Ann Light, and Amy Voida. 2016. Designing Against the Status Quo. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '16 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 65-68.
  [pdf] [preprint] [bibtex] [web] [web]
• Matthias Korn. 2015. Hybrid Wireless Networks for Neighborhood Communities. In Workshop on Residents' Democratic Engagement in Public Housing and Urban Areas, Aarhus 2015: Critical Alternatives.
  [pdf] [bibtex] [web]
• Matthias Korn, Anna Maria Polli, and Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose. 2013. Experiences from a Real-Time Mobile Collaborative Writing System in an Art Gallery. In Workshop on Designing Mobile Face-to-Face Group Interactions, ECSCW 2013.
  [pdf] [bibtex] [web]
• Matthias Korn and Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose. 2012. Putting 'Local' Back into Public Wifi Hotspots. Workshop on Computer Mediated Social Offline Interactions. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 800-801.
  [pdf] [preprint] [bibtex] [web] [web]
• Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose and Matthias Korn. 2012. On the Degree of Participant Commitment in Non-Work Settings. In Workshop on Participation - basic concepts and research challenges, PDC 2012.
  [pdf] [bibtex] [web]
• Matthias Korn. 2011. Place and Situated Deliberation in Participatory Planning - A Research Proposal. In Nikolaj Gandrup Borchorst, Susanne Bødker, Nathalie Colineau, Matthias Korn, Cécile Paris (Eds.), Proceedings of the C&T 2011 Workshop on Government and Citizen Engagement, International Reports on Socio-Informatics 8, 2, 41-48.
  [pdf] [slides] [bibtex] [web]
• Matthias Korn and Pär-Ola Zander. 2010. From Workshops to Walkshops: Evaluating Mobile Location-based Applications in Realistic Settings. In Workshop on Observing the Mobile User Experience, NordiCHI 2010, 29-32.
  [pdf] [slides] [bibtex] [web]
• Matthias Korn. 2010. Understanding Use Situated in Real-world Mobile Contexts. In Workshop on Research in the Large: Using App Stores, Markets and other wide distribution channels in UbiComp research, Ubicomp 2010.
  [pdf] [bibtex] [web]
• Matthias Korn. 2009. Methodological Reflections on Working with Young Children. In Olav Bertelsen and Anne Marie Kanstrup (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth Danish Human-Computer Interaction Research Symposium (DHRS 2009), DAIMI Report Series 38, 591, 42-44.
  [pdf] [slides] [bibtex] [web]
• Anne Weibert, Matthias Korn, Thomas von Rekowski, and Kai Schubert. 2009. How come_IN Computer Clubs May Foster Collaboration in an Intercultural Neighborhood. In Workshop on Culture and Technologies for Social Interaction, INTERACT 2009.
  [pdf] [bibtex] [web]

Magazine Articles

• Vera Khovanskaya, Lynn Dombrowski, Ellie Harmon, Matthias Korn, Ann Light, Michael Stewart, and Amy Voida. 2018. Designing Against the Status Quo. Interactions 25, 2 (February 2018), 64-67.
  [pdf] [preprint] [bibtex] [web]

Edited Volumes

• Matthias Korn, Tommaso Colombino, and Myriam Lewkowicz (Eds.). 2013. ECSCW 2013 Adjunct Proceedings: The 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus. In DAIMI Report Series 40, 596 (September 2013).
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• Nikolaj Gandrup Borchorst, Susanne Bødker, Nathalie Colineau, Matthias Korn, and Cécile Paris (Eds.). 2011. Proceedings of the C&T 2011 Workshop on Government and Citizen Engagement [Special issue]. In International Reports on Socio-Informatics 8, 2.
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Editorials

• Scott Anderson, Nikolaj Gandrup Borchorst, Susanne Bødker, Nathalie Colineau, Amanda Dennett, Matthias Korn, and Cécile Paris. 2011. Introduction to the Workshop on Government and Citizen Engagement. In Nikolaj Gandrup Borchorst, Susanne Bødker, Nathalie Colineau, Matthias Korn, Cécile Paris (Eds.), Proceedings of the C&T 2011 Workshop on Government and Citizen Engagement, International Reports on Socio-Informatics 8, 2, 5-7.
  [pdf] [bibtex] [web]

PhD Dissertation 

• Matthias Korn. 2013. Situating Engagement: Ubiquitous Infrastructures for In-Situ Civic Engagement. PhD Dissertation, Aarhus University.
  [pdf] [slides] [bibtex] [web]

 

Invited Talks & Presentations (top)

• Situated Engagement
  University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, June 23, 2015.
  
• Hacking as Transgressive Infrastructuring: Mobile Phone Networks and the German Chaos Computer Club
  IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 13, 2015.
  Center for Participatory IT, Aarhus University, Denmark, April 10, 2015.
  
• Situated Engagement: Participatory Planning with Mobile Phones
  Boligkontoret Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, May 23, 2013.
  [web]
• Situated Engagement: Participatory Planning with Mobile Phones, PhD Defence
  Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark, May 7, 2013.
  [abstract] [slides] [web]
• Situating Engagement: Ubiquitous Infrastructures for In-Situ Civic Engagement
  Center for Participatory IT, Aarhus University, Denmark, April 15, 2013.
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• From Hybrid Spaces to Experiencing Augmented Places
  Workshop on Mobile Communication as a Cultural, Spatial and Social Phenomenon, Aarhus University, Denmark, March 29-30, 2012. [web]
  Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden, January 27, 2012.
  KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, January 25, 2012.
  Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm, Sweden, November 23, 2011.
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• Embedded Citizen Participation
  University of Siegen, Germany, November 26, 2010.
  [abstract] [slides]

 

Teaching (top)

Institute of Information Systems, University of Siegen

• Lecturer, Information Systems Design, Bachelor level, since Summer 2016.
  (One full term and substitute for individual lectures in other terms.)
• Examiner, Exam Colloquium of the Interdisciplinary Master Media and Society, Master level, since Winter 2015/16.
• Instructor, Seminar on Cooperative/Social Media and Human-Computer Interaction, Bachelor and Master level, Summer 2018.
• Co-Instructor, Collaborative Term Project of the Interdisciplinary Master Media and Society, Master level, Summer 2018.
  (Theme: Mediatization of the world: Strategies in augmented reality.)
• Guest Lecturer at Newcastle University, School for Architecture, Planning and Landscape, TCP2031: Digital Civics, Bachelor level, Winter 2016/17.

Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, Indianapolis

• Guest Lecturer, INFO H566: Experience Design for Ubiquitous Computing, Master level, Spring 2015.
• Guest Lecturer, INFO H541: Human-Computer Interaction I, Master level, Fall 2014.
• Guest Lecturer, INFO I305: Introduction to Research in Informatics, Bachelor level, Spring 2014.

Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University

• External Censor, Advanced Physical Computing, Bachelor level, Fall 2013.
• Lecturer, Web Programming, Master level (part time), Spring 2011.
• Lecturer, Interaction Programming, Master level, Fall 2010.
• Teaching Assistant, Pervasive Computing, Bachelor level, Fall 2010.
• Teaching Assistant, Interaction Design (Usability), Bachelor level, Spring 2010.

 

Supervision (top)

Institute of Information Systems, University of Siegen

• Since Summer 2016, supervision of, in total, more than 15 Master and Bachelor theses, term projects, and term papers on Master and Bachelor level in Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, and Media Studies programs.

Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, Indianapolis

• Project Co-Supervisor, INFO I499: Readings and Research in Informatics, Bachelor level, Spring 2015.
  Implementation of web-based data visualization techniques.
• Project Co-Supervisor, NSF Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Bachelor level, Fall 2014.
  Implementation of web-based study data collection, retrieval, and presentation interfaces.

Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University

• Project Co-Supervisor, Practical Research Projects (PREP), Master level, Fall 2013.
  Improving Interaction Techniques to Handle Ambiguities in Indoor Positioning via Feedback.
• Project Co-Supervisor, Practical Research Projects (PREP), Master level, Fall 2011.
  A Study of Mobile Location-aware Services' Use of Space and Place.

 

Research Projects Involved (top)

• COST Action 16121 SharingAndCaring: From Sharing to Caring: Examining Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy. (2017-)
  (Member of Core Group and Co-Lead of WG 2 on Platforms for the Collaborative Economy)
• SFB 1187 Media of Cooperation: Project INF: Infrastructure Concepts for the Study of Cooperative Media. (2016-)
• Public-NPO Partnerships: Exploring the Emergent Dynamics Between Nonprofit Organizations and a Technologically-Enabled, Innovative Public. (NSF #1218051) (2014-2016)
• PIT: Center for Participatory IT. (2012-)
• eGov+: Exploring Design and Use of Transparent and Tailorable IT in Local Government, beyond Web 2.0. (2007-2011)
• come_IN: Intercultural Learning by Means of Computer-Supported Project Work. (2005-2010)
• SFB/FK 615 Media Upheavals: Project B10: End User Development of Software Applications - An Exemplary Analysis of a Media Technological Challenge? (2005-2010)
• Emergency Communication: Proactive Communication Management in Emergency and Accident Situations. (2006-2008)

 

Service (top)

Conference Program Committees

• Program Committees: CSCW 2018 Online First, ECSCW (2017, 2015), C&T (2019, 2017), NordiCHI (2016, 2014), Aarhus 2015: Critical Alternatives.
• General Co-Chair for Infrastructures of Publics - Publics of Infrastructures, December 8-10, 2016, Siegen, Germany.
  (First Annual Conference of the Collaborative Research Center 1187: Media of Cooperation)
• Case Studies Co-Chair for C&T 2019, June 3-7, Vienna, Austria.
• Workshops and Master Classes Co-Chair at ECSCW 2013, September 21-25, Paphos, Cyprus.

Workshop Program Committees

• Co-Organizer of the COST CA16121 Workshop on Digital Platforms for the Collaborative Economies at ECSCW 2017, August 28-September 1, Sheffield, UK.
• Co-Organizer of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on The Practice Turn in IT Security, July 20-21, 2017, Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
• Lead Organizer of the Workshop on E-Infrastructures for Research Collaboration: The Case of the Social Sciences and Humanities at CSCW 2017, February 25-March 1, Portland, USA.
• Lead Organizer of the SFB 1187 Workshop on Infrastructuring eResearch: Challenges in the Sustainability of Research Tools and Platforms, December 7, 2016, University of Siegen, Germany.
• Co-Organizer of the Designing Against the Status Quo Workshop at DIS 2016, June 4-8, Brisbane, Australia.
• Program Committee for the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Do-It-Yourself Networking at MobiSys 2015, May 18-22, Florence, Italy.
• Program Committee for the Personal or Social? Designing Mobile Interactions for Co-located Interaction Workshop at NordiCHI 2014, October 26-30, Helsinki, Finland.
• Program Committee for the Ubiquitous Mobile Instrumentation Workshop at Ubicomp 2013, September 8-12, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Program Committee for the Ubiquitous Mobile Instrumentation Workshop at Ubicomp 2012, September 5-8, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• Co-Organizer of the Government and Citizen Engagement Workshop at C&T 2011, June 29-July 2, Brisbane, Australia.

Other

• Publicity Co-Chair at C&T 2017, June 26-30, Troyes, France.
• Student Volunteer Co-Chair at ECSCW 2011, September 24-28, Aarhus, Denmark.
• Part of Local Organization at MobileHCI 2009, September 15-18, Bonn, Germany.
• Local Organization at IS-EUD 2009, March 2-4, Siegen, Germany.

Reviewing

• Journals: JUT, JCSCW, PUC, HCI, TOCHI, MiA.
• Conferences: ECSCW (2018), CSCW (2020, 2019, 2018 Second Cycle, 2017, 2016, 2015), CHI (2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014), DIS (2018, 2016, 2014, 2010), MobileHCI 2013, NordiCHI (2020, 2012), TEI 2012, Ubicomp 2010.

Membership

• Member of the Chaos Computer Club e.V. (CCC).
• Founding Member of the come_IN e.V. - A Network of Cross-cultural Computer Clubs.
• Founding Board Member of Hack Århus.
• Founding Member of Open Space Aarhus (OSAA).