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Laura Koesten is an Austrian scientist at the University of Vienna, within the Faculty of Computer Science. Her research focuses on Human Data Interaction [1].

Education

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Laura Koesten received her Ph.D. from the University of Southampton in the UK. For her doctoral work she was an EC Marie Curie Skłodowska fellow at the Open Data Institute. Her thesis is titled "A User-Centred Perspective on Structured Data Discovery." [2] Since 2021, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna in the Research Group for Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA), and an external researcher at King’s College London in the UK [3] [2].

Research and Career

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Laura Koesten studies Human Data Interaction, with the aim of making decisions that happen at every stage of working with data more transparent. This includes exploring how people find and make sense of data, finding ways to explain data and models to diverse audiences and building tools that support these efforts [4][5][6].

She leads the project lead of "Talking Charts," a project funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) (ICT20-065). In this project, she researches how data visualizations  related to climate change and COVID-19 are created and understood by researchers and by public audiences, using perspectives and methods from Computer Science and Science & Technology Studies [3]. This project was featured in KurierTV (Kurier Medienhaus) invited her to participate in a discussion, in 2024, titled "Von Macht oder Ohnmacht der Bilder" which was featured in newsmagazines Kurier and Profil. This interview highlighted the complexities of visual data communication in the modern era [1][7].

Laura Koesten is also part of the project 'Interpretability and Explainability as Drivers to Democracy,' which examines the societal impact of intelligent, complex models (ICMs) in decision-making. The project aims to enhance public comprehension, transparency, and trust in these models by improving interpretability, explainability, and communication [8].

In 2024, Koesten won the Hedy Lamarr Price awarded by the City of Vienna together with DigitalCityVienna and Urban Innovation Vienna [9]. The Hedy Lamarr Prize honors female researchers in Austria for their outstanding achievements in the field of information technology. It highlights the role and importance of women in IT and aims to empower them [10]

Honors

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  • Hedy Lamarr Price, (City of Vienna), 2024[11]
  • Interview with Profil, (by Kurier Medienhaus), titled "Von Macht oder Ohnmacht der Bilder", 2024 [1] [7]

Academic Service (Excerpt)

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  • Co‑chair of the CHI24 Workshop ”Sensemaking: What is it today?”, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing System, 2023[12]
  • Organizing Comittee Datastories Symposium 2020, King's College London, 2020[13]
  • EU Project Networking Chair, ESWC 2019[14]
  • Sponsorship Chair, International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2018[15]
  • Organizing Comittee Int. Workshop on Profiling and Searching Data on the Web, The Web Conference 2018, Lyon, FR[16]
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References

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  1. ^ a b c profil.at (2024-04-25). "Von der Macht oder Ohnmacht der Bilder". Profil (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-25.
  2. ^ a b "King's People". King's College London. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
  3. ^ a b "Talking Charts". Talking Charts. 2019. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
  4. ^ Daniel M. Russell (2024-05-14). "Sensemaking Workshop at CHI 2024". Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  5. ^ Kathleen Gregory, Laura Koesten (2022), Human-Centered Data Discovery, Berlin: Springer, ISBN 978-3-031-18225-9
  6. ^ Koesten, Gregory, Groth, Simperl, Laura, Kathleen, Paul, Elena (2021-02-20). "Talking datasets – Understanding data sensemaking behaviours". International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 146 – via Elsevier Science Direct.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ a b ""Ich staune, wie unterschiedlich Bilder verstanden werden können"". futurezone.at (in German). 2024-04-25. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
  8. ^ "Interpretability and Explainability as Drivers to Democracy". Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  9. ^ Rathauskorrespondenz Wien (2024-10-24). "Laura Koesten erhält Hedy Lamarr Preis 2024" (in German). Stadt Wien. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  10. ^ Digital City Wien (2024-10-24). "Hedy Lamarr Preis" (in German). Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  11. ^ Presse-Service Rathauskorrespondenz (2024-09-02). "Die Nominierten für den Hedy Lamarr Preis 2024 stehen fest". wien.gv. Stadt Wien. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  12. ^ "A workshop on how sensemaking is currently operating". CHI 2024. 2024. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
  13. ^ "Data Stories: Engaging with data in a post-truth environment". King's College. 2020. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  14. ^ "ESWC 2019". EXTENDED SEMANTIC WEB CONFERENCE ESWC. 2019. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
  15. ^ ISWC (2018). "Organization". Semanticweb. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
  16. ^ Profiles Data:Search (2018). "International Workshop on Profiling and Searching the Web". profiles-datasearch. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
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