Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher, EU project coordinator and principal investigator at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. I am also affiliated with the University of Vienna, Austria, working as lecturer, theses supervisor and principal investigator of interdisciplinary research projects at the Cooperative Systems Research Group of the Faculty of Computer Science and the Digital Education and Learning Group of the Centre for Teacher Education.
The projects of my research concern computer science and interdisciplinary information technology design in areas that include energy and smart city, education and didactics, music and art as well as healthcare and therapy.
The research approaches I use are associated with Human Computer Interaction (HCI), design and engineering and include hard- and software prototyping, physical computing with mobile and sensor technologies, research through design, user research, user experience (UX) design, interaction design (IxD), art-based research and HCI-related qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods.
Besides, I am active as an entrepreneur since 2005 with the IT Systems Design and Development Lab in Vienna and the Sound and Physical Computing Studio in Mürzzuschlag, both in Austria, which are currently to be subsumed in the company and brand Dr. Hödl.
Before my academic career I worked as a software engineer, studied informatics, musicology and philosophy, and had a recording studio as a freelance musician.
Previous affiliations and employees of my career path were:
TU Wien
The Open University
University of Nottingham
SAE Online / Middlesex University London
SAE Institute Wien
Cashpoint Agentur & IT-Service
Sun Microsystems (now Oracle)
ORF Medienforschung
Voluntarily and in my spare time I am the chairman of the organising committee of the Rudolfina-Redoute. This traditional Viennese ball has its origin in 1899 and is the oldest and last remaining masked ball of its kind. Every year about 4.000 people from all around the world attend the Rudolfina-Redoute on Carnival Monday in the Wiener Hofburg.