Affiliations
Professor
Privatdozent
Professor
Privatdozent
ECS (project start January 2027)
European Compliance Stack
Principal Investigator (PI), € 21 Mio.
INSIEME
Together Towards the Common European Energy Data Space
PI, initiator and project coordinator, € 16 Mio.
EDDIE
European Distributed Data Infrastructure for Energy
PI, initiator and project coordinator, € 8 Mio.
An electronic engineering approach for turning a Lego brick piano into a musical instrument
IEEE Access 2024
Der Standard (Archived), YouTube
STEAM for non-novice STEM students with Digital Musical Instruments
Audio Mostly Conference 2022
Wiener Zeitung (Archived), YouTube
Together Towards the Common European Energy Data Space
Horizon Europe Innovation Action Project on Energy Data Spaces
Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
A Digital Musical Instrument with 10.000 Volts and 30.000 °C
A LEGO brick-based tabletop sequencer for musical performances
A new STEAM course developed for cross-disciplinary university teaching
A music computing learning application for everyone and everywhere
STEM education for school students using Digital Musical Instruments
The Smart Subtitle Solution to augment opera performances
The brick-built Lego Grand Piano made playable as a synthesizer
Bass drum smiley visualisation for concerts with kids
Developing fully functioning brick-built interactive systems
Annual two-day hackathon for new ideas around music and technology
Art-based Research / Ars Electronica Festival 2017 Opening Performance
Design of technology-mediated audience participation in live music
Educational mobile app for a technology-centred social event
Digital Europe project on energy consumption reduction
Mixed Reality installation with chemistry, sonification and smartphones
Mobile app to augment way-finding pillars for urban mobility
Tablet-based digital health game application for older adults
A new digital music instrument played with gestures and breath
Tactile, wireless rhythm training devices for music and stroke therapy
Wireless heartbeat sensor kits for a ballet performance
Autonomous sound robot performance with audience participation
Interactive sound performance using ultrasound-controlled smartphones
The interactive Audience Sensor Kit for participatory media installations
Collaborative Stereo Control with Smartphones
User Experience (UX) design of a tablet app for disaster relief forces
Gamification approach to raise energy awareness of bitcoin mining
Energy consumption data sonification to raise citizens' awareness
PREventive Care Infrastructure based On Ubiquitous Sensing
An interoperability framework for existing and future IoT platforms
Universal Controller for Musical Performances
A capacitive and LED augmented acoustic guitar
Converting a former UX lab to a remote teaching studio during Covid-19
Interactive experiences for opera live streaming
Song and performance for audience participation with a big balloon
Brahms adapted for Trombosonic and symphonic orchestra
Immersive and interactive 70-minute music performance
Film music composition for Novemberlichter
Album and single releases as composer, singer or musician
"Hödl is very motivated.
Clear structure at the beginning."
"I like how the professor and tutors have cooperated with us and how they have explained the lectures, they were clearly in what they said."
"Awesome teacher who really cares about his students!"
"He is very enthusiastic and passionate about the subject area."
"I really enjoyed Dr. Hödl's presentation [..] how he has incorporated both elements from his previous lecture as well as practical examples from his own projects."
"The topic is interesting, and the whole course is much more practical and interactive than other courses."
"The lecture was very well prepared
in terms of didactics."
"Dr Oliver Hödl greatly motivated the course participants through his own evident enthusiasm for the project."
"Thanks a lot for the interesting use of the flipped classroom concept."
I am a Computer Scientist deliberately working across domains and consider interdisciplinarity as fundamental. I have a broad methodological repertoire, combining human-centred design and user research with data-driven and sensor-based systems development. My academic record reflects international recognition, sustained research leadership, and a deeply collaborative approach. I currently collaborate with 140 partners in European projects worth €45 million and currently coordinate two of them. The domains I have contributed to research on Computer Science with over 100 publications and IT releases include energy, health, mobility, didactics, music, and games. My current academic affiliations are:
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
Professor
University of Vienna
Privatdozent
Before my academic career I worked as a software engineer, studied informatics, musicology and philosophy, and as a freelance musician. Previous affiliations and employers were:
Academic and research institutions:
Technical University of Denmark (visiting professor)
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
TU Wien
The Open University, UK
University of Nottingham, UK
Middlesex University London, UK
SAE Institute Wien
Industry:
Sun Microsystems (now Oracle)
Cashpoint Agentur & IT-Service
ORF Medienforschung
The Lab's origins date back to 2005 conducting interdisciplinary research and art projects with contributions to computer science and other disciplines and domains such as energy, music, art, or health.
