Opening Keynote
Miriah Meyer is a professor in the Department of Science & Technology at Linköping University, supported through the WASP program. Her research centers on creating visualization tools that support exploratory and reflective data analysis, as well as bring new ideas for how we can use data in our lives. These tools allow people to learn about their data, reframe their perspectives, and disrupt their thinking. She obtained her bachelors degree in astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University, earned a PhD in computer science from the University of Utah, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty at LiU she was an associate professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah and a member of the Vis Design Lab in the Scientific Computing & Imaging Institute.
Closing Keynote
Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda has been Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria since 2021. Prior to this, she was team leader for ‘Data Linking & Data Security’ at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences in Cologne from 2016 to 2021. Her academic training includes studies in cultural anthropology, computer science and history at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, as well as a doctorate from Lancaster University on the topic of ‘Ubiquitous Computing in Industrial Workplaces’. She works across disciplines in digital humanities, science and technology studies, sociology of technology, and internet research, and her research interests include new epistemologies for big data, algorithms in everyday life, data practices, social casual games, and (fair) artificial intelligence.