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RESPECTeD Project: Really Enforceable Solution to Protect End-users Consent & Tracking Decisions

 (12/04/19)

We are delighted to inform you that the Institute of Information Systems and New Media (WU Wien) in collaboration with the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab, the Institute of Information Systems and Society (WU Wien), and NOYB – European Center for Digital Rights (noyb.eu) starts the interdisciplinary research project RESPECTeD. Soheil Human and Ben Wagner are the project leads representing WU Wien and Max Schrems is the project lead from the NOYB-side. The project is funded by the NetIdee programme of Internet Privatstiftung Austria (IPA). [more...]

GamIng-Workshop for learning the Gamification concept and designing an educational game

 (11/22/19)

The GamIng project team at the Institute of Information Systems and New Media is developing a game for the BIS-1 course. We are inviting interested students to support us designing the game at the GamIng-Workshop held on 04.12.2019, 14:00 to 16:00 in Sitzungssaal 6.

If you are interested contact Marjan Khobreh: marjan.khobreh@wu.ac.at

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Job opening: Teaching & Research Associate / Universitätsassistent/in (prae doc)

 (11/20/19)

The lnstitute of lnformation Systems and New Media (WU Vienna) invite applications for a position as a Teaching & Research Associate (praedoc). Reference Number: 453
Application materials can be submitted online until January 27th, 2020.
Please apply via the following link: https://www.wu.ac.at/karriere/arbeiten-an-der-wu/jobangebote?yid=453.

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Research

The emphasis of our Institute lies in constructing and analyzing infrastructures for software-based Information Systems. Our research focuses on two major areas:

• New Media, in particular Computational Media, Active Media, Polymorphic Media, and
• Information Systems, in particular highly flexible Systems and Application Engineering.

Within these two areas we cover:

• Software engineering techniques, with the goal to create highly flexible software systems,
• Scalable Infrastructures, to support flexible Security and Workflow Management,
• Scalable Community Frameworks, to build large scale, socially enriched Web Based Systems in the
• Application areas of E-Learning and Information Retrieval

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Teaching

Our Institute provides courses in Information Systems for the Study Programs of Information Systems (Bachelor & Master Program) as well as for the Business Administration Programs of the University.

The long term objective of our academic program is to enable graduates to actively design and implement organizational information systems by means of new media. Our lectures encompass the subject areas new media and electronic commerce, object-oriented design of application systems, and object-oriented Internet applications. The deepening and practical application of the skills developed in the lectures is supported through proseminars and the Seminar in New Media.

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