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Karin Kappel serves as a PostDoc Researcher in the Business Informatics department at Vienna University of Technology's Faculty of Informatics. Her research spans Human-Computer Interaction, Health Informatics, and Ethical Technology Systems with significant contributions to electronic health record design, refugee management systems, and persuasive ambient interfaces.
Her research interests focus on User-Centered Healthcare Systems, Ethical Technology Deployment in Crisis Zones, and Behavioral Change through Persuasive Interfaces. Key projects include nation-wide EHR user persona development, European refugee camp registration systems, and ambient water conservation displays. Her methodological expertise combines in-the-wild mobile studies, gamified survey design, and quantitative requirement evaluation for complex socio-technical systems.
Kappel's publication trends reveal three dominant research trajectories: (1) Healthcare interface design (35% of recent work), particularly EHR optimization through family-centric modeling; (2) Ethical technology systems (30%), focusing on refugee management and biometric identification; (3) Mobile interaction paradigms (25%), including text entry performance and form navigation. Her work consistently bridges technical implementation with human factors considerations.
Kappel has supervised four graduate students on topics including m-banking interfaces, restaurant ordering systems, and developer onboarding tools. Current projects include a 2025-2026 hospital-based study on ML/LLM support in electronic patient records conducted with Dierks+Company Consulting GmbH.
