Martina Mara

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Martina Mara (* 1981 in Linz or St. Martin , Traun ) is an Austrian media psychologist . Since April 2018 she has been Professor of Robot Psychology at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) at the Johannes Kepler University Linz .

Life

Martina Mara attended school in Linz and after graduating from the University of Vienna studied journalism and communication science , graduating in 2008 with a thesis on Narcissus in Cyberspace? Online survey on the relationship between narcissistic personality disposition and use of the social network site studiVZ as Magistra. In 2014 she did her doctorate at the University of Koblenz-Landau with a dissertation on the perception of human-like machines.

From 2004 to 2007 she worked as a print journalist, from 2008 she was a freelance copywriter and research assistant in the field of applied technology and social research in connection with new technologies and media, including at the Institute of Design Research Vienna (until 2011) and from 2010 as Senior Researcher for the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Since 2010 she has been a lecturer at the Johannes Kepler University Linz , the University of Applied Arts Vienna , the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz , the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences , the Technical University of Munich and the Munich University of Applied Sciences . Since 2014 she has headed the RoboPsychology research department at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz , and since 2016 she has been writing the weekly column "Brave New World" for the Upper Austrian News about the social effects of new technologies and digital media. Since August 2017 she has also been a member of the newly founded Austrian Council for Robotics of the Ministry of Infrastructure .

On April 1, 2018, she was appointed professor of robot psychology at the Linz Institute of Technology at the University of Linz , where she previously worked as a research project assistant at the Department of Work, Organizational and Media Psychology (AOM Psychology). In November 2018 she was appointed to the board of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society .

Awards and nominations

Publications (selection)

  • 2009: Narcissus in Cyberspace: for the construction of digital self-images on the social network site studiVZ , Verlag Hülsbusch, Boizenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-940317-46-9
  • 2014: Exploring the Uncanny Valley: theoretical and experimental investigations on user perceptions of humanlike robots , Koblenz, Landau (Pfalz), dissertation, 2014
  • 2014: When ASIMO tilts its head: On the influence of non-verbal behavioral aspects on the perception of humanoid and android robots. , together with Markus Appel , Congress of the German Society for Psychology , Ruhr University Bochum , PDF (abstract)
  • 2015: Effects of lateral head tilt on user perceptions of humanoid and android robots , together with Markus Appel, in Computers in Human Behavior , Volume 44, March 2015, pages 326–334, doi : 10.1016 / j.chb.2014.09.025
  • 2015: Science fiction reduces the eeriness of android robots: A field experiment , together with Markus Appel, in Computers in Human Behavior , Volume 48, July 2015, pages 156–162, doi : 10.1016 / j.chb.2015.01.007
  • 2016: The Anthropomorphism Trap . In: Trend Update Race Against The Machine , 2016
  • 2016: On the Eeriness of Service Robots with Emotional Capabilities , together with Markus Appel, Silvana Weber and Stefan Krause, IEEE Press, HRI '16: The Eleventh ACM / IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, March 2016, doi : 10.1109 / HRI .2016.7451781

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Art University Linz: Mag. Martina Mara . Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c d Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: On a leap into the future . Article dated October 31, 2017, accessed May 10, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Johannes Kepler University Linz: We congratulate Dr. Martina Mara on her professorship for robot psychology . Article dated May 9, 2018, accessed May 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ Diploma thesis 2008, University of Vienna . Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  5. ^ A b Forum Alpbach: Martina Mara . Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  6. ↑ Futurezone: Austria gets a robot advice . Article dated August 24, 2017, accessed May 10, 2018.
  7. ↑ New board member for Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft . Article dated November 22, 2018, accessed November 23, 2018.
  8. ^ Wiener Zeitung: "We need new pictures of robots" . Article dated October 18, 2018, accessed October 18, 2018.
  9. ↑ "An honor": Mara receives a women's prize . Article dated October 23, 2018, accessed October 23, 2018.
  10. ↑ Robot psychologist wins Women in Tech Award . Article dated November 15, 2018, accessed November 17, 2018.
  11. ↑ These are the winners of the futurezone Award 2018 . Article dated November 15, 2018, accessed November 17, 2018.
  12. ↑ diepresse.com - Austria 19 . Retrieved October 6, 2019.
  13. ↑ City Councilor Kathrin Gaal congratulates Anna Steiger, Traude Kogoj and Martina Mara on the 18th Vienna Women's Prize. December 3, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mara, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian media psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz or St. Martin , Traun