Konrad Baumann

Konrad Baumann has been a full-time lecturer in the Information Design bachelor's programme since the year 2000 and teaches UX-related courses at all levels. In his 25-year career, he has supervised more than 100 bachelor's and master's theses.

Konrad Baumann also teaches in the master's programme in Communication, Media, Sound and Interaction Design. For several years he was involved in the Exhibition Design, eHealth, Content Strategy and Technical Documentation programmes, where he usually taught introductory courses in UX. He was a member of the initial development team for the last two programmes.

In addition, Konrad Baumann teaches part-time at the Danube University in Krems, Austria (since 1999), the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria (since 2005) and the University of Applied Sciences in Upper Austria in Hagenberg, Austria (since 2020).

Prior to that, Konrad Baumann worked as a product manager in the electronics industry at Mikron Identification Gratkorn, Austria (now NXP), Philips Semiconductors and Philips Consumer Communications in Vienna, Austria.

Konrad Baumann's teaching and research interests are in the areas of user experience design, interaction design, user-centred design, design thinking and usability evaluation.

Konrad Baumann is co-author of several research papers and the following two books:
K. Baumann & B. Thomas (2001) User Interface Design for Electronic Appliances, London: Taylor & Francis.
K. Baumann & H. Lanz (1998) Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstellen elektronischer Geraete, Heidelberg: Springer.

Konrad Baumann holds a doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology and a master's degree in telematics engineering from the Graz University of Technology. His doctoral thesis deals with methods of design education:
Baumann, K. (2004). How designers teach - a qualitative research on design didactics [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://resolver.obvsg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubtuw:1-11387

Konrad Baumann was a board member of the International Institute for Information Design, www.iiid.net, secretary and chair of IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing) Working Group 13.1 on Human-Computer Interaction Education, https://ifip-tc13.org/working-groups/
and member of the editorial board of the Information Design Journal, published by John Benjamin's. https://benjamins.com/catalog/idj.18.2.07bau

Konrad Baumann co-organised the ‘Interaction Design Summer School’ (IDSS) in Istanbul, Turkey, together with three partner universities in Mälardalen, Sweden, Utrecht, the Netherlands, and Istanbul, Turkey, which was funded as an EU intensive programme and brought together lecturers and students from these universities in three-week summer workshops in the historic city centre of Istanbul. In each of the three consecutive years, the workshop was dedicated to a specific topic related to the city's rich cultural history. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250199504_The_Role_of_Traditional_Shadow_Play_on_Creativity_in_Interaction_Design

Konrad Baumann was project manager during the implementation phase of the FH JOANNEUM's ‘VisionSpace’ perception laboratory. The laboratory features a seven-metre-wide rear projection screen that enables an almost immersive visual experience as well as 3D projection. The laboratory facilities have become a growing collection of tools, including eye tracking and skin conductance sensors, and a hub for FH JOANNEUM's research projects in the field of interaction design. https://cdn3.fh-joanneum.at/media/2016/12/visionspace_folder_en_web.pdf

Konrad Baumann was the FH JOANNEUM project manager of the research project ‘Improving the interconnectivity of local and long-distance transport networks through passenger-oriented, networked information connectivity (IC-IC)’, which was financed as part of the 7th EU Framework Programme for Sustainable Surface Transport. https://www.iiid.net/resources/research-archive/

Konrad Baumann was the project manager of the FH JOANNEUM in the funded research project ‘KombiMo II’, which was led by Holding Graz, the city's public transport service provider. The project prepared and accompanied the planning and implementation of the ‘tim’ multimodal mobility hubs in Graz. These offer urban mobility services such as e-car sharing, charging electric cars, electric taxis, cargo bike sharing and connections to public transport, and have since been implemented in a constantly growing service network in the Austrian cities of Graz and Linz. FH JOANNEUM's role in the project was to conduct user research and co-design, in which people from the neighbourhoods and districts of Graz became the first locations for the pilot implementation of the ‘tim’ multimodal hub. https://www.graz.at/cms/beitrag/10265021/8038402/Kombinierte_Mobilitaet_fuer_ Graz_Projekt_KombiMo.html
https://www.tim-oesterreich.at/graz/

Konrad Baumann is a member of several professional organisations, such as the International Institute for Information Design (IIID), Vienna, the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP, TC 13), the Austrian Computer Society (OCG), the International Council of Museums (ICOM), Design Austria (DA), Creative Industries Styria (CIS) and the User Experience Professionals' Association (UXPA).

Konrad Baumann has held one-week courses at FH JOANNEUM's partner universities in Aarau (Switzerland), Stuttgart and Schwäbisch Gmünd (Germany), Orléans (France), Alghero (Italy), Mälardalen (Sweden) and Tampere (Finland) as well as in Nagoya (Japan) as part of the EU-funded Erasmus Teaching and Intensive Programmes (IP). He has led a total of 15 one-week excursions with student groups to destinations in Germany, Switzerland and the UK, mainly visiting creative companies and UX-related R&D departments in industry.