Konstantin Aal studied Business Informatics at the University of Siegen and has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Business Informatics and New Media at the University of Siegen since the end of 2012. Before that, he was employed as a student assistant in the come_IN project for several years and wrote his diploma thesis on the social platform come_NET and use of it by children as part of the project. Currently, his research focuses on fall prevention among seniors (iStoppFalls), as well as the use of social media during the Arab Spring.

2024

Rüller, Sarah, Konstantin Aal, Norah Abokhodair, Houda Elmimouni, Yarden Skop, Dave Randall, Nina Boulus-Rodje, Alan Borning, und Volker Wulf. (2024). „Ethnography at the Edge: Exploring Research Dynamics in Crisis and Conflict Areas“. In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24), Article 578:1-4. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3643982.

2023

Weibert, Anne, Konstantin Aal, Sarah Rüller, Markus Rohde, und Volker Wulf. 2023. „Crafting Home with E-Textiles: Accessing Concepts of the Home in a Socially and Culturally Diverse Setting“. Digital Culture & Society 9 (1): 213-22. https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2023-0111.

Weibert, Anne, Nora Oertel Ribeiro, Max Krüger, Ahmad Alkhatib, Marcela Muntean, Konstantin Aal, und Dave Randall. 2023. „Literacy and the Process of Becoming Home: Learnings from an Interactive Storytelling-Initiative“. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact 7, CSCW 1, Article 70 (April 2023): 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579503.

2022

Aal, K.; Boulus-Rødje, N.; Rohde, M. 2022. „Media, Technologies, Cooperation – Rethinking Publics and Publicness in the MENA Region“, Computer Supported Cooperative Work 31: 149–157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-022-09435-6. 

Rüller, S.; Aal, K.; Tolmie, P.; Hartmann, A.; Rohde, M.; Wulf, V. 2022. „Speculative Design as a Collaborative Practice: Ameliorating the Consequences of Illiteracy through Digital Touch“, ACM Transactions Computer-Human Interaction 29 (3): Article 23, 58 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3487917.

Rüller, Sarah, Belén Giménez Ciciolli, Anne Weibert, Konstantin Aal, Mark Blythe, Michael Muller, und Yasmin B. Kafai. 2022. „Creative Entrances to Co-Design: Exploring Collaboration through Fiction, Fairy tales, and Games“. In Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022 - Volume 2 (PDC ’22), Vol. 2:247-50. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3537797.3537877.

Scheepmaker, L.; Aal, T.; Kender, K.; Vallis, S.; Aal, K.; Smith, N.; Melenhorst, M.; van Twist, A.; Veenstra, M.; Schuler, D.; Weibert, A.; Wulf, V. 2022. „Ethical Future Environments: Engaging refugees in Smart City participation“, NordiCHI '22: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference October 2022: Article 13, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3547522.3547704.

Wulf, V.; Randall, D.; Aal, K.; Rohde, M. 2022. „The Personal is the Political: Internet filtering and Counter Appropriation in the Islamic Republic of Iran“, International Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 31: 373-409. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-022-09426-7.

2021

Aal, K.; Weibert, A.; Ahmadi, M.; Rohde, M.; Wulf, V. 2021. „Soziale Medien in politischen Konfliktsituationen mit Fokus auf den arabischen Frühling“. In Sicherheitskritische Mensch-Computer-Interaktion, Wiesbaden; Springer, 631-652. 

Reuter, C. et al. 2021. „Die Zukunft sicherheitskritischer Mensch-Computer-Interaktion“. In Reuter, C. (Hrsg.): Sicherheitskritische Mensch-Computer-Interaktion, Wiesbaden: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32795-8_31.

Rüller, S.; Aal, K.; Holdermann, S.; Tolmie, P.; Hartmann, A.; Rohde, M.; Zillinger, M.; Wulf, V. 2021. „‚Technology is Everywhere, we have the Opportunity to Learn it in the Valley‘: The Appropriation of a Socio-Technical Enabling Infrastructure in the Moroccan High Atlas“, Computer Supported Cooperative Work 31: 197–236. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-021-09401-8.

Wulf, V.; Weibert, A.; Aal, K.; Rüller, S.; Rohde, M. 2021. „The Praxeological Research Programme of Socio-Informatics – the Siegen School“, Acta Informatica Pragensia 10(3): 333-348. https://doi.org/10.18267/j.aip.171.

2016

Ogonowski, C.; Aal, K.; Vaziri, D.; von Rekowski, T.; Randall, D.; Schreiber, D.; Wieching, R.; Wulf, V. 2016. „ICT-Based Fall Prevention System for Older Adults: Qualitative Results from a Long-Term Field Study“, ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 23(5): Article 29, 1-33. doi:10.1145/2967102.

Rohde, M.; Aal, K.; Misaki, K.; Randall, D.; Weibert, A.; Wulf, V. 2016. „Out of Syria: Mobile Media in Use at the Time of Civil War“, International Journal of Human Computer Interaction 32(7): 515-531. doi:10.1080/10447318.2016.1177300.

Vaziri, D.; Aal, K.; Ogonowski, C.; Kroll, M.; von Rekowski, T.; Marston, H.; Poveda, R.; Gschwind, Y.; Delbaere, K.; Wieching, R.; Wulf, V. 2016. „Exploring user experience and technology acceptance for a fall prevention system: results from a randomized clinical trial and a living lab“, European Review of Aging and Physical Activity 13(6), 1-9.

2015

Stickel, O.; Hornung, D.; Aal, K.; Rohde, M.; Wulf, V. 2015. „3D Printing with Marginalized Children - An Exploration in a Palestinian Refugee Camp“, ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19-23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway: 83-102. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20499-4_5.

Yerousis, G.; Aal, K.; von Rekowski, T.; Randall, D.; Rohde, M.; Wulf, V. 2015. „Computer-Enabled Project Spaces: Connecting with Palestinian Refugees across Camp Boundaries“, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '15 1: 3749-3758. doi:10.1145/2702123.2702283.

2014

Aal, K.; Ogonowski, C.; von Rekowski, T.; Wieching, R.; Wulf, V. 2014. „A Fall Preventive iTV Solution for Older Adults“, Proceedings of TVX'14: Demo Presentation, 1-2.

Aal, K.; Yerousis, G.; Schubert, K.; Hornung, D.; Stickel, O.; Wulf, V. 2014. „Come_in@Palestine: Adapting a German Computer Club Concept to a Palestinian Refugee Camp“, Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Collaboration Across Boundaries: Culture, Distance & Technology: 111-120. doi:10.1145/2631488.2631498.

Gschwind, Y. J.; Eichberg, S.; Marston, H.; Ejupi, A.; de Rosario, H.; Kroll, M.; Drobics, M.; Annegarn, J.; Wieching, R.; Lord, S. R.; Aal, K.; Delbaere, K. 2014. „ICT-based system to predict and prevent falls (iStoppFalls): study protocol for an international multicenter randomized controlled trial“, BMC geriatrics 14(1): Article 91. doi:10.1186/1471-2318-14-91.

Weibert, A.; Marshall, A.; Aal, K.; Schubert, K.; Rode, J. 2014. „Sewing Interest in E-Textiles: Analyzing Making from a Gendered Perspective“, Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems (DIS '14): 15-24. doi:10.1145/2598510.2600886.

2013

Wulf, V.; Aal, K.; Abu Kteish, I.; Atam, M.; Schubert, K.; Rohde, M.; Yerousis, G.; Randall, D. 2013. „Fighting against the wall: Social media use by political activists in a Palestinian village“, Proceedings of CHI '13: 1979-1988. doi:10.1145/2470654.2466262.

2012

Aal, K. 2012. „Erweiterung der sozialen Plattform come_NET um einen kindgerechten Artefakt Austausch“, Diplomarbeit.