Susanne Boll

Susanne Boll-Westermann is a Professor for Multimedia and Internet in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Her main research interests are semantic information retrieval, intelligent user-interfaces and mobile systems. Susanne Boll is an active member of SIGMM of the ACM and is a member of the board at the research institute OFFIS.

Susanne Boll-Westermann
Born
Susanne Boll

1967
[Germany]
Alma materTechnical University of Darmstadt (Diploma)
Technical University of Vienna (Dr. techn.)
Known forInteractive Multimedia, HCI in Health
AwardsACM Distinguished Member (2019)
acatec (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsMultimedia
Human Computer Interaction
InstitutionsUniversity of Oldenburg
University of Vienna
University of Ulm
GMD
ThesisZYX-a multimedia document model for reuse and adaptation of multimedia content (2001)
Doctoral advisorWolfgang Klas, University of Vienna
Websitesusanneboll.de

Research

Boll's early works on Semantic Multimedia Models have been published in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering in 2001. She has developed her research area from multimedia models into interactive multimedia systems and interactive systems. She organized the first ACM Workshop on Social Media at ACM Multimedia 2009 and the first Workshop on Multimedia for Personal Health and Health Care at ACM Multimedia in 2017 and just run the WISH Symposium at CHI 2019.

Education

Boll received her PhD in 2001 from the Vienna University of Technology. Core elements of her scientific work in the field multimedia document modeling was published.[1]

She graduated in computer science (Diplom with distinction) from the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.

Career

Boll has been a Member at Large in the Executive Committee of SIGMM for several years. She has taken over the organization and support for many events at ACM conferences, panels, workshops. She was the organizer of several international retreats at prestigious Dagstuhl Castle to which she invited international researchers to join her in discussing trends, challenges and future directions in multimedia and human computer interaction. She has taken over leading roles for major ACM conferences: Program Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia in 2017, General Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia, Program Chair of MobileHCI in 2019, and will be General Chair of MobileHCI in 2020.

She is an elected member (Fachkollegiatin) of the German Science Foundation (DFG) board of reviewers in Computer Science since 2016 and has just been re-elected for four more years. She is also the deputy spokesperson of this board since 2019.

Boll has been championing equal opportunities and diversity. She is particularly interested in the factors and environments inspiring young girls to choose STEM subjects in their higher education and leads a research project that explores role models and curricula in Computer Science for high school girls (Smile Smart Future Me). In 2019, Boll washas been appointed as the Director of Diversity and Outreach in the Executive Committee of ACM SIGMM.[2] She initiated the 25 in 25 strategy in which ACM SIGMM wants to overcame is relatively low representation of women in all activities of SIGMM and has decided on 10 actions to achieve at least 25% female participation at all levels of its organization and for all roles on all levels in its conferences and other scientific events by the year 2025.[3]

Selected research papers
  • Andrii Matviienko, Swamy Ananthanarayan, Abdallah El Ali, Wilko Heuten, and Susanne Boll. 2019. NaviBike: Comparing Unimodal Navigation Cues for Child Cyclists. In Proc. of the 2019 CHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 620, 12 pages.
  • Larbi Abdenebaoui, Benjamin Meyer, Anton Bruns and Susanne Boll, "UNNA: A Unified Neural Network for Aesthetic Assessment," 2018 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), La Rochelle, 2018, pp. 1–6.
  • Torben Wallbaum, Andrii Matviienko, Swamy Ananthanarayan, Thomas Olsson, Wilko Heuten, and Susanne C.J. Boll. 2018. Supporting Communication between Grandparents and Grandchildren through Tangible Storytelling Systems. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages.
  • Abdallah El Ali, Tim C. Stratmann, Souneil Park, Johannes Schöning, Wilko Heuten, and Susanne Boll. Measuring, Understanding, and Classifying News Media Sympathy on Twitter after Crisis Events. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages.
  • Uwe Grünefeld, Andreas Löcken, Yvonne Brück, Susanne Boll, Wilko Heuten. “Where to Look: Exploring Peripheral Cues for Shifting Attention to Spatially Distributed Out-of-View Objects”. AutomotiveUI 2018: 221-228
  • Andrii Matviienko, Swamy Ananthanarayan, Shadan Sadeghian Borojeni, Yannick Feld, Wilko Heuten, Susanne Boll. Augmenting bicycles and helmets with multimodal warnings for children. MobileHCI 2018: 15:1-15:13
  • Andreas Löcken, Sarah Blum, Tim Claudius Stratmann, Uwe Gruenefeld, Wilko Heuten, Susanne Boll, and Steven van de Par. Effects of location and fade-in time of (audio-)visual cues on response times and success-rates in a dual-task experiment. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 4 pages.
  • Jochen Meyer, Merlin Wasmann, Wilko Heuten, Abdallah El Ali, and Susanne C.J. Boll Identification and Classification of Usage Patterns in Long-Term Activity Tracking. In Proc. of the 2017 CHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 667–678. 
  • Andres. L. Kun, Orit Shaer, Albrecht Schmidt and Susanne Boll, "Ubicomp without Borders: International Experiences in Pervasive Computing," in IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 17–21, October–December 2017.
  • Andreas Löcken, Sarah Blum, Tim Claudius Stratmann, Uwe Gruenefeld, Wilko Heuten, Susanne Boll, Steven van de Par. Effects of location and fade-in time of (audio-)visual cues on response times and success-rates in a dual-task experiment. SAP 2017: 12:1-12:4
  • Uwe Gruenefeld, Abdallah El Ali, Wilko Heuten, and Susanne Boll. 2017. Visualizing out-of-view objects in head-mounted augmented reality. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 81, 7 pages.

References
  1. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 13(3): 361 – 382, 2001
  2. "Introducing the new role of the Director of Diversity and Outreach – ACM SIGMM Records".
  3. http://www.sigmm.org/sites/all/files/ACM_SIGMM_Diversity_25_in_25.pdf

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