Mag. Bernhard Schenkenfelder

Research Team Lead Human-Centered System Design
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Short biography
Mag. Bernhard Schenkenfelder is a researcher and senior software engineer in the Human-Centered System Design group at SCCH. He holds an MSc and is currently pursuing a PhD in Business Informatics at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz. He has more than 25 years of experience in software engineering, especially in web development.
Bernhard has been involved in five funded research projects, from proposal writing to implementation and evaluation. He is the author of eight peer-reviewed publications and chaired a poster session at an international conference. His main research interests are low-code development and related topics such as human-computer interaction and web-based technologies. In industry-academia collaborations, Bernhard has developed low-code platforms to make software development accessible to domain experts without software development training. Previously, he conducted research on medical applications of computer vision. Bernhard was also a lecturer at JKU.
Research Focus
(main areas): Low-Code Development, Human-Computer Interaction, Web-Based Technologies, AR/VR
Key Projects
HUMACE (FFG, COMET 2023-2026): Human-Centered System Design
Responsible Annotation (AK Digifonds, 2023-2024): Software research to support inclusive image annotation teams.
NUDOCU (FFG, 2022-2025): Passive documentation of nursing care activities through contextual information and AI
VizARd (FFG, ICT of the Future, 2018-2021): Visual augmented reality (AR) assistant for spatial mapping in surgery
Employment and Education
2024 | cont | PhD, Business Informatics Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Austria |
2022 | cont | Researcher and Senior Software Engineer, Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH (SCCH), Austria |
2017 | 2022 | Researcher & Developer, RISC Software GmbH, Austria |
2016 | 2017 | Software Engineer, XORTEX eBusiness GmbH, Austria |
2012 | 2013 | Volunteer, INTERSOL, Bolivia |
2010 | 2012 | Mathematics (without degree), Vienna University of Technology (TU), Austria |
2007 | 2010 | Full-stack Web Developer, BETA Records, USA |
2005 | 2006 | Research assistant without diploma Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Austria |
2001 | 2006 | MSc, Business Informatics Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Austria |
Publikationen
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2024
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2023