Risku, Hanna

Current

Vice Rector for Academic Affairs
Head of the Department for Knowledge and Communication Management
Professor of Cognitive Science

In Past (e.g)

Lecturer at University of Vienna, Austria
Lecturer at University of Skövde, Sweden
Lecturer at University of Tampere, Finland
Lecturer at University of Granada, Spain

General Information

Hanna Risku has worked at Danube University since 1999. Before, she has been lecturing at several universities. She was born in Finland, and she has studied Translation Studies at the University of Tampere, Finland, and at the University of Vienna, Austria, where she received her PhD 1996 and habilitation 2003.

Affiliations

Hanna Risku is a member of several scientific organizations, currently e.g.:

President of the TCeurope, the European umbrella organisation for technical communication
Head of International Relations at Tekom, the German professional association for technical communication and information development
General Secretary of the Austrian Society for Cognitive Science (ASoCS)
Member of the scientific committee of the Institut für Wissensorganisation (IWO)

Research Interests

Cognitive Scientific Aspects of:
- Communication, especially intercultural and technical communication
- Translation as cooperative text design
- Usability, Human Computer Interaction
- Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
- Knowledge Management

Selected Publications

Hanna Risku has numerous international publications, of which here mentioned only few selected ones. For the complete list, see List of Publications

Siebenhandl, Karin; Risku, Hanna; Brugger, Christof & Simlinger, Peter (submitted): Evaluating the comprehensibility of visualized information for the Trans-European Road Network (TERN) as part of the EU Project IN-SAFETY: INfrastructure and SAFETY. In: Proceedings of the International Conference Road Safety and Simulation 2007, November 7-9, 2007, Rome, Italy.

Siebenhandl, Karin; Risku, Hanna; Brugger, Christof & Simlinger, Peter (to appear): Evaluating the Comprehensibility of Visualized Information for the Trans-European Road Network (TERN). In: Proceedings of the 20th Enhanced Safety of Vehicles Conference, June 18-21, 2007, Lyon, France.

Risku, Hanna & Hable, Franz (2006): Usability von Online-Geoinformationssystemen. Tagungsband des 9. Österreichischen Geodätentags, 3.-5.5.2006, Krems, 120-128.

Risku, Hanna & Pircher, Richard (2005): Facilitating knowledge construction by ICT: Beyond things that make us dumb. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Human Factors in Telecommunication, Sophia-Antipolis, France.

Risku, Hanna & Pircher, Richard (to appear): Visual Aspects of Intercultural Technical Communication: A Cognitive Scientific and Semiotic Perspective. Special Issue on Visual Aspects of Translation of the journal meta, guest-edited by Klaus Kaindl and Riitta Oittinen. 23 S.