Arbeitsgebiete
01 | Forschungsinteresse
Promotionsprojekt "Where to Go and What to Do: Towards Understanding Task-Based Information Behavior at Transitional Spaces"
In public transitional spaces, such as airports, users are faced with diverse challenges regarding information interaction and use. These challenges arise due to the scheduled and/or location-dependent procedures users are required to perform. Understanding what these users need or desire in the context of such spaces, what information is on offer, both online and in situ, and how these aspects interrelate is important to facilitate the design of systems that are accepted by the users concerned. However, very little is known about human information behavior (HIB) in public transitional spaces. As a starting point to understand how behavior in such spaces relates to or differs from information behavior in other contexts, holistically, I will create an explanatory model of airport information behavior by conducting an exploratory grounded theory based field study and relating my findings to those of existing models.
(Abstract aus: Melanie A. Kilian 
. 2019. Where to Go and What to Do: Towards Understanding Task-Based Information Behavior at Transitional Spaces. In 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ’19), March 10–14, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland Uk. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages.)
02 | Lehre
Forschungsseminar GIScience & Human Information Behaviour (zus. mit Dr. Markus Kattenbeck)
SoSe 2017
Forschungsseminar Informationsverhalten (zus. mit Dr. Markus Kattenbeck)
WiSe 2016/17
Informatik und Gesellschaft (zus. mit dem Lehrstuhl für Datensicherheit und Kryptographie - Prof. Dr. Juliane Kr?mer)
WiSe 2023/24 | WiSe 2024/25
Informationsphilosophie
SoSe 2016 | WiSe 2016/17 | SoSe 2017 | SoSe 2018 | SoSe 2019 | SoSe 2020 | SoSe 2021 | SoSe 2022 | SoSe 2023 | SoSe 2024 | SoSe 2025
Praxiskurs Interviewanalyse mittels Grounded Theory
SoSe 2017 | WiSe 2017/18 | WiSe 2018/19
Projektseminar Conducting Qualitative and Mixed Methods Human Information Behavior Research
WiSe 2019/20 | WiSe 2020/21
Projektseminar Requirements-Engineering & Air Travel Information Behavior
WiSe 2017/18
Projektseminar Qualitative und quantitative Datenerhebung (zus. mit Dr. Christina Bauer)
SoSe 2019
Vertiefung Informationsphilosophie: Ethics for Software Engineers & Data Scientists
WiSe 2017/18 | WiSe 2018/19 | WiSe 2019/20 | WiSe 2020/21 | WiSe 2021/22 | WiSe 2023/24 | WiSe 2024/25
Lebenslauf
Seit 2018
Doktorandin am Lehrstuhl für Informationswissenschaft, Universit?t Regensburg
Seit 2016
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Dozentin am Lehrstuhl für Informationswissenschaft, Universit?t Regensburg
2020 – 2021
Hochschulzertifikat "Internationale Handlungskompetenz" der Ostbayerischen Technischen Hochschule Regensburg und der Universit?t Regensburg
2012 – 2015
M.A.-Studium der Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Medienwissenschaft, Universit?t Regensburg
Thema der Masterarbeit:
?Die Anatomie des Netzes. Oder: Warum Big Data unausweichlich ist“
2009 – 2012
B.A.-Studium der Medienwissenschaft und Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Universit?t Regensburg
Publikationen
Begutachtete Ver?ffentlichungen
Vortr?ge & Pr?sentationen
03/2019
Vortrag "Where to Go and What to Do: Towards Understanding Task-Based Information Behavior at Transitional Spaces” im Rahmen des Doctoral Consortiums der ACM SIGIR 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), 10. – 14. M?rz 2019, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Schottland, GB.
10/2018
Poster-Pr?sentation “Theory Construction through Thick Data - How to Model Airport Information Behavior Holistically” im Rahmen des Ersten Regensburger Big Data Day, 30. Oktober 2018 von 11.00 Uhr – 15.00 Uhr, Universit?t Regensburg, Regensburg, Deutschland.
06/2018
Vortrag "Facing Information Behavior in Public Spaces: Using Procedure Adaptation for Sustainable Assistance at Airports“ im Rahmen des ersten Doktoranden-Workshops des Netzwerks Internet und Digitalisierung Ostbayern (INDIGO), 20. Juni 2018 von 10.00 – 17.00 Uhr, Universit?t Passau, Passa