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Contact:Austrian Research Institute for Artificial
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Sabine Payr holds a diploma (Mag. phil.) as a conference interpreter (French, Italian) from the University of Innsbruck, and a doctorate in linguistics (Dr. phil.) from the University of Klagenfurt . International experience includes one year stays for studies (Paris), work (Brussels), and research (Berkeley). Professional activities range from conference interpreting to regional development initiatives, from IT training/consulting to research. Since 1987, she has been involved in interactive media in training and education, doing research and development in the field of educational technology in higher education, open and distance learning and tele-learning in vocational training and further education. Sabine Payr has worked at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Further Education IFF, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and the Research Center Information Technologies (FGI). She has been working at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence since spring 2000, in the framework of the project "An Inquiry into the Cultural Context of the Design and Use of Synthetic Actors"
Sabine Payr is single parent of a son.
Learning: The future of learning in the information society; integration of technical and human resources in tele-learning; implications of open and distance learning for the educational system; teaching models in interactive media and pedagogic agents
Culture: Socio-cultural implications of new information and communication technologies; intercultural communication in socio-technical environments; semiotic and sociological approaches to virtual characters.
Knowledge work: The development of knowledge work and its implications for the education and training of knowledge workers; skill acquisition and tacit knowledge in knowledge professions; socio-economic and cultural implications of new forms of organization of labour.
An Inquiry into the Cultural Context of the Design and Use of Synthetic Actors (as principal investigator)
Pädagogische Agenten im Open and Distance Learning (as project leader)
FACILE - Facilitated open distance learning for continuing engineering education (as tele-learning consultant and evaluation)
BASES - Basic Support for Educational Studies and Research (as co-author): development of interactive web services for the training of research skills.
as.fit diploma - Tele-Learning on the Job (ESF/ADAPT): curriculum and software development, training, research
Interactions in Sign Language Courseware (BMBWK): project leader, media development
Software in Higher Education (BMBWK): awareness raising measures and dissemination
Didactics of Educational Software (BMBWK): principal investigator
ICCE 2000: program committee
European Academic Software Award 1996: evaluation and organization (BMBWK/EKMA)
European Academic Software Award 1998: discipline coordinator
Editor: GMW Forum (1998 - 1999), screenshot (1993 - 1996)
Coordination of the European Group for Policy Co-ordination for Academic and Industrial Research Networking (ENPG) (1996 - 1999)
Co-founder and chairperson of the research association Workshop for Intercultural and Social Learning WISL (1990 - 1996)
Lecturer at the Universities of Innsbruck (1991 - 1997) and Klagenfurt (1987 - 1994), in computer graphics, database management, development and evaluation of interactive educational media, semiotics of new media, hypertext theory, feminist theory of information technologies.
Speaking Minds. Interviews with 20 Eminent Cognitive Scientists. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. with Peter Baumgartner
Lernen mit Software. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 1994. with Peter Baumgartner
Wissensarbeit und neue Qualifikationen. Informatikforum vol. 13 (2000).
Tele-Training on the Job. Experiments and Experiences in Media Integration. In: Proceedings of EdMedia 99. Charlotteville: AACE, 1999.
Educating the Knowledge Worker in the Information Society. Proceedings, IFIP/Teleteaching 98, Vienna/Budapest. Vienna: OCG, 1998, pp. 109-118. with Peter Baumgartner
Erfinden lernen. In: K.H. Müller, F. Stadler (eds.): Konstruktivisumus und Kognitionswissenschaft. Kulturelle Wurzeln und Ergebnisse. Vienna/New York: Springer, 1997. pp. 86-106. with Peter Baumgartner
Methods and Practice of Software Evaluation. The Case of the European Academic Software Award. Proceedings of EdMedia 97. Charlotteville: AACE, 1997. pp. 44-50. with Peter Baumgartner
