We are PEEC

Personalized Environments and Collaborative Systems in short PEEC.

We are a part of the Research & Development center of the University of Applied Sciences of
Upper Austria and work at campus Hagenberg. Our group is devoted to the topics of
personalization and collaboration which are the two key research areas. Our objective is to bring
these two together. Combined they result in “Personal Collaborative Systems”.

The PEEC research group focuses on topics of personalization on the Web and the analysis and computer-based support of collaboration processes between humans and between humans and machines. Personalization includes, for example, the recommendation of content, individual adaptation of forms of presentation and individualization of interaction methods, but also the underlying modeling of relevant information (e.g. individual preferences and goals of users).

The analysis and support of collaboration is a very current topic, especially in the course of current trends towards flexible working conditions and (international) collaboration in spatially distributed teams.

The research group develops innovative (web-based) tools, which are adapted to the individual needs of users through human-centered, iterative design and evaluation processes with ongoing user involvement.

Our research group focuses on the Human-Centered Design (HCD) process and has extensive expertise in UX/UI design, prototyping, different qualitative and quantitative survey and evaluation methods and experience with complex methodological frameworks such as Contextual Design. This, as well as our expertise in Web and Model-Driven Engineering and Information Retrieval, is brought to bear in various cooperation projects with scientific and industrial partners.