2026 Volker Wulf: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	61	3089	2998	148	144	427	14211

Overview

Volker Wulf is affiliated with the University of Siegen in Germany. Their research spans several fields with a focus on the intersections between technology and society, primarily within Computer Science and Social Sciences.

The scientist's work covers diverse subfields including Human-Computer Interaction, Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Research topics they engage with include Innovative Human-Technology Interaction, Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development, Information Systems Theories and Implementation, AI in Service Interactions, Digital Transformation in Industry, Social Robot Interaction and HRI, and Social Media and Politics.

Volker Wulf has coauthored extensively, collaborating frequently with Anne Weibert, Ina Wagner, Konstantin Aal, Cláudia Müller, and Ellen Balka.

Their publications appear regularly in multiple venues. A notable concentration of work is found in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), i-com, and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.

Otherware, 2020, published in interactions
Care Workers Making Use of Robots: Results of a Three-Month Study on Human-Robot Interaction within a Care Home, 2022, published at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
'Technology is Everywhere, we have the Opportunity to Learn it in the Valley': The Appropriation of a Socio-Technical Enabling Infrastructure in the Moroccan High Atlas, 2021, published in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Notes of memories: Fostering social interaction, activity and reminiscence through an interactive music exergame developed for people with dementia and their caregivers, 2020, published in Human-Computer Interaction
Digital Technology at the Edge of Capitalism, 2021, published in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volker Wulf has authored books published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. Titles include Future-proofing (2022) and Gender and Technology at Work (2024).

Best Publications

End-User Development: An Emerging Paradigm

Henry Lieberman;Fabio Paternò;Markus Klann;Volker Wulf

1277
Citations
Infrastructuring: Toward an Integrated Perspective on the Design and Use of Information Technology*

Volkmar Pipek;Volker Wulf

760
Citations
IT to support knowledge sharing in communities, towards a social capital analysis

Marleen Huysman;Volker Wulf

623
Citations
Sharing Expertise: Beyond Knowledge Management

Mark Ackerman;Volkmar Pipek;Volker Wulf

413
Citations
Social Capital and Information Technology

Marleen Huysman;Volker Wulf

406
Citations
How Does the Internet Affect Social Capital

Marleen Huysman;Volker Wulf

300
Citations
Sharing Knowledge and Expertise: The CSCW View of Knowledge Management

Mark S. Ackerman;Juri Dachtera;Volkmar Pipek;Volker Wulf

273
Citations
Engaging with practices: design case studies as a research framework in CSCW

Volker Wulf;Markus Rohde;Volkmar Pipek;Gunnar Stevens

251
Citations
Towards an integrated organization and technology development

Volker Wulf;Markus Rohde

219
Citations
Component-based technologies for end-user development

Anders I. Mørch;Gunnar Stevens;Markus Won;Markus Klann

172
Citations
Component-based tailorability: Enabling highly flexible software applications

Volker Wulf;Volkmar Pipek;Markus Won

172
Citations
'On the ground' in Sidi Bouzid: investigating social media use during the tunisian revolution

Volker Wulf;Kaoru Misaki;Meryem Atam;David Randall

167
Citations
How to make software softer—designing tailorable applications

Oliver Stiemerling;Helge Kahler;Volker Wulf

157
Citations
Designing for Those who are Overlooked: Insider Perspectives on Care Practices and Cooperative Work of Elderly Informal Caregivers

Marén Schorch;Lin Wan;David William Randall;Volker Wulf

153
Citations
End-User Development (Human-Computer Interaction Series)

Henry Lieberman;Fabio Paternò;Volker Wulf

153
Citations
Grounded Design - a praxeological IS research perspective:

Markus Rohde;Markus Rohde;Peter Brödner;Gunnar Stevens;Gunnar Stevens;Matthias Betz

142
Citations
Communities and technologies

Marleen Huysman;Etienne Wenger;Volker Wulf

135
Citations
Sports over a Distance

Florian `Floyd' Mueller;Gunnar Stevens;Alex Thorogood;Shannon O'Brien

135
Citations
Fighting against the wall: social media use by political activists in a Palestinian village

Volker Wulf;Konstantin Aal;Ibrahim Abu Kteish;Meryem Atam

130
Citations
Designing for the living room: long-term user involvement in a living lab

Corinna Ogonowski;Benedikt Ley;Jan Hess;Lin Wan

124
Citations
A groupware's life

Volkmar Pipek;Volker Wulf

120
Citations
Sharing Expertise: Beyond Knowledge Management

Mark S. Ackerman;Volker Wulf;Volkmar Pipek

69
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dave Randall University of Siegen

Matthias Jarke RWTH Aachen University

Fabio Paternò National Research Council (CNR)

Mark S. Ackerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Gloria Mark University of California, Irvine

Henry Lieberman MIT

Mary Beth Rosson Pennsylvania State University

Liam J. Bannon University of Limerick

Klaus Willecke University of Bonn

Alan Borning University of Washington

External Links

Personal website of Volker Wulf Google Scholar page

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