
Center for Computing Technologies (TZI)
Technology that serves humans
The Center for Computing Technologies (TZI) at the University of Bremen conducts research at the core of a massive societal trend: The digital revolution, which affects all areas of our lives. Important research questions include: What kind of technologies will we have in 10 to 20 years? How can we make sure that they will be safe, dependable, and beneficial for society? And most of all: How can technology serve humans–instead of replacing them?
TZI has conducted research in these areas since its foundation in 1995, working on approximately 120 projects per year. One main goal is to transfer results from basic research to industry as quickly as possible in order to generate the greatest benefits for society.
The knowledge generated in our projects has already been applied in a wide range of areas such as healthcare, telecommunication, automotive industry, and “smart homes.” This is made possible by encouraging interdisciplinary cooperation of scientists in different fields. On average, about 150 employees from various areas at the University of Bremen are TZI members. In addition, many projects are based on international cooperation with other research institutions.
TZI focuses on two main research areas:„Everyday Activity Science and Engineering Innovation" and „Empowering Digital Media“.


Rachel Ringe at the Human Robot Interaction Conference in Melbourne

„Supercharging the Human Mind With AI“: Lecture from Yvonne Rogers

Rainer Malaka as a panel guest at Universum® Bremen in a discussion about AI

CHI 2025: Three papers and one SIG accepted

Towards Effective Interpretability In IoT Fault Diagnosis

Global Game Jam Bremen 2025

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New colleague Lisa Hesselbarth

Carolin Stellmacher as SV Chair at the SUI 2024 conference

Mehrdad Bahrini successfully defendet his Doctoral Thesis

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ComNets at the EWSN '24 in Abu Dhabi

Katharina Hasenlust at the European Public Health Conference in Lisbon

Global Game Jam 2025

Thomas Mildner and Nima Zargham at the MUM 2024 conference

Workshop on Responsible and Ethical AI in CUI-Technologies

AI and Art: Panel Discussion at the Kunsthalle Bremen

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Leveraging AI for Wildlife Monitoring: Enhancing Coexistence between Wolves, Humans, and Livestock

Ameneh, Mehrdad and Rainer in Manaus at IFIP-ICEC 2024

The Interaction Fidelity Model: Free Posters

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IoT lecture: Final Project Presentations

Final Muhai Meeting

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New course started: Internet of Tings (IoT)

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DAAD Summer School 2024 in Bremen

Explore Science Update: Children and young people conduct research for environmental protection

SynData project launched as a sub-project of Data Competence Center DataNord

Leon Dratzidis and Lisa Hesselbarth at Mensch und Computer 2024

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GoodIT 2024: Keynote speakers

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ACM GoodIT 2024

Poster Session 'Science of the Masters' 2024

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Current MoleNet status

Rainer Malaka at CAMT in Chiang Mai

Yvonne Rogers attended the Defenses of her Students at our Lab

Senator Moosdorf visited us at the Digital Media Lab

Four Dissertations in Three Days

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Graduiertenkolleg mit TZI-Beteiligung bewilligt

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Universität Bremen ist Gründungsmitglied des Robotics Institute Germany

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Get in touch with MoleNet

Carolin Stellmacher at CHI 2024 on Hawaii

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Honourable Mention for Nima Zargham's paper at the CHI 2024

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IEEE SmartNets'24

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Welcome to Iddo Wald as a new colleague in our working group

KI Innovation made in Bremen

Rainer Malaka attended the IFIP Board Meeting in Toronto, Canada

PHD Defense of Michael Bonfert
Chronische Hauterkrankungen: KI unterstützt die sichere Lichttherapie zu Hause

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Volles Haus und eine Wette auf Bremen

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Global Game Jam 2024

PHD Defense of Georg Volkmar

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Welcome to our new colleague Fenja Schweder
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PHD Defense of Supara Grudpan

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Johanna Rockstroh receives DAAD scholarship for the PaCoCo project in Paris
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Global Game Jam 2024

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Load Balancing on Vehicular Networks
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Rainer Malaka and Michael Bonfert at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2023

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IoT course 2023 is over

Poster Session 'Science of the Masters'

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Das Goldene Plietsch

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This was NetSys'23

Rainer Malaka as a juror at the Explore Science school competitions

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IoT Lecture in the Summer Semester

Laura Spillner and Rachel Ringe present at IJCAI 2023.

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NetSys 2023

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Content-Centric Networking in the IoT

Leon Dratzidis in our hyBit Project

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The Opportunistic Zoo

VR against fear of heights
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Making Virtual Worlds Real - Michael Bonfert in the Klaus Tschira Foundation's Alumni Summer Series

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LoRa in OMNeT++

The Digital Media Lab at the Summer School of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health

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Visiting Students from Sri Lanka

Summer School on HCI for Well-being

ACM CUI 2023 Conference: Workshop From C-3PO to HAL

CHI2023: Honorable Mention for Interactivity
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10-Years Impact Award for Tanja Döring

Talk about Usable Security from Florian Alt

The Digital Media Lab at CHI 2023

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Visit from Johannes Pfau from the GUII Lab from the University of California, Santa Cruz

ACM CHI 2023: Paper and "Honorable Mention"

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Girls Day 2023
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© Johanna Rockstroh
New Member of our Working Group

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Digital Media Lab Retreat in Wilhelmshaven

Mr. Bovenschulte visits the Digital Media Lab
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Global Game Jam 2023

I AI, you Jane

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Thomas Münder new post-doctoral fellow
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Welcome to two new colleagues in our working group

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Connect-Them-All
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Project hyBit: Interaction design for a hydrogen hub

The Digital Media Lab organizes CHI Play 2022

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Grundlagen der Informationstechnik

The Digital Media Lab likes fairness

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Smart Farming Made Simple
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New PostDoc Anke Reinschlüssel

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New member in our working group
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Get together in our new location
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3 Ph.D. Positions (m/f/d) to be filled
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© Katharina Hasenlust
New Colleague in the Digital Media Lab

Presentations on CHI 2022 in New Orleans

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Network of Excellence in Advanced ICT for Tropical Medicine

Biosignals in Virtual Reality
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Student Thesis Club

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FabLab exhibition: City Campus in 3D
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We have moved up to the 6th floor of the MZH!
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New member of our working group

PHD Defense of Susanne Putze
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University of Bremen in "Low Poly"

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Best Paper award!
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PHD Defense of Dmitry Alexandrovsky
Exchange with the University College Dublin
Talk with Maximilian A. Friehs from University College Dublin

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IoT Innovation Project starts
New members for our working group

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General Studies Seminar "Aspects of Sustainability"
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PHD Defense of Johannes Pfau
CHI2021 Late-Breaking Work “Ethical User Interfaces - Exploring the Effects of Dark Patterns on Facebook”
#CHI2021 Late-Breaking Work based on the VIVATOP Project
CHI 2021 Workshop “Evaluating User Experiences in Mixed Reality”
Publication at CHI 2021
EU-Project MUHAI goes online
Best Full Paper Award at IFIP-ICEC 2020 for Nat Sarakit and Rainer Malaka
'Honorable Mention Award' for a Publication at the CHIPlay 2020

Digital-Media-Lab Meeting in SocialVR

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Surgery Training with Robots and Virtual Reality
Accepted Publications at CHI 2020
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Publication of a Theory of Affordance
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Global Game Jam 2020
Lecture by Ioannis at the graduation ceremony of FB3
Successful publication at the CHI2020
Rainer Malaka visits Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Ioannis Bikas new Colleague of the Digital Media Lab Bremen
DMLab at the ICEC-JCSG 2019 in Arequipa, Peru
EU-Projekt first.stage finished and reviewed
Digital Media Lab at the "Mensch und Computer 2019" Conference
TZI researches the use of chatbots in the Bremen Citizen Service
Himanshu Sarma successfully defends his doctoral thesis
Game Jam: Serious Games and Gamification at MuC 2019
VIVATOP: How Virtual Reality and 3D-printed models make surgery easier

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Direktor und Vorstand neu gewählt
Nima Zargham new Colleague of the Digital Media Lab Bremen
We welcome a new PHD student in our group
MAL Project at the BMBF Future Congress

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Prof. Herzog als einer der zehn prägenden Persönlichkeit der KI-Forschung ausgezeichnet

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smile
German HCI Party
Challenge for more practical experience in study programme
Immerse yourself in virtual worlds: Interaction design research for virtual reality
Get a Grip! - Variable Grip for Controller-Based VR Systems

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SMILE
Polite interaction with language assistants

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Professor Michael Beetz erhält Ehrendoktorwürde
Climbing in Virtual Reality
If You Ask Nicely

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TZI unterstützt Bewerbung als 5G-Modellregion

© 2015 Florian Lenkeit
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Wie 5G unser Leben verändert

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Mini-Computer bewährt sich in der Grundschule

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Bildung wird digital

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Neue Lerntechnologien ausprobieren bei der Info-Tour „Erfahrbares Lernen“

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Oberösterreich zu Gast im TZI

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TZI-Team belegt ersten Platz beim Gründerwettbewerb

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Leitthema Adaptive Kommunikation auf der Forschungsmeile

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Virtuelle Marslandschaft ermöglicht Test von Roboterschwärmen

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Automatica-Besucher beteiligten sich an KI-Forschung

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Presentation in Ruzena Bajcsy Lectures on Communications

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ComNets goes to space!

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kids4mint - ran an die Elektrotechnik!

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New Miner Location System

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Minds, Media, Machines

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Teaching the Internet of Things

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Prof. Förster's TEDxTUHH talk now available online

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Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks

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Vortrag "Entscheidungsprozesse in Kommunikationsnetzen: Naturinspirierte Verfahren"

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Talk: Pervasive Systems at a Glance
Useful, real-life solutions require a combination of competencies. Structuring the research on the basis of three main topics enables the TZI to bring together the best specialists for each project. This interdisciplinary approach makes it possible to work successfully on increasingly complex application problems.
TZI board members
Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka (Director)
Prof. Dr. Michael Beetz
EASE innovation
Prof. Dr. Anna Förster
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Zachmann
EDM
Research managers
Dr. Karsten Sohr
EDM
Sabine Veit
EASE innovation
Dr. Gerald Volkmann
EDM
- Prof. Schneider (High Frequency Technology)
- Prof. U. Bormann, Prof. C. Bormann (Computer Networks)
- Prof. Förster (Communication Netzworks)
- Prof. Dekorsy (Communications Engineering)
- Prof. Garcia-Ortiz (Integrated Digital Systems)
EASE Innovation
- Prof. Beetz (Artificial Intelligence)
- Prof. U. Bormann, Prof. C. Bormann (Computer Networks)
- Prof. Malaka (Digital Media)
- Prof. Zachmann (Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality)
Empowering Digital Media
- Prof. Beetz (Artificial Intelligence)
- Prof. Malaka (Digital Media)
- Prof. Zachmann (Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality)
- Prof. Schöning (Human-Computer Interaction)
- Prof. U. Bormann, C. Bormann (Computer Networks)
- Prof. Gogolla (Database Systems)
- Prof. Koschke (Software Engineering)
Professors emeriti
- Prof. Schelhowe (Digital Media in Education)
- Prof. Otthein Herzog
- Prof. Kreowski (Theoretical Computer Science)
Associate members
In addition to the full members of the TZI, we work with the following professors of the University of Bremen and the University of Applied Sciences Bremen via associated memberships:
Address
TZI Center for Computing Technologies
Faculty 03: Mathematics/Computer Science, Faculty 01: Physics/Electrical Engineering
University Bremen
P.O. Box 33 04 40, D-28334 Bremen
Bibliothekstr. 5, D-28359 Bremen
Fon: +49-(0) 421 218-64090
E-Mail: info(at)tzi.de
Office
David Wewetzer
Bibliothekstr. 5, D-28359 Bremen
Fon: +49-(0) 421 218-64093
E-Mail: wewetzer(at)tzi.de