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Our ABS - Artificial Biosignals project was launched at the beginning of the year as a “seed” project of the research cluster Media, Minds Machine. The project is investigating whether human-robot interaction (HRI) can be improved by representing the “mental state” of a robot. Based on the “Theory…

ComAI is a research group funded by the DFG and the austrian FWF entitled “Communicative AI”, which is researching in nine sub-projects the question of how social communication changes when communicative AI becomes a part of it. Voice assistants that take our commands, social bots that influence…

This week our colleague Rachel Ringe was attending HRI'25 - the 20th edition of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. There she contributed her papers MetaMorph -- A Metamodelling Approach For Robot Morphology and The Wilhelm Tell Dataset of Affordance Demonstrations to…

In February, Yvonne Rogers, who is connected to the Digital Media Lab through her position as an Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen, gave a talk with us on human-centered AI titled "Supercharging the Human Mind With AI”.

Her vision about that topic is, that exploring how human-centred AI…

At a panel discussion at the Science Centre Universum® Bremen on the topic of „KI geht uns alle an! KI und soziales Miteinander: Möglichkeiten, Missverständnisse und Gefahren“, Rainer Malaka discussed topics such as '''What exactly is AI and what role does it play in social media? Can a computer…

Our colleagues Thomas Mildner and Iddo Wald from the Digital Media Lab will represent us at CHI 2025 with a total of three papers and a Special Interest Group (SIG)

Iddo Wald's paper “Spatial Haptics: A Sensory Substitution Method for Distal Object Detection Using Tactile Cues” deals with the…

This year's Global Game Jam (GGJ) took place from 24-26 January 2025 at the University of Bremen in the PC lab of Faculty 3 and was organised by employees of our lab.

We had almost 70 participants in this worldwide hackathon. In 13 teams, they each created a game on the topic of ‘Bubble’. The…

Lisa Hesselbarth has been working as a research assistant in our working group since the end of last year. She studied Digital Media in the Bachelor's and Master's programs at the University of Bremen and worked as a student assistant in our Digital Media Lab during the end of her studies. In that…

In her role as Student Volunteer Chair, Carolin Stellmacher supported the conference committee of this year's SUI 2024 conference (ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction). From 7 to 8 October, she and her team of dedicated student volunteers supported the organization and successful running of…

On December 17, 2024, Mehrdad Bahrini successfully defended his dissertation An HCI Approach to Privacy and Security in Mobile and Ubiquitous Applications. In his thesis, he deals with the user-friendly design of security and data protection: user-centered approaches should enable users to make…