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From the 4th till 6th of November, our colleagues Thomas Mildner and Nima Zargham conducted a workshop on Responsible and Ethical AI in CUI-Technologies (REACT) with discussions about how to interact with and design conversational user interfaces (CUIs) like voice assistants, social robots, and…

Nobody can avoid AI these days. Recently, it can also be found in museums: the Dutch museum Mauritshuis temporarily replaced its masterpiece “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer with an AI-generated painting in 2023.

In the context of AI and art, the Kunsthalle Bremen hosted a panel…

At The 23rd International Federation for Information Processing – International Conference on Entertainment Computing (IFIP-ICEC 2024), our colleagues Ameneh Asafari and Mehrdad Bahrini presented their respective papers. Together with Prof. Rainer Malaka, they visited the conference from 30th of…

The Interaction Fidelity Model: Free Posters

VR researchers at the Digital Media Lab devised the Taxonomy of the Interaction Fidelity Model in cooperation with experts from the University of Hamburg and Virginia Tech, US. It's now published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction…

The project participants of our Muhai project met in Venice to finalize and present volume 2 of the book Narrative-based Understanding of Everyday Activities: An AI Cookbook, to discuss the joint activities and to plan the way forward for the last months of the project.

The “cookbook” is a 3-volume…

From September 5-7 the Klaus Tschira Foundation's “Explore Science” experience days were held in Bremen. Around 10,000 children, young people and adults took the opportunity to discover the topic of “Climate & Environment” at exciting hands-on stations, workshops, school competitions and a varied…

On Friday, August 30, 2024, the “Science of Masters” (SOM) conference took place for the second time. Students from the courses 'Applied Computer Science in Sports', 'Embodied Interaction' and 'Current Topics in HCI' presented their results from a self-formulated research question.

With a total of…

Rainer Malaka is currently at the College of Arts, Media and Technology (CAMT) at Chiang Mai University (Thailand) where he gives lectures in Entertainment Computing, HCI and AI. Also he gave a talk "AI - Hype, Hysteria, and Reality - Towards Human-Centric and Empowering Digital Media".

He's there…