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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…

From November 13-15, Katharina Hasenlust attended the European Public Health Conference (EPHC) in Lisbon.

She presented her poster with the preliminary results of her work “Accessibility Engineering in the mhealth industry - A multi-case study” which examines the implementation of accessibility in…

The Global Game Jam will take place again on 24.01.2024. It's about developing a game in a small group with other participants in only 48 hours - snacks and drinks will be provided. If you are interested, come on the 24th of January at 4 PM in the E0 of the MZH. Check here for more information!

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From Dec 1 — 4, 2024 Thomas Mildner and Nima Zargham attended the MUM 2024 conference.

Thomas presented two of his papers: The first was "Level Up or Game Over," which was based on a former student's thesis, Sam Niknejad, co-authored with Nima Zargham, Susanne Putze, and Rainer Malaka! The second…

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…