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New member of our working group

Since the beginning of February we have new support in our working group from Marc Robin Nolte. Robin is interested in the modularity of ontologies and in hybrid and non-monotonic reasoning & query answering, which he is now working on with us in the EASE project.

A warm welcome to Robin!


PHD Defense of Susanne Putze

In September 2021, Susanne Putze successfully passed her PhD exam on "Model Based Research Data Management -Maintainable and Concurrent Management of Experimental Research Data With Domain-specific Knowledge Models" The dissertation explores usable and practical usage of experiment model based…


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University of Bremen in "Low Poly"

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the University of Bremen, our bachelor project developed a game to get to know the campus. An article about it appeared in the up2date.


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PHD Defense of Dmitry Alexandrovsky

In August, Dmitry Alexandrovsky successfully passed his PhD exam on "Engaging Interaction - Designing for Immersive and Sustained User Experiences."

The dissertation explores how interaction design can sustain engagement with interactive systems. Involving emotional, cognitive and behavioral…


Exchange with the University College Dublin

We are happy to annouce that a lab exchange between Bremen and Dublin will take place on the 20. July 2021 from 14:00 time. We are looking forward to see a broad range of interesting and inspiring lightning talks both from University College Dublin and Digital Media Lab Bremen.


Talk with Maximilian A. Friehs from University College Dublin

We are happy to announce that on July 12th 2021 Maximilian A. Friehs from the psychology department at the University College Dublin will give a talk at our EDM (Empowering Digital Media) round.

Dr. Maximilian A. Friehs is a cognitive neuroscientist with a PhD in Psychology from the University of…


New members for our working group

In the last six months we have received strong reinforcement for our working group.

Bastian Dänekas joined us last November as support for our part of the project KI-SIGS and is working in parallel on his doctoral thesis on "Developing and researching methods to measure quality of strenght…


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PHD Defense of Johannes Pfau

Under the topic "Deep Player Behaviour Modelling", Johannes Pfau defended his dissertation with distinction ("summa cum laude") last week, which deals with the behaviour modelling and generation of individual players in video games. The method, which uses various machine learning approaches to…


CHI2021 Late-Breaking Work “Ethical User Interfaces - Exploring the Effects of Dark Patterns on Facebook”

This paper examines the social networking site Facebook with a focus on the phenomenon ‘Dark Patterns”. Dark Patterns are interface elements designed to deceive or even harm users. To find out if Facebook has integrated such elements, the authors compared changes in the user interface since its…


#CHI2021 Late-Breaking Work based on the VIVATOP Project

We are happy to announce that the paper "A Study on the Size of Tangible Organ-shaped Controllers for Exploring Medical Data in VR", which reports on research results from the VIVATOP project, was accepted to this year's CHI! The work investigates whether users, i.e. surgeons, benefit from a…