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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…

Yvonne Rogers, Professor at University College London (UCL) and Director of its Interaction Centre (UCLIC), visited us at the Digital Media Lab by end of June to attend the defenses of her PHD students Nadine Wagner and Evropi Stefanidi, as well as Nima Zargham's, whom she supervised and supportet…

In June, Ms. Moosdorf, Bremen's Senator for Climate, Environment and Science, visited us in the Digital Media Lab to get an impression of our work in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR).

We presented her a selection of our projects in this context:

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Last week we had a doctoral marathon: within three days, four of our PhD candidates successfully defended their dissertations. And all four with top marks!

Thomas Mildner started on Friday, June 21 with his dissertation "Mitigating Dark Patterns Through Responsible Design Ethical Design…

Three of our PhD students from he Digital Media Lab published four full papers at this year’s ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024) held on Hawaii. Thomas Mildner, Nima Zargham und Carolin Stellmacher shared their most recent research in the fields of ethical design…

Nima Zargham received an Honourable Mention at CHI 2024 for his paper ‘I Know What You Mean’: Context-Aware Recognition to Enhance Speech-Based Games. It is located in the scientific field of ‘Games User Research’ and investigates a novel method called context-aware speech recognition, which uses…