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In the Buten-und-Binnen video "So versucht diese Bremerin ihre Höhenangst zu besiegen" ("How this Bremen woman is trying to overcome her fear of heights"), Prof. Rainer Malaka, head of the "Digital Media Lab", explains how and why virtual reality is being used in research to counteract fear of…

With its funding programmes, the Klaus Tschira Foundation supports scientists in many ways, like the graduate school Empowering Digital Media, which is hosted by us in the Digital Media Lab.

This year's summer series "Six Questions for..." features six of its alumni. One of them is Michael Bonfert,…

Our colleague Dr Anke Reinschlüssel, who works as a PostDoc in the Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health project in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, gave a lecture on Monday at their SummerSchool with the title "Designing the Digital in…

From the 28th to the 30th of June “Spaces and Interfaces: A Summer School on HCI for Well-being” will take place: Rapid developments in computational sensing, processing, and learning are the source of excitement as well as trepidation. A challenge for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is to leverage…

With the workshop "From C-3PO to HAL" at the ACM CUI 2023 conference some of our colleages tackle the discourse about "the dark side of multi-modal social agents":

As these agents are more and more integrated in our daily routines and while creating emotional bonds with them, the number of…

Anke Reinschlüssel, Tanja Döring and Thomas Münder received an Honorable Mention for their Interacitvity "Versatile Immersive Virtual and Augmented Tangible OR - Using VR, AR and Tangibles to Support Surgical Practice" at CHI2023, a work developed in the context of the BMBF funded project VIVATOP.

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The paper "A Design Space for Ephemeral User Interfaces" by our colleague Tanja Döring et al. received the 10-Year Impact Award at the TEI 2023,  In the photo, she is seen together with Eva Hornecker and Paweł W. Woźniak at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw.

Congrats, Tanja! We're very…

Florian Alt, Professor of Usable Security at BW University Munich, will give a talk at our Graduate College on Monday, May 15, 2023, from 2pm to 3pm, titled "Where Ubicomp Meets Usable Security - Novel Security User Interfaces based on User Behavior and Physiology". Those interested are welcome to…

The CHI 2023 will take place in Hamburg this year. We are pleased to be represented several times:

Thomas Mildner will give talks on "About Engaging and Governing Strategies: A Thematic Analysis of Dark Patterns in Social Networking Services", where the underlying paper was awarded an Honorable…

Our former colleague Johannes Pfau visited us today and gave us an overview of his work as a PostDoc at the Game User Interaction and Intelligence Labs (GUII-Lab) with topics like Smart Cities, Religion & Virtual Reality, Player-Driven Game Analytics, etc.. It was exciting to get a closer look about…