Center for Computing Technologies (TZI)

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…

Lively participation by ComNets in Abu Dhabi

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…

Researchers from the University of Bremen presented their findings on AI-based wolf detection at the Digital Summit 2024 in Frankfurt.

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…

Our students presented their final projects at the end of the two week block lecture.

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…

Over 30 students at Universität Bremen registered for our intensive 2-week IoT course. Learn from global experts on 5G, 802.15.4 with 6TiSCH, WiFi, LoRa, Arduino, and more.

DAAD Summer School Network of Excellence in Advanced ICT for Tropical Medicine took place in Bremen.

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…

ComNets proudly presents Thomas BASIKOLO and Paul Spiesberger as the keynote speakers for the GoodIT2024!

The ACM GoodIT 2024 takes place in Bremen.

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…

Our MoleNet platform is widely used by our students who are doing their research in IoT. Now, we have made a step forward regarding the next hardware version.

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…

Das Graduiertenkolleg CAUSE wird sich mit der Entwicklung von technischen Systemen befassen, die ihre Annahmen, Schlüsse und weiteren Vorgehensweisen den menschlichen Nutzerinnen und Nutzern erklären können.

Prof. Michael Beetz und sein Team wurden aufgrund ihrer umfassenden Expertise in der KI-basierten Robotik in das Netzwerk der führenden Forschungseinrichtungen aufgenommen.

MoleNet goes public: Digital Impact Lab in the Bremen city center

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…

Our work on evaluating Reflexive Forwarding for ICNs was accepted at IEEE SmartNets'24

Since April Iddo Wald works as a doctoral student at the Digital Media Lab. He is a multidisciplinary researcher, designer and engineer. In the past he worked as an Electrical Engineer for Intel, completed his MA/MSc in Innovation Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College…

Beginning of April, the I2B event "TZI Roadshow: AI Innovation made in Bremen" took place in the TAB building of the University of Bremen, where examples of work created at TZI were presented.

As a member of the TZI, we from the Digital Media Lab presented eight projects: With applications such as…

Rainer Malaka attended the IFIP Board Meeting in Toronto, Canada from march 25th to 27th. The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a global organization in Information and Communications Technologies and Sciences and is recognized by the United Nations and other world…

On April 12th, Michael Bonfert successfully defended his dissertation. In his thesis "Unraveling the fidelity of virtual reality interactions: effects of realism in object manipulation and embodiment" https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/2939, Michael deals with immersive experiences created with…

Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft trafen sich am 9. April an der Universität Bremen, um vielfältige Demonstratoren aus der TZI-Forschung zu besichtigen und über Kooperationsmöglichkeiten zu sprechen.

This year's Global Game Jam (GGJ) took place from January 26-28, 2024. The event is comparable to a hackathon, where people come together in different locations for 48 hours to develop games on a central theme. It is organized worldwide in physical and virtual locations in over a hundred countries…

In January 2024, Georg Volkmar held the successful defense of his PHD thesis "Empowering novices through playful self-expression - the role of creativity and video games in the context of virtual reality exposure therapy".

Serious games have long been studied in HCI for their potential to support…

Since 15.12.2023 we have a new colleague in our working group: Fenja Schweder.

Fenja holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Bremen and a Master's degree in Data and Computer Science from the University of Heidelberg. During her stay in Heidelberg, Fenja worked for the …

On November 13, Supara Grudpan successfully defended her doctoral thesis "The M-SG framework: A framework for Multiplayer Cooperative Serious Game Development". Supara was a long and valued member of our research group. Because of Covid, she went back to Thailand and has been working there at Chang…

As part of the DAAD-funded Program for Project-Related Personal Exchange (PROCOPE), Johanna Rockstroh has been awarded a scholarship for the PaCoCo (Parallel Corpus Exploration of Interrogatives with French 'Comment') project in Paris.

She will work there as a developer in the field of NLP together…

The Global Game Jam will take place again on 26.01.2024. This developing a game in a small group with other participants in only 48 hours - snacks and drinks will of course be provided. If you are interested, come on the 26th of January at 4 PM in the E0 of the MZH and register at https://globalgame…

Distributed Adaptive CPM Generation Control Approach to Minimize the Channel Load in VANETs

Rainer Malaka and Michael Bonfert are guests at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2023 this week. Under the motto "Encouraged by Excellence," laureates of the highest awards in computer science and mathematics will exchange ideas with young scientists from all over the world. For the tenth anniversary,…

Completion of Internet of Things Course (SoSe 2023)

This year there will be a premiere in our lab: students from three different lectures will present the results they have achieved in the respective courses in a poster session at a joint event. The aim is to introduce students to scientific work such as conference presentations, but in a smaller…

Receiving the "The Golden Plietsch" award for MoleNet

Completion of the NetSys'23 Conference in Potsdam, Germany

Since summer of 2018, the annual science experience days of the Klaus Tschira Foundation, "Explore Science", have been held in Bremen, this year on the topic "Mathematics" .

Rainer Malaka , director of the graduate college "Empowering Digital Media", which is also funded by the Klaus Tschira…

Internet of Things Course Preparation for the Summer Semester 2023 (Block Course)

Laura Spillner and Rachel Ringe attended the IJCAI 2023 in Macau, an international conference on artificial intelligence and gathering of international AI researchers.

At the Explainable AI (XAI) workshop Laura gave a presentation on the paper '"Finding Uncommon Ground: A Human-Centered Model for…

NetSys'23 Involvement of ComNets

Completion of Combined Mester Theses on Implementing Content-Centric Networking for the Internet of Things

After finishing his master thesis in computer science, Leon Dratzidis joined our research group as a new member in the middle of August. His research interests are Virtual Reality, Haptic Interfaces and Tangible User Interfaces. He is working in our project hyBit, where he will further pursue his…

New journal paper published

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,…

Implementation of ContikiMac Protocol on OMNeT++ with FLoRa

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…

Students from Sri Lanka doing Research Internship

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…

We are pleased to announce that a paper titled 'About Engaging and Governing Strategies: A Thematic Analysis of Dark Patterns in Social Networking Services'  has been accepted for publication at the 2023 ACM CHI conference. The paper's contribution to the field of dark patterns and online ethics has…

Das war der Girls Day 2023 organisiert von ComNets

Since the beginning of February, Johanna Rockstroh is a new member of our research group.

Johanna has a master's degree in foreign language linguistics and additionally studied computational linguistics. Her research interests are in natural language processing (NLP) and human-robot interaction.…

This year we were finally able to go on an AG retreat together again. We had three days in a hotel at the North Sea in Wilhelmshaven in a relaxed atmosphere to discuss scientific as well as working group related topics that are relevant for us. In between we had time for 'team building' activities…

Bremen's mayor Mr. Bovenschulte visited us last Wednesday, to inform himself about virtual reality (VR) technologies at the TZI. Colleagues from our and other TZI working groups presented him projects realized in VR such as Vivatop, a system to support surgeons during surgery. A detailed overview of…

At last: This year the Global Game Jam (GGJ) will be held again in person here at the university!

The GGJ is an annual event that takes place simultaneously all over the world and where players develop a computer or board game within 48 hours. You don't have to be a professional game developer.…

Bremen Innovativ published an exciting article about the project MUHAI - "Meaning and Understanding in Human-centric AI", in which we are involved. The research project is looking for solutions for human-centric AI that can make sense of content when interacting with spoken language. "We want to…

In November 2022, Thomas Münder successfully defended his doctoral thesis "Understanding natural haptic interaction: investigating haptic feedback in professional virtual reality applications".

His dissertation investigates the theoretical foundation of natural interaction with haptic feedback in…

We welcome two new colleagues in our working group: Rachel Ringe in the project MUHAI and Vino Avanesi in our PHD program EDM.

Rachel is interested in exploring the possibilities of using smartphones with all their included sensors and cameras in combination with VR applications.

Vino's background…

New Seminar on the Internet

This week was the official kick-off event for the new research project hyBit - Hydrogen for Bremen's Industrial Transformation. With nearly 100 people from science, business and politics participating, it was three days of engaging exchanges and an impressive visit to Bremen's steel mill.

The…

From 02 to 05 November 2022, we are organizing the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY 2022) at the Congress Centrum Bremen (CCB). CHI PLAY is an annual international conference of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In the field of player-computer…

New lecture is starting this Winter Semester

In the context of the Fair Week 2022, the Bremen Information Center for Human Rights and Development (BIZ) organized an eco-fair fashion show. The red carpet for fair trade fashion was rolled out in the Markthalle 8 on 16.09.2022. Five of our scientists, including the head of the working group,…

New project started!

The digital media lab has a new PostDoc among its members: Dr. Anke Reinschlüssel!

Anke successfully defended in June her thesis "Empowering Surgeons - A Multimodal Interaction Approach to Improve Computer-Assisted Surgical Planning and Interventions", which summarises her research efforts to…

We welcome a new colleague to our PHD program EDM. Kamyar Javanmardi studied computer science and obtained a master's degree in Computational Linguistics. His research interests include natural language processing (NLP), formal semantics and machine learning models in languge processing. He is…

At the beginning of the month we met for a little drink in our new premises on the 6th level of the MZH. There was a delicious international buffet we brought ourselves, a table soccer tournament, video games and finally, the most important thing, social interaction. We enjoyed it very much!

The doctoral program Empowering Digital Media (EDM), funded by the Klaus-Tschira Foundation, invites applications for 3 Ph.D. positions (m/f/d) at the University of Bremen, Germany, to be filled as soon as possible. Successful candidates will receive a stipend in the amount of 1,500 EUR per month…

We have a new colleague in our working group, Katharina Hasenlust.

Within the scope of her thesis Katharina is going to explore different eHealth components (e.g. electronic health record, mobile health apps) as well as their (potential) interaction. In this context, she wants to identify untapped…

The Digital Media Lab was represented with five papers at this year's CHI 2022 in New Orleans. Nima Zargham presented his paper '"I Didn't Catch That, But I'll Try My Best": Anticipatory Error Handling in a Voice Controlled Game' on research in the field of voice assistants, which was a…

ComNets Bremen is involved into a new cooperation with Thailand

In the project "Design Space of Virtual Environments: Creating a Feedback Loop for Users using Physical and Mental Health Data Gathered by Smartwatches", part of the university's scientific focus Minds.Media.Machines, the Digital Media Lab is researching the possibility of incorporating…

The DMLab is happy to announce a biweekly Student Theses Club where students writing their final thesis (both Bachelor and Master Theses) are invited to meet and discuss current stages of their thesis progression, receiving immediate help from 1-2 PhDs, as well as helping others!

With in-person…

Students have been developing design ideas for a City Campus at the city centre and turning them into models using the latest 3D technologies.

At the end of last year we moved with the whole working group and all labs: You can find us now on the 6th level of the MZH (Bibliothekstr. 5). It was a lot of work and exhausted all our capacities. That's why the news has been a bit neglected lately. This will change. And we would be happy to…

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!

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…

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.

Best paper award for our PhD student Gibson Kimutai

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…

Detection of Wolves is one of the Tasks of ComNets Bremen

New upcoming seminar.

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…

We now had our second lab meeting in Social VR on Altspace. Everybody is equipped with a headset and joins with their avatar. Over the next weeks, we will explore how meetings in virtual environments affect our productivity and social interactions. Our first impressions: Presentations and group…

The insertion of hip implants places high demands on surgeons. To help young doctors practice this operation under realistic conditions, scientists are developing a hip implant simulator.

At the European Conference for Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020), a publication containing a "Theory of Affordance", that was developed in cooperation between the Digital Media Lab and scientists from artificial intelligence and linguistics, was accepted. In this publication, a logical framework…

Again the Uni-Bremen site was represented at the Global Game Jam this year. In 48 hours 17 great prototypes (15 video games and 2 board games) were created from concepts for the "Repair" theme. With over 80 registrations, Bremen is one of the largest locations in Germany. The games can be tried out…

Auf der Mitgliederversammlung am 26. Juni wurde turnusgemäß der Direktor und der Vorstand neu gewählt. Prof. Rainer Malaka wurde im Amt bestätigt und der Vortand wird zukünftig durch Prof. Anna Förster verstärkt.

Die interdisziplinäre Jury des GI-Fachbereichs „Künstliche Intelligenz“, besetzt mit Expertinnen aus der Informatik, Publizistik, Gesellschafts- und Rechtswissenschaft sowie Philosophie und Kunst, hat die zehn prägende Köpfe und Erfindungen der deutschen KI Geschichte identifiziert.

Drei Studentinnen des Leitthemas EASE Innovation informierten in Oldenburg über die Berufsperspektiven für Informatikerinnen, über die nächsten Robotik-Workshops im Institut für Künstliche Intelligenz und gaben den Schülerinnen eine praktische Einführung in die Programmierung des Pepper-Roboters.

Mädels, macht doch mal MINT!

Professor Michael Beetz hat für seine Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der künstlichen Intelligenz, des maschinellem Lernens und der Robotik die Ehrendoktorwürde der schwedischen Universität Örebro erhalten.

Die beiden Stadtgemeinden Bremen und Bremerhaven sowie die Landkreise Osterholz und Cuxhaven haben eine gemeinsame Interessenbekundung an das Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur übergeben.

- ein Interview im hr-INFO mit Prof. Dekorsy

Wissenschaftlerinnen des TZI haben untersucht, ob der Einsatz von Calliope-Computern in der Grundschule sinnvoll ist. Die Ergebnisse ihrer Studie wurden jetzt veröffentlicht.

Die Informationstour „Erfahrbares Lernen“ präsentierte am 6. November in Bremen Forschungsprojekte, die digitale Technologien mit neuen Lehrkonzepten verbinden.

BMBF-geförderte Veranstaltung des TZI lädt Vertreter aus Schulen, Wissenschaft, Unternehmen und Politik am 6. November 2018 in die Bremer Überseestadt ein.

Am 17.10.2018 war der stellv. Landeshauptmann (Ministerpräsidet) Oberösterreichs Mag. Dr. Michael Strugl mit einer knapp 20 köpfigen Delegation aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft zu Gast am TZI.

Nina und Dirk Wenig setzten sich mit ihrem innovativen Chatbot IDA bei den „Campusideen 2018“ durch.

Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse aus der Nachrichtentechnik konnten sich Besucher der Forschungsmeile in Bremen am letzten Wochenende direkt vom Experten erklären lassen.

Das TZI entwickelt eine detailgetreue Simulation des Canyon-Systems „Valles Marineris“ auf dem Mars.

Die Nutzung von Robotern und Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) zur Bewältigung von Alltagsaufgaben wie Tischdecken oder Abwaschen steht im Mittelpunkt des Sonderforschungsbereichs EASE an der Universität Bremen.

Organic Data Dissemination in Opportunistic Networks

Development of a new sensor for space applications.

Ferienkurs für Schüler wird durch ComNets Bremen durchgeführt.

PhD student of ComNets develops miner location system

We are member of the high-profile area Minds, Media, Machines

Paper about teaching Internet of Things published

Prof. Förster gave a talk with the topic "Gossiping in digital communication networks" in the 2015 TEDxTUHH event in Hamburg. The video of the talk is now available online.

New book by Anna Förster got published!

Im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Universelle Eigenschaften des Entscheidens" hält Frau Prof. Anna Förster am 11. Mai einen Vortrag zum Thema "Entscheidungsprozesse in Kommunikationsnetzen: Naturinspirierte Verfahren".

The Department of Sustainable Communication Networks had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Paul Havinga and Prof. Nirvana Meratnia from the University of Twente, Netherlands, for a Talk on Pervasive Systems.