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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…

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…