Digital Media Lab

Digital Media Lab

Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka

Office: MZH 6490
Phone: +49 421 218-64401
Fax: +49 421 218-64409
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Administration: MZH 6500/6510

 

University of Bremen
MZH, Faculty 3
Researchgroup Digital Media
Bibliothekstr. 5
D-28359 Bremen
GERMANY

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News

Our Guest Student Patcharaphon Sribunthankul (Mai) von der Chiang Mai University

Patcharaphon Sribunthankul as a Guest Student in the Digital Media Lab

From March to August, Patcharaphon Sribunthankul (Mai) from Chiang Mai University, Thailand, is visiting our lab as a research guest. She is studying under the supervision of Dr. Supara Grudpan, a former colleague who worked with us as a PHD student and completed her doctorate in November 2023.

Mai…


Rainer Malaka and Iddo Wald with ACM President Yannis Ioannidis

Rainer Malaka and Iddo Wald with ACM President Yannis Ioannidis at the CHI2025 in Yokohama (Japan)

When presenting their paper “Spatial Haptics: A Sensory Substitution Method for Distal Object Detection Using Tactile Cues” at CHI2025,  Rainer Malaka and Iddo Wald discussed with ACM President Yannis Ioannidis about the related application and the question on how vibro-tactile feedback can be used…


Lennard Scheurer, Research Assistant in the Digital Media Lab

New Research Assistant Lennard Scheurer

We welcome Lennard Scheurer as a new research assistant in the Digital Media Lab. Lennard studied computer science in both his Bachelor's and Master's degree at the University of Bremen and has already worked for us as a student assistant. As part of this work, Lennard was involved in the…


Participants from left to right: Ivana Žemberi, Srujana Madam Sampangiramu, Christopher Kröger, Lars Hurrelbrink, Anika Bork und Yuliya Litvin

Student project Doggo-Roomie at the Computer Science Project Day

Our Master's project Doggo-Roomie presented its results at today's Computer Science Project Day: students from the Digital Media program transformed a commercially available vacuum cleaning robot into a household companion in the form of a small dog, and used it to conduct a study. The "dog" is…


Screenshot from a Virtual Kitchen, with a Robot Performing a Recipe Cooking Task

ABS project “Artificial Biosignals” has started

Our ABS - Artificial Biosignals project was launched at the beginning of the year as a “seed” project of the research cluster Media, Minds Machine. The project is investigating whether human-robot interaction (HRI) can be improved by representing the “mental state” of a robot. Based on the “Theory…


Members of the ComAI Project at the KickUP

ComAI KickUp-Meeting

ComAI is a research group funded by the DFG and the austrian FWF entitled “Communicative AI”, which is researching in nine sub-projects the question of how social communication changes when communicative AI becomes a part of it. Voice assistants that take our commands, social bots that influence…