Digital Media Lab

At the end of June, Denis Obrezkov successfully defended his dissertation “Human Factors in Access Control: Analysis and Design”. Denis was a scholarship holder in our graduate college “Empowering Digital Media” for four years, where he worked in depth on the topic of ‘User Behavior in Access…

Rainer Malaka has been elected the new Dean of Faculty 3 - Mathematics and Computer Science (FB3) in mid-June. Together with Peter Maaß and other members of the dean's board, the newly elected dean's team is now responsible for the management of the department, the implementation of council…

We welcome our new colleague: Shiyao Zhang (Izzie) started working as a research assistant in the Digital Media Lab in June 2025.

Izzie completed her Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Bremen. During her studies, she already worked in the Digital Media Lab as a…

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…

At the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Prof Rainer Malaka and Dr Thomas Eßmeyer visited Prof Isao Echizen's Multimedia Security Lab. In this context, the lab presented itself with various research projects on the topic of media bias. The visit was underlined by an inspiring…

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…