Digital Media Lab

Prof. Dr. Rainer is the Vice Chair of IFIP TEchnical Commitee14. In this role, he also plays an important part in representing Germany on the committee. IFIP TC14 is the “Entertainment Computing” Technical Committee of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It promotes…

This year’s 25th ICEC – IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing took place in Paris from October 6 to 9.

Head of the lab Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka and research associates Leon, Johanna, Leandra and Laura, together with our alumnus Dr. Nima Zargham and other contributors, organized…

How do online retailers get us to click “buy” so quickly? That’s the question behind the ZDFzeit documentary “Die Tricks der Onlinehändler – mit Pia Osterhaus”  (The Tricks of Online Retailers). It looks at star ratings, countdown deals and other sales tactics, and asks why we fall for them so…

On September 8, Robin Nolte successfully defended his dissertation with a magna cum laude distinction.

In his dissertation, titled “What Was I Thinking? A Framework and Survey of Metacognitive Experience Memory in Cognitive Architectures,” Robin explores how AI systems can store and make their own…

On September 3, Batian Dänekas successfully defended his dissertation and is now officially awarded the title of Dr.-Ing.

In his dissertation “Recording and Accounting for Individuality in Resistance Training Movement Data,” Bastian examines the extent to which individual movement patterns are…

Lisa Hesselbarthpresented the paper “CreatureCreator: Co-Creating 3D Models with AI for Video Games via Sculpting and Drawing” at this year's ACM Creativity and Cognition 2026 conference, to which other members of our lab also contributed. In her paper, she explores which analog input methods: such…