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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…

In the middle of July, Iddo Wald successfully defended his dissertation with the honour of summa cum laude.

In his dissertation, “Sensory Substitution in Human-Computer Interaction—Bridging Computer Science, Design, and Cognitive Neuroscience” he investigates how sensory substitution devices…

At the end of May, Carolin Stellmacher successfully defended her dissertation.

In her dissertation, titled “More than a buzz: advancing haptic feedback in virtual reality and mixed reality” she investigated how haptic feedback in virtual and mixed reality can be improved. In doing so, she explored…

The University of Bremen and our DM Lab will host the ACM International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI 2026). 

The international conference will take place from 21 to 24 July 2026 at the Haus der Wissenschaft and will bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields…

In an article for RiffReporter, Thomas Eßmeyer shared his expert insights on dark patterns on social media, highlighting how excessive media use affects young people in particular.

Among other things, Dr. Thomas Eßmeyer contextualizes the criticism from the German Ethics Council and, in doing so,…

Nima Zargham and Siyao (Izzie) Zhang went to Edinburgh, Scotland, UK for the HRI 2026 Conference. Nima organized a workshop there with Benjamin Cowan, Minha Lee, Donald Mc Millan, Matthew Aylett and (from our group) Rachel Ringe and Mihai Hawkin with the Topic "Empowering Human-Robot Communication…

Prof. Rainer Malaka visited King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) in Bangkok, Thailand, as Guest Professor. KMUTT is a long term partner University of University of Bremen. Rainer gave lectures and talks and had meetings with the President and a number of vice presidents and deans…

Our colleague Bastian Dänekas, a researcher in the field of sports informatics, was interviewed by journalists from the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper about the use of artificial intelligence in sports.

In the article, Bastian shares his expert opinion on the potential, advantages, disadvantages,…

We are pleased to highlight Dr. Thomas Eßmeyer's recent appearances on buten un binnen. In an online article, Thomas shared practical advice on reducing screen time and advocated for mindful technology use. In a television segment, he explained how dark patterns – manipulative design tricks – steer…

This year's  Global Game Jam (GGJ) took place from January 30 to February 1, 2026, at the University of Bremen in the PC lab of Department 3 and was organized by employees of our lab.

We had almost 60 participants in this global hackathon. Divided into 13 teams, they each created a game on the…