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Thomas Eßmeyer and Rainer Malaka at the award ceremony of the Bremer Studienpreis

Bremer Studien-Preis for Thomas Essmeyer and Interview in the Washington Post

We would like to congratulate our colleague Thomas Eßmeyer on receiving the “Thematischen Preis” of the Bremer Studienpreis 2025 for his dissertation “Mitigating Dark Patterns Through Responsible Design – Ethical Design Considerations for User-Centred Technologies.” The work examines how responsible…


Gen Yue (Gwen)

We welcome our new colleague Gen Yue (Gwen)

In October, Gwen started as a PHD student with us at the Digital Media Lab (University of Bremen).

Gwen comes from Shanghai, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Game Design at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. Before pursuing his doctorate, he completed a Master of Science in Serious Games…


Rainer Malaka

Rainer Malaka received IFIP Fellow Award

By the end of October, Rainer Malaka received the IFIP Fellow Award. The title of IFIP Fellow is the most prestigious IFIP’s technical distinction, which is conferred by the IFIP General Assembly on a current or past member of an IFIP body (e.g. WG, TC, GA, Domain Committee, IP3) in recognition of…


Carolin Stellmacher at the Computer Science Center at UCL London

Carolin Stellmacher stayed for 3 months at the UCL Interaction Centre in London

In summer 2025, our PhD student Carolin Stellmacher spent 3 fruitful months at the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC) in London, collaborating with Prof. Yvonne Rogers and Dr Mark Colley. Their joint work led to a full paper submission to CHI 2026. Carolin also presented her research projects as part of…


Our new colleague Leandra Thiele

Welcome to our New Scholarship Holder Leandra Thiele

Since September 2025 Leandra Thiele conducts her doctoral research at the Digital Media Lab as a doctoral fellow funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation.

She completed her Bachelor’s degree in English-Speaking Cultures and Linguistics and her Master’s degree in English-Speaking Cultures with a…


Mehrdad during his presentation at Esorics

Mehrdad Bahrini gave a talk at Esorics in Toulouse

End of September, our colleague Mehrdad Bahrini gave a talk about "Transparency and Consent Challenges in mHealth Apps: An Interdisciplinary Study of Privacy Policies, Data Sharing, and Dark Patterns." (Mehrdad Bahrini, Alexander Herbst, Merle Freye, Matthias Kohn, Karsten-Sohr and Rainer Malaka) at…


Michael Bonfert hosting the Opening Ceremony at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2025

Rainer Malaka and Michael Bonfert, one of our former employees, were once again represented at this year's Heidelberg Laureate Forum.


Mehrdad Bahrini and Karsten Sohr at the "Campustage 2025"

Cybersecurity – Presentation at the Campustage 2025 by Datenschutz Nord

At the Campustage 2025 by Datenschutz Nord from DSN-Group, our colleagues Mehrdad Bahrini and Karsten Sohr demonstrated in their presentation that data protection and information security should not only be viewed from a technical perspective, but that the human factor in handling them must…


Anika Borg, Shiyao Zang, Lisa Hesselbarth; back: Iddo Wald, Rachel Ringe, Amber Maimon

Participation in RO-MAN - 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication - and the Mensch und Computer 2025 Conference

In August, some of our colleagues took part in two conferences.

At RO-MAN - 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Rachel Ringe presented her paper "Bot Appétit! Exploring how Robot Morphology Shapes Perceived Affordances via a Mise en Place Scenario in a…


Former Dean Rolf Drechsler (left) congrats new Dean Rainer Malaka

Rainer Malaka is the new Dean of FB3

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…