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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…