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This paper examines the social networking site Facebook with a focus on the phenomenon ‘Dark Patterns”. Dark Patterns are interface elements designed to deceive or even harm users. To find out if Facebook has integrated such elements, the authors compared changes in the user interface since its…

We are happy to announce that the paper "A Study on the Size of Tangible Organ-shaped Controllers for Exploring Medical Data in VR", which reports on research results from the VIVATOP project, was accepted to this year's CHI! The work investigates whether users, i.e. surgeons, benefit from a…

The DMLab joined forces with Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Aalto University, the Open Lab at the University of Newcastle, and the German Research Center for ArtificialIntelligence (DFKI) and prepared the CHI ’21 Workshop “Evaluating User Experiences in Mixed Reality”. The workshop…

Congratulations to Dmitry Alexandrovsky, Maximilian Achim Friehs, Jendrik Grittern, Susanne Putze, Max V. Birk, Rainer Malaka and Regan L. Mandryk for the accepted paper “Serious Snacking: A Survival Analysis of how Snacking Mechanics affect Attrition in a Mobile Serious Game” at CHI ’21. The paper…

The EU Project MUHAI (Meaning and Understanding for Human-centric AI) that is spearheaded by the Center for Computing Technologies (TZI) of the Bremen University goes online. On the Web at www.muhai.org as well as in the social media via:

Twitter - https://twitter.com/MUHAI_org

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Congratulations to Nat Sararit and Rainer Malaka for their publication “Serious Violence: The Effects of Violent Elements in Serious Game”, which received the best full paper award at IFIP_ICEC 2020. This paper explores the effects of violent versus non-violent audiovisual and narrative elements.…

Congratulations to Dmitry Alexandrovsky, Georg Volkmar, Maximilian Spliethöver, Stefan Finke, Marc Herrlich, Tanja Döring, Jan David Smeddinck, Rainer Malaka for their publication “Playful User-Generated Treatment: A Novel Game Design Approach for VR Exposure Therapy” at CHIPlay 2020 which received…

The DMLab will present two papers on the topic around question-asking in VR on the CHI 2020: “Examining Design Choices of Questionnaires in VR User Studies” explores the design space of questionnaire administration in VR. (DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3313831.3376260, Video preview: …