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From March to August, Patcharaphon Sribunthankul (Mai) from Chiang Mai University, Thailand, is visiting our lab as a research guest. She is studying under the supervision of Dr. Supara Grudpan, a former colleague who worked with us as a PHD student and completed her doctorate in November 2023.

Mai…

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…

At the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Prof Rainer Malaka and Dr Thomas Eßmeyer visited Prof Isao Echizen's Multimedia Security Lab. In this context, the lab presented itself with various research projects on the topic of media bias. The visit was underlined by an inspiring…

We welcome Lennard Scheurer as a new research assistant in the Digital Media Lab. Lennard studied computer science in both his Bachelor's and Master's degree at the University of Bremen and has already worked for us as a student assistant. As part of this work, Lennard was involved in the…

Our Master's project Doggo-Roomie presented its results at today's Computer Science Project Day: students from the Digital Media program transformed a commercially available vacuum cleaning robot into a household companion in the form of a small dog, and used it to conduct a study. The "dog" is…

Our ABS - Artificial Biosignals project was launched at the beginning of the year as a “seed” project of the research cluster Media, Minds Machine. The project is investigating whether human-robot interaction (HRI) can be improved by representing the “mental state” of a robot. Based on the “Theory…

ComAI is a research group funded by the DFG and the austrian FWF entitled “Communicative AI”, which is researching in nine sub-projects the question of how social communication changes when communicative AI becomes a part of it. Voice assistants that take our commands, social bots that influence…

This week our colleague Rachel Ringe was attending HRI'25 - the 20th edition of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. There she contributed her papers MetaMorph -- A Metamodelling Approach For Robot Morphology and The Wilhelm Tell Dataset of Affordance Demonstrations to…

In February, Yvonne Rogers, who is connected to the Digital Media Lab through her position as an Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen, gave a talk with us on human-centered AI titled "Supercharging the Human Mind With AI”.

Her vision about that topic is, that exploring how human-centred AI…

At a panel discussion at the Science Centre Universum® Bremen on the topic of „KI geht uns alle an! KI und soziales Miteinander: Möglichkeiten, Missverständnisse und Gefahren“, Rainer Malaka discussed topics such as '''What exactly is AI and what role does it play in social media? Can a computer…