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Denis Obrezkov after his PHD Defense

Denis Obrezkov Successfully Defended his PHD Thesis

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…


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…


Our New Colleague Shiyao Zhang (Izzie)

Welcome to our New Colleague Shiyao Zhang

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…


Rainer Malaka and Iddo Wald with ACM President Yannis Ioannidis

Rainer Malaka and Iddo Wald with ACM President Yannis Ioannidis at the CHI2025 in Yokohama (Japan)

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…


Rainer Malaka and Thomas Eßmeier (back row center and left) with Prof. Isao Echizen and his group

Visit to the NII: Rainer Malaka and Thomas Eßmeyer visit Prof Isao Echizen's Multimedia Security Lab

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…


Our Guest Student Patcharaphon Sribunthankul (Mai) von der Chiang Mai University

Patcharaphon Sribunthankul as a Guest Student in the Digital Media Lab

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…


Lennard Scheurer, Research Assistant in the Digital Media Lab

New Research Assistant Lennard Scheurer

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…


Participants from left to right: Ivana Žemberi, Srujana Madam Sampangiramu, Christopher Kröger, Lars Hurrelbrink, Anika Bork und Yuliya Litvin

Student project Doggo-Roomie at the Computer Science Project Day

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…


Screenshot from a Virtual Kitchen, with a Robot Performing a Recipe Cooking Task

ABS project “Artificial Biosignals” has started

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…


Members of the ComAI Project at the KickUP

ComAI KickUp-Meeting

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…