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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…

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…

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…

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…