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Global Game Jam 2025

Global Game Jam 2025

The Global Game Jam will take place again on 24.01.2024. It's about developing a game in a small group with other participants in only 48 hours - snacks and drinks will be provided. If you are interested, come on the 24th of January at 4 PM in the E0 of the MZH. Check here for more information!

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Thomas Mildner, presenting one of his papers

Thomas Mildner and Nima Zargham at the MUM 2024 conference

From Dec 1 — 4, 2024 Thomas Mildner and Nima Zargham attended the MUM 2024 conference.

Thomas presented two of his papers: The first was "Level Up or Game Over," which was based on a former student's thesis, Sam Niknejad, co-authored with Nima Zargham, Susanne Putze, and Rainer Malaka! The second…


Workshop on Responsible and Ethical AI in CUI-Technologies

From the 4th till 6th of November, our colleagues Thomas Mildner and Nima Zargham conducted a workshop on Responsible and Ethical AI in CUI-Technologies (REACT) with discussions about how to interact with and design conversational user interfaces (CUIs) like voice assistants, social robots, and…


Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka (Universität Bremen), Dr. Yvette Gerner (Radio Bremen), Pit Noack (Moderator), Dr. Pia Schreiber (Digitalagentur construktiv) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Grunenberg (Kunsthalle Bremen) at the panel diskussion (right to left)

AI and Art: Panel Discussion at the Kunsthalle Bremen

Nobody can avoid AI these days. Recently, it can also be found in museums: the Dutch museum Mauritshuis temporarily replaced its masterpiece “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer with an AI-generated painting in 2023.

In the context of AI and art, the Kunsthalle Bremen hosted a panel…


Ameneh Asafari, Rainer Malaka and Mehrdad Bahrini at ICEC 2024

Ameneh, Mehrdad and Rainer in Manaus at IFIP-ICEC 2024

At The 23rd International Federation for Information Processing – International Conference on Entertainment Computing (IFIP-ICEC 2024), our colleagues Ameneh Asafari and Mehrdad Bahrini presented their respective papers. Together with Prof. Rainer Malaka, they visited the conference from 30th of…


Interaction Fidelity Model

The Interaction Fidelity Model: Free Posters

The Interaction Fidelity Model: Free Posters

VR researchers at the Digital Media Lab devised the Taxonomy of the Interaction Fidelity Model in cooperation with experts from the University of Hamburg and Virginia Tech, US. It's now published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction…


Final Muhai Meeting in Venice

Final Muhai Meeting

The project participants of our Muhai project met in Venice to finalize and present volume 2 of the book Narrative-based Understanding of Everyday Activities: An AI Cookbook, to discuss the joint activities and to plan the way forward for the last months of the project.

The “cookbook” is a 3-volume…


Rainer Malaka as juror at the student competitions

Explore Science Update: Children and young people conduct research for environmental protection

From September 5-7 the Klaus Tschira Foundation's “Explore Science” experience days were held in Bremen. Around 10,000 children, young people and adults took the opportunity to discover the topic of “Climate & Environment” at exciting hands-on stations, workshops, school competitions and a varied…


Robert Porzel (white shirt) at SynData kick off

SynData project launched as a sub-project of Data Competence Center DataNord

The kick-off meeting of the sub-projects of DataNord, the data competence center for the Bremen region founded in 2023, was held on 6 August 2024. We were represented by our colleague Robert Porzel with our sub-project 'SynData', in which new approaches to generating research data are being…


Leon Dratzidis and Lisa Hesselbarth at Mensch und Computer 2024

At Mensch und Computer (MuC) 2024, we were successfully represented with two workshop papers in the Tangible Interaction workshop! Our PhD students Lisa Hesselbarth and Leon Dratzidis shared their research results in the areas of touchless smartphone interaction in kitchen environments and creative…