Congratulations to Dr. Maximiliane Windl for defending her PhD work on privacy for smart environments - an impressive body of work- well done. And thanks to the committee for reading and questioning M. Angela Sasse Florian Schaub Florian Alt @mimuc.bsky.social

Thomas Wortmann starts of the DFG @sfbtrr161.bsky.social status seminar with his inspiring keynote on “AI for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction”. I couldn’t resist to ask the question if we could take people and their experiences while in buildings as signals for optimisation?

ACM MobileHCI is for the first time in Africa! Theme: dive into mobileAI. Research is international and mobile technologies are used globally but in very different ways. What an opportunity to discuss perspective and sharing insights. 40 papers and a lot more content to see. #dAIve #mobileHCI2025

The future will be fine! a day at #mobileHCI2025 with young researchers boosted my optimism. Presentations and intense discussions on science, research, and life at the doctoral colloquium re-ensured me that the next generation is amazing and will bring us forward. @mobilehci.bsky.social

Final preparations are on the way for #mobileHCI2025 in Sharm El Sheikh! @svenmayer.bsky.social

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Simone Stumpf presenting the opening keynote on “Engineering responsible AI” at ACM EICS2025 - in an absolutely beautiful setting in Trier. She argues that we need methods along the entire lived cycle and systematically adapt engineering methods. eics.acm.org/2025/

SpaceCHI 2025 is starting at the Astronaut training center in Cologne - another week another conference:) spacechi.media.mit.edu

Exited to get resources to push the boundaries of human-centred AI and to enable truly personal AI-models. very thankful that the EU has the ERC funding instrument for basic research! Also looking forward to creating an interdisciplinary team www.ai-twin.eu (sign up on the page for more information)

So amazed to get the chance to do my dream research on Human-AI interaction supported by @erc.europa.eu - check out www.ai-twin.eu - how can we create AI models that encode our very personal experiences and how to use them to amplify our cognitive abilities?

CfP for the upcoming workshop: *The Role of Design in the Future of Human-AI Interaction* at Aarhus 2025.

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Janin Koch, Wendy Mackay, Albrecht Schmidt

@bidt.bsky.social Kick-off at BIDT for a new set of projects on Human-ai co-creation. In our project we look into democratization of software development by co-creation of spezifications as intermediate representations for software. Thomas Weber, @svenmayer.bsky.social @mimuc.bsky.social

Next year‘s PreCHI will be in Munich at LMU. #PreCHI2026

German PreCHI 2025 is starting! Looking forward to get a preview of lots of papers others will see in Yokahama … #CHI2025

Arrived in Sardinia for IUI2025… what a beautiful island - stunning drive from Olbia to Cagliari and morning stroll at the coast - already good discussions over breakfast 🙂 looking forward to a lot of inspiration over the week with the latest in intelligent interactive system! @mimuc.bsky.social

The LMU media informatics doctoral colloquium comes to an end with lots of inspirations and new ideas to go forward! Thanks to DFKI for hosting us. Discussing in depth with our researchers always makes me optimistic about the future - with regard to science and society :) @mimuc.bsky.social

Visual impairment is very common - and with an aging society challenges are increase and there is still very little research. Jesse Grootjen summarizes his PhD research (which he currently writes up:) on how to detect and mitigate some of these issues. @mimuc.bsky.social

How are we transferring ideas, concepts and knowledge between people? Clara Sayffaerth shared ideas of how we can rethink learning and teaching. Excited about a new experiment were we use an life-like avatar to see the impact on learners

Thomas Weber shared the ideas of a new project we started on the use of generative AI to create software with interactive and human readable specifications. What will software be in the future - developed or just in time created? Who will build software?more questions than answers…

We live in a hybrid world - the digital and physical are intertwined. How can we create a positive user experiences in a hybrid world, how to design technologies for this? Sophia Sakel put more questions in this space forward and shared answers from her research. @mimuc.bsky.social

Julian Rasch in the final stretch of his PhD on communication, collaboration and intentions in XR. @mimuc.bsky.social

Francesco Chiossi is presenting ideas for a new take on the Midas Touch problem in XR. Looking at different aspects of the EEG signal there is hope to get the anticipation of an action. @mimuc.bsky.social

Bettina Eska is working on supporting motor learning and reflection on motor activity. The focus is on learning and improving sports and anchored in motor learning theories (and hopefully applicable beyond sports). @mimuc.bsky.social

Florian Lang shares research on accessibility for people with visual impairment for VR and AR. Not obvious and pretty difficult to give a broad range of people access to XR even with limited vision. @mimuc.bsky.social

Henrike Weingärtner is discussing her idea of how to shape the topic „digital legacies after death“ for her thesis. There are so many interesting questions and challenges! The focus is on what a „will“ constitutes in a digital space. @mimuc.bsky.social

Kathrin Schnizer sharing her first experiment designs for combining gaze and EEG to predict understanding of visualizations as part of the DFG @SfbTrr161 - interesting discussions on what is the minimal valid experiment and how ML allows us to move beyond P300 … @mimuc

Maximiliane Windl - who is writing up - presenting her ideas for an overarching human centered privacy and security framework at the our spring doctoral colloquium in Saarbrücken @MaxiWindl @mimuc

Antonio Krüger’s Keynote „Towards Environmental-Aware and Trustworthy AI“ at our doctoral colloquium we do in Saarbrücken at &DFKI (German research center for AI). Seeing research at DFKI is amazing. Interesting aspect of trust - of humans in AI but also between machines @mimuc

AI-Hub@LMU grand opening tonight! Started with a first “the good in the große Aula” became animinated with AI! Thanks to Gitta Kutyniok Frauke Kreuter and Eyke Hüllermeier for initiating this!@mimuc @LMU_Muenchen @GittaKutyniok @fraukolos @eyke_hu

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