@florianbe.bsky.social
PostDoc in HCI at LMU Munich (SODA) Working against societal issues of our information technology's interaction design. Translating social sciences findings into value-sensitive HCI. https://www.stat.lmu.de/soda/en/team/contact-page/contact-page_8576.html
We conducted a barcamp session on motivation - because it is essential to motivate our students to learn the basics without AI tools. Only thereby they can gather an understanding of the fundamentals. Having learnt the basics, we then need to teach how to make use of AI tools efficiently.
Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the TEACH 5 conference at Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy in beautiful Berlin. We exchanged about educational projects, and discussed which role AI plays in teaching and how we need to adapt - both regarding teaching with and about AI.
Also, the first workshop on the Societal Effects of AI in mobile social media that we conducted yielded interesting discussions and ideas. A definitely relevant topic that we will pursue further.
Privacy improvements still proliferate only slowly. In a world where digital privacy increases in relevance, our work is important as it underlines which aspects users are especially afraid of and what needs to change from their perspective.
I am thankful that our paper "European Users' In-Depth Privacy Concerns with Smartphone Data Collection" received an honourable mention award - a great team effort with my coauthors @maximilianewindl.bsky.social , Tobias Knochbloch, and @svenmayer.bsky.social !
Once again, it was great to join @mobilehci.bsky.social ! The first time in Egypt was definitely a special and very interesting one.
By evaluating the placeholder text of a textfield, we derive the user's input intention. This allows to distinguish between private contents, public posts, or functional inputs such as search queries. Researchers who study typed language on smartphones can thereby obtain higher quality data.
To get the most out of our research data, we need to regard it in the context of the data-donating participant's situation and action. In our short paper "Contextualizing Smartphone-Typed Language with User Input Intention," we propose a method to improve our understanding of mobile typing behavior.
Deadline extension for our workshop on the Societal Effects of AI in Mobile Social Media, taking place at @mobilehci.bsky.social !
Submit your ideas or preliminary research by the 6th of July, and come to design with us the future of AI in social media platforms.
www.hcilab.org/aiandsociety...
Doruntina Murtezaj and I propose some HCI directions in our workshop paper ➡️ doi.org/10.48550/arX...
How can we redesign the interaction concepts in 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 to mitigate negative 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀? I'm happy to attend #CHI2025 to discuss this during the conference.
Whether you're at CHI or not - feel free to reach out if you are interested in having a chat! 🗯️
After becoming a Doctor of Computer Science recently, @florianbe.bsky.social is off to new endeavors in research. Connecting communication science and human-computer interaction to foster social impact in a world where trust in general information, news, and journalism might be at its lowest.
In the summer of 2024, I finally handed in my dissertation incorporating 5 years of research on privacy in human-computer interaction – let's be honest, nobody will ever read all of this.
That's why I have now summarized 5 key takeaways in an article:
drflo.de/uncategorize...
However, a discussion about industry experiences of our students showed that (web) developers are and will still be needed. They reported on an increased debugging demand in the code of colleagues who heavily rely on LLM-based tools, and difficulties with the integration in larger infrastructures.
LLM-based support tools, such as @cursor.com.web.brid.gy and Github Copilot, do a great job supporting web developers in their work. Development proceeds faster and feels more satisfying, according to research at our lab that was led by Thomas Weber and @svenmayer.bsky.social.
We had an interesting discussion today in the Online Multimedia lecture, that I give together with Florian Alt at @mimuc.bsky.social . Are we as web developers, and the course that we teach, becoming superfluous with the rise of LLM tools?
Die LMU Medieninformatik lädt zu ihrem Tag der offenen Tür ein! Am 3. Februar von 18:00 bis 21:30 können Interessierte aus Forschung und Industrie, Studierende und Studieninteressierte, sowie Familie und Freunde bei uns vorbeikommen.
