Sven Mayer

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Reinforcement learning for interactive systems. Sven Mayer started with an overview (eg Atari, AlphaGo). Highlighting challenges, he walked us through a pong example. Good discussions on reward predictions and credit assignment problem in real applications
#winterschool2026 @svenmayer.bsky.social

🎓✨ A big step for TU Dortmund’s Faculty of Computer Science and the RC Trust!
Professor Sven Mayer explored how AI can understand people, anticipate needs, and act responsibly – shaping a human-centered digital future. 💡🧠

#AI #HumanAIInteraction #Innovation #TrustworthyTech

🚀 Apply now for the RC Trust Internship Program 2026!
Funded research stays in trustworthy AI, international teams & close mentoring.

📅 Deadline: Dec 31, 2025
👉 rc-trust.ai/career/internship-program

Is this your next step? ✨

#Internship #AI #Research

Applications for ACM TOCHI Distinguished Reviewer Board This form is for nominating yourself to the Distinguished Reviewer Board of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI, https://tochi.acm.org/). The work of distinguished reviewers helps en...

ACM TOCHI is creating a Distinguished Reviewer Board, we hope that you will apply to help us improve the papers we curate. You will get training in reviewing, experience with high-quality papers, and a bit of recognition. Apply at forms.gle/BWUbgHBddiro.... Please RT or DM to interested folks.

Attend a great talk by Elizabeth Tipton titled “Developing Trustworthy Evidence: From Science to Policymaking,” highlighting how we need to conduct good generalizable research but also to conduct practical and meaningful research that can help others making decisions. @rctrust.bsky.social

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

I am offering a fully funded PhD position for Physiological-AI Interaction (100% TVL-13) at the @rctrust.bsky.social and @tu-dortmund.bsky.social. More info: sven-mayer.com/2025/07/09/h... #hiring #job #joboffer #phd #research #hci #humanAiIInteracion #AI #PhysiologicalComputing #Biofeedback

Many thanks to Philipp Wicke for his exciting talk about the "Understanding of Non-Verbal Behavior by Multimodal AI Systems" and @svenmayer.bsky.social @rctrust.bsky.social @tu-dortmund.bsky.social for the excellent respondence and discussion.

Yesterday, we had the university-wide summer festival at the campus of @tu-dortmund.bsky.social. It was fantastic to see so many students stepping out of their research bubbles to present their work to a broad and curious audience, from racing cars to chemistry insights. @rctrust.bsky.social

We're hiring! I'm looking to fill a PhD position in Human-AI Interaction in the @rctrust.bsky.social at the @tu-dortmund.bsky.social – exploring how humans and AI interact, adapt, & collaborate. see sven-mayer.com/2025/06/30/h...
#hiring #job #joboffer #phd #research #hci #humanAiIInteracion #AI

@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

Matthias Schmidmaier presented his work on Empathic AI and how to support users. With his PETS scale (perceived-empathy-of-technology-scale.com) he now investigates how to improve the empathy of LLM-based conversational agents by understanding and proactively reacting to the user states.

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.

Today Khanh Huynh presented her vision of her PhD – a Multimodal LLM-bases conversational passenger that understand the driver and can support driving and non-driving relates activities in the car. I’m looking forward to see where her vision takes her in the next 3 years. @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

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

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.

Reflecting on 20 years of #MobileHCI papers: How has the community evolved? My blog post examines submission trends, global collaborations, and the challenges shaping MobileHCI.
Read more sven-mayer.com/2025/01/12/2...
#HCI #AcademicResearch @mobilehci.bsky.social @acm-sigchi.bsky.social @acm.org

Start 2025 with MobileHCI 2025 submission deadlines in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (Sept 8-11).

📅 First Deadlines (AoE):

Full Papers: January 30, 2025 (Abstract)
Workshops: March 15, 2025
Tutorials, Demos, LBW, DC, Panels: June 12, 2025
Submit: MobileHCI 2025 CFP

Wishing you an innovative 2025! 🎉

🌟 MobileHCI 2025 Submissions Open! 📱🚀
The PCS system is now live—submit your innovative work in Mobile HCI!

📅 Deadline: January 30, 2025

Let’s shape the future of mobile interaction together! 💡✨

#MobileHCI2025 #HCI @acm.org

#MUM24 in Stockholm was a great success! On Sunday we hosted a Workshop (physiohci.com/mum24ws/), Francesco Chiossi presented our paper (doi.org/10.1145/3701...), and @reganmandryk.bsky.social and @carlheath.se gave great keynotes. @mimuc.bsky.social