Jan Gugenheimer run a session on “Cognitive Augmentation and Manipulation” looking at different way LLMs and genAI in combination with AR/WR push the frontiers of descriptive designs … including a black mirror writing exercise :)
Can you run meaningful AI stuff on a ESP32? LMM on a raspberry pi? PI AI hat+ or Jetson Nano? Philipp Thalhammer and Boris Kegeles showed some devices and hardware (with demos :) and we got to do a hands on exercise… for the source code see github.com/Phlipinator/... #winterschool2026
What do you expect from your supervisor? What is a success PhD? What do I as supervisor expect from my students? When is a PhD ready? We collected, discussed, consolidated in groups and looked to identify potential mismatches, alignments, and conflicts. So many interesting point #winterschool2026
Jan Leusmann kicked off the second part of #winterschool. Jasmin Niess discussed how we can engage with theory and advance the HCI foundations. What is theory-based research in HCI? It is really important to reflect that HCI has a plurality of approaches in theory research. #winterschool2026
Mentoring is essential to academic live! Jasmin Niess is running our #winterschool2026 mentoring session - especially focusing on how we find mentors, can you benefit from mentoring and how you can be a good mentor. Mentoring newer stops… you never grow out of needing a mentor
Next session by Maximiliane Windl and Jan Leusmann on coding and creating scripts for data analysis with GenAI. Some tools (github.com/copilot, cursor.com, windsurf.com, antigravity.google, ChatGPT) and a fun group session. My take away is that empirical research will change massively in the future.
How can you improve your experiment design with AI? Fiona Draxler gave us examples how to get started with using AI methods and experimental designs and mad us reflect with some exercise (see pictures).
Marco Gutfleisch showed us his work on“Systematically Sourcing Grey Literature with GenAI and Modern Search Engines”. Very interesting links and insights of using search engine APIs and combining them with other AI tools. Some links tlooto.com www.tavily.com consensus.app
Matthias Schmidmaier started the day at #Winterschool2026 off with “Realtime Interaction with Intelligent Agents in User Research”. Was interesting to see how to implement a conversational agend with current AI tools. Lots on discussion on implications of using conversational agends in HCI research.
Pascal Knierim shared his research on VR training for Avalanche Rescue Training - what a fitting topic for the first night of the Winterschool. Good discussions on how to validate the VR learning success. See Pascal’s paper at ISMAR doi: 10.1109/ISMAR67309.2025.00139.
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
Our winterschool 2026 started with a session on “Writing Research Papers with LLM” focusing on improving abstracts. Looked at how using LLMs to work with structured abstracts; how we would design a tool for Human-AI co-writing of high quality abstracts. Always fun to teach with @svenmayer.bsky.soc
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
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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
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...
Kicking off IS-EUD in Munich with Lebkuchen and a lot of food for thought. 🙌🤓 #ISEUD2025 @is-eud-conf.bsky.social @mimuc.bsky.social
@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.
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?
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
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
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
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
Julian Rasch in the final stretch of his PhD on communication, collaboration and intentions in XR. @mimuc.bsky.social
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
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
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
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.
