Meldungen

On 22 January, members of the HCI group visited the 6th grade of the Marktheidenfeld Gymnasium to give a workshop. Using virtual reality goggles, they experienced how distressing it can be to experience insults and threats, and what can be done about it.

We welcomed pupils to the university-wide Studien-Info-Tag, where prospective students had the opportunity to join our lab tor entitled "AI, Metaverse and User Experience: Understanding and Designing Digital Worlds in the Human-Computer Interaction degree program".

The Winter EXPO 2023/24 for MCS/HCI was a great success! Thank you to all those involved and to all visitors!

Save-the-date: The winter Expo will take place on the 9th February!

The Ail at Work Team presents the META AI LITERACY SCALE. You can try it out yourself!

Prof. Carolin Wienrich informed the German Ethics Council about the psychological implications of the "metaverse". She then took part in a panel discussion with other experts.

Prof. Carolin Wienrich gave a keynote speech on the potential and challenges of the metaverse at the Federal Data Protection Commissioner's Autumn Forum.

On November 14th, 2023 the XR Hub will be presenting at this online event

The HCI and the PIIS Group hosted three demo sessions on the 17th, 18th and 20th of October. We welcomed international visitors from University of Bergen (Norway), the University of Valle (Colombia), and visitors from the 'Arbeitskreis A der Deutschen Rentenversicherung' (Germany).

The HCI Chair and PIIS working group had the pleasure of hosting Bernd Rützel, Volkmar Halbleib, and Alexander Kolbow.

Anthony Steed and Stefan Kopp explored HCI and PIIS research projects.

Both groups can now be found in the Emil-Fischer-Straße 50 in Hubland North.

During the KI-Studios project launch at the Fraunhofer IAO in Munich, the AIL AT WORK team demonstrated how AI can be leveraged in the context of different workplaces.

The Summer EXPO 2023 for MCS/HCI, MK and GE was a great success! A large number of visitors were able to experience up to 120 different demos and projects.