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The MOTIV team was invited by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (short: bidt) for an interview on the topic of trust, knowledge and potentials on voice assistants

Artificial intelligence is increasingly shaping our everyday lives. How intelligent voice assistants and chatbots can influence us was presented and discussed by MOTIV's interdisciplinary project team at the Bavarian international AI congress "AI.BAY" on February 23, 2023 at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

The Winter EXPO 2023 for MCS and HCI was a great success! We thank all the contributors and guests for participating.

Together with State Secretary Lilian Tschan from the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the AIL at Work project informs about the research aims and shows the topic’s relevance in the video clip.

Carolin Wienrich, Marc Latoschik, and Andreas Hotho visited the Bavarian Digital Summit.

After two years of completely digital conferences, the largest conference series of human-computer interaction in Europe, "Mensch und Computer 2022", took place in presence for the first time again. The Psychology of Intelligent Interactive Systems Group was was represented in Darmstadt with contributions on various topics.

On October 19, 2022, Prof. Latoschik and Prof. Wienrich will speak at "Würzbürger Impulse: Künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik in der Medizin"

The Summer EXPO 2022 for MCS/HCI, MK and GE was a great success! We thank all the contributors and guests for participating.

Are you interested in Games, Virtual Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, and Science? Then this will be the right event for you!

Participants collaborated to explore crucial dimensions in user-centered AI-design, focusing on the trustworthiness, perceived safety, and overall appeal of (non-)humanoid AI-representations in virtual reality (VR).

Die ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (kurz „CHI“) fand nach mehreren online-only Durchgängen in diesem Jahr hybrid statt. Die CHI-Konferenz gilt als die größte Konferenz im Bereich der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion und die Uni Würzburg war mit drei Fachbereichen vertreten: PIIS, HCI und PsyErgo stellten Vorträge online und vor Ort vor. Nina Döllinger stellte ihre Arbeit zur Körperwahrnehmung in virtuellen Avataren vor.

Wir suchen Teilnehmer:innen für die ViTraS-Pilotstudie an der Universität Würzburg.

The IEEE VR took place virtually March, 12.-16. 2022. The HCI and PIIS Groups presented one journal paper, one conference paper and two posters. We are very honored to have been nominated for the Best Paper Award for “Breaking Plausibility Without Breaking Presence - Evidence for the Multi-Layer Nature of Plausibility”.

In cooperation with the think tank Digitale Arbeitsgesellschaft of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, a first holistic model for describing and predicting AI literacy was published.