We welcome Martin Feick as a new team member and postdoctoral researcher at the human-centered systems lab of Prof. Mädche at KIT.

Martin holds a Master and Bachelor of Sciences in Applied Computer Science from HTW Saar. He worked on his PhD in the field of Human-Computer Interaction at the Ubiquitous Media Technology Lab (UMTL) at Saarland University, and he was a researcher in the Cognitive Assistants Department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Germany. [...] His research explores how we can create immersive technology that seamlessly blends into our everyday lives, focusing on extended reality, interactive and adaptive systems. 

We welcome Anna Sommer as a new team member and doctoral student researcher at the human-centered systems lab of Prof. Mädche at KIT.    

Anna holds a B.Sc. degree in cognitive science and M.Sc. degree in cognitive computing from University of Osnabrück. She worked three years as software developer in the field of voicebots and chatbots. She will dedicate her research on generative AI-based assistants in the context of Enterprise Systems.  Her doctoral project is funded by SAP SE and is located in the area of ​​SAP Sustainability. 

Successful PhD defense by Julia Seitz Julia Seitz successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Decoding the Impact of Video Meeting Systems on Users with Biosignals: Experimental Studies and Adaptive Interventions“ on December 5th 2024. The thesis project was carried out as part of the KD2School ( https://kd2school.info/ )

The KD2School Adaptive Systems Talks are an open-to-the-public Christmas event hosted by the KD2School. This year’s topic is:

Biosignals to Bytes – Human Cognition Meets AI Evolution

Featuring talks from Prof. Kopp (University of Bielefeld), Prof. Wilson (University of Nottingham), and Dr. Debus (KIT), a panel discussion, poster slam, and interactive demonstrations.

We’d like to invite researchers, students, and everyone else who is interested to an engaging and thought-provoking evening in the cozy atmosphere of TRIANGEL Open Space (Kaiserstr. 93, Karlsruhe) on December 2, 2024, from 17:00 to 22:00.

The paper co-authored by Julia Seitz, Ivo Benke, and Alexander Maedche is published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction and willl be presented at CSCW 2024 in Costa Rica between November 9-13 2024.  In their experimental study, the authors analyzed the ambivalent nature of the self-view - a mirrored image of oneself in the video call using self-report and eye-tracking data.  Their findings reveal the impact of having a self-image present versus an absent self-image on the user's cognitive load and control. The authors provide an in-depth analysis of gaze patterns on the self-view and  highlight three distinct user groups that differ in their interaction with the self-view and its impact on the user group. These findings form the basis for pathways of adaptive self-view designs, proposed in the paper’s discussion.

On November 5, 2024, Prof. Dr. Gernot Müller-Putz gave a lecture entitled "Electroencephalography - A universal tool for neuroscientific research" as part of the Decision & Design Speaker Series. In his talk, he gave an insight into the impressive progress in the field of brain-computer interface research in the recent years. The Design & Design Speaker Series is offered as part of the KIT Future Field III project " Decision-Making in Hybrid Adaptive Systems for Better Work and Life - An Open Science Approach " in close cooperation with the DFG-funded Graduate School KD2School.

New Job Opportunity: Working Student Position in Collaborative Research Project with EnBW AG Additionally, you will have the opportunity to develop and optimize dashboards for data visualization and analysis.

The information system students Daniel Hotze, Hannah Heimpel, Levente Mihalyi, and received an IS scholarship funded by Schwarz IT. The scholarship is awarded by the non-profit association " Die Wirtschaftsinformatik e.V. " and serves to promote young people in the field of IS. For the 2024/25 period, three IS scholarships were funded by Schwarz IT KG at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) supporting students of the Information Systems program.

We welcome Chiara Krisam as a new team member and doctoral student researcher at the human-centered systems lab of Prof. Mädche at KIT.  Chiara will join the interdisciplinary PhD program provided by the DFG-funded graduate school KD2School. 

Chiara holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Information Systems from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and wrote her master's thesis on cognitive load-adaptive microbreak interventions in video meeting systems.

Tenure-Track-Professorship (W1) “Information Systems II - Digital Energy Markets” The Tenure-Track-Professorship focuses on the socio-technical understanding and designing of digital energy markets using empirical and design-oriented research methods. [...]information is available here: https://www.pse.kit.edu/english/karriere/joboffer.php?id=164445

Successful PhD defense by Jonas Gunklach Jonas Gunklach successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Guidance for the Effective Use of Business Intelligence and Analytics Systems“ on September 26th 2024.

Prompt engineering is about providing instructions that can be processed by a generative AI model. The WeLearnAI tutor provides a simple and interactive way to help people without the relevant technical background. The world of prompting is introduced not only in an educational but also entertaining way in a playful manner.