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As part of the Dialogue Day of the KIT-Department of Economics and Management on July 17th 2024, Dr. Merlin Knäble, a former member of the human-centered systems lab, received the science prize 2023 in informatics of the KIT-Department  Economics and Management for his dissertation titled "Overcoming Barriers with Self-Determination: Interactive Labeling Systems in Accessibility". With his dissertation he contributes to the fields of human-computer interaction and information systems by providing a comprehensive understanding of the design of interactive labeling systems, the role of self-determination, and their application in accessibility.

From September 23rd-25th, the research groups of Prof. Mädche and Prof. Weinhardt invite for the ABBA Summer School Seminar at the KD²Lab. The summer school seminar is offered as part of the ABBA project. In this seminar, we give students the opportunity to leverage biosignal sensor and GenAI technologies for designing advanced biosignal-adaptive GenAI systems. This three-day program is designed for both bachelor’s and master's students. 

Enterprise Systems building on enterprise resource planning (ERP) packaged software such as SAP S/4HANA are information systems that target large‐scale integration of business processes and data across a company’s functional areas. The new B.Sc. elective lecture "Enterprise Systems for Financial Accounting & Controlling" introduces fundamental business processes and concepts in finance and controlling and explains how these processes are implemented in packaged ERP software such as SAP S/4HANA.  Students learn the basic and most important terms and master data structures in the SAP FI/CO module.

As part of the bachelor lecture "Foundations of Interactive Systems" of the human-centered systems lab, students presented the results of their Capstone Project on July 16th, 2024. Throughout the semester, students worked in teams on the Capstone Project, which allows students to apply the theoretical knowledge learned in the lecture to a real-world use case.

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

Bella holds a Master of Science degree in User Experience from HEC Montréal in Canada. She conducted her thesis at the Tech3Lab, where she used neurophysiological tools (EEG and eye tracking) to create a neuro-adaptive interface, based on information overload in online shopping.

Last week we had the pleasure to visit the EnBW headquarter and attend to the final presentations of this year’s Designing Interactive Systems: Human-AI interaction (DIS) capstone project. The project was conducted as part of the DIS master lecture offered by Prof. Mädche and Julia Seitz and carried out in cooperation with EnBW.  

We want to thank all students and our partners from EnBW involved in this exciting project! 

In this study we are examining how a smartwatch app that we developed can help people recognize their emotions better and thus increase their emotional competence. The app automatically adapts the watch face based on emotion recognition. The only condition for participation is that you own a smartwatch and already use it in everyday life, or you are experienced with smartwatches.

The LLM-based Social Robot prototype building on Furhat Robotics developed in a joint project between the h-lab and NIM e.V. was presented at the KI Festival in Heilbronn . The KI Festival took place last weekend (June 29th – 30th 2024). The KI Festival supports all those interested in technology to experience artificial intelligence.

The Real:Labor Festival from July 2nd – 6th 2024 addresses the question of how citizen participation can be successfully implemented to change city life. A broad spectrum of topics is discussed, ranging from Robotics in nursing, autonomous driving to accessibility and inclusion. As part of the Real:Labor festival Adrian Wegener from the human-centered systems lab will give a talk in the Brain Bites series focusing on digital accessibility.

This week representatives from the cognitive systems engineering lab (Prof. Taro KANNO) of the University of Tokyo visited the human-centered systems lab (h-lab) at KIT. In a joint workshop we presented and discussed running research projects and new research opportunities in the fields of meeting engineering and biosignal-adaptive video meeting systems.

AI assistants such as ChatGPT make our everyday lives much easier by taking over many tasks for us. However, we often tend to rely too much on the results generated without developing a deeper understanding of the potential issues. Current research is investigating how people can be supported in using AI assistants while still maintaining an in-depth understanding. In this workshop, we will focus on the development of a ChatGPT-based reading assistant.

We are thrilled to have received the Best Short Paper Award Second Runner Up at the 32nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) in Cyprus.  The paper "Robot Shopping Assistants: How Emotional Versus Rational Robot Designs Affect Consumer Trust and Purchase Decisions" by Ulrich Gnewuch (University of Passau), Leon Hanschmann (KIT), Carolin Kaiser (NIM e.V.), Rene Schallner (NIM e.V.), and Alexander Maedche (KIT) describes preliminary results of a research project investigating how an emotional (vs. rational) robot design influences consumers’ trust and purchase decisions.