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Human-Centered Computing

Schaufenster

Within the Schaufenster format, we offer short and easily understandable insights into our current work. Just as the title Schaufenster, i.e. window front or showcase, implies, we do not aim at a representative or complete documentation of our current research and teaching activities. Instead, we select highlights and examples that help to convey core aspects of our research interests as well as touch on current topics that might not yet be ready to be published in an academic paper. In the »Schaufenster«, we publish, for example, short interviews with the researchers of the HCC Research Group, documentations of selected and outstanding student projects, shorter articles that showcase work-in progress or insights into ongoing PhD projects.

Insights

A Journey of Learning, Resilience, and Contribution - Conducting a PhD in Germany

Mariam conducted her research as a DAAD scholarship holder at the Human-Centered Computing Research Group. Her work focuses on data diversity and automation in Wikidata.

Image Credit: Mariam Farda-Sarbas

Responsibility and AI: Ulrike Schäfer on Human-Centered Data Science

A Blog post by Ulrike Schäfer. Ulrike is a doctoral researcher at the HCC Research Group. Her work focuses on Human-Centered Data Science, Explainable AI and Human-AI Collaboration. Ulrike's work is part of the project »ENKIS«.

Image Credit: Ulrike Schäfer

Taking a Human-Centered Approach to Medical Informatics

Interview with Dr. Mario A. Cypko by Katrin Glinka. Dr. Mario A. Cypko is a postdoctoral researcher at the HCC Research Group. His work focuses on the future of robotic-assisted surgery. Mario's work is part of the project »Filtering« at the cluster of excellence »Matters of Activity« (MoA).

Image Credit: Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Donate mobility data? Sure, but safe!

Interview with Dr. Daniel Franzen by Katrin Glinka. Dr. Daniel Franzen is a research associate and is conducting research in the FreeMove project on enabling privacy-preserving donation of mobility data.

Image Credit: Katrin Glinka

Interdisciplinary perspectives at the HCC

Interview with David Leimstädtner by Katrin Glinka. David is a research associate in the project WerteRadar that explores sovereign data donation. In this interview he shares his view on interdisciplinary perspectives at HCC.

Image Credit: Mario Cypko

Spotlight

Coding IxD 2024 - Expanding:THE BODY: Selected Student Projects

For this year's software project, "Coding IxD,” students in computer science and product design embraced the diversity of human body data to create novel interaction design concepts.

Image Credit: Peter Sörries

Coding IxD 2023 - Let's get PHYSICAL: Selected Student Projects

In this year's software project, "Coding IxD," we tackled several challenges under the topic "data physicalizations". In the following, we present two selected student projects, which shared their visions on the topic.

Image Credit: Hanna Wegener, Maya Giri, Philip Stricker, Jaspar Neukirch, Henry el Bahnasawy, Marvin Hagemeister

Coding IxD 2022 - Selected Student Projects

In the following, we present two selected student projects and their vision on how to enable individual sovereignty through so-called "neo-analogue artifacts," i.e., products that represent a synthesis of the virtual and the material in form and function.

Image Credit: Judith Glaser

Coding Openness - Recap

As part of the course "Coding Openness", students temporarily joined established teams of open source software projects and contributed to their development efforts.

Case Studies

Object-Centered Museum Mediation: Augmenting Viktoria

What if you could walk through a museum and learn more about the exhibited objects just by looking at them? How would that work in different modes of guidance? And what if we could merge the museum object with digital content such as augmentations? This case study takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore these questions and integrates HCI research with museum mediation.

Image Credit: Katrin Glinka / CC BY-SA 4.0