- Wonderful week at CHI 2026 in Barcelona
I arrived back home safe and sound after an amazing week at the ACM CHI Conference 2026 in Barcelona. Thanks to Nuria, David, and their fantastic team for all their hard work. During the week, I reconnected with old friends and colleagues, met some incredible new people in the CHI family, and listened to brandnew… Read more: Wonderful week at CHI 2026 in Barcelona - General Co-Chair of MuC 2026
The “Mensch und Computer” (MuC) conference, launched in 2001, is the largest conference series on human-computer interaction in Europe. MuC offers participants from science and industry a platform for contributions and discussions on innovative forms of interaction between people and digital technology, on human-centered development methods, interactive applications, and other topics in the field between users, teams… Read more: General Co-Chair of MuC 2026 - Best Demo Award at MUM ’25 in Enna, Italy!
We are thrilled to share our full paper, “The Proactive Gap: A Scoping Review of Publicly Available LLM-based Browser Extensions and Their Potential to Mitigate Information Disorder” by authors Kirill Kronhardt, Martin Johannes Lehnert, Max Pascher and Jens Gerken. Our scoping review identifies the need for a fundamental shift toward context-aware, proactive interventions for information… Read more: Best Demo Award at MUM ’25 in Enna, Italy! - ihri group at Mensch und Computer 2025
We attended the Mensch und Computer conference 2025 held at TU Chemnitz this year. Coincidentally, it was MuC’s 25th birthday and there were celebrations!Max Pascher (TU Dortmund) and Jens Gerken (TU Dortmund) along with Giuseppe Sanseverino (TU Chemnitz) and Lewis Chuang (TU Chemnitz) organized the Teleoperation Redefined: Exploring Wearable Interfaces for Natural Interaction (link) workshop… Read more: ihri group at Mensch und Computer 2025 - Young Academy funding
People with severe physical disabilities often require assistance with daily activities. Robotic arms in the form of assistance robots can help them perform tasks such as eating and drinking, thereby promoting their independence and participation in society. However, controlling such systems remains challenging: conventional user interfaces are often not barrier-free, especially when multiple degrees of… Read more: Young Academy funding - New UA Ruhr Committee Strengthens Careers in Science
The University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr) is setting a further example for the support of researchers in early career phases with the establishment of an Early Career Researchers Board (ECR Board for short). The joint committee of Ruhr University Bochum, TU Dortmund University and the University of Duisburg-Essen strengthens the perspective of researchers in early… Read more: New UA Ruhr Committee Strengthens Careers in Science - Half Day Workshop at CHIWORK in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Max Pascher co-organized a workshop along with the others at CHIWORK conference held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands between June 23-25, 2025. The workshop “The Future of Human-Robot Synergy in Interactive Environments: The Role of Robots at the Workplace” (link) was in the context of human-robot collaboration at the workplace and to explore opportunities between human… Read more: Half Day Workshop at CHIWORK in Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Examining Hybrid Collaboration in Everyday Working Life
Working from home today, in the office tomorrow and on the train the day after that: For many people, hybrid working has become a matter of course. A new project led by Professor Frauke Mörike and Professor Jens Gerken from the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences explores how hybrid collaboration can be designed in such a… Read more: Examining Hybrid Collaboration in Everyday Working Life