LMU Media Informatics Group

Matthias Tschöp highlights in his inaugural address at the @lmumuenchen.bsky.social the importance of science - of all sciences. research needs freedom! scientists need space for exploration and curiosity - without knowing the applications. Excellent research is hard work.

Tutorial on system promp engineering by Christopher Lazik and Yannick Weiß at #Winterschool2026. A hands on session using LM Studio and “playing against each other” - fun group work, high motivation and interesting insights (see images for details)

Jan Gugenheimer run a session on “Cognitive Augmentation and Manipulation” looking at different way LLMs and genAI in combination with AR/WR push the frontiers of descriptive designs … including a black mirror writing exercise :)

Mentoring is essential to academic live! @jasmin_niess is running our #winterschool2026 mentoring session - especially focusing on how we find mentors, can you benefit from mentoring and how you can be a good mentor. Mentoring newer stops… you never grow out of needing a mentor

Jan Leusmann kicked off the second part of #winterschool2026. @jasmin_niess discussed how we can engage with theory and advance the HCI foundations. What is theory-based research in HCI? It is really important to reflect that HCI has a plurality of approaches in theory research.

What do you expect from your supervisor? What is a success PhD? What do I as supervisor expect? When is a PhD ready? We collected, discussed, consolidated in groups and looked to identify potential mismatches, alignments, and conflicts. So many interesting point #winterschool2026

Next session by Maximiliane Windl and Jan Leusmann on coding and creating scripts for data analysis with GenAI. fun group session. My take away is that empirical research will change massively in the future. #winterschool2026

How can you improve your experiment design with AI? Fiona Draxler gave us examples how to get started with using AI methods and experimental designs and mad us reflect with some exercise (see pictures). @fionadraxler

Marco Gutfleisch showed us his work on“Systematically Sourcing Grey Literature with GenAI and Modern Search Engines”. interesting links/insights on search engine APIs and combining with AI tools. Some links tlooto.com tavily.com consensus.app

Matthias Schmidmaier started the day at #Winterschool2026 off with “Realtime Interaction with Intelligent Agents in User Research”. interesting to see how to implement a conversational agend with AI tools. discussion on implications of using conversational agends in HCI research.

Our winterschool 2026 started with a session on “Writing Research Papers with LLM” on improving abstracts. Looked at using LLMs to work with structured abstracts; how we would design a tool for Human-AI co-writing of high quality abstracts. Always fun to teach with @svenmayerhci

Pascal Knierim shared his research on VR training for Avalanche Rescue Training - what a fitting topic for the first night of the Winterschool. Good discussions on how to validate the VR learning success. See Pascal’s paper at ISMAR doi: 10.1109/ISMAR67309.2025.00139.

Apply to the 13th #HeidelbergLaureateForum #HLF by Feb 11, 2026. Spend a week (Sept 13–18), 2026 with Turing Award, Fields Medal, Abel Prize & ACM Prize in Computing laureates — and an outstanding young researchers. …ication.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/site/index.php #PhDLife #Postdoc

Final preparations are on the way for #mobileHCI2025 in Sharm El Sheikh! @svenmayerhci

Tomorrow, we will host the 18th Be-Greifbare Interaktionen Workshop at #MuC2025 🎊 And on Tuesday, I’ll present our paper “Let the Door Handle It: Exploring Biometric User Recognition Embedded in Doors.” My first presentation at MuC! doi.org/10.1145/374304… #TangibleInteractions

After @svenmayerhci got a full professorship (congrats again!) we are hiring to fill the position! (fixed term 3+3 years) that provides high potentials the opportunity to build up a professional profile in CS to get a full professorship. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/cb2… @mimuc

Will Brain Comp Interfaces BCIs really really change how we interact with data, do tasks, communicate with others? So exciting to discuss and speculate at future applications this with Rob Jacob and his group at Tufts. What will multimodal sensing of brain activity and ML change?

I am offering a fully funded PhD position for Physiological-AI Interaction (100% TVL-13). It's part of the RCTrust at the TU Dortmund University, see #hiring" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sven-mayer.com/2025/07/09/hir… #job #joboffer #phd #research #hci #humanAiIInteracion #AI #PhysiologicalComputing #Biofeedback

Simone Stumpf presenting the opening keynote on “Engineering responsible AI” at ACM EICS2025 - in an absolutely beautiful setting in Trier. She argues that we need methods along the entire lived cycle and systematically adapt engineering methods. eics.acm.org/2025/

Deadline extension for our workshop on the Societal Effects of AI in Mobile Social Media, taking place at @ACMMobileHCI ! Submit your ideas or preliminary research by the 6th of July, and come to design with us the future of AI in social media platforms. hcilab.org/aiandsociety25/