This year’s fourth edition of our successful workshop-series about Women* in Computing took place on the 11th of July, 2025 in Ulm, hosted by Marc Ernst and his team.
4th Workshop on Women* in Computing: Building Bridges and Breaking Borders
Tech & Research Ethics: A Research Seminar with Mikael Laaksoharju
On April 2 and April 3, 2025, Mikael Laaksoharju (Uppsala University) visited us in Stuttgart and gave a research seminar on research ethics and ethics of technology, sparking many enlightening discussions.
Our 2nd Research Hackathon – Multimodal and Collaborative Data in HCI
In February our members gathered in Stuttgart for the 2nd SFB-TRR 161 Research Hackathon. This year’s motto: Multimodal and Collaborative Data in HCI.
Girls’ Day 2025: Virtuelle Dinos, hungriger Pac-Man, und vieles mehr
Am Girls’ Day 2025 besuchten insgesamt zehn Mädchen die Workshops des SFB-TRR 161 in Konstanz und Stuttgart.
Eine Woche Praktikum am VISUS: Ein Einblick in die Informatik
Vom 24. bis 28. Februar 2025 hatten wir, die BOGY Gruppe, die Gelegenheit, ein abwechslungsreiches und lehrreiches Praktikum am Visualisierungsinstitut der Universität Stuttgart (VISUS) zu absolvieren.
My Research Stay at Monash University
I was given the opportunity to take part in a research stay at the Monash University in Australia. Read more about it here!
Analysis and Modelling of Visual Attention on Information Visualisations
Yao Wang successfully defended his PhD thesis on November 5th, 2024. For our blog, he summarizes his research on understanding and predicting human visual attention.
Designing Intelligent Support for Learning From and In Everyday Contexts
In October 2023, Fiona Draxler from LMU, Munich successfully defended her PhD thesis. Read more about it!
Research Stay at Carnegie Mellon University
During my six-month research stay at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) in Pittsburgh, USA, I had the opportunity to be part of Prof. Dr. David Lindlbauer’s Augmented Perception Lab. Working closely with David and his fantastic team was an incredibly rewarding experience that I truly would not want to have missed.
Unity for Beginners
Members of various SFB-TRR 161 projects came together and offered a Unity Crash Course at the University of Konstanz in October 2024.
