Advanced Seminar Media Informatics

Lecturer: Prof. Sven Mayer
Organization: Jesse Grootjen
Hours per week: 2
ECTS credits: 6
Language: English
Capacity: max. 32
Module: P 2, WP 2, WP 8 (MA MI PStO 2022); P 4, WP 2, WP 2 (MA MCI PStO 2022); P3, WP 8, WP 11, WP 14 (MA INF PStO 2022)
Note: that as a student of Media Informatics / Human-Computer Interaction you may of course also attend advanced seminars at other chairs.

• Syllabus
• Locations
• Schedule
• Topics
• Criteria
• Grading
• Registration

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Syllabus

During the course, students will study and present current human-computer interaction topics (and adjunct topics, like computer graphics, visualization, interactive machine learning, and design) in the form of a literature review paper. Topics will be presented in the first appointment of the semester. After the first appointment, each student will get their own unique topic. Each topic corresponds to a member of our team. Over the semester, the students and team members will have to meet on a real lure basis to discuss the process and next steps in one-on-one settings. During the semester, students will review each other's literature review papers to provide feedback and, thus, understand the academic review process better. Based on the reviews, students will improve their work for the final submission. Finally, at the end of the semester, all students will have to present their work in an oral, in-person presentation.

Moreover, to get an understanding of literature reviews, students will read, summarize, and present one literature review at the beginning of the semester. This will greatly help them write their own literature review.

The course is suitable for:

• Media informatics(Master)
• Human-Computer Interaction (Master)
• Computer Science (Master)

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Locations

Thalkirchner Straße 36, 151 Access via Frauenlobstr. 7a

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Schedule

All dates are mandatory to attend in-person.

Date	Time	Event
17.10.2024	16:15 - 20:00	Kick-off and assignment of topics
07.11.2024	16:15 - 20:00	Literature review paper presentations
12.12.2024	16:15 - 20:00	90-second pitches
04.02.2025	16:15 - 20:00	Final presentations Part 1
05.02.2025	17:00 - 20:00	Final presentations part 2

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Topics

Supervisor	Student	Topic
Carl Oechsner	Sebastian Walz	Intent Communication for Trust in HRI
Clara Sayffaerth	Ludwig Glückstadt	Measuring learning with physiological sensing
Clara Sayffaerth	Michael Distl	XR applications in different learning contexts
Dennis Dietz	Ludwig Degenhardt	AI to Support the Training and Assessment of Athletes
Maximiliane Windl	Alexander Richter	Radio-Frequency Sensing: Privacy Risks and Solutions
Florian Bemmann	Leonie Kehlenbeck	The Effects of Social Media on Society
Florian Bemmann	Alexander Reichart	The Role of HCI in Political Opinion Forming
Florian Bemmann	Daniel Bilic	Social Sensing: Towards Computational Awareness of Social Activities
Philipp Thalhammer	Alexandra Gerbert	Exploring Recent Advances in Bio-Materials for Tangible Interfaces
Carl Oechsner	Gabriel Knoll	Personal Space in Human-Robot Handovers
Kathrin Schnizer	Simon Herbig	Recent Advances in Measuring Cognitive Load Through Physiological Sensing
Jan Leusmann	Lisa Längrich	Human Understanding of Context-Dependent Robot Gestures
Kathrin Schnizer	Melissa Schaack	Exploring the Impact of Visual Design on Chart Comprehension
Philipp Thalhammer	Enjing Zhou	Investigating the Use of Deformable Interfaces as Input Modalities in HCI
Doruntina Murtezaj	Linus Stetter	The Role of Gamification in Security Training
Rifat Amin	Rok Mokotar	Large Language Models and Visualization
Rifat Amin	Fiona Lau	GAN space exploration through UI interaction
Sophia Sakel	Tiffany He	Designing for Social Wellbeing
Steeven Villa	Cedrik Harrich	Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Healthy Individuals
Teodora Mitrevska	Tim Jacob Edelmann	Non-invasive BCI Trends and Reliance
Xuedong Zhang	Yilu Ye	Multimodal Perception for HRI
Xuedong Zhang	Yu-Chieh Lin	Gaze-Based Intention Estimation in HRI

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Criteria

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Grading

The grade is based on a presentation and a written paper.

• The presentation must be 10 minutes.
• The paper must contain 20,000 - 30,000 characters using the LaTex template

More details on the grading:

• Presence at all mandatory dates
• Frequent meetings with supervisor
• The summary presentation of a literature review must be 5 minutes
• The pich presentation must be 3 minutes and 2 minutes Q&A.
• The witten assignment must be in English (20,000 - 30,000 characters, two-column format, references and appendix do not count towards the characters count)
• Review of at least two papers written by fellow students
• Presentation (15 minutes; 10 min presentation + 5 min questions) at the end of the semester

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Registration

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