It includes
- Cognitive Load-Based Systems
- Visualisations for Ambient Connectedness
- Desks Study
- Positive Interruptions Study
- Context-Aware ESM
- AffirmationMirror
- Interaction Research & Design
- Emoji Lantern
- Interactive Table
- Loop Meadow
- Experience Sampling Methods
- CL-PPIIMS
- Multimodal Notifications
- Availibility Forecast
- Context-Aware Smartphones
- Long-Distance Relationships
- Art.ificial Life
- LeafLink
- Cybersecurity
- Towards an Optimal Navigation

A poster of the event is available here (4.1 MB, 1 page). Impressions from earlier events are available as video here, here and here.

Graduate/Post-Doc Research (m/f/d)
(50% to 100% of regular working time; German tariff scale TV-L E 13)

for 2 years. An extension of up to 6 years i.a. in total is possible. The position offers the possibility of doing a PhD or Post-Doc.

The HCI Group designs, develops, and evaluates technological concepts, prototypes, and systems based on an understanding of how people interact with and communicate through information and communication technology.

Task description:

• Participation in research, particularly in designing, developing and evaluating technological concepts, prototypes, and systems based on an understanding of how people interact with and communicate through information and communication technology
• Teaching and supervising seminars and bachelor’s and master’s theses
• Own scientific qualification with the aim PhD or Habilitation

Requirement profile:

• Master or PhD degree with strong empirical focus (e.g. psychology, sociology, human-computer interaction, human factors, etc.) is a pre- requisite
• Experience in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and especially in User Experience and Usability Engineering with ideally knowledge of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), or Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing is a bonus
• Knowledge of and experience with quantitative empirical methods
• Experience with statistical software (e.g.: SPSS, R)
• Good command of English (and willingness to learn German)
• Experience in macOS is a bonus
   

General:

The Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg promotes professional equality between women and men. We strive to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching and therefore strongly encourage suitably qualified women to apply. Severely disabled applicants with equal suitability will be given preferential consideration.

The Hertie Foundation has certified the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg as a family-friendly university. It is particularly committed to the compatibility of family and work.

Part-time employment is basically possible.

Application:
Please send your application with relevant documentation, preferably in electronic form (1 single PDF- file) to the address below, indicating the earliest possible starting date.

Application deadline: 05 December 2025

Contact address:
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg 
Lehrstuhl für Mensch-Computer-Interaktion 
Prof. Dr. Tom Gross
An der Weberei 5 
D-96047 Bamberg
E-Mail: hci_emp(at)cmlab.de
Homepage: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/hci/
 

→ Paper available on the pages of the Cooperative Media Lab

Abstract: The Experience Sampling Method (ESM) is commonly used in human-computer interaction for capturing subjective and situational experiences of users in real time. It can be time-based or event-based. The Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) asks about experiences only on the following day and should therefore be less disruptive for participants. To determine how the three methods differ in terms of quantity and quality of the answers, we conduct a direct and systematic comparison in a between-subject study (N = 17). We compare the count and duration of experience episodes (N = 157) of each method in a quantitative analysis. We find a significant difference between the durations of episodes of the time-based ESM and the DRM, which may indicate a reduced time accuracy with the DRM. Then, we compare the answers obtained in a post-study survey, which do not indicate a greater satisfaction of participants of the DRM for short study periods.

Mr Sebastian Jakob started as new research and teaching assistant on 1 September 2025.

We are happy to welcome our new member to the HCI group.

The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is the leading multinational, apolitical organisation in information and communications technologies and sciences. IFIP is recognised by United Nations and other world bodies. It represents IT Societies from over 40 countries or regions. The Technical Committee (TC) 13 focuses on Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), an interdisciplinary area of the study and research that centres on the analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation, application, and the study of use of human-centred interactive computational systems, devices and objects. 

Official Press Release (777.7 KB, 2 pages)

The Cooperative Media Lab of the Human-Computer Interaction Group presents research, cooperation, transfer, and student projects and gives live demonstrations of software prototypes on 24 July 2025 from 18.00h to 21.00h in the ERBA-building (An der Weberei 5, 96047 Bamberg). 

It includes

- CLAIR (Cognitive Load and Activity Reporter)
- EyetrackingGameInteraction
- CLBoundaryManager
- Haptic Emotion Expression
- Visual Emotion Expression
- AffirmationMirror
- Interaction Research & Design
- Art.ificial Life
- Interactive Table
- Loop Meadow
- Availability as a Service
- Ambient Interfaces
- Availability Detection on the SmartPhone
- Speculative Design

A poster of the event is available here (4.1 MB). Impressions from earlier events are available as video here, here und here.