Media Psychology and Man-Machine-Interaction

University of the Saarland

Psychology Department

Building E 2_5 Seminar room SR II U.36

Thursday 14-16 pm c.t.

Begin: 26th of April 2012

Form: Lectures, student presentations and student projects; compulsory attendance

Points: 4

lecturer: Angela Mahr

This Seminar will give an overview of media psychology, the human being in the context of Man-Machine-Interaction and will introduce the measurement of user experience. First part of the seminar is planned as a lecture to introduce the participants into the topic. The second part is preserved for Student Presentations. During the seminar every participant needs to take part in the semester project.

Seminar "Personalizing the User Experience: Techniques and Applications from Selected Domains (automotive, retail & web)"

(Summer Term 2012)

The ability to accommodate different target groups is one of the main characteristics of modern intelligent user interfaces. Benefits of such personalization include improved safety, added comfort, increased efficiency, or enabling access for users with special needs. In this seminar, we will discuss the foundations for personalization: knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation / user modeling, and UI adaptation. For each of these topics we will combine fundamental techniques with example applications from mainly three domains: automotive, retail (shopping), and the (adaptive) web.

Lecturers: Michael Feld, Dominik Heckmann, Gerrit Kahl, Markus Löckelt, Christian Müller

Additional Supervisors: Matthieu Deru, M. Mehdi Moniri

Time: During the lecture time, Fridays, 10-12am c.t.

First Meeting: 20th April, 10 c.t.

Location: Building E1 3, Room 015 (seminar room)

Credit Points: 7