To foster exchange within the German speaking community on user-centered AI, especially between industry and academia, we organize regular online meetups.

6th Virtual Meetup: July 17th, 2025, 16:00 CEST

The sixth virtual meetup will take place on July 17th, 2025. We are happy to announce that this time we will have the following two talks:

• Paul Lukowicz on the HumaneAI Project
  • The EU-funded HumanE-AI-Net project brings together leading European research centres, universities and industrial enterprises into a network of centres of excellence. Leading global artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories will collaborate with key players in areas, such as human-computer interaction, cognitive, social and complexity sciences. The project is looking forward to drive researchers out of their narrowly focused field and connect them with people exploring AI on a much wider scale. The challenge is to develop robust, trustworthy AI systems that can ‘understand’ humans, adapt to complex real-world environments and interact appropriately in complex social settings. HumanE-AI-Net will lay the foundations for designing the principles for a new science that will make AI based on European values and closer to Europeans.
• Michael Überschär on the AI Working Group (AK KI) – German UPA
  • The AI Working Group explores how generative AI is transforming UX design and product development, focusing on establishing best practices for human-AI interaction, ethical considerations, and the evolution of project roles in the AI era. We bring together UX professionals to share knowledge, develop standards, and actively shape the future of AI-powered user experiences. Our activities include regular workshops, webinar series like the “UX-AI Spring Weeks,” and collaborative research on topics ranging from AI tools in design processes to design heuristics for AI systems. The working group serves as a platform for German UPA members to stay at the forefront of AI developments while building practical solutions for current industry challenges.

Invitations will soon be sent out to all group members. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested in attending.

5th Virtual Meetup: March 7th, 2024, 16:00 CEST

The fifth virtual meetup will take place on March 7th, 2024. We are happy to announce that this time we will have three talks, one from academia and two from industry:

• Unveiling Adaptive AI: A Comprehensive Classification for AI-Based System Adaptivity
  by Doreen Engelhardt, Audi AG
• Escaping the Trap of Distraction: AI-Supported Multitasking in Human-Computer Interaction
  by Philipp Wintersberger, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (Campus Hagenberg)
• Ein Blick in die Zukunft von großen Sprachmodellen in der Industrie
  by Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Porsche AG

Click here for more information. Invitations will soon be sent out to all group members. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested in attending.

4th Virtual Meetup: 16th November 2023, 16:00 CEST

After a break, the fourth virtual meetup took place on November 16th, 2023. This time, we had two inspiring talks, again from industry and academia:

• Convergence of Conversational User Interfaces, Prompt Engineering and No-Code Prototyping
  by Anjelika Votintseva, Siemens AG
• Human-AI Interaction in Writing Tools
  by Daniel Buschek, Universität Bayreuth

Please click here for more details. Invitations were sent to all group members.

3rd Virtual Meetup: 30th June 2022, 16:00 CEST

The third virtual meetup took place on June 30th, 2022. This time, the topic was personalization in the media sector, again with two inspiring talks from academia and industry:

• Werteorientierte Empfehlungssysteme in den Medien – Realität oder Utopie?
  by Christine Bauer, Utrecht University
• Personalisierung und Automatisierung in der ZDFmediathek – vom öffentlich rechtlichem Auftrag zu Metriken und Algorithmen
  by Andreas Grün, ZDF

2nd Virtual Meetup: 7th April 2022, 16:00 CEST

After the successful first event in 2021 (see below), we were proud to announce the following talks for the second virtual meetup:

• Design Challenges for Privacy-Preserving Explanation User Interfaces
  by Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin
• Anwendungen der Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (NLP) – Forschung und Praxis
  by Till Plumbaum, Neofonie, Ontolux

Roughly 30 attendees enjoyed Claudia and Till providing insights in their work on user-centered artificial intelligence, focusing on explanations and natural language processing!

1st Virtual Meetup: 4th November 2021, 16:00 CEST

For the first virtual meetup, we were proud to announce the following talks:

• Challenges and Pitfalls of AI in Health
  by Hanna Hauptmann, Utrecht University
• Building Recipe Recommendations For Cookidoo®
  by Bora Kiliclar, Vorwerk Digital R&D

Hanna and Bora provided insights in their work on user-centered artificial intelligence, in particular, in the area of recommender systems for health and food. After their short and informal talks, the roughly 30 attendees engaged in a vibrant discussion.