Digital Media Lab

We would like to congratulate our colleague Thomas E?meyer on receiving the “Thematischen Preis” of the Bremer Studienpreis 2025 for his dissertation “Mitigating Dark Patterns Through Responsible Design – Ethical Design Considerations for User-Centred Technologies.” The work examines how responsible…

In October, Gwen started as a PHD student with us at the Digital Media Lab (University of Bremen).

Gwen comes from Shanghai, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Game Design at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. Before pursuing his doctorate, he completed a Master of Science in Serious Games…

By the end of October, Rainer Malaka received the IFIP Fellow Award. The title of IFIP Fellow is the most prestigious IFIP’s technical distinction, which is conferred by the IFIP General Assembly on a current or past member of an IFIP body (e.g. WG, TC, GA, Domain Committee, IP3) in recognition of…

In summer 2025, our PhD student Carolin Stellmacher spent 3 fruitful months at the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC) in London, collaborating with Prof. Yvonne Rogers and Dr Mark Colley. Their joint work led to a full paper submission to CHI 2026. Carolin also presented her research projects as part of…

Since September 2025 Leandra Thiele conducts her doctoral research at the Digital Media Lab as a doctoral fellow funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation.

She completed her Bachelor’s degree in English-Speaking Cultures and Linguistics and her Master’s degree in English-Speaking Cultures with a…

End of September, our colleague Mehrdad Bahrini gave a talk about "Transparency and Consent Challenges in mHealth Apps: An Interdisciplinary Study of Privacy Policies, Data Sharing, and Dark Patterns." (Mehrdad Bahrini, Alexander Herbst, Merle Freye, Matthias Kohn, Karsten-Sohr and Rainer Malaka) at…