Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Monday, 01/Sept/2025
8:00am - 6:00pmRegistration-Mo
Location: Foyer (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
9:00am - 9:30amOpening and Welcome
Location: Room 2/N115 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
Session Chair: Lewis Chuang
9:30am - 10:30amKeynote 1: Luigina Ciolfi - “Rethinking HCI for Diverse Cultural Heritage Experiences"
Location: Room 2/N115 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
10:30am - 11:00amCoffee break
Location: Foyer (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
11:00am - 12:30pmMCI-Paper01: UX, Usability, and Participation
Location: Room 2/N115 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)

"LAURA: A Framework for Assessing the Usability of IT Security Policies Based on Learnability, Actionability, Understandability, Relevance, and Abstraction"
Authors: Mario Hoffmann, Francesca Müller, Arthur Fleig
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743052


"A Systematic and Validated Translation of the Perceived Empathy of Technology Scale from English to German"
Authors: Matthias Schmidmaier, Lukas Schöberl, Jonathan Rupp, Sven Mayer
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743082


"Towards Adaptive Difficulty and Personalized Player Experience: A Data-Driven Approach Combining Game Analytics, Sensor Data, and Personality Traits"
Authors: Thinh Duc Tran, Manuel Heinzig, Holger Langner, Marc Ritter
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743070


"Anchoring Human-Centeredness in Organizations: A Study on the Current State of UX Vision and UX Strategy"
Authors: Björn Rohles, Julia Messerschmidt
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743058


"Pop-Up Participatory Exhibitions: Combining Ideation, User Research, and Outreach in an Interactive Format
Authors: Sarah Thanner, Marie Sautmann, Vitus Maierhöfer, Raphael Wimmer
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743067


"“What do they think about my idea?” – Co-Designing an E-Participation Tool for Participatory Urban Planning in Germany"
Authors: Sonja Mei Wang, Jonathan Seim, Nicola Fricke
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743065

11:00am - 12:30pmUP-AK01: AK Barrierefreiheit
Location: Room 2/N111 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)

Barrierefreiheit in interdisziplinäres Team etablieren

Stefan Farnetani, Oliver Vaupel

11:00am - 12:30pmUP-AK02: AK KI
Location: Room 2/N005 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)

Co-Creation mit KI

Michael Überschär, Matthias Selisky

11:00am - 12:30pmUP-AK03: AK UX Management
Location: Room 2/N101 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)

Problemlösung im UX-Management: Ein fallbasierter Workshop zur Entwicklung praxistauglicher Lösungen

Andreas Hinderks, Dominique Winter, Ulf Schubert, Uwe Betzin, Sebastian Gerhardt

11:00am - 12:30pmUP-AK04: AK Med&Health
Location: Room 2/N105 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)

Medizinprodukte entwickeln - Wie du als UXler Menschen rettest!

Daniel Gerlach, Matthias Reisemann, Michael Engler

11:00am - 12:30pmUP-FP01: UX in Organizations
Location: Room 2/N112 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
Session Chair: Anne Görs

UX-Change: Wenn das mittlere Management die Spur blockiert?! Spurensuche nach Potentialen im UX-Transformationsprozess in einem mittelständischen Unternehmen.

Michaela Thölke, Tobias Busch

UX-Lücken in der Organisation werden sichtbar

Katharina Hammel

11:00am - 12:30pmUP-FP02: Studies
Location: Room 2/N002 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
Session Chair: Tara Maria Bosenick

Verstehen, integrieren, profitieren – HCD-Wissenstransfer für KMU

Christina Haspel, Michael Burmester

Form is function! Benchmarks und Anwendungstipps für das Product Aesthetics Inventory

Maike Ramrath, Simon Eisbach, Boris Forthmann, Henning Brau, Meinald Thielsch

Präsentation des German UPA UX Branchenreport 2025

Thomas Jackstädt, Nina Gerber, Sarah Diefenbach, Mara Hofbauer, Daniel Ullrich

12:30pm - 12:45pmPresentation Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Location: Room 2/N115 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
Session Chair: Cordula Behrsing
12:30pm - 2:00pmLunch break
Location: Foyer (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
12:30pm - 2:00pmRG, AK, WUD - Meetup
Location: GermanUPA booth

Joint lunch for current or interested organizers of the regional groups and working groups of GermanUPA and the World Usability Day

1:00pm - 2:00pmStudent Welcome Session
Location: Room 2/N102 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
2:00pm - 3:30pmMCI-Paper02: AI, Robots, and Humans
Location: Room 2/N115 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)

“Social Robots as Providers of Social Support?”

Authors: Erik Barsuhn, Bernd-Friedrich Voigt

https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743078

“Influence of Perceived Danger on Proxemics in Human-Robot Object Handovers”

Authors: Carl Oechsner, Jan Leusmann, Robin Welsch, Andreas Martin Butz, Sven Mayer

https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743064

“Explained or Certified? Examining the Influence of XAI and AI-Seals on Users’ Trust and Understanding”

Authors: Natalia Szymczyk, Jessica M. Szczuka, Nicole Krämer, Magdalena Wischnewski

https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743072

“Bridging Explainability and Interactivity to foster Trust and increase Interpretability in AI-systems”

Authors: Marco Fries, Louisa Maria Sauter, Julia Nießner, Markus Keyser, Thomas Ludwig

https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743053

“AI to the Rescue: Supporting Manual Annotation for Dataset Creation”

Authors: Carina Liebers, Metehan Ertas, Niklas Pfützenreuter, Jonas Auda, Uwe Gruenefeld, Stefan Schneegass

https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743086

“The Effect of Interaction Language on Preferences for Communication Repair Strategies in Digital Voice Assistants (DVAs): A Comparative Study”

Authors: Essam Alghamdi, Martin Halvey, Emma Nicol

https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743050

2:00pm - 3:30pmUP-AK05: AK Qualitätsstandards
Location: Room 2/N002 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)

Fortbildungen zu UX und Human-Centered Design

Guido Tesch

2:00pm - 3:30pmUP-AK07: AK User Research
Location: Room 2/N101 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)

Kompetenzprofile für User Researcher

Anne Görs

2:00pm - 3:30pmUP-AK08: AK Design for Sustainability
Location: Room 2/N105 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)

UX for Future: Praktische Ansätze zur Integration der SDGs in digitale Entwicklungsprozesse

Antje Petzold, Anne Irrgang, Alexander Gussenberg, Olga Lange

2:00pm - 3:30pmUP-FP03: Human AI
Location: Room 2/N112 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
Session Chair: Holger Kälble

Demokratisierung von KI: Nutzerfreundliches Machine Learning für die Industrie

Katrin Götzer, Henning Frechen, Sai Rahul Kaminwar, Jonas Meier, Markus Schatzl, Liza Obermeier, André Ebert

Finde deine Stimme: UX-Writing als Erfolgsfaktor für KI-Assistenten

Eilika Freund

Menschengerechte AI – Was sollte ethische Chatbots ausmachen? Ein Positionspapier

Clemens Lutsch, Veronika Langner, Leon Schmidt, Simon Harhues, Robert Zinner

2:00pm - 3:30pmUP-FP04: Accessibility
Location: Room 2/N006 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
Session Chair: Nicole Filz

UX-Writing für alle: klar, gerecht und barrierefrei

Daria Lewandowska

Inklusive Interaktion: Barrierefreie Datendashboards für alle Nutzer*innen

Claudia Loitsch, Stefanie Dreiack, Miriam Grünz

LLMs im Accessibility-Test

Andreas Hinderks, Artak Davtyan, Dennis Allerkamp

3:30pm - 4:00pmCoffee break
Location: Foyer (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
4:00pm - 5:00pmPanel 1: Healthcare
Location: Room 2/N111 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
4:00pm - 5:30pmUP-AK09: AK UX Writing
Location: Room 2/N002 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)

Was würdest DU tun? Herausforderungen im UX-Writing-Alltag

Rolf Molich, Eilika Freund, Daria Lewandowska, Stephanie Wölke

4:00pm - 5:30pmUP-AK10: AK UX Strategie
Location: Room 2/N005 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)

UX-Strategie spielerisch reflektieren: Unser KI-gestützter Evaluator im Live-Test

Franziska Gronwald, Sebastian Gerhardt, Ezgi Ucar

4:00pm - 5:30pmUP-AK11: AK EthiX
Location: Room 2/N101 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)

Ethik im Unternehmensalltag - wie bindet ihr ethisches Handeln in eure tägliche Arbeit ein?

Clemens Lutsch, Robert Zinner

4:00pm - 5:30pmUP-FP05: UX & AI
Location: Room 2/N112 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
Session Chair: Andreas Hinderks

AI-moderated Interviews as an Alternative to Surveys?

Lydia Penkert

UX für das KI-Projekt Helikon – Wunsch und Wirklichkeit

Claudia Bruckschwaiger, Alexandra Posekany, William Sprague

4:00pm - 5:30pmUP-FP06: Success
Location: Room 2/N006 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
Session Chair: Laura Marwede

Stakeholder:innen für UX nachhaltig gewinnen - Gezieltes Stakeholder-Management anstatt "Überzeugungsarbeit" mit ultimativen Beweisen

Ulf Schubert

Von der Vision zur Wirkung: Wie Produktvisionen UX-Entscheidungen in Organisationen beeinflussen

Dominique Winter

Mit 1,5 Personen zum UX-Erfolg

Nicole Filz, Anja Kotsch

4:00pm - 6:00pmMCI-SRC: Student Research Competition
Location: Room 2/N102 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
5:30pm - 6:30pmFG-MI: Meeting of the Fachgruppe Medieninformatik (FG-MI)
Location: Room 2/NK003 (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
6:00pm - 9:00pmPoster and Demo Night
Location: Forecourt (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
6:00pm - 9:00pmMCI-Demo Session
Location: Foyer (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
6:00pm - 9:00pmMCI-Poster Session
Location: Forecourt (Central lecture hall and seminar building)
6:00pm - 9:00pmMCI-SRC-Posters
Location: Forecourt (Central lecture hall and seminar building)