Chair of Human-Centered Technologies for Learning
Research Clusters
AI for Empowerment and Learning
Focus: Developing AI systems that amplify human learning, creativity, and agency through collaborative human-AI partnerships.
Technologies: Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, natural language processing, generative models.
Immersive Environments for Human Augmentation
Focus: Advancing human perception, collaboration, and innovation through immersive technologies.
Technologies: Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), spatial computing.
Our research pioneers human-centered AI that transforms how individuals learn, create, and thrive. By fostering collaborative partnerships between humans and AI, we enhance educational experiences, spark innovative thinking, and promote agency in domains like professional development, social interaction, and lifelong learning.
We create immersive environments that augment human perception and capabilities, empowering users to explore virtual worlds, design innovative solutions, or collaborate in enhanced realities. By integrating human-centered AI, these systems adapt to user needs, enabling applications in fields like education, training, entertainment, and social interaction.
Multimodal and Adaptive Systems for Empowered Interaction
Focus: Enabling intuitive, personalized, and inclusive human-technology interaction through dynamic, multi-sensory systems.
Technologies: AI, VR, AR, eye-tracking, multimodal sensing.
Eye Tracking and Gaze-Based Interaction
Focus: Harnessing eye-tracking to enhance human attention, intent, and social connection in interactive systems.
Technologies: Eye-tracking, AI, multimodal sensing, VR/AR integration.
We develop multimodal and adaptive systems that empower users by making technology responsive, intuitive, and tailored to individual needs. By combining multi-sensory interfaces with human-centered AI, these systems support seamless interaction for creative expression, professional workflows, and inclusive applications, ensuring accessibility for diverse users across contexts like collaboration, productivity, and innovation.
Our gaze-based research augments cognitive and social capabilities by using eye-tracking to capture user intent and enhance interaction. Integrated with human-centered AI, these systems empower users in real-time collaboration, creative design, and inclusive communication, with applications spanning education, healthcare, gaming, and professional environments, ensuring accessibility and engagement for all.
News
PostDoc and PhD Positions in Human-Centered AI Technologies
The Chair of Human-Centered Technologies for Learning at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) offers exciting Ph.D. opportunities focused on the cutting-edge field of Human-Centered AI Technologies using advanced Generative AI and novel interaction technologies.
Potential Ph.D. projects may focus on large language model (LLM) research. We seek highly motivated and talented individuals passionate about AI, LLM, Human-Computer Interaction, and their responsible applications.
Click here for the details: PostDoc and PhD Positions in Human-Centered AI Technologies
31.08 – 03.09.2025: Route2Vec Earns Honorable Mention at MuC 2025 in Chemnitz
We are pleased to announce that Philipp Hallgarten has received an Honorable Mention at Mensch und Computer (MuC) 2025 held in Chemnitz, Germany, for the paper “Route2Vec: Enabling Efficient Use of Driving Context through Contextualized Route Representations.”
The paper presents Route2Vec, an attention-based self-supervised framework that encodes contextual data from driving routes into compact embeddings and thus enables the design of context-aware in-vehicle interfaces.
Paper DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743056
28.08.2025: Babette Bühler Wins FUTURE EDUCATION Early Career Award
We are proud to announce that our postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Babette Bühler, has been awarded the FUTURE EDUCATION Early Career Award 2025 in the category Educational Technology(ies): interdisciplinary, innovative, disruptive.
She received the award for her paper: “Temporal Dynamics of Meta-Awareness of Mind Wandering During Lecture Viewing: Implications for Learning and Automated Assessment Using Machine Learning.” https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000903
The award was presented on 28 August 2025 at the EARLI Conference at the University of Graz. This year marked the secon edition of the FUTURE EDUCATION Early Career Awards, which celebrate excellent transdisciplinary research in education, learning, development, and teaching. Awardees were selected through a rigorous single-blind peer review process, with submissions evaluated by both FUTURE EDUCATION network reviewers and EARLI community experts.
We warmly congratulate Babette on this well-deserved recognition!
22.07.2025: Papers Accepted at ICMI 2025 and ECAI 2025
We are pleased to announce that our group has had two full papers and one doctoral consortium paper accepted at the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2025), and one paper accepted at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025).
ICMI 2025:
- "Multimodal Behavioral Patterns Analysis with Eye-Tracking and LLM-Based Reasoning"
- “Adaptive Gen-AI Guidance in Virtual Reality: A Multimodal Exploration of Engagement in Neapolitan Pizza-Making”
- Designing and Evaluating Gen-AI for Cultural Resilience (Doctoral Consortium Track)
ECAI 2025:
- "TRUCE-AV: A Multimodal Dataset for Trust and Comfort Estimation in Autonomous Vehicles"
17.06.2025: Prof. Enkelejda Kasneci Gave a Keynote Speech at IS-EUD 2025
Professor Enkelejda Kasneci gave a keynote speech at the International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD) 2025. “Can Learners Design Their Future? Promoting Agency with Large Language Models in Education”
More information is available on the IS-EUD 2025 Keynote Speakers page.
09.06.2025: Prof. Enkelejda Kasneci Delivered Invited Lecture at University of Tokyo
Professor Enkelejda Kasneci delivered an invited lecture titled “Augmenting Human Potential through Human-Centered AI and Attention-Aware Systems” at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science, hosted by the Interactive Visual Intelligence Lab under the leadership of Professor Yusuke Sugano.
28.05.2025: Best Paper Honorable Mention at ETRA 2025
We are thrilled to announce that Virmarie Maquiling, doctoral researcher at the Chair of Human-Centered Technologies for Learning, has received a Best Paper Honorable Mention at the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA 2025) held in Tokyo, Japan.
Her paper, which explores imperceptible gaze guidance in virtual reality, was recognized for its innovative contribution to the field of user-centered eye-tracking research.
Congratulations on this well-deserved honor!
Paper DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3725839
15.04.2025: Paper Acceptances at ETRA and DSP!
We are thrilled to share that four papers from our group have been accepted to the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) and three papers have been accepted to the International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) this year.
Congratulations to all the authors for their outstanding contributions!