Winterschool 2024

9-16 February 2024

Mountains are hill areas

Part 1: ML for HCI and Social Science

Speakers:

Albrecht Schmidt, Professor @ LMU Munich
Bastian Pfleging, Professor @ TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Ben Sischka, Risk Analyst @ Allianz
Esther Bosch, Head of HMI @ German Aerospace Centre (DLR)
Florian Alt, Professor @ University of the Bundeswehr Munich
Frauke Kreuter, Professor @ LMU Munich
Jasmin Niess, Professor @ University of Oslo
Johanna Pirker, Professor @ LMU Munich
Markus Funk, UX Engineering & Research Manager @ Cerence
Pascal Knierem, Professor @ University of Innsbruck
Paul Lukowicz, Professor @ DFKI
Sarah Völkel, Senior UX Researcher @ Google
Sven Mayer, Professor @ LMU Munich
Thomas Kosch, Professor @ HU Berlin

Schedule

9.2.202410.2.202411.2.202412.2.2024
FridaySaturdaySundayMonday
13:30-15:00From Statistics to ML – how to make sense of Data
Frauke Kreuter
Creating Empathic interfaces with GenAI
Thomas Kosch, Mario Sänger, Christopher Lazik, Christopher Katins
Departure

(Checkout 10 am)
15:00-15:30Coffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee Break
15:30-16:45From data to insight: Raw data to training using Jupiter Notebooks
Thomas Kosch, Mario Sänger, Christopher Lazik, Christopher Katins
ML + Privacy & Security
Florian Alt
16:45-17:00Coffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee Break
17:00-18:00Machine Learning Basics, Hands-on TensorFlow & Keras
Jan Leusmann, Jesse Grootjen & Sven Mayer
AI + Games
– Johanna Pirker
18:00-19:45DinnerDinnerDinner
19:45-20:30Introduction
Albrecht Schmidt
TensorFlow Deployment via Android & Tuning
Jan Leusmann, Jesse Grootjen & Sven Mayer
Science Slam
Julia Dominiak, Sarah Ball, Francesco Chiossi, Viktorija Peneva, Boris Kegeles, Oliver Hein, Matthias Hoppe
20:30-21:30Tech Foundations of ML (data types, ML approach, SVM, Random Forest, Deep Learning architectures)
Paul Lukowicz
Industry Perspectives
Markus Funk & Sarah Völkel & Ben Sischka
Mentoring: Careers in HCI and beyond
Jasmin Niess

Part 2: A Human-Centered Perspective on LLMs

Speakers:

Albrecht Schmidt, Professor @ LMU Munich
Bastian Pfleging, Professor @ TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Chao Wang, Senior Scientist @ Honda Research
Christina Schneegass, Professor @ TU Delft
Daniel Buschek, Professor @ University of Bayreuth
Evangelos Niforatos, Professor @ TU Delft
Frauke Kreuter, Professor @ LMU Munich
Gerd Kortuem, Professor @ TU Delft
Jasmin Niess, Professor @ University of Oslo
Paweł W. Woźniak, Professor @ Chalmers University of Technology
Sven Mayer, Professor @ LMU Munich
Tilman Dingler, Professor @ TU Delft

Schedule

Monday 12Tuesday 13Wednesday 14Thursday 15Friday 16
13:30-15:00Tech Foundations: Word Embeddings
Yannick Weiss

Tech Foundations: LLM Architecture
– Julian Rasch

Basics of mistralAI
– Teodora Mitrevska
Tutorial: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
– Samuel Kernan Freire
The Soft Side of LLMs: Achievement, Ownership, Control, & Bias
– Tilman Dingler
Departure

(Checkout 10 am)
15:00-15:30Coffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee Break
15:30-16:45ArrivalLLMs for Human-Robot Interaction
– Chao Wang
LLMs in Human-Centered Design
– Fiona Draxler
Supporting Reflection & Wellbeing with LLMs
– Evropi Stefanidi & Nadine Wagener

LLMs in Digital Health
– Pavithren Pakianathan
16:45-17:00Coffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee Break
17:00-18:00Tutorial: Embeddings & Prompt Engineering
– Steeven Villa, Meagan Loerakker
Supporting HCI Research with LLMs
– Christina Schneegass, Gerd Kortuem
Supporting Creative Tasks and Writing with LLMs
– Daniel Buschek
18:00-19:45DinnerDinnerWalk to restaurantDinner
19:45-20:30Introduction
– Albrecht Schmidt

Tech Foundations: Neural Networks & Backpropagation
– Jonas Keppel

Ethics of LLMs
– Henrike Weingärtner, Sophia Sakel
Building Applications with ChatGPT
– Chiara Hortmann, Rifat Amin

Legal Aspects of LLMs
– Carina Liebers, Niklas Pfützenreuter, Marvin Strauß

Ethics, Morals, Laws, & Risks of GenAI
– Heiko Drewes
Self-Organized DinnerDeploying LLMs in Application Domains
– Evangelos Niforatos
20:30-21:30Adversal Design Fictions in the context of LLMs
– Jakob Karolus, Pawel Wozniak, Bastian Pfleging
LLMs in Physics
– Steffen Steinert, Florian Lang, Clara Sayffaerth, Jakob Karolus
Career Mentoring
– Jasmin Niess

Organizers:

Albrecht Schmidt
Bettina Eska
Evangelos Niforatos
Fiona Draxler
Florian Alt
Jan Leusmann
Luke Haliburton
Stefan Schneegass