Winterschool 2025

7 -14 February 2025

Mountains are hill areas

Part 1: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for HCI

Schedule

Time07.02.202508.02.202509.02.202510.02.2025
FridaySaturdaySundayMonday
13:00-15:00Proposal Writing
Jie li, Passant Elagroudy
Multimodal Interaction with LLMs
Markus Funk
Departure

(Checkout 10 am)
Coffee
15:30-16:45Create your own LLM Interface locally
Julian Rasch, Luke Haliburton
AI & Games
Johanna Pirker
Break
17:00-18:00Implement your functional LLM Prototype and Demo it
Julian Rasch, Luke Haliburton
RAG, Finetuning, Practical Deeper Knowledge
Using LLMs locally (alternative models, e.g., deepseek)
Albrecht Schmidt
Dinner
19:30-21:00Introduction
Albrecht Schmidt
The Future of AI at DFKI
Antonio Krüger

Build Systems with AI Thomas Weber

Rethinking Software engineering with LLMs
Albrecht Schmidt, Jan Leusmann, Thomas Weber
Simulating Humans with LLMs
Fiona Draxler
21:00-21:30Should we be scared of AI
Andreas Butz
Mentoring Session
Jasmin Niess, Thomas K., Pawel, Pascal, Tilman, …
How to use LLMs for writing
Thomas Kosch, Albrecht Schmidt

Part 2: Research Training in HCI

Schedule

Time10.02.202511.02.202512.02.202513.02.202514.02.2025
MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
13:00-15:00What research is meaningful & how to find RQs
Jasmin Niess, Paweł W. Woźniak
Online Surveys: How to Prolific
Maximiliane Windl, Jan Leusmann
How to Statistic, Stats F-Statistics, Baysian,…
Sven Mayer
Departure

(Checkout 10 am)
Coffee
15:30-16:45Study Design: Choosing the correct method
Jakob Karolus
Data Quality Perspectives on Data Collection and Analysis
Fiona Draxler
Collect quantitative Human Data (eye tracking, physiological,…)
Yannick Weiss, Jesse Grootjen, Teodora Mitrevska

Break
17:00-18:00Introduction
Albrecht Schmidt
Building Systems (How much do you implement, how to build toolkits)
Albrecht Schmidt
Literature Review (How to do it in the OG way, how to use LLMs…)
Evropi Stefanidi, Nadine Wagener


Publishing Papers and Beyond (Publication Strategy and Academic Profile Building)
Florian Alt, Bastian Pfleging

Dinner
19:30-20:30Expect the unlikely, Prepare for the Improbable
Andreas Butz
Critical Reasoning and Logic
Christopher Katins

Publishing in ACM
Sven Mayer, Julian Rasch, Fiona Draxler, Maximiliane Windl
Self-organized Dinner How to build a Profile to be Employable
Luke Haliburton, Thomas Kosch, Sven Mayer

How to advertise yourself, how to network
Profs

20:30-21:30Reimagining your Dissertation – How does the “writing” process change
Albrecht Schmidt, Hans Gellersen
How to build a Profile to be Employable
Luke Haliburton, Thomas Kosch, Sven Mayer
Feedback & Mentoring

List of Topics:

  • How to write an abstract
  • How to write the first and last page of your paper
  • Writing research papers with LLMs
  • How to stats (background, tools, reporting)
  • How to qualitative analysis
  • How to literature review (beyond PRISMA)
  • How to focus your research
  • How to do research and stay sane
  • How to make good research presentations
  • How to collect (meaningful) data
  • How to market your research and yourself
  • How to study design
  • Overview of research methods (contributions in HCI)

Organizers:

Albrecht Schmidt
Bettina Eska
Florian Alt
Florian Alt
Jan Leusmann
Jesse Grootjen