Human-centered Engineering

Human Centered Engineering is an interdisciplinary field studying the design, development, and deployment of computing systems to understand and support users’ activities. We employ design thinking approaches to find convincing solutions from the user’s perspective.

One exemplary project investigates selected research problems of interactive recommender systems, especially in mobile scenarios. The main goal is to improve user experience through services tailored to the user's context and thus improve the user experience. Another example area focuses on social computing. We aim at modeling and instantiating long-term and short-term social contexts as well as investigating possible use cases in context-aware social computing applications. Research methodologies range from design science and human-computer interaction methods to machine learning and data analysis techniques employing large datasets from the social web.