#muc2025 — Public Fediverse posts

@JessicaKathmann Ach witzig, zu dem Thema hab ich gerade vor einer Woche in einem meiner #MuC2025 Workshops einen Vortrag gesehen. Hier das Paper dazu: https://doi.org/10.18420/muc2025-mci-ws04-266

Ich dachte mir schon, dass die Kollegen nicht die einzigen sind, die sich damit befassen. 🙂

@JessicaKathmann Ach witzig, zu dem Thema hab ich gerade vor einer Woche in einem meiner #MuC2025 Workshops einen Vortrag gesehen. Hier das Paper dazu: https://doi.org/10.18420/muc2025-mci-ws04-266

Ich dachte mir schon, dass die Kollegen nicht die einzigen sind, die sich damit befassen. 🙂

OK, nun geht's wieder nach Hause. Danke #MuC2025 für die schöne Zeit, die informativen Gespräche und sympathische Bekanntschaften in #Chemnitz. Und natürlich einen ganz lieben Dank an die vielen Helferlein drumherum!

Spätestens zu den Chemnitzer Linux Tagen (#CLT) @clt_news bin ich wieder da an der @tuchemnitz.

Und auf die #MuC2026 in #Duisburg freu ich mich auch schon. Ich hoffe, wir sehen uns dort dann alle wieder =)

That's a wrap on #MuC2025 for me. Thank you @mucConf! 👍 I got to meet @marmarta, @raka_a11y and @maxpascher for the first time 👋, and I reconvened with @jannis after a year. 😃 I saw @kakoepferl and @GUPA_President from a distance a few times, but regrettably didn't say hi. 🥲

So @jannis, you think this is enough people to try the MuC fedi meetup thing again next year? 🤔

That's a wrap on #MuC2025 for me. Thank you @mucConf! 👍 I got to meet @marmarta, @raka_a11y and @maxpascher for the first time 👋, and I reconvened with @jannis after a year. 😃 I saw @kakoepferl and @GUPA_President from a distance a few times, but regrettably didn't say hi. 🥲

So @jannis, you think this is enough people to try the MuC fedi meetup thing again next year? 🤔

So all of my favorite #MuC2025 practitioner talks were together with mine at the same track - I think this means the conference plan is very well put together :D

So all of my favorite #MuC2025 practitioner talks were together with mine at the same track - I think this means the conference plan is very well put together :D

At the panel Knowledge Skills and AI at this years @mucConf #muc2025, Fiona Draxler, Lars Fritsche, Sarah Lange, Jayanto Halim, Christina Schneegass and Thomas Kosch, moderated by mysel, panelists brought up a number of concrete examples from a wide range of domains from production, production management, education, communications, programming and creative processes.

At the panel Knowledge Skills and AI at this years @mucConf #muc2025, Fiona Draxler, Lars Fritsche, Sarah Lange, Jayanto Halim, Christina Schneegass and Thomas Kosch, moderated by mysel, panelists brought up a number of concrete examples from a wide range of domains from production, production management, education, communications, programming and creative processes.

Starting the last day of #MuC2025 by checking out of my hotel. 🙂 After that I'll be at the conference's last paper session. The only person I can spot in the list who has an account on here is @DBuschek, co-author of “Human-AI Interaction Patterns in Creative Domains and Their Time-Based Visualization” (https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743081). I'm curious what that will look like.

An then it's the last keynote by Mark Coeckelbergh, who, as it turns out, is on here too: @coeckelbergh 😄

Starting the last day of #MuC2025 by checking out of my hotel. 🙂 After that I'll be at the conference's last paper session. The only person I can spot in the list who has an account on here is @DBuschek, co-author of “Human-AI Interaction Patterns in Creative Domains and Their Time-Based Visualization” (https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743081). I'm curious what that will look like.

An then it's the last keynote by Mark Coeckelbergh, who, as it turns out, is on here too: @coeckelbergh 😄

It got late at #MuC2025 for me, which is expected enough for a conference dinner I suppose. I spent the afternoon with association organizers to talk about secret projects™, and from there I went to the conference dinner. Very funny crowd at my table and the food was nice. 🙂 The event was, too. Didn't overstay itself like these things sometimes do. One last keynote and paper session tomorrow, then just the trip home!

It got late at #MuC2025 for me, which is expected enough for a conference dinner I suppose. I spent the afternoon with association organizers to talk about secret projects™, and from there I went to the conference dinner. Very funny crowd at my table and the food was nice. 🙂 The event was, too. Didn't overstay itself like these things sometimes do. One last keynote and paper session tomorrow, then just the trip home!

Late #MuC2025 start for me today, had to spend the morning prepping stuff for the GI FB MCI meeting at 2pm today. But joining up with an academic conference at lunchtime seems appropriate enough, no? 😁 I hope paper session 3 was fun!

Late #MuC2025 start for me today, had to spend the morning prepping stuff for the GI FB MCI meeting at 2pm today. But joining up with an academic conference at lunchtime seems appropriate enough, no? 😁 I hope paper session 3 was fun!

#MuC2025 day three - yesterday's poster and demo session was amazing and did up my experience of "talking with people about overthrowing capitalism" to a more acceptable level of "1-2 talks per hour". Also apparently I managed to explain Qubes to someone in German! At some point I might start feeling comfortable with saying I do speak the language without 10 minutes of hedging.

#MuC2025 day three - yesterday's poster and demo session was amazing and did up my experience of "talking with people about overthrowing capitalism" to a more acceptable level of "1-2 talks per hour". Also apparently I managed to explain Qubes to someone in German! At some point I might start feeling comfortable with saying I do speak the language without 10 minutes of hedging.

Heute war ein toller Tag bei der @mucConf !
Das Meeting vom AK #Barrierefreiheit hat mir wieder gezeigt, dass wir in diesem Feld inzwischen einige echt tolle Expert*innen haben, zugleich neue Interessierte dazukommen. Die Spanne von Gesprächsbedarfen zum Einstieg ins Themenfeld bis hin zu spezifischen Anwendungs-/Umsetzungsproblemen der Programmierpraxis ist groß. Aber im Grunde muss alles parallel besprochen werden, um Barrierefreiheit wirklich zu erreichen.

Später in der #Accessibility-Session hab ich mich darüber gefreut, dass der Diskurs der #Neuroinklusion auch im #UX angekommen ist. Der Beitrag zu barrierefreien #Dashboards war ebenfalls sehr spannend.

Auch bei der #Poster-Sessions heute Abend waren #Inklusion|sthemen vertreten.
Erstmal ein guter Eindruck!
#MuC2025

Live reflections from the ongoing #muc2025 @mucConf - UX professionals in organisations are challenged (in practice) to communicate tangible business benefits of including UX. This observation stemmed from software development for b2b products, and in a special applicaiton domain -> with limited competition.

Live reflections from the ongoing #muc2025 @mucConf - UX professionals in organisations are challenged (in practice) to communicate tangible business benefits of including UX. This observation stemmed from software development for b2b products, and in a special applicaiton domain -> with limited competition.

My #MuC2025 day is slowly coming to an end. I ended up skipping the second paper session ("AI & Robotics" is fairly unlikely to have anything for me). I was going to go to the student #HCI research event in the afternoon, but then I remembered how overcrowded the room was last year, so I went to my first @germanupa event instead, a workshop by their ethics working group which was great. 🙂 Now I'm outside, trying to decide in which order I want to pursue the poster session and the food trucks.

My #MuC2025 day is slowly coming to an end. I ended up skipping the second paper session ("AI & Robotics" is fairly unlikely to have anything for me). I was going to go to the student #HCI research event in the afternoon, but then I remembered how overcrowded the room was last year, so I went to my first @germanupa event instead, a workshop by their ethics working group which was great. 🙂 Now I'm outside, trying to decide in which order I want to pursue the poster session and the food trucks.

I really love this sustainability hack from #MuC2025: everyone gets a reusable PET bottle and there are dispensers with all sorts of tasty or plain water.

I really love this sustainability hack from #MuC2025: everyone gets a reusable PET bottle and there are dispensers with all sorts of tasty or plain water.

Fedi people I have spotted in the author list of #MuC2025 paper session 1:

"A Systematic and Validated Translation of the Perceived Empathy of Technology Scale from English to German" co-authored (and currently being presented) by @svenmayer - https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743082

"Pop-Up Participatory Exhibitions: Combining Ideation, User Research, and Outreach in an Interactive Format" co-authored by @RaphaelWimmer - https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743067

Fedi people I have spotted in the author list of #MuC2025 paper session 1:

"A Systematic and Validated Translation of the Perceived Empathy of Technology Scale from English to German" co-authored (and currently being presented) by @svenmayer - https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743082

"Pop-Up Participatory Exhibitions: Combining Ideation, User Research, and Outreach in an Interactive Format" co-authored by @RaphaelWimmer - https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743067

Mensch und Computer 2025 is officially underway!

The conference began with a grand opening that set the tone for the days ahead:

– A retrospective on 25 years of MUC
– A celebration of its birthday and the community behind it
– A call for diversity and openness
– And the warm, welcoming spirit that defines MUC.

Here’s to an inspiring week of exchange, new ideas, and meaningful connections.

Let’s make this a great Mensch und Computer — together.

#MUC2025 #DigitalDiversity #HCI

Second day at #MuC2025 . Very interesting experience, I'm learning a lot, but after a decade in hacker spaces, it feels weird to have spent over a day at an event and not have heard anything overt about overthrowing the entire political and economical system.

Second day at #MuC2025 . Very interesting experience, I'm learning a lot, but after a decade in hacker spaces, it feels weird to have spent over a day at an event and not have heard anything overt about overthrowing the entire political and economical system.

At Mensch und Computer 2025, sustainability is part of the program.

Each attendee will receive a reusable bottle, and refill stations are available at the right end of the ground level area. By refilling instead of replacing, we reduce plastic waste and take a small but meaningful step toward a more sustainable conference experience.

Together, we can make an impact.

#MUC2025 #DigitalDiversity #Sustainability #MenschUndComputer

About to start my #MuC2025 day with a keynote by Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi, should be good. 😃 Paper sessions after that, gonna be a long day ending with the poster session that I don't want to miss.

(My second presentation yesterday went well, but then I got tired and went to the hotel to sleep.)

About to start my #MuC2025 day with a keynote by Luigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi, should be good. 😃 Paper sessions after that, gonna be a long day ending with the poster session that I don't want to miss.

(My second presentation yesterday went well, but then I got tired and went to the hotel to sleep.)

First presentation of the day is done (and so is lunch), lots of cool conversations among workshop participants. I talked about my 2016-2020 project almost as much as the 2021-2024 one I was there to present. 😄 #MuC2025

First presentation of the day is done (and so is lunch), lots of cool conversations among workshop participants. I talked about my 2016-2020 project almost as much as the 2021-2024 one I was there to present. 😄 #MuC2025

First #MuC2025 workshop started with a keynote by Ceenu George (TU Berlin @tuberlin), someone I had never come across before, talking about field research methods. Prof. George seems, academically speaking, cool AF? It often feels like the German-speaking #HCI community is small and close-knit, but it doesn't seem to run out of inspiring people. 🙂 Check out her lab website: https://www.hci.tu-berlin.de/

First #MuC2025 workshop started with a keynote by Ceenu George (TU Berlin @tuberlin), someone I had never come across before, talking about field research methods. Prof. George seems, academically speaking, cool AF? It often feels like the German-speaking #HCI community is small and close-knit, but it doesn't seem to run out of inspiring people. 🙂 Check out her lab website: https://www.hci.tu-berlin.de/

Chemnitz leaving a very nice first impression on my walk to the #MuC2025 venue. 🌞 Workshop day, let's go!

#Chemnitz #academicChatter @stadt_chemnitz @tuchemnitz @tucmi

Chemnitz leaving a very nice first impression on my walk to the #MuC2025 venue. 🌞 Workshop day, let's go!

#Chemnitz #academicChatter @stadt_chemnitz @tuchemnitz @tucmi

My other #MuC2025 workshop paper is an examination of Encyclia's privacy settings through the lens of academic frameworks on software personalization: https://fietkau.science/privacy_customization_social_academic_publications

My colleague Laura prodded me to put this together with her. It's a bit rushed, but I managed to finish the presentation video last night. I think there might be shards of an alright fediverse explainer in there. I'll learn tomorrow what the other workshop participants think about it.

My first #MuC2025 workshop contribution is a brief summary of the work my group has been doing with 3D body tracking, specifically the methodological pitfalls: https://fietkau.science/real_world_collaboration_tools_body_tracking

We have sort of figured out what contextual insights you can grasp at with quantiative sensor data and which you can't. We point at the ethical issues with the method's intrinsic body normativity (again). And we fantasize about what we'd do with more funding.

I will be at the #MuC2025 conference on human-computer interaction this week! 🙂 I'll be a bit quieter with the live-posting than last year, but still, I might post more than average and will probably have little time to read my feed. Feel free to temp-mute me or the hashtag if that sounds annoying.

Tomorrow I'm joining the “Embedding HCI in the Real World” workshop (https://www.hci.tu-berlin.de/#/projects/muc-2025-workshop---embedding-hci-in-the-real-world) and this year's “International Workshop on Personalization and Recommendation” (https://fg-abis.gi.de/veranstaltung/abis-2025/).

Today I'm travelling to Chemnitz for #MUC2025, and ngl, I'm somewhat anxious? This will be my first academic conference, after all the CCCs and FOSDEMs and other hacker events, I'm nearly 40 and very un-academic, also it seems much more German-speaking than my usual fare. The impostor syndrome is real 😭 (at least Deutsche Bahn is behaving... for now... )

🗺Discover Chemnitz with our interactive MUC 2025 Map🗺

Planning your trip to MUC 2025 just got easier! Our brand-new map highlights everything you need: restaurants, cultural hotspots, and many points of interest across the city. 🍴🎨✨

Check out the full map here: https://viata.ai/event/muc-25

#MUC2025 #Chemnitz #EuropeanCapitalofCulture2025 #Travel

So last year I organized a small fediverse meetup during break time at @mucConf and we ended up with a handful of people exchanging tips, hopes, ideas, and contact details.

Should we try that again this year in #Chemnitz? Who here is going to @mucConf? 🙂

#MuC2025 #MCI #HCI

Two papers by #SECUSO have been accepted for publication at the 11th Workshop on Usable Security and Privacy at the #conference Mensch und Computer (@mucConf). The paper "`It sounds like automation´ - Towards Users' Understanding of Adaptive Systems" by Anne Hennig, Mattia Mossano, Lukas Aldag, Maxime Veit, and Melanie Volkamer investigated how users understand IT-based Adaptive Systems (ITbAS), and which risks they associate with their use (if any). The #paper founds that, even though 72.58% of the participants heard of ITbAS, only 56.5% could define them. Further, the examples the participants provided partially suggest a lack of knowledge about the full potential of ITbAS in their everyday lives.
The second paper "Scrutinizing Security and Legal Aspects of Real-Time URL Security Checks in Emails" by Maxime Veit, Dirk Müllmann, and Melanie Volkamer examines the #security and data protection implications of Real-Time URL Security Checks in emails, showing how URL rewriting can undermine #phishing #awareness training and raise #privacy concerns. #MUC2025 will take place from August 31 to September 3, 2025 in Chemnitz, Germany: https://muc2025.mensch-und-computer.de/en/
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