Team Lead

Patrick Ebel

PhD, Junior Research Group Leader




Research Interests:

  • Computational User Modeling
  • Data-Driven UI Evaluation
  • Naturalistic Driving Studies

PhD Students and Student Assistants

Martin Lorenz

PhD Student, started August 2023





Research Interests:

  • How humans adapt their behavior to multitasking
  • Multitasking while driving
  • Situation awareness

Timur Getselev

Student Assistant





Research Interests:

  • (current) B. Sc. Digital Humanities, University of Leipzig

Juliette-Michelle Burkhardt

Student Assistant





Research Interests:

  • (current) M. Sc. Computer Science, TU Dresden

Final Theses

  • Hannah Bussmann: Biomechanical User Models for Mobile Device Control Based on Reinforcement Learning (Master Thesis, ongoing)
  • Moritz Wörmann: Generating Aesthetic UI Alternatives under Constraints (Bachelor Thesis, ongoing)
  • Niko Konzack: A Computationally Rational Model of Information Acquisition for Playing Atari Games (Master Thesis, ongoing)
  • Simon Lämmer: Traffic Simulacra: Generative Agents for Simulating Believable Mobility Behavior (Master Thesis, ongoing)
  • Georg Schneeberger: End-to-End Reinforcement Learning Training of a Convolutional Neural Network for Autonmous Driving (Master Thesis, ongoing)