Off to Duisburg for #MediaPsych2025 Thursday: I am chairing a session on attitudes towards AI Friday: I am presenting our project on how genAI is changing the way people search for information online. If you are in Duisburg and want to exchange ideas, get in touch! www.uni-due.de/media-psych-...

New paper out! Robots shouldn’t just work alongside humans — they should adapt to us. At TU Wien, we studied how people coordinate in real time during teamwork. Understanding natural human behaviour is key to building robots that truly align with our needs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fascinating article on research productivity vs. innovation in the AI era. The danger: If used without critical thinking, AI might lead to a vast increase in research publications, while actual scientific progress stagnates. Quality over quantity matters! www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s... 🧪

At last week's #CERE2025 in beautiful Grenoble, we had the chance to present two exciting research projects: 🧠 a lab study on agency in digital systems 🌍 a global survey on how citizens really feel about new technologies like AI 🧵(1/3)

At HCI 2025 in Gothenburg, we gave a first sneak peek into our large-scale international study on how citizens across the globe perceive emerging technologies like AI. More detailed results from additional countries coming soon! Read the preview: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... 🧪

We’re thrilled to have been awarded the UMAP Best LBR Paper Award for our work on simulating public polling with generative AI! Read our winning article here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... 🧪

🎉 Congrats to our PhD student @marengiersiepen.bsky.social for winning this year's Young Scientist Award for her work on how self-determined choice boosts learning in the brain—an important insight in the age of AI-supported decisions! Check out our winning article here: doi.org/10.1093/cerc... 🧪

How does generative AI change the way people interact with the internet? Check out our new CHI paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... 🧪

My main takeaway from #CHI2025 in Japan: advancing AI’s usefulness isn’t just about bigger models — it’s about smarter, more intuitive approaches for people to interact with them. Great to see so many research projects there pushing in that direction! 🤖 🧪

Our research was accepted to #CHI2025 in Japan, one of the leading human-computer interaction conferences. We explore how generative AI is transforming online search. Could ChatGPT replace Google? And what does that mean for websites relying on user traffic? programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

At this year’s #teap2025, we will be presenting one talk and two posters on the psychology of human autonomy and why it is vital for successful human-AI interactions. Join me on Monday at the human-machine-interactions session, where I’ll discuss how AI decision support influences human cognition. 🧪

Our latest contribution to the DFG Active Self research initiative: To act effectively, both humans and robots need to gauge how much control they have over the environment. Using a video game-like task, we investigate what shapes human control perception in challenging tasks. Publication in prep 🧪

If you are curious about artificial intelligence and machine learning, but don’t know where to start, I recommend checking out the Neuromatch program! From my own experience, these courses are fun and provide a nice hands-on overview of common machine learning techniques. 🧠💡 neuromatch.io

Thanks to all participants of our symposium on how self-determination shapes human well-being and behaviour! We had some insightful discussions. As AI becomes more present in our lives, we need to explore ways to design these systems to enhance, not diminish, our sense of control and autonomy.🧪

Excited to present our latest research on how freedom of choice impacts learning and decision-making at the Society for Psychophysiological Research Meeting 2024 in Prague tomorrow! If you're attending, join our symposium on "Agency in Action": sprweb.org/page/2024_pr... 🧪

100 years ago, EEG was invented to measure human brain activity. 🧠⚡️ To celebrate, a group of experts has tried to predict how this technology might shape research and society over the next century. I'm thrilled to be included in this exciting effort! Check out the results: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧪

NEW STUDY by @marengiersiepen.bsky.social: Discover how freedom of choice influences your brain! Our new study shows that self-determined decisions enhance neural feedback responses, suggesting that our sense of control plays a crucial role in learning.📖 doi.org/10.1093/cerc... 🧪

Our contribution to the recent FENS 2024 (2/2): Flexible behavior across various situations is driven by a common neural mechanism that helps to update cognitive processing to align with our current goals. ( Paper in preparation) 🧠🧪

Our contribution to the recent FENS 2024 (1/2): Freedom of choice enhances the brain's ability to learn new information by boosting neural feedback processing. (Publication in press) 🧠🧪

I've recently joined @in-mindmagazine.bsky.social. It's a fantastic initiative by scientists to share new insights from psychological research with the public. Check it out: www.in-mind.org 🧪

As Europe crowns its football champion at the Euro’s & with the Paris Olympics on the horizon, we're thrilled to announce our special issue on sport psychology "Olympic Mind“ www.in-mind.org/issue/06-2024

We will present two of our projects at the next FENS conference. We investigate the neural basis of 1) sense of agency and 2) human flexibility. Check out the abstracts below + meet us in Vienna! #FENS2024 fens2024.abstractserver.com/program/#/de... fens2024.abstractserver.com/program/#/de... 🧪

This is at the same time scary and amazingly beautiful.

It's unavoidable that grad students will use LLM's to help them with their writing/proofreading and possibly even help jump start some of their reasoning. Rather than preaching total abstinence, this 3-page article outlines safer ways to use (and not use) these tools. 🧪 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

How does the prefrontal cortex help us make decisions in social interactions? Find out in our new publication. Thanks to Dr. Patricia Christian for including me in this fascinating work! www.jneurosci.org/content/44/2... 🧪

Thank you to everyone who visited our lab during the open night at 'Lange Nacht der Forschung'! It was fantastic to meet so many people interested in our research. #LNF #LNF24

Join us tonight for an open night at our lab as part of the "Lange Nacht der Forschung"! If you’re in Vienna, come visit the Autonomous Systems Lab, watch our robots in action, and participate in one of our exciting experiments. See you there! #LNF #LNF24 🧪

Our contribution to the recent DFG priority project meeting "Active Self" (2/2): We are investigating how humans adapt their behavior to better interact with others during challenging motor tasks. Work in progress + publication is in preparation.

Our contribution to the recent DFG priority project meeting "Active Self" (1/2). We explore a fascinating question: How does one's sense of control influence our ability to learn from the environment? For more information check out the paper by @marengiersiepen.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Delighted to have had the opportunity to visit the Vienna Opera for the first time!

For the next couple of months, I will be joining the Autonomous Systems Lab at TU Vienna. Our interdisciplinary team, consisting of engineers and psychologists, will investigate how effective cooperation between humans and robots can be achieved. www.tuwien.at/en/etit/ict/...