Florian Bemmann
| florian.bemmann@ifi.lmu.de | |
| Phone | +49-89 / 2180-75145 This phone number is not in use at the moment, please contact me via email, I will try to reply you asap. |
| Address | Florian Bemmann University of Munich (LMU) Media Informatics Group Frauenlobstr. 7a 80337 Munich, Germany |
| Room | 453 (4th floor) |
Research Interests
Mobile Sensing Technology and Data Feedback
Smartphones and other mobile devices are ubiquitous in many people's everyday lifes. Equipped with lots of sensors and connectivity, it is possible to assess or approximate many aspects about the user's actions, context and environment. Thereby they can be leveraged to collect data for interdisciplinary research, or feed crowd-based data platforms. In my research I investigate how mobile devices can be leveraged for the aforementioned purposes, while protecting the user's privacy e.g. by on-device feature extraction and data anonymization.
I am especially interested in how the gained information can be used to the user's benefit, by presenting it in an insightful manner yielding the user a benefit.
How can Technology Support Sustainable Behavior?
Although the majority of the german population describes themselves as green, fewer people actually behave so [Terlau, Hirsch 2015]. In my research I investigate how technology can help to overcome current barriers hindering sustainable behavior. It includes (among others)
- the study of technology that can increase the awareness of behavior's impact and its quantification
- finding ways to assess information about the footprint of consumption goods, and provide it in an opportune manner
- an investigation of the influence of group dynamics and social context
- the evaluation of insights of the field of Persuasive Technology in the domain of sustainability
If you want to get an overview of my latest research in the area of pro-environmental behaviour, I recommend to watch my talk at the Public Climate School 2020 (in German):
If you are interested in one of my topics and would like us to collaborate or exchange ideas and thoughts, feel free to contact me - I'd be more than happy to talk about it!
PhoneStudy
The PhoneStudy project is an interdisciplinary research project, brought to life by the chair of Psychological Methods and Assessment, Mediainformatics, and Computational Statistics. Its integral part is the PhoneStudy research app, that assesses behavioral and contextual data of study participants in the wild. The data is then used to investigate the relationships between personality, emotions and people's behavior. As lead developer of the PhoneStudy project I coordinate the development and maintenance of the PhoneStudy apps and infrastructure since November 2018.
Open Theses and project work
If you have any ideas on your own fitting to my interests, please feel free to contact me!
Open Positions as HiWi and Working Student
Student Developer (HiWi) for Full Stack App Development
We are looking for a student Android developer, to support our small team in the development of an interdisciplinary research app infrastructure. Please find more information in the official job offer. Please contact me if you are interested or have any questions!
Publications
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Teaching
Summer Term 2020
Winter Term 2019/20
Summer Term 2019
