Florian Bemmann

E-Mail	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

My aim is to deploy technology that makes the user aware of the impact of his or her behavior, and help people to bridge the attitude-behavior gap.
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!

Publications

2020
	Linda Hirsch, Beat Rossmy, Florian Bemmann, Andreas Butz Affordances Based on Traces of Use in Urban Environments In: TEI '20: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied InteractionFebruary 2020 Pages 729â742https://doi.org/10.1145/3374920.3375007 (bib)
Download	Florian Bemmann, Heinrich Hussmann Self-Reflection as a Tool to Foster Profound Sustainable Consumption Decisions ICT4S 2020 Poster, Bristol, UK, June 2020 (bib)
Download	Florian Bemmann, Daniel Buschek LanguageLogger: A Mobile Keyboard Application for Studying Language Use in Everyday Text Communication in the Wild Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, June 2020, Article No. 84 (bib)
2018
Download	Nađa Terzimehić, Mohamed Khamis, Florian Bemmann, Heinrich Hussmann Lunchocracy: Improving Eating Dynamics in the Workplace Using a Bot-Based Anonymous Voting System In CHI '18 EA: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2018) (bib)

Teaching

Summer Term 2020

Multimedia Programming

Winter Term 2019/20

Summer Term 2019

Multimedia Programming