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 asap.
Address	Florian Bemmann LMU Munich Media Informatics Group Frauenlobstr. 7a 80337 Munich, Germany
Room	453 (4th floor)

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Current Research

Mobile Sensing Technology + Privacy

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, fuel adaptive applications, or feed crowd-based data platforms. In my research I investigate how mobile devices' passive sensing capabilities can be leveraged for the aforementioned purposes, while protecting the user's privacy. That encompasses but is not limited to interaction approaches that include the human more in the data collection process and on-device feature extraction procedures.

Personal Informatics: End User Data Science

Building on the aforementioned area of Mobile Sensing, I in the next step aim to enable the user take make use of their data. Current mobile devices offer only rare options to generate insights from the collected data, the magic usually happens on company servers somewhere in the cloud. I explore projects where users is given the ability to gain insights from their local data themselves. Therefore I am looking for solutions on several uncertainties, e.g. what is technically possible locally on a mobile device with one-person-data at all, or how interactivity can be brought into actually complex prediction procedures.

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 happy to talk about it!

Further Research Interests

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):

PhoneStudy

The PhoneStudy project is an interdisciplinary Mobile Sensing 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. I've been in charge of technically managing a handful of studies, ranging from university internal ones to collaboration projects across multiple German universities and panelists. In our most recent project we created a german representative benchmark dataset encompassing 800 participants for 3 to 6 months. Furthermore I use the PhoneStudy project as solid basis for most of my mobile sensing based research projects and theseses.

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, and Backend Development

We are looking for a student Android developer, to support our PhoneStudy team in the development of an interdisciplinary research app infrastructure. Please find recent information on the chairs jobs page.

Tutors for the lecture Multimedia Programming for SoSe 2023 wanted!

If you have experience with Unity and Pygame, and would like to apply your knowledge to support other students, please drop me a message! It would also be good (but not mandatory) if you already attended the lecture yourself.

Publications

2022
Download	Efsun Birtwistle, Ramona Schödel, Florian Bemmann, Astrid Wirth, Christoph Suerig, Clemens Stachl, Markus Bühner, Frank Niklas Mobile sensing in psychological and educational research: Examples from two application fields International Journal of Testing; Volume 22, 2022 - Issue 3-4: Special Issue on Technology-Based Assessments in Organizational, Psychological, and Educational Research and Applications (bib)
Download	Florian Bemmann, Maximiliane Windl, Jonas Erbe, Sven Mayer, Heinrich Hussmann The Influence of Transparency and Control on the Willingness of Data Sharing in Adaptive Mobile Apps MobileHCI 2022, Sept. 28 - Oct. 1, 2022, Vancouver, Canada (bib)
2021
	Nađa Terzimehić, Svenja Schött, Florian Bemmann, Daniel Buschek MEMEories: Internet Memes as Means for Daily Journaling In Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (DIS '21). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 538-548. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462080 (bib)
Download	Christina Schneegaß, Diana Irmscher, Florian Bemmann, Daniel Buschek LYLO - Exploring Disclosed Configurations for Inter-Personal Location Sharing In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI'21 Extended Abstracts), May 8-13, 2021, Yokohama Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA (bib)
Download	Sarah Aragon Bartsch, Christina Schneegaß, Florian Bemmann, Daniel Buschek A Day in the Life: Exploring the Use of Scheduled Mobile Chat Messages for Career Guidance 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2021), December 5-8, 2021, Leuven, Belgium (bib)
Download	Florian Bemmann, Daniel Buschek, Heinrich Hussmann Interactive End-User Machine Learning to Boost Explainability and Transparency of Digital Footprint Data HCXAI Workshop @ CHI 2021, May 08-13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan (bib)
Download	Florian Bemmann, Ramona Schödel, Niels van Berkel, Daniel Buschek Chatbots for Experience Sampling - Initial Opportunities and Challenges Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2021 Workshops, April 13-17, 2021, College Station, USA (bib)
2020
Download	Linda Hirsch, Beat Rossmy, Florian Bemmann, Andreas Butz Affordances Based on Traces of Use in Urban Environments In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 729-742. DOI:https://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

Winter Term 2019/20

Summer Term 2019

Multimedia Programming