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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.

Logo of the PhoneStudy mobile sensing project

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

2020
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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 729–742https://doi.org/10.1145/3374920.3375007 (bib)
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Florian Bemmann, Heinrich Hussmann
Self-Reflection as a Tool to Foster Profound Sustainable Consumption Decisions
ICT4S 2020 Poster, Bristol, UK, June 2020 (bib)
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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
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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

  • Online Multimedia
  • Multimedia im Netz

Summer Term 2019

  • Multimedia Programming
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