Florian Bemmann

E-Mail	florian.bemmann ät ifi.lmu.de
Phone	+49-89 / 2180-75145
Address	Florian Bemmann University of Munich (LMU) Media Informatics Group Frauenlobstr. 7a 80337 Munich, Germany
Room	453 (4th floor)

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.

Mobile Sensing technology and context-aware applications

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 further interested in how the gained information can be used to the user's benefit, by presenting it in an insightful manner or creating context-aware applications.

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 records 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.

Theses and project work

If you have any ideas on your own fitting to my interests, please feel free to contact me!

Open

project thesis

Einzelpraktikum (6 or 12 ECTS) on an advanced app that builds on the Android Open Source Project

In Progress

Mustafa Muschtaq	bachelor thesis	Smartphone sensor data collection and model creation for passive measurement of sleep duration
OlivÃ©r PalotÃ¡s	BA/MA	Approximating the sustainability of behaviors using assessable personal data
Meghna Sreedar	bachelor thesis	Chatbot-based Experience Sampling

Publications

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 2019

Multimedia Programming