Matthias Schmidmaier

E-Mail	matthias.schmidmaier@ifi.lmu.de
Website	schmidmaier.org
Address	Matthias Schmidmaier LMU Munich Frauenlobstr. 7a 80337 Munich, Germany

Research

At LMU Munich, I am researching affective intelligent systems, with a particular focus on how conversational agents can show empathy in therapeutic and emotional support contexts. In my work, I explore both the cognitive and affective dimensions of empathic behavior - investigating how users perceive and respond to such systems. One important aspect of my research is how the integration of multimodal nonverbal input and personal context can improve the system's ability to recognize and respond appropriately to emotional states. Another aspect is how multimodal feedback can influence the user's perception of an agent's empathic abilities, with the goal of creating more emotional human-AI interactions. At TAWNY I am working on recognition, analysis and visualization of affective states for example from user behavior and physiological signals. Feel free to get in touch if you are interested in these topics.

Theses / Practical Courses

If you are interested in a thesis mail me.

Open

	bachelor thesis	A Japanese Translation of the Perceived Empathy of Technology Scale
	bachelor thesis	A Chinese Translation of the Perceived Empathy of Technology Scale

In Progress

Lukas Schöberl

bachelor thesis

A German Translation of the Perceived Empathy of Technology Scale

Finished

2023
Darina Cvetanova	master thesis	Empathy in HCI: When is a System perceived as empathic and how to measure it?
2022
Johannes Emanuel Heckmann	bachelor thesis	Affective Text Communication
2021
Marcel Baur	master thesis	Increasing Robustness of Facial Emotion Recognition against Speech
Aline Neumann	master thesis	Designing Affective Group Feedback for Online Lectures
Mathias Christian Götz	bachelor thesis	Developing a tool to recognize behavior and attention in an online lecture setup based on real-time video input
2020
Selina Mitra Mohtaj	bachelor thesis	Abstract Visualization of Affective Body Postures
2019
Julian Brüstle	bachelor thesis	Exploring the Measurability of User-System Trust through Physiological Signals
Dominik Maurice Runge	bachelor thesis	Exploring Audio Parameters for Trustful System Interaction

Publications

2024
Download	Matthias Schmidmaier, Cedrik Harrich, Sven Mayer Increasing Large Language Models Context Awareness through Nonverbal Cues Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2024 - Workshop (MuC Workshop'24), GI, 2024-09-01 (bib)
Download	Matthias Schmidmaier, Jonathan Rupp, Darina Cvetanova, Sven Mayer Perceived Empathy of Technology Scale (PETS): Measuring Empathy of Systems Toward the User Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24), Association for Computing Machinery, 2024-05-11 (bib)
2020
Download	Matthias Schmidmaier, Dominik Maurice Runge, Heinrich Hussmann Beep Beep: Building Trust with Sound In CHI '20 Extended Abstracts, April 25-30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA. Listen to the sounds
2019
Download	Matthias Schmidmaier, Zhiwei Han, Thomas Weber, Yuanting Liu, Heinrich Hussmann Real-Time Personalization in Adaptive IDEs In 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Adjunct (UMAP'19 Adjunct), Larnaca, Cyprus.
Download	Gesa Wiegand, Matthias Schmidmaier, Thomas Weber, Yuanting Liu, Heinrich Hussmann I Drive - You Trust: Explaining Driving Behavior Of Autonomous Cars In CHI EA '19: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (bib)
Download	Matthias Schmidmaier A Perspective On Digital Wellbeing In CHI '19: Workshop on Designing for Digital Wellbeing, May 04, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
2012
Download	Hendrik Richter, Matthias Schmidmaier Towards Simulating Push Button Behavior on Touch Surfaces 6th International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - TEI 2012, Work in Progress, Kingston, ON, Canada, February 19-22. 2012 (bib)
2011
Download	Matthias Schmidmaier Sensory Substitution Systems In Media Informatics Advanced Seminar on Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction, 2010 / 2011