We are happy to announce that our proposal for a new M.Sc. titled “Research Course: Virtual Human-AI Collaboration” received funding by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments from the KIT  ”Research Infrastructures in Research-Oriented Teaching (RIRO)“ initiative. The course will be offered in the next winter semester by Dr. Julia Seitz Sänger and Prof. Dr. Alexander Maedche from WIN (h-lab) in collaboration with Dr. Leon Houf and Prof. Dr. Petra Nieken from IBU. It will leverage the KD2Lab as underlying research infrastructure and the associated Human Subject Research Hub.  

This handson course starting next winter semester aims to enable students to investigate AI agents collaborating within humans in virtual environments and in parallel foster the students‘ skills in research methods.  Students will work in teams and carry out a full research cycle—from hypothesis formulation, study design, experimental prototype development, data collection & analysis to a conferenceready style research paper. The curriculum emphasizes rigorous experimental design, open science, ethical and data security & privacy standards, and teamwork skills, preparing students for the growing demand for trustworthy design of humanAI collaboration in both academia and industry. We invite motivated students that want to learn more about research methods and human-AI collaboration to join us and get hands-on experience in shaping the future of human-AI collaboration.   

Participants are encouraged to have visited the M.Sc. course „Designing Interactive Systems: Human-AI Interaction“ or a comparable offer. This prerequiste is however optional.  For further information, please visit  https://h-lab.win.kit.edu/342_3858.php or contact Dr. Julia Seitz Sänger directly.