2025 // Book chapter
"Can You Feel Me Now?": Exploring Player Empathy in AI-Based NPC Conversations
Nima Zargham; Aaron Merkord; Ameneh Safari; Leon Tristan Dratzidis; Rainer Malaka
2025 // Book chapter
"Follow My Lead": Role of AI-Based NPC Autonomy in Player-NPC Collaboration
Leon Tristan Dratzidis; Nima Zargham; Rainer Malaka
Dec 2024 // Preprint
Using Gesture and Speech to Control Surgical Lighting Systems: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint)
Nima Zargham; Anke V Reinschluessel; Andre Mühlenbrock; Thomas Muender; Timur Cetin; Verena Nicole Uslar; Dirk Weyhe; Rainer Malaka; Tanja Döring
Dec 2024 // Conference paper
Finding a Way Through the Social Media Labyrinth: Guiding Design Through User Expectations
Thomas Mildner; Gian-Luca Savino; Susanne Putze; Rainer Malaka
Dec 2024 // Conference paper
Level Up or Game Over: Exploring How Dark Patterns Shape Mobile Games
Sam Niknejad; Thomas Mildner; Nima Zargham; Susanne Putze; Rainer Malaka
Oct 2024 // Journal article
Low Latency Feedback: Contrasting Training Outcomes of Immediate versus Delayed Feedback in Speedrunning Super Mario Bros.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Ioannis Bikas; Johannes Pfau; Thomas Muender; Rainer Malaka
July 2024 // Conference paper
HASI: A Model for Human-Agent Speech Interaction
Nima Zargham; Vino Avanesi; Thomas Mildner; Kamyar Javanmardi; Robert Porzel; Rainer Malaka
May 2024 // Conference paper
Space Out Gaming: Comparing Distributed Practice Sessions with Massed Play
Ioannis Bikas; Johannes Pfau; Thomas Muender; Rainer Malaka
May 2024 // Conference paper
"I Know What You Mean": Context-Aware Recognition to Enhance Speech-Based Games
Nima Zargham; Mohamed Lamine Fetni; Laura Spillner; Thomas Muender; Rainer Malaka
Apr 2024 // Journal article
Let's Talk Games: An Expert Exploration of Speech Interaction with NPCs
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
Nima Zargham; Maximilian A. Friehs; Leandro Tonini; Dmitry Alexandrovsky; Emma Grace Ruthven; Lennart E. Nacke; Rainer Malaka
Dec 2023 // Conference paper
"Let's Face It: Investigating User Preferences for Virtual Humanoid Home Assistants
Nima Zargham; Dmitry Alexandrovsky; Thomas Mildner; Robert Porzel; Rainer Malaka
Dec 2023 // Conference paper
Tickling Proactivity: Exploring the Use of Humor in Proactive Voice Assistants
Nima Zargham; Leon Reicherts; Vino Avanesi; Yvonne Rogers; Rainer Malaka
Oct 2023 // Conference paper
Grinding to a Halt: The Effects of Long Play Sessions on Player Performance in Video Games
Ioannis Bikas; Johannes Pfau; Thomas Muender; Dmitry Alexandrovsky; Rainer Malaka
July 2023 // Conference paper
From C-3PO to HAL: Opening The Discourse About The Dark Side of Multi-Modal Social Agents
Vino Avanesi; Johanna Rockstroh; Thomas Mildner; Nima Zargham; Leon Reicherts; Maximilian A. Friehs; Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos; Nina Wenig; Rainer Malaka
July 2023 // Conference paper
"Funny How?" A Serious Look at Humor in Conversational Agents
Nima Zargham; Vino Avanesi; Leon Reicherts; Ava Elizabeth Scott; Yvonne Rogers; Rainer Malaka
July 2023 // Conference paper
Defending Against the Dark Arts: Recognizing Dark Patterns in Social Media
Thomas Mildner; Merle Freye; Gian-Luca Savino; Philip R. Doyle; Benjamin R. Cowan; Rainer Malaka
July 2023 // Journal article
ChatGPT, LaMDA, and the Hype Around Communicative AI: The Automation of Communication as a Field of Research in Media and Communication Studies
Human-Machine Communication
Andreas Hepp; Wiebke Loosen; Stephan Dreyer; Juliane Jarke; Sigrid Kannengießer; Christian Katzenbach; Rainer Malaka; Michaela Pfadenhauer Pfadenhauer; Cornelius Puschmann; Wolfgang Schulz
Apr 2023 // Conference paper
About Engaging and Governing Strategies: A Thematic Analysis of Dark Patterns in Social Networking Services
Thomas Mildner; Gian-Luca Savino; Philip R. Doyle; Benjamin R. Cowan; Rainer Malaka
Apr 2023 // Conference paper
Versatile Immersive Virtual and Augmented Tangible OR - Using VR, AR and Tangibles to Support Surgical Practice
Anke Verena Reinschluessel; Thomas Muender; Roland Fischer; Valentin Kraft; Verena Nicole Uslar; Dirk Weyhe; Andrea Schenk; Gabriel Zachmann; Tanja Döring; Rainer Malaka
2023 // Journal article
Dungeons & Replicants II: Automated Game Balancing Across Multiple Difficulty Dimensions via Deep Player Behavior Modeling
IEEE Transactions on Games
Pfau, Johannes; Liapis, Antonios; Yannakakis, Georgios N.; Malaka, Rainer
2023 // Book chapter
Physiological Data Placement Recommendations for VR Sport Applications
Dirk Queck; Iannis Albert; Georg Volkmar; Rainer Malaka; Marc Herrlich
2023 // Journal article
Seeing the faces is so important-Experiences from online team meetings on commercial virtual reality platforms
Frontiers in Virtual Reality
Bonfert, Michael; Reinschluessel, Anke V.; Putze, Susanne; Lai, Yenchin; Alexandrovsky, Dmitry; Malaka, Rainer; Doering, Tanja
Nov. 2022 // Journal article
From human-machine interaction to communicative AI
Journalism
Andreas Hepp; Wiebke Loosen; Stephan Dreyer; Juliane Jarke; Sigrid Kannengießer; Christian Katzenbach; Rainer Malaka; Michaela Pfadenhauer; Cornelius Puschmann; Wolfgang Schulz
2022 // Journal article
"I Didn't Catch That, But I'll Try My Best": Anticipatory Error Handling in a Voice Controlled Game
Proceedings of the Chi Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Chi
Zargham, Nima; Pfau, Johannes; Schnackenberg, Tobias; Malaka, Rainer
2022 // Journal article
Deep understanding of everyday activity commands for household robots
Semantic Web Journal
Hoeffner, Sebastian; Porzel, Robert; Hedblom, Maria M.; Pomarlan, Mihai; Cangalovic, Vanja Sophie; Pfau, Johannes; Bateman, John A.; Malaka, Rainer
