Research Projects

Artifical Voices in Human Choices

The increasing use of voice user interfaces will lead to a number of changes in consumer decision-making behavior.

Digital Future Workshops

The workshop and interview series "Digital Future Workshops" was launched in 2016. Participants were external experts from important digital fields of knowledge.

Trend Radar

The early recognition and assessment of trends is an important factor in understanding the right research questions and changes in markets.

Emotional Arousal: A Study with Film Trailers

Emotional arousal has been linked to the motivation to socially share information with others and can reliably be detected in the voice.

Confusion during Decision Making

To avoid wrong decisions, people in preparation often look for as much reliable information as possible.

Causality in Business Analytics & Mental Models

The question of whether a correlation identified in data is spurious or based on a causal relationship.

Quantum Probability & Decisions

As part of our evaluation research, we test Quantum Probability using a benchmark data set to predict decisions.

Intercultural Negotiations

How does the usage of English by individuals from different cultures and nationalities influence creativity in negotiation?

Animal Welfare Labels and Socially Responsible Consumption:

How does the design of animal welfare labels influence the willingness to buy or pay?

Social Norms in Human-Computer-Interaction

In this project, we investigate how social norms change when indivduals interact with intelligent systems instead of humans.

Mobile Detection of Visual Brand Touchpoints

To enable recording of visual brand contacts across media boundaries, René Schallner and Dr. Carolin Kaiser develop a cost-effective prototype for mobile logo detection in this deep learning, computer vision project.