The Interaction Design Lab is the research laboratory of the Interface Design Programme at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, Germany.
The lab is a space for international interaction design experts from industry and academia. It provides an interface between education, research and development, transfer of technology, design and knowledge and creates a space for multidisciplinary projects.
Researchers × Designers × Educators × Students × Researcher × Designer × Educators × Students ×
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MyAppMyData App prototyping as a teaching-learning arrangement for the development of digital skills
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DataSkop Promoting Digital Sovereignty
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DISA Digital inclusion in the context of social anxiety disorders
PROTOTYP Prototyping in Critical Design
ANCI Analysing networked climate images
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mæve Tangible Exploration of Social and Intellectual Networks
Recent Publications
2026
Scaffolding Reflection, not Generation: Exploring Non-Directive Social Robot Interaction in Early-Stage Ideation
In: Staffa, M., et al. Social Robotics + AI. ICSR+AI 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 16131. Springer, Singapore
2026
Seeing Thinking with the Abacus: Making Embodied Reasoning Visible Through Hybrid Sensing
CHI EA '26: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article No.: 583, Pages 1 - 5
2025
Cities, Cards, and Conversations: The UDV Card Deck in Action
IEEE VIS 2025, Vienna, Austria