The summer semester 2026 edition of our Game Engineering course (GAE) has come to an end, and once again the students were in it with a lot of fun and motivation. The result: 14 playable games, all built in Godot and all playable directly in the browser.
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The streaming platform Twitch has become an important social environment where players and viewers interact in real time, form communities, and develop shared norms. At the same time, these communities can be affected by harmful behavior, including harassment, abusive language, and discrimination.
This year marks ten years since our research group began collaborating with Deutsche Welle (DW). Yesterday, Kai Eckert visited DW in person to mark the occasion and to meet with both old and new members of this long-standing collaboration.
Frederic Gerdon will present our latest research on algorithmic refugee placement systems at the In_equality Conference 2026 in Konstanz (15-17 April). Our work examines a critical question at the intersection of artificial intelligence, migration policy, and social integration: How do AI-based …
On June 15, 2026, Kai Eckert returns to the Zentrum für Lehre und Lernen (ZLL) at Mannheim Technical University with a follow-up talk in the lecture …
On June 10, 2026, Kai Eckert will give a talk at the Liselotte-Gymnasium Mannheim as part of their Medienabend (Media Evening) — an event organized …
On April 2nd, 2026, Florian Rupp gave an invited guest lecture at Leiden University in the Netherlands. In his talk, “Procedural Content …
The course “Immersive Worlds — VR and Stage” (Virtual Reality Project, VRP, Winter Term 2025/26), co-created by JAVASCRIPT …
Computer Science student Kim Mennemann has successfully defended her master’s thesis, marking a significant step forward in making global …
In the upcoming summer term, we will teach two elective courses: Knowledge Graphs (new!, Master/Bachelor) and Game Engineering (Bachelor, now with …
