TY - CHAP A1 - Wikarski, Dietmar A1 - Aurah, Catherine A1 - Ebinga Osore, Emmanuel A1 - Mengich, Gladys A1 - Mutua, Gershom A1 - Ndiema, Alice A1 - Nkangi, Felister Nyaera A1 - Ogemah, Vitalis A1 - Okoth, Patrick A1 - Ondulo, Jasper A1 - Orata Omoto, Francis A1 - Wambui Mwangi, Mary A1 - Namayi, Vivian A1 - Flassig, Peter A1 - Loose, Harald A1 - Malessa, Reiner A1 - Piorr, Hans-Peter A1 - Schrader, Thomas A1 - Weber, Christian-Toralf ED - Wikarski, Dietmar T1 - Towards Practice-oriented Higher Education for Sustainable Rural Development in Western Kenya BT - Proceedings of the final workshop of the DAAD funded project ProUniEdu-WeK Brandenburg an der Havel, August 10-12th, 2021 N2 - The workshop proceedings contain the written versions of the presentations of the Kenyan participants of the final workshop of the DAAD-funded cooperation project "Practice-oriented Higher Education in Western Kenya" (ProUniEdu-WeK) in August 2021 at the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences (THB). The contributions give an impression of what has been achieved in the last years on the way to practice-oriented higher education in the participating departments of the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) in cooperation with its partners from the THB and what is planned to be done in the years to come. KW - Manufacturing KW - 3D Printing KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Bio-slurry KW - Biodigester KW - Biogas KW - CAD/CAM KW - Certification KW - CFD KW - Chronic illnesses KW - Collaboration KW - Communication Strategies KW - Competence KW - Computational Algorithms KW - COVID-19 KW - Cross-Flow Turbine KW - Diagnostic Toolkit KW - Digital Economy KW - Digitalisation KW - E-Health KW - Efficiency KW - Finite Element Method KW - Food Security KW - Health Communication KW - Higher Education KW - IoT KW - Learning Tool KW - Milling KW - Multi-disciplinarity KW - Organic Agriculture KW - Organic Farming KW - Organic Products KW - Pedagogy KW - Programming KW - Prosthetics KW - Prototyping KW - Robotics KW - Rural Areas KW - Rural Community KW - Rural Populations KW - Statistical Analysis KW - Telemedicine Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:522-opus4-27420 SP - 1 EP - 148 PB - Technische Hochschule Brandenburg CY - Brandenburg an der Havel ET - 1st edition ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wagner, Robin A1 - Kitzelmann, Emanuel A1 - Boersch, Ingo T1 - Mitigating Hallucination by Integrating Knowledge Graphs into LLM Inference – a Systematic Literature Review T2 - Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop) N2 - Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong performance on different language tasks, but tend to hallucinate – generate plausible but factually incorrect outputs. Recently, several approaches to integrate Knowledge Graphs (KGs) into LLM inference were published to reduce hallucinations. This paper presents a systematic literature review (SLR) of such approaches. Following established SLR methodology, we identified relevant work by systematically search in different academic online libraries and applying a selection process. Nine publications were chosen for indepth analysis. Our synthesis reveals differences and similarities of how the KG is accessed, traversed, and how the context is finally assembled. KG integration can significantly improve LLM performance on benchmark datasets and additionally to mitigate hallucination enhance reasoning capabilities, explainability, and access to domain-specific knowledge. We also point out current limitations and outline directions for future work. KW - LLMs KW - hallucination KW - knowledge graphs KW - inference KW - literature review Y1 - 2025 UR - https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-srw.53.pdf U6 - https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-srw.53 SP - 795 EP - 805 PB - Association for Computational Linguistics CY - Vienna ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Vollmer, Michael A1 - Shaw, Joseph A. T1 - Near infrared photography of atmospheric optical phenomena T2 - Fifteenth Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics: ETOP 2019 T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - Vol. 11143 Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2523165 SP - 111431P-1 EP - 111431P-6 CY - Quebec City, Quebec, Canada ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Vollmer, Michael A1 - Shaw, Joseph A. T1 - Extended visual range: an observation during a total solar eclipse T2 - Fifteenth Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics: ETOP 2019 T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - 11143 Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2523167 SP - 111431Q-1 EP - 111431Q-6 CY - Quebec City, Quebec, Canada ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Vielhauer, Claus A1 - Loewe, Fabian A1 - Pilgermann, Michael T1 - Towards Modeling Hidden & Steganographic Malware Communication based on Images T2 - IH&MMSEC '25: ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, San Jose, CA, USA, 2025 N2 - Recently, an increasing number of IT security incidents involving malware, which makes use of hidden and steganographic channels for malicious communication (a.k.a. as "stegomalware"), can be observed in the wild. Especially the use of images to hide malicious code is rising. In consideration of this shift, a new model is proposed in this paper, which aims to help security professionals to identify and analyze incidents revolving around steganographic malware in the future. The model focuses on practical aspects of steganalysis of communication data to elaborate linking properties to previous code analysis knowledge. The model features two distinct roles that interact with a knowledge base which stores malware features and helps building a context for the incident. For evaluation, two image steganography malware types are chosen from popular databases (malpedia and MITRE ATT&CK®), which are analyzed in multiple steps including steganalysis and code analysis. It is conceptually shown, how the extracted features can be stored in a knowledge base for later use to identify stegomalware from communication data without the need of a thorough code analysis. This allows to uncover previously hidden meta-information about the examined malicious programs, enrich the incident’s forensic context traces and thus allows for thorough forensic insights, including attribution and improved preventive security measures in the future. Y1 - 2025 UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3733102.3733152 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3733102.3733152 SP - 52 EP - 63 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trancón y Widemann, Baltasar A1 - Lepper, Markus ED - Ertl, M. Anton ED - Kirsch, Christoph M. T1 - Imagine There’s No Source Code: Replay Diagnostic Location Information in Dynamic EDSL Meta-programming T2 - MPLR 2024: Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes N2 - Programs in embedded domain-specific languages are realized as graphs of objects of the host language rather than as static input texts. This property enables dynamic meta-programming, but also makes it harder to attach location information to diagnostic messages that arise at a later stage, after the program graph construction. Thus, EDSL-generating expressions and algorithms can be difficult to debug. Here, we present a technique for transparently capturing and replaying location information about the origin of EDSL program objects. It has been implemented in the context of the LLJava-live EDSL-to-bytecode compiler framework on the JVM. The basic idea can be generalized to other contexts, and to any managed runtime environment with reified stack traces Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3679007.3685061 SP - 1 EP - 11 PB - ACM CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tetzlaff, Laura A1 - Purohit, Anne-Maria A1 - Spallek, Jacob A1 - Holmberg, Christine A1 - Schrader, Thomas T1 - Evaluating Interoperability in German Critical Incident Reporting Systems T2 - German Medical Data Sciences 2023 – Science. Close to People. Proceedings of the 68th Annual Meeting of the German Association of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology e.V. (gmds) 2023, Heilbronn, Germany N2 - In industrialised countries, one in ten patients suffers harm during hospitalization. Critical Incident Reporting Systems (CIRS) aim to minimize this by learning from errors and identifying potential risks. However, a lack of interoperability among the 16 CIRS in Germany hampers their effectiveness. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI230722 SP - 249 EP - 257 PB - IOS Press ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Simmering, Veronika A1 - Pfeiffer, Thies A1 - Kindsmüller, Martin Christof T1 - The Impact of Embodiment and Output Modality on Learning with Conversational Agents in VR T2 - GI Workshop 2025 on Virtual and Augmented Reality : VR/AR 2025, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn 2025 N2 - In Virtual Reality (VR) learning applications, the integration of pedagogical agents is particularly promising, as they function as a virtual social support. With the recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs), conversational language models are now available that enable natural language interaction in a VR environment. We evaluated four possible designs for LLM-based agents (푛 = 21) in an aircraft-engine training. Focusing on the primary questions when bringing LLM-based agents into VR: whether to use text or speech and whether to embody the conversational agent in 3D or not. Pre- and post-tests were used to measure retention and questionnaires were used to measure the User Experience (UX) of different design variants. Contrary to our hypotheses, retention was higher when using a non-embodied design compared to an embodied design. The output modality did not have a significant impact on the learning success, but it did have an impact on the UX. Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.18420/vrar2025_12 SN - 2944-7682 SP - 235 EP - 254 PB - Gesellschaft für Informatik ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Richter, Nancy A1 - Wrobel, Martin T1 - The Impact of prototyping on the survival chances of digital early-stage startups: Findings and insights from explorative expert interviews T2 - Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ECIE 2023 N2 - The products of digital entrepreneurs are highly innovative, and their business models contribute to the prosperity and further development of the economy and society. However, studies indicate that most of all startups fail, particularly during the early stages of their business journey Prototyping as part of Lean Startup or Business Model Testing approaches, can assist digital early-stage startups in navigating uncertainty and achieving successful product launches. However, these methods are applied very individually and there is little empirical research on best practices. We therefore conducted 65 explorative expert interviews and asked successful startups about their prototyping practices. Our results include learnings on the prototyping process and the testing format, the role of the founding team during prototyping practices, the customer focus and the role of networks. Our study adds important details to theory and practice of the innovation and prototyping processes of digital early-stage startups. Our results offer actionable advice and guidance to any current and potential entrepreneur, but especially to first-time founders and less experienced executives in early stage-startups. Additionally, our contribution enhances the theoretical understanding of the Lean Startup approach and prototyping practices. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34190/ecie.18.2.1714 VL - 18 IS - 2 SP - 772 EP - 779 PB - Academic Conferences International Limited ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Querner, Erich A1 - Ewerling, Philipp A1 - Kindsmüller, Martin Christof T1 - Touch gets it done, tangibles make it fun? Balancing objective accuracy and user experience T2 - Mensch und Computer 2025 - Workshopband : MCI-WS11: 18th Workshop “Be-greifbare Interaktion”. Chemnitz. 31. August - 03. September 2025 N2 - This study compares Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) with conventional touch interfaces (CTIs) on multi-touch tables for exploratory multi-user map applications. We developed a prototype that enables multiple users to interact with map content simultaneously and independently. Four interaction methods were implemented and evaluated: gesture-based touch control, widget-based touch joystick control, and two tangible interaction variants (a joystick and car-steering metaphor). A user study with 15 participants was conducted in which users navigated predefined routes with varying difficulty. We collected both objective performance measurements and subjective user assessments. While touch-based methods yielded higher accuracy in objective metrics, TUI-based interactions were rated significantly better by participants in terms of user experience. Notably, the car-steering tangible control was particularly well-received, highlighting how physical, playful interaction can enhance usability despite lower accuracy. These findings contribute to our understanding of how different interaction paradigms support collaborative exploration on multi-touch surfaces. Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18420/muc2025-mci-ws11-164 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - Gesellschaft für Informatik ER -