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September, 2025

Our team member Insa Schaffernak had the opportunity to co-chair a symposium and present her current research on the perception of AI-supported diagnoses in ophthalmology at the 14th Conference on Work, Organizational, Business, and Engineering Psychology (AOWI) of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), held at Leuphana University Lüneburg. The event brought together more than 500 participants from eleven countries to discuss “Changing Work Environments: Cooperation between Humans and Technology.”

May, 2025

We were excited to contribute to the 22nd European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, held in Prague from May 21st to 24th, 2025. The congress brought together researchers from across Europe and beyond to exchange insights on the future of work, psychology, and technology. As part of the program, Insa Schaffernak had the opportunity to chair a symposium on the transformative role of AI in diverse professional settings and presented own findings from an interview study on the sociotechnical dynamics of AI adoption in ophthalmology. The conference sparked rich discussions on the role of AI in the future of work and enabled valuable exchanges with leading researchers in the field.

April, 2025

We had the pleasure of attending the Final Symposium “AI and the Society of the Future”, hosted by the VolkswagenStiftung at the Xplanatorium in the beautiful setting of Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover, Germany, from April 23–24, 2025. In this event filled with thought-provoking talks and cross-disciplinary exchange, Julia Cecil presented study findings from our project “Human-AI-Interaction in Healthcare: Identifying factors contributing to utility”. The symposium created an inspiring space for collaboration, connection, and forward-thinking discussion.

April, 2025

We were honored to be invited to the interactive workshop "Responsible AI: Promises, Pitfalls, and Practices", organized by the Center for Responsible AI Technologies and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) in Munich, Germany, from April 8th to 10th.

As AI continues to shape our society, the workshop provided a valuable opportunity for participants to reflect on its responsible development and societal impact, all set against the beautiful backdrop of Schloss Nymphenburg, which added an inspiring touch to the thoughtful conversations.

March, 2025

We were thrilled to be a part of the 1st International Workshop on Understanding, Controlling, and Designing Human-AI Interactions that took place at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, from March 24th to 26th. Around 40 researchers from across the globe came together to explore how human-AI collaboration can be shaped through a human-centered, interdisciplinary lens. Highlights included inspiring keynotes, a lively poster session — in which Dr. Eesha Kokje and Julia Cecil presented their study findings on human-AI interaction in diagnostic decision-making based on eye movement, and patients’ and therapists’ perceptions of AI in the psychotherapeutic treatment process — and in-depth group discussions on theories, methods, and current challenges in the field. It was an exciting step toward building a community around this fast-moving topic!

March, 2025

Dr. Eesha Kokje had the pleasure of attending the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP) at Goethe University Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany, from March 10th to 12th, 2025. She presented results from our study on "AI-augmented decision-making in one-to-one face matching: Alternatives to concurrent advice presentation".

December, 2024

The following articles were published in December and are now available online:

Kleine, A. K., Schaffernak, I., & Lermer, E. (2024). Exploring the predictors of AI chatbot usage intensity among students: Within- and between-person relationships using the technology acceptance model. Computers in human behavior, 3(100113). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2024.100113

Kleine, A. K., Kokje, E., Hummelsberger, P., Lermer, E., Schaffernak, I., & Gaube, S. (2024). AI-enabled clinical decision support tools for mental healthcare: A product review. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 160(103052). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2024.103052

Stay tuned for more updates!

November, 2024

On 22nd November, Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kleine and Dr. Eesha Kokje gave a guest lecture as part of the „Human Factors for Digital Health“ course by  Dr. Susanne Gaube at the Global Business School for Health (GBSH), University College London (UCL).

Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kleine presented her research on varied aspects of AI-enabled tools for mental healthcare, including attitudes of users, reviews of the patents and tools available in the market, and the challenges associated with regulatory approval.

Dr. Eesha Kokje talked about her research with radiologists using eye movements to understand the underpinnings of the decision-making process in AI-enabled diagnostic decision-making while viewing medical images, and shared insights on how explainability may provide value in this use case.

September, 2024

Our team had the pleasure of attending the joint Congress of the German and Austrian Psychological Societies (DGPs/ÖGP) in Vienna, Austria, from September 15th to 19th. Dr. Susanne Gaube led a symposium that showcased the diverse methodologies used in research on Human-AI Interaction in healthcare. The symposium featured her presentation on „Comparing Preferences for Skin Cancer Screening: A Conjoint Experiment“, alongside other insightful talks: Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kleine’s „Exploring Human-AI Interaction in Healthcare from Different Perspectives: Showcasing Methodological Variety,“ Julia Cecil’s „Exploring Attitudes and Adoption Intentions of AI-Enabled Technologies Among Mental Health Practitioners: Results from an International Questionnaire Study“, and Dr. Eesha Kokje’s „Human-AI Interaction in Diagnostic Decision-Making: An Eye Movement-Based Investigation“.

Additionally, Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kleine chaired a symposium on trust in AI, where she presented her research on „The Relationship Between Performance, Trust, and the Intention to Use Generative AI in Academia“.

September, 2024

From September 9th to 14th 2024, Dr. Eesha Kokje had the pleasure to join the European Summer School on Eye Movements (ESSEM) in Athens, Greece. The summer school took place at the beautiful National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Eesha Kokje presented our study on “Human-AI interaction in diagnostic decision making: An eye-movement based investigation” in a poster session. The summer school was a wonderful opportunity for learning more about varied applications of the eye-tracking method, and also sought to connect eye-movement researchers from around the world.

August, 2024

We are pleased to announce the publication of the following book chapter in August, now accessible online:

Frey, D., Vilser, M., Hehnen, M., Lermer, E., Gaube, S., & Julia Diller, S. (2024). Spitzenleistung und Innovation an Hochschulen: Umsetzung durch das Erfolgsdreieck der Führung und dessen Subkulturen. In Frey, D. & Vilser, M. (Eds.), Führung und Personalentwicklung an Hochschulen (1st ed., pp. 1-13). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67652-3_1

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March, 2024

We had the pleasure to join the 66th Conference of Experimental Psychologists from March 17th to March 20th in Regensburg (Germany). Julia Cecil, who was the chair of the symposium „AI and decision-making: Insights from various applied settings“, held a talk about the effect of explainable advice on decision-making in personnel selection. Dr. Eesha Kokje presented study results on factors influencing decision-making with AI advice in one-to-one face matching tasks.

February, 2024

Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kleine gave a guest lecture on the use and current trends in the development of AI-supported clinical decision support tools for mental healthcare as part of Dr. Susanne Gaube’s course „Human Factors for Digital Health“ at the Global Business School for Health (GBSH) at University College London (UCL) on February, 29th.

Dr. Kleine presented various research methods such as questionnaire studies, patent and product reviews and experimental studies that she and her team used to explore the use of AI-supported tools in healthcare.

September, 2023

We had the pleasure to join the “Women AI Days – Women in the field of AI in healthcare” in Königstein near Frankfurt (Germany) from September 19th to 20th. The event sought to connect women researchers with research focus on AI in healthcare.

Prof. Dr. Eva Lermer, Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kleine, Dr. Eesha Kokje, Dr. Susanne Gaube and Julia Cecil presented various study results, ranging from patent analysis and questionnaire studies in mental healthcare to experimental studies on imaging processes in radiology.

July, 2023

July 24th: Anne-Kathrin Kleine, “AI-enabled Clinical Decision Support Tools: Potential, Progress, Challenges”, AMBOSS Crosstalk, Berlin

July 24th: Anne-Kathrin Kleine, “The Future of AI in Healthcare: Benefits, Risks, Doctors’ Attitudes, and Students’ Blind-spots”, AMBOSS Podcast Beyond the Textbook, https://open.spotify.com/episode/10jUtRGs8knhhBrqaPCHOB?si=db0fda7463d741dc

July 20th: Susanne Gaube, “The Effect of Diagnostic AI-Generated Advice on Clinical Decision-Making”, Lecture at the Philosophy & Computer Science Summer School, Bayreuth, https://explainable-intelligent.systems/summer-school/

July 20th: Anne-Kathrin Kleine, “A Glimpse Into the Future – How AI-Enabled Precision Psychiatry Tools Advance Mental Healthcare”, Lecture at the Philosophy & Computer Science Summer School, Bayreuth, https://explainable-intelligent.systems/summer-school/

May, 2023

Our team had the pleasure to be part of the 21st EAWOP Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology that took place in Katowice (Poland) from May 24th to 27th. Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kleine and Julia Cecil participated in the symposium „New working environments“. Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kleine presented a systematic review and meta-analysis based on the UTAUT model in the context of AI-enabled medical decision support systems and Julia Cecil presented study results regarding the effect of explainable AI advice on people’s decision-making in a HR task.

Read more on the following LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lmu-center-for-leadership-and-people-management_lmuclpm-lmuclpm-austausch-activity-7070316522371469312-QZAZ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

March, 2023

At the ICPS 2023 from March 9th to 11th 2023 in Brussels our team (Dr. Susanne Gaube, Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kleine, Dr. Eesha Kokje and Julia Cecil) held a symposium on the “Human-AI-Interaction in different professional domains: Opportunities, challenges and design recommendations”. The symposium addressed study results on factors influencing the acceptance and use of AI-enabled decision support tools of physicians (Dr. Susanne Gaube) and in psychotherapy (Dr. Eesha Kokje), personnel selection (Julia Cecil) and recent developments in AI-enabled precision psychiatry (Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kleine). 

Read more on the following LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lmu-center-for-leadership-and-people-management_icps23be-aps-forschung-activity-7041043179952828418-HhIa?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

February, 2023

Dr. Susanne Gaube’s recent article has been featured on the latest edition of the ‚The Imaging Wire‘. The article highlights her expertise and insights in the field of AI-enabled medical imaging. Stay tuned for more updates on technological processes in the imaging world.

The article can be accessed online: https://theimagingwire.com/newsletter/3721/

December, 2022

The second part of two reports published by the Health Education England and the NHS AI Lab with the interview of Susanne Gaube and Harini Suresh is now online.

The full report can be accessed online: https://digital-transformation.hee.nhs.uk/building-a-digital-workforce/dart-ed/horizon-scanning/developing-healthcare-workers-confidence-in-ai

October, 2022

From October 12th – October 14th we had the pleasure of attending the Herrenhausen Conference “AI and the Future of Societies” hosted by the VolkswagenStiftung. The conference took place at the beautiful Herrenhausen Palace in Hannover, Germany. Eva Lermer and Julia Cecil presented study results at the poster session and Susanne Gaube gave a talk about “How accuracy and explainability of advice affect physicians”. Our team had many inspiring discussions with other researchers in the field. We would like to thank the VolkswagenStiftung for hosting this fantastic event and for the opportunity to connect and form new research collaborations.

Read more on the following LinkedIn post (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6991008990386094080/).

September, 2022

At the 52nd  DGPs Congress in Hildesheim from September 10th to 15th 2022 (https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/dgps2022/) our team (Prof. Dr. Eva Lermer, Dr. Susanne Gaube, Pia Hummelsberger and Julia Cecil) held a symposium about the topic “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and health: A psychological perspective”. Dr. Susanne Gaube, the chair of the symposium, presented her study results regarding “The influence of diagnostic advice on physicians’ decision-making” and Pia Hummelsberger addressed the “Current state of AI in healthcare: Expert interviews with researchers and technical officers”.

 For more information see the following LinkedIn Post (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6977561194953879552/)

Dr. Matthias Hudecek and Prof. Dr. Eva Lermer presented experimental study results at the 30th Annual Conference of the Society of Risk Analysis Europe (https://www.sraeurope.eu/novi-sad-serbia-2022) from June 12th to 15th 2022 in Novi Sad, Serbia. The study focused on the perception and risk assessment of medical recommendations by an artificial intelligence.

Read more on Eva Lermer’s LinkedIn Post (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6944746293466427393/)

May, 2022

Susanne Gaube and Harini Suresh (Ph.D. candidate at MIT and collaborator with our team) have been interviewed for an NHS report on AI in healthcare. This is one of two reports published by the Health Education England and the NHS AI Lab at the NHS Transformation Directorate. The report’s aim is to explore factors influencing healthcare workers’ confidence in AI-driven technologies and how their confidence can be developed through education and training. It is argued that confidence in AI used in healthcare can be increased by establishing its trustworthiness through the governance and robust implementation of these technologies. Gaube and Suresh were invited to share their experiences exploring how users are influenced by and interact with AI technology in clinical tasks. You can find their comments about users‘ susceptibility to AI advice and the impact of domain expertise mainly in the fifth chapter „Clinical Use“ in the NHS report.

The full report can be accessed online:
Nix, M., Onisiforou, G., & Painter, A. (2022). Understanding Healthcare workers’ confidence in AI. NHS AI Lab & Health Education England. https://digital-transformation.hee.nhs.uk/building-a-digital-workforce/dart-ed/horizon-scanning/understanding-healthcare-workers-confidence-in-ai