Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Ziegler

Jürgen Ziegler is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen where he directs the Interactive Systems Research Group. His main research interests lie in the areas of human-computer interaction, human-AI cooperation, recommender systems, information visualization, and health applications.

Jürgen Ziegler holds a diploma degree in electrical engineering and biocybernetics from the University of Karlsruhe and a doctoral degree from the University of Stuttgart. Prior to joining the University, he was head of the Competence Center for Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering in Stuttgart. Among various other scientific functions he is currently editor-in-chief of i-com - Journal of Interactive Media (De Gruyter) and chair of the German Special Interest Group on User-Centred Artificial Intelligence.

Journal of Interactive Media

For a description of the scope of the journal and submission see i-com.

Contact

Mail	juergen [dot] ziegler [at] uni-due [dot] de
Phone	+49 (203) 379-2270
Fax	+49 (203) 379-3557
Office	LE 411
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Selected publications

Meta-Intents in Conversational Recommender Systems

Yuan, M., Donkers, T., Kleemann, T., & Jürgen, Z. (to appear). In Proceedings of the 4th Edition of Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems (KaRS) Workshop @ RecSys 2022.

An Instrument for measuring users’ meta-intents

Ma, Y., Donkers, T., Kleemann, T., & Ziegler, J. (2023). In J. Gwizdka & S. Y. Rieh (Eds.), CHIIR ’23: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 290–302). ACM.

Creating Omni-Channel In-Store Shopping Experiences through Augmented-Reality-Based Product Recommending and Comparison

Álvarez Márquez, J. O., & Ziegler, J. (2023). International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, in press.

A comparative study of item space visualizations for recommender systems

Kunkel, J., & Ziegler, J. (2023). International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 172.

Mental Models, Explanations, Visualizations: Promoting User-Centered Qualities in Recommender Systems

Kunkel, J. (2022). [PhD thesis].

Recommendations as Challenges: Estimating Required Effort and User Ability for Health Behavior Change Recommendations

Torkamaan, H., & Ziegler, J. (2022). 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 106–119.

Psychological User Characteristics and Meta-Intents in a Conversational Product Advisor

Ma, Y., Kleemann, T., & Ziegler, J. (2022). Proceedings of the 9th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems, 3222, 18–32.

Towards Multi-Method Support for Product Search and Recommending

Kleemann, T., Loepp, B., & Ziegler, J. (2022). Adjunct Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ’22), 74–79.

Health Recommender Systems for Mental Health Promotion

Torkamaan, H. (2022). [PhD thesis, University of Duisburg-Essen].

Development of an Instrument for Measuring Users’ Perception of Transparency in Recommender Systems

Hellmann, M., Hernandez Bocanegra, D., & Ziegler, J. (2022). In A. Smith-Renner & O. Amir (Eds.), Workshops at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2022: Proceedings of the IUI 2022 Workshops: APEx-UI, HAI-GEN, HEALTHI, HUMANIZE, TExSS, SOCIALIZE (Vol. 3124, pp. 156–165). RWTH Aachen.

Main research topics

Modelling and Understanding User Behavior

Social Media Engineering

Additional information

Supervised PhD Theses