Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence > Teaching

We offer courses for undergraduate and graduate students of the Faculty of Technology in the area of multimodal behavior processing. Our seminars are research-oriented, combine practical exercises with theoretical input and give insights in current debates in the field.
If you are interested in doing a project, an internship or writing your thesis at our lab, please contact Dr. Olya Hakobyan.

Theses

The following theses are currently available within our group:

 

Student projects

The following student projects are currently available within our group:

• Deep learning Methods for Heart Rate Estimation
• Explainable Methods for Heart rate Estimation

Courses WiSe 25/26

• Multimodal Behavior Processing: Affective Signals (V) (Drimalla, WiSe 2025/2026)

• Project: Accuracy and Robustness of Webcam-Based Gaze Trackers (Pj) (Drimalla, Saakyan, WiSe 2025/2026)

• Forschungskolloquium: Human-Centered AI Lab (S) (Drimalla, WiSe 2025/2026)

• Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Journal Club) (S) (Drimalla, Hakobyan, WiSe 2025/2026)

• Übungen: Vertiefung Neuronale Netze (Ü) (Drimalla, Kappel, WiSe 2025/2026)

• Vertiefung Neuronale Netze (V) (WiSe 2025/2026)

• Project: One Person, One Shot: Pipeline for Fair Participation in Online Studies (Pj) (Hakobyan, Drimalla, WiSe 2025/2026)

• The devil is in the detail: understanding statistics through replication and critical reading (S) (Hakobyan, Drimalla, WiSe 2025/2026)

   

Courses SoSe 2025

• Grundlagen Neuronaler Netze (V) (Drimalla, SoSe 2025)
• Project: Temporal Modeling of Multimodal Behavioral Data for ASC Assessment (Pj) (Saakyan, Drimalla, SoSe 2025)
• Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Journal Club) (S) (Drimalla, Johnson, SoSe 2025)
• AG Kolloquium Multimodal Behavior Processing (S) (Drimalla, SoSe 2025)
• Project: Visualizing messaging patterns: A tool for individuals to explore their WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram communication (Pj) (Hakobyan, Martin, Drimalla, SoSe 2025)
• Project: De-identifying Telegram, Signal and TikTok data for safe and ethical research (Pj) (Martin, Hakobyan, Drimalla, SoSe 2025)

Courses WiSe 24/25

• Multimodal Behavior Processing: Affective Signals (V) (Drimalla,WiSe 2024/2025)
• Multimodal Behavior Processing: Affective Signals (Ü) (Drimalla,WiSe 2024/2025)
• Project: Deep learning Methods for Heart Rate Estimation (Pj) (Drimalla, Acharya WiSe 2024/2025)
• Project: Multimodal Behavior Processing - Projects (Pj) (Drimalla, Norden WiSe 2024/2025)
• Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Journal Club) (S) (Drimalla, Johnson WiSe 2024/2025)
• AG Kolloquium Multimodal Behavior Processing (S) (Drimalla,WiSe 2024/2025)

Past courses

• Empathic Artificial Intelligence (Interactive/Multimodal Journal Club) (Hakobyan, Norden SoSe 2024)
• AG Kolloquium Multimodal Behavior Processing (Drimalla, SoSe 2024)
• Introduction to Machine Learning (Drimalla, WiSe 2023/24)
• Journal Club: Hot Topics in Multimodal Behavior Processing (Drimalla, Johnson WiSe 2023/24)
• AG Kolloquium Multimodal Behavior Processing (Drimalla, WiSe 2023/24)
• Multimodal Behavior Processing: Affective Signals (Lecture and Tutorial) (Drimalla, SoSe 2023)
• Explainable AI for Affective Computing (Drimalla, SoSe 2023)
• Journal Club: Challenging the state-of-the-art in multimodal machine learning for behavior processing (Drimalla, Johnson, SoSe 2023)
• AG Kolloquium Multimodal Behavior Processing (Drimalla, SoSe 2023)
• Journal Club: Machine Learning Methods for Small Datasets in Multimodal Behavior Processing (Drimalla, Johnson, WiSe 2022/2023)

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• AG Kolloquium Multimodal Behavior Processing (Drimalla, WiSe 2022/2023)

• Lecture: Multimodal Behavior Processing: Affective Signals (Drimalla, SoSe 2022)

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• Tutorial: Multimodal Behavior Processing: Affective Signals (Drimalla, SoSe 2022)

• Seminar: Explainable AI for Affective Computing (Johnson, Drimalla, SoSe 2022)

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• Journal Club: Hot Topics in Multimodal Behavior Processing (Drimalla, SoSe 2022)

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• Seminar: Biases in Artificial Intelligence (Drimalla, Johnson, WiSe 2021/22)

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• Journal Club: Hot Topics in Multimodal Behavior Processing (Drimalla, Johnson, WiSe 2021/22)

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• Seminar: Affective Signals (Drimalla, SoSe 2021)
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• Search, Read and Judge Scientific Literature (Hasso-Plattner Institute, Digital Health Center)
• Health Behavior, Mental Health and Neuropsychiatric Disorders (two sessions within the course "Health and Disease Core Competencies")(Hasso-Plattner Institute, Digital Health Center)
• Developing and Validating Psychological Tests (Research Methods Lecture - Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
• Empirical Research Training for Master Students (Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
• Empathy (Summer School at START–SommerCampUS, START-Foundation, Hertie-Foundation)
• Tutorial on Empirical Fundamentals of Psychology (Department of Cognition, Faculty for Psychology, Ruhr-Universität)