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:

there are currently no projects being planned in the lab. Feel free to reach out to Olya Hakobyan if you interested in bringing forward your own idea!

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)