Hci.ac

Hello everybody.

I joined the Media Computing Group in 2022 and started as a Research Assistant in April 2024. I am experienced in mobile app development and an Apple Certified Trainer for App Development with Swift.

Software Projects

Personal Orchestra

Real time conducting simulator

This signature exhibit at House of Music in Vienna allows visitors to step into the role of the conductor of the world-famous Vienna Philharmonic.

Kieke App

Museum Guide

This app guides visitors through Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg. AR features bring history to life and allow unique memories.

Centre Charlemagne App

Museum Guide

The Centre Guide is a mobile app for iOS and Android that guides you through the permanent and temporary exhibitions of the Centre Charlemagne, Aachen's city museum.

FLApp

The Future Lab Aachen App

This mobile tourist guide showcases scientific activities in the city center with multimedia and AR content.

Teaching

Semester	Course
Winter 2024/25	iOS Application Development
Summer 2024	Designing Interactive Systems 2

Apple Certified Trainer App Development with Swift

Thesis Supervisions

Name	Topic	Thesis Type	Year
Moritz Scheve	Enhancing Mixed Reality with tactile inputs	Master's Thesis	Winter 2024/25
Destina Kolac	Mitigating Motion Sickness during In-Car Mixed Reality Use with Peripheral Visual Cues	Bachelor's Thesis Co-supervised with Sarah Sahabi	Winter 2024/25
Dascha Blehm	Countermeasures to Personal Space Invasion in Spatial Computing	Master's Thesis	Winter 2024/25
Lennart Fischer	Adopting Kotlin Multiplatform in the Future Lab Aachen App	Bachelor's Thesis Co-supervised with Oliver Nowak	Summer 2024
Tom Thiermann	Flexplorer: A Generic Data Layer for Cross-Platform Tourist Guide Apps	Bachelor's Thesis Co-supervised with Oliver Nowak	Summer 2024
Erik Østlyngen	Textile Interface in Real-Life	Bachelor's Thesis Co-supervised with Oliver Nowak	Summer 2024
Nikita Zaloga	Classify to Remember: Improving A Learning Game On Dark Patterns in User Interfaces	Bachelor's Thesis Co-supervised with René Schäfer	Summer 2024

Publications

2025

René Schäfer, Paul Preuschoff, Rene Niewianda, Sophie Hahn, Kevin Fiedler and Jan Borchers. Don't Detect, Just Correct: Can LLMs Defuse Deceptive Patterns Directly?. In Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '25 (Forthcoming), pages 11, Association for Computing Machinery, April 2025.

2024

Kevin Fiedler, René Schäfer, René Röpke and Jan Borchers. "Deception Detected!" — A Serious Game About Detecting Dark Patterns. In Proceedings of International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA' 24, pages 10, Springer, November 2024.

Kevin Fiedler. Exploring Game Mechanics for the Design of Dark Pattern Learning Games. Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, March 2024.

2021

Kevin Fiedler. Iterative Implementation of a Content Editor for Museum Guides. Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, October 2021.