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In our newly published AIFB Thematic Issue 2026, “Menschzentrierte Informatikforschung,” you will find the latest information, facts, and figures from Institute AIFB, as well as an invitation from the Verein Angewandte Informatik Karlsruhe e. V. to the 41st AIK Symposium. The symposium bears the same title and will take place on November 6, 2026.

At the IEEE IV 2025 in Romania, our research group was represented with 13 accepted papers. In addition, Ahmed Abouelazm won the Best Paper Award with his contribution "TPK: Trustworthy Trajectory Prediction Integrating Prior Knowledge For Interpretability and Kinematic Feasibility".

On March 1, 2024, the KIT Center for Mobility Systems and the Energy Lab at Campus North received an official visit from Dr. Volker Wissing, Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, and Members of the Bundestag Michael Theurer and Parsa Marvi.

Am Tag der offenen Tür und beim Campustag am KIT haben wir unsere Forschungsgruppe zahlreichen kleinen und großen Besucher*innen vorgestellt. In unseren Institutsräumen präsentierten wir verschiedene Systeme und Roboter, die in Forschung und Lehre bei uns zum Einsatz kommen. Darüber hinaus beteiligten wir uns an der Wissensrallye sowie am „Weg der Nachhaltigkeit“ und freuten uns über spannende Gespräche mit interessierten Gästen.

A robot that helps children cross the street safely? What sounds like science fiction has become reality in Bratislava – with significant involvement from KIT. 

On September 22, 2024, the workshop takes place in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces. This workshop deals with the rise of micromobility services and Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) as a potential solution to problems like regulations, standardization and road safety.

The ISE group is one of the organizers of the International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS) 2024.

The paper “SoK: The Past Decade of User Deception in Emails and Today’s Email Clients’ Susceptibility to Phishing Techniques” by Maxime Fabian Veit, Oliver Wiese, Fabian Lucas Ballreich, Melanie Volkamer, Douglas Engels, and Peter Mayer has surpassed the 500-download mark. The paper examines how email programs respond to the techniques developed over the past decade to deceive users. The paper was also cited in a report on phishing protection by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). 

The lecture period for the 2026/27 winter semester at KIT starts October 26, 2026. The following courses will be organized or co-organized by the SECUSO research group this semester: The lab course “Security, Usability, Society” (Bachelor and Master), the seminar "Informationssicherheit und Datenschutz" (Bachelor), the seminar “Security and Privacy Awareness” (Master), and the Teamprojekt Softwareentwicklung. There are no lectures during the winter semester. Applications for topics in the SECUSO internship are accepted until October 19, and for the Security and Privacy Awareness seminar until October 22. Please use only the links to the WiWi portal for your registration.

[October 6th–8th, 2026] - Good research is not only about individual achievements, but also about exchanging ideas, challenging assumptions, and learning from each other.

Earlier this month, our SYDSEN Research Group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) spent three days together in Bad Herrenalb for our annual PhD retreat.

Alongside presentations and discussions of ongoing PhD research, we organized interactive workshops on scientific writing, critically reviewing research and responding to feedback, academic networking and collaboration, and developing research proposals.

An important part of the retreat was looking beyond individual research projects: identifying common challenges, exploring connections between our research topics, and discussing opportunities for future collaboration.

Of course, the retreat was not all about research! We also enjoyed outdoor activities, games, fun evenings, and plenty of informal conversations that brought us closer together as a team.

One of our key takeaways: creating space for scientific exchange and critical discussion is essential for developing independent researchers and building a strong research group.

Many thanks to everyone in SYDSEN for their engagement, ideas, and contributions throughout these three days!

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We are happy to share our new paper by Yakup Turgut and Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, published in the Journal of Cleaner Production:

“When circularity gains diverge from social-equity outcomes: A justice-oriented agent-based scenario-comparison model with an Amsterdam case study”

The study develops a justice-oriented agent-based model to explore how circular-economy practices, spatial access to infrastructure, and labour-market assumptions jointly shape urban outcomes.

Using Amsterdam as a case study, we show that greater circular activity does not necessarily translate into more equitable outcomes. In particular, differences in access to circular-economy opportunities can interact with policy interventions in ways that increase spatial inequality.

The work provides a simulation-based testbed for exploring when circularity gains and social-equity outcomes may diverge.

📄 Free access to the paper

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