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The Girls' Day took place on April 25th, 2024, and was a great success! Together with the XR Hum Nuremberg we conducted parallel workshops where the girls got familiar with XR technologies and learned about the background of designing XR experiences.

The PIIS and HCI working groups actively contributed to the success of the event with demos and organization.

The XR Hub Würzburg and HiAvA attended the XR Expo in Stuttgart, where they made valuable connections with attendees from academia and industry.

The HCI Chair and PIIS working group had the pleasure of hosting the Universitätsrat and the Kuratorium at CAIDAS.

Bavaria's new Digital Minister Dr. Fabian Mehring visited the University of Würzburg for the first time. He was visibly impressed by the projects and achievements of the XR Hub.

On 22 January, members of the HCI group visited the 6th grade of the Marktheidenfeld Gymnasium to give a workshop. Using virtual reality goggles, they experienced how distressing it can be to experience insults and threats, and what can be done about it.

We welcomed pupils to the university-wide Studien-Info-Tag, where prospective students had the opportunity to join our lab tor entitled "AI, Metaverse and User Experience: Understanding and Designing Digital Worlds in the Human-Computer Interaction degree program".

The Winter EXPO 2023/24 for MCS/HCI was a great success! Thank you to all those involved and to all visitors!

Save-the-date: The winter Expo will take place on the 9th February!

The Ail at Work Team presents the META AI LITERACY SCALE. You can try it out yourself!

Prof. Carolin Wienrich informed the German Ethics Council about the psychological implications of the "metaverse". She then took part in a panel discussion with other experts.

Prof. Carolin Wienrich gave a keynote speech on the potential and challenges of the metaverse at the Federal Data Protection Commissioner's Autumn Forum.

On November 14th, 2023 the XR Hub will be presenting at this online event