Philip Weber

Career

Philip Weber has been a research assistant in Prof. Dr. Thomas Ludwig’s research group on Educational Technologies in Digital Transformation since 01.05.2023 at the FernUniversität in Hagen. He is the operational manager for the project What2Study, which develops and deploys LLM-based chatbots for student orientation and advice in universities in NRW as a method of complement the student support offering.

Between 2019 and 2023 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Siegen in Cyber-Physical Systems research group and headed up the research projects Rendezfood (2019–2021) and RegioQuest (2022–2023). While Rendezfood developed social, location-based and gaming-based approaches for the gastronomy sector, RegioQuest's goal was to improve the visibility of training opportunities and jobs through the use of gaming-based and location-specific approaches.

Prior to this, Philip Weber studied Human Computer Interaction at the University of Siegen (2016–2019) and Business Informatics at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (2013–2016).

His research interests cover a spectrum that includes user experience design, conversational agents, gamification, location-based services and social media.

Publications

2023

• Jasche, F., Weber, P., Liu, S. & Ludwig, T. (2023) PrintAssist — a conversational human-machine interface for 3D printers
  IN i-com doi:10.1515/icom-2022-0045
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• Weber, P., Mahmood, F., Ahmadi, M., von Jan, V., Ludwig, T. & Wieching, R. (2023) Fridolin: participatory design and evaluation of a nutrition chatbot for older adults
  IN i-com doi:10.1515/icom-2022-0042
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• Ludwig, T., Weber, P., Maedche, A. & Riener, A. (2023) Special issue on “conversational agents” – Editorial
  IN i-com doi:10.1515/icom-2023-0010
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• Weber, P., Ludwig, T. & Michel, L. K. (2023) The role of technology use in food practices during the COVID-19 pandemic
  IN International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, Pages: 100687 doi:10.1016/j.ijgfs.2023.100687
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2022

• Krings, K., Weber, P., Jasche, F. & Ludwig, T. (2022)FADER: An Authoring Tool for Creating Augmented Reality-Based Avatars from an End-User Perspective
  IN Mensch und Computer 2022 – Tagungsband doi:10.1145/3543758.3543778
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• Weber, P., Grönewald, L. & Ludwig, T. (2022)Reflection on the Octalysis framework as a design and evaluation tool
  6th International GamiFIN Conference 2022 (GamiFIN 2022). Tampere, Finland, Pages: 75–84

2021

• Weber, P., Krings, K., Nießner, J., Brodesser, S. & Ludwig, T. (2021) FoodChattAR: Exploring the Design Space of Edible Virtual Agents for Human-Food Interaction
  Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. New York, NY, USA, Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, Pages: 638–650 doi:10.1145/3461778.3461998
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• Weber, P., Ludwig, T., Brodessen, S. & Grönewald, L. (2021) “It’s a kind of art!”: Understanding Food Influencers as Influential Content Creators
  CHI ’21: The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Yokohama, Japan, Publisher: ACM, New York, NY, USA, Pages: 1–14 doi:10.1145/3411764.3445607
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2020

• Weber, P., Engelbutzeder, P. & Ludwig, T. (2020)“Always on the Table”: Revealing Smartphone Usages in everyday Eating Out Situations
  Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society. New York, NY, USA, Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, Pages: 1–13 doi:10.1145/3419249.3420150
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• Weber, P. & Ludwig, T. (2020)(Non-)Interacting with conversational agents: perceptions and motivations of using chatbots and voice assistants
  MuC ’20: Proceedings of the Conference on Mensch und Computer. Magdeburg doi:10.1145/3404983.3405513
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