Sebastian von Mammen

Games Engineering, University of Würzburg

In January 2017, I accepted my current position as a W2 professor (associate professorship) at the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Computer Science. I am heading the Games Engineering research group and we are part of the Chair for Human-Computer Interaction. Together, we are mainly responsible for the Games Engineering program of studies.

Until the end of 2016, I was a postdoc at the Chair of Organic Computing at the University of Augsburg, where I also did my habilitation. Before that, until 2012, I did a postdoc with the LINDSAY project at the University of Calgary. As part of the Evolutionary and Swarm Design research group, I received my PhD also at the University of Calgary in 2009. I moved there in 2006, right after I had finished my Diploma degree in Informatics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.

My research interests are:

  • Real-Time Interactive Systems (Visual Programming, Immersion, Software Engineering)
  • Interactive Simulations (Serious Games, Simulations in Health, Logistics, Construction,…)
  • Artificial Life (Self-Organisation, Adaptive Systems, Evolution)
  • Artificial Intelligence(Agent-Based Modeling, Procedural Content Generation)

    • All Sessions by Sebastian von Mammen

    • 2. Summit Morning

      Nov. 19

    • 10:10  - 11:00
      Marc Erich Latoschik: From A(vatars) to Z(ero) Latency

      Avatars are the digital replicas of our physical selfs. They are the embodied interface to virtual words and our alter-ego in the digital realm. In contrast to the physical world, avatars can have almost any conceivable shape and appearance and are not restricted to match our original biological counterparts. Notably, this freedom consistently causes interesting effects regarding the plasticity of our body schema and resulting changes our self-consciousness: Our body changes our mind. These effects fuel philosophical questions about dualism and the relationship between mind and matter and initiate envisioning of a multitude of potential futures and consequences of an embodied internet. The talk will highlight the state of the art, our current findings of known effects, technical limitations and options, and the philosophical questions arising with such a technology.
      Where
      Online via Eventbrite




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