Hi, my name is

Albin Zeqiri.

I’m a final-year PhD candidate in HCI at Ulm University, investigating carbon-aware design for everyday interactive systems and its implications for user behavior and carbon emissions.

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About Me

During my master’s studies, I specialized in deep learning, with a focus on visual computing and human behavior modeling. In my PhD at Ulm University, I combine this expertise with experimental research methods and user-centered design to develop and evaluate carbon-aware interactive systems and assess whether they achieve their intended outcomes. Alongside my doctoral research, I collaborate with partners including University College London (UCL) and Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation, providing methodological guidance and implementing reproducible pipelines for evaluating machine learning models. Beyond my research, I enjoy working with creative practitioners such as the Theatre of Ulm to bring interactive technology to new audiences. Most recently, I co-developed the augmented reality experience for Theater Ulm’s production of Spaceman

Publications

Fellowships & Grants

2023
LGFG Doctoral Fellowship

Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg

Competitive three-year scholarship funding my PhD research.

2023
AI Grid Member (Alumnus)

AI Grid · funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Selected through a competitive review for Germany's network of early-career AI researchers, connecting them with expert mentors.

2026
DAAD Travel Grant

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Congress travel grant to present my work at CHI 2026 in Barcelona.

2024
Graduate Travel Grant

Graduate & Professional Training Center Ulm

€2,800 to present two papers at UbiComp 2024 in Melbourne.

Outreach & Collaborations

Theater Collaboration · Sep 2026

Spaceman

Theater Ulm

Together with Annalisa Degenhard, I implemented the passthrough AR experience for the stage production: virtual scenery and characters that interact with the actors throughout the entire multi-hour play.

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Invited Workshop · Nov 2026

Roboter im Stadtbeet?

PRIO1 Klima-Event, Heidelberg

Invited to lead a workshop on future scenarios for robot-supported urban gardening, based on our PlantPal paper.

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News

  1. 2026
  2. Upcoming I was invited to lead a workshop at the PRIO1 Klima-Event in Heidelberg based on our PlantPal paper: Roboter im Stadtbeet? Zukunftsszenarien für nachhaltiges Urban Gardening (robots in urban gardens).
  3. Premiere of Spaceman at Theater Ulm. Together with Annalisa Degenhard, I implemented the passthrough AR experience for the production: virtual scenery and characters that interact with the actors on stage for the entire multi-hour play.
  4. Attended the 10th Summer School on Computational Interaction at the University of Glasgow.
  5. Presented two papers at CHI ’26 in Barcelona: eco-friendly service options and rebound behavior in ride-hailing and BotaXplore.
  6. Presented our ride-hailing paper at the German Pre-CHI 2026 at LMU Munich.
  7. Our late-breaking work BotaXplore was accepted at CHI ’26.
  8. Received a DAAD travel grant to present at CHI ’26 in Barcelona.
  9. Our paper on eco-friendly service options and rebound behavior in ride-hailing was accepted at CHI ’26.
  10. 2025
  11. Presented PlantPal at CHI ’25 in Yokohama, alongside our co-authored paper Bumpy Ride?.
  12. Presented PlantPal at the German Pre-CHI 2025 at the University of Siegen.
  13. Two papers accepted at CHI ’25: PlantPal and Bumpy Ride?.
  14. 2024
  15. Presented two papers at UbiComp ’24 in Melbourne: ‘Eco Is Just Marketing’ (IMWUT) and predicting thermal perception from contextual data.
  16. Received a travel grant (€2,800) from the Graduate & Professional Training Center Ulm to attend UbiComp ’24 in Melbourne.
  17. AutoTherm, a dataset and benchmark for thermal comfort estimation, was accepted at IMWUT.
  18. Our paper on predicting thermal perception from contextual data was accepted at UbiComp ’24.
  19. ‘Eco Is Just Marketing’ was accepted at IMWUT.
  20. 2023
  21. Awarded the Landesgraduiertenförderung (LGFG) doctoral fellowship, a competitive scholarship supporting my PhD research.

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