PD Dr. Daniel Ullrich
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Post-doc
Wirtschafts- und Organisationspsychologie
Büroadresse:
Leopoldstraße 13
Raum 3206
80802 München
Forschungsinteressen
- Human-Robot-Interaction & Social Robots
- Future Scenario Methods, Critical Reflections on HCI
- Experience Design
- UX Evaluation & Usability Testing
Akademischer Werdegang
- 2025
- Habilitation an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- seit 2015
- Post-doc in der Medieninformatik + Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion und am Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- und Organisationspsychologie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- 2014
- Promotion an der TU Darmstadt
- 2010-2014
- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Psychologie, Arbeits- und Ingenieurpsychologie an der TU Darmstadt
- 2007-2010
- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Psychologie, Sozialpsychologie und Entscheidungsforschung an der TU Darmstadt
- 2002-2007
- Diplom in Psychologie mit Nebenfach Informatik an der TU Darmstadt
Ausgewählte Publikationen
- Krupp, A., Ullrich, D., Diefenbach, S. (2026). The Challenge to Design for Relatedness Experiences. A Systematic Evaluation of Psychological Needs Conflicts and Barriers of Relatedness Technologies. In Proceedings of the CHI 2026 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM Press.
- Ullrich, D., Bischoff, E. & Diefenbach, S. (2025). The Cassandra Method: Using Dystopian Visions to Inform Responsible HCI Design and Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OZCHI '25), 505 – 529. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3764687.3764710
- Diefenbach, S., Ullrich, D., Lindermayer, T., & Isaksen, K.-L. (2024). Responsible Automation: Exploring Potentials and Losses through Automation in Human–Computer Interaction from a Psychological Perspective. Information, 15(8), 460. https://doi:10.3390/info15080460
- Diefenbach, S., Christoforakos, L., Ullrich, D., & Butz, A. (2022). Invisible but Understandable: In Search of the Sweet Spot between Technology Invisibility and Transparency in Smart Spaces and Beyond. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 6(10), 95. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti6100095
- Ullrich, D., Butz, A., & Diefenbach, S. (2021). The development of overtrust: An empirical simulation and psychological analysis in the context of human-robot interaction. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.554578
- Ullrich, D., Butz, A., & Diefenbach, S. (2020). The eternal robot: Anchoring effects in human's mental models of robots and their self. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2020.546724
- Diefenbach, S., Ullrich, D. & Butz, A (2024). Aggregation & Distribution: Beyond the Singular Form. In J. Banks (ed.) Android, Assembled: The Explicit and Implicit Anatomy of Social Robots (ch. 14). New York: Peter Lang.
- Diefenbach, S., & Ullrich, D. (2016). Digitale Depression: Wie neue Medien unser Glücksempfinden verändern. mvg.
- Diefenbach, S., Ullrich, D., Veihelmann, M. (2026). Responsible Use of AI – Dream or Achievable Goal? Reflections On The Gains And Losses Of AI in Everyday Life. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798582
- Diefenbach, S., Stoll, J., Ullrich, D. (2025). Critical Foresight of Human-Computer Interaction: A Review on Methods to Assess Ethical Risks and Side-Effects of Emerging Technologies. In: Tareq Z. Ahram, Waldemar Karwowski and Pei-Luen Rau (eds) Human-Computer Interaction & Emerging Technologies. AHFE (2025) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 195. AHFE International, USA. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1006218
- Ullrich, D., Butz, A., & Diefenbach, S. (2024). The Fernstudent. A User-Centered Design Case Study on Improvements of Hybrid Teaching Through A Physical Avatar in the Classroom. Fernstudent Case Study. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article No.: 534, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3637144