Research interests

  • User experience and human-technology interaction
  • Technology acceptance and psychological needs
  • Connectedness over distance

Academic career

2026
Visiting researcher, HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
since 2023
Research assistant, Chair of Economic and Organisational Psychology, University of Munich
2019-2022
Master of Science in Psychology (focus on Environmental Psychology/Human-Technology Interaction), University of Magdeburg
2018
Semester abroad, University of Eastern Finland
2015-2019
Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Cologne

Publications

  • Schuster, K., Krupp, A., & Diefenbach, S. (2024). Miles apart but close at heart? Exploration of UX checklist for relatedness technologies based on focus groups. i-com, 23(1), 95-107. https://doi.org/10.1515/icom-2024-0010


  • Krupp, A., & Diefenbach, S. (2026). Why Are You Really Using This Technology? An Exploratory Study on the Relevance of Psychological Needs for Technology Acceptance Across Different Domains. In Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2026 (MuC '26). ACM, NY, USA, 540–545. https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3831387
  • Krupp, A., Ullrich, D., & Diefenbach, S. (2026, April). The Challenge to Design for Relatedness Experiences: An Explorative Investigation of Five Relatedness Technologies from a Psychological Needs Perspective. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-20). https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790727
  • Krupp, A., & Schuster, K. (2024). An advanced perspective on technology acceptance: Considering users’ psychological needs for technology acceptance. In Diefenbach, S. (Chair), Responsible Design – Human-centered product development from a (social-) psychological perspective [Symposium]. 53rd DGPs Congress/15th ÖGP Conference, Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.2440/0003
  • Krupp, A. (2023). How Can Technology Acceptance Be Measured? An Adaptable Toolkit for Measuring Acceptance of Experience-Oriented Technologies. In L. Chuang, A.-C. Hensch, E. Wögerbauer, & J. Bornemeier (Chairs), Proceedings of the 5th German Human Factors Summer School 2023. German Human Factors Summer School. Section of Engineering Psychology of the German Psychological Society (DGPs). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10490096

Teaching

  • Applied project for market and user research
  • Seminar on Market, Consumer, and Economic Psychology
  • Seminar on Market and Economic Diagnosis
  • "Lehrforschungsprojekte" (teaching research projects) on Market, Consumer, and Economic Psychology
  • Supervision of research projects, Bachelor's and Master's theses

Research projects

  • "VEREINT - Sich VERbundEn fühlen durch INTeraktive Technologien, funded by BMFTR (German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space)

Other activities