Hi 👋︎ I'm Pascal Jansen
PhD candidate and Research Associate in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at the Institute of Media Informatics, Ulm University.
My research agenda is calibrated human-AI interaction
— I develop and study adaptive interfaces that keep each person’s experience within a range appropriate to that person and to what AI systems can deliver, and that help people adapt as these systems grow more capable.
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Submitted my PhD thesis, Toward Computational Human-Vehicle Interaction Design: From Design-Problem Formulation to Human-in-the-Loop Optimization.
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Joined the CHI 2027 program committee as Associate Chair.
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Paper conditionally accepted at UIST 2026 (led by Max Rädler) - MoTUI: Personalization of In-Vehicle Tactile Interfaces for People With Vision Impairments and the Blind.
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Presented our latest automotive user interface research to broad public audiences at the Langer Abend der Wissenschaft 2026 (Long Evening of Science) at Ulm University.
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Session Chair at CHI 2026: Context-aware Interfaces for Mobility & Automation.
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Guest lecture From One-Size-Fits-All to Preference-Based Interactions with Technology and research visit at UCL Interaction Centre, UK.
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Joined the Program Committee of CHIWORK '26 as Senior Member.
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Joined the Best Paper Award Committee for CHI '26.
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At CHI '26, three papers led or co-authored were conditionally accepted, spanning mediated reality techniques in automotive settings and adaptive user interfaces for future mobility.
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Joined the Distinguished Reviewer Board for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), which acknowledges sustained high-quality, timely, and constructive peer review contributions to the HCI community.
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Joined the organizing committee of MuC 2026 as Student Research Competition Chair.
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Received Honorable Mention Award at MUM 2025 for AirClick: Modularized Interactive Inflatables for On-Demand Room Transformation.
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Paper accepted at MUM 2025 - AirClick: Modularized Interactive Inflatables for On-Demand Room Transformation.
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Joined the CHI 2026 program committee as Associate Chair in the User Experience and Usability subcommittee.
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Paper accepted at IEEE RO-MAN 2025 (led by Maren Raab) - Assessing Pedestrian Behavior Around Autonomous Cleaning Robots in Public Spaces: Findings from a Field Observation.
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Co-organized a workshop (Accessible Automated Automotive Workshop Series (A3WS): Accessibility in Mobility) and a tutorial (Human-in-the-Loop Bayesian Optimization for ALL: Practical Applications in Human-Computer Interaction Challenges) at MuC 2025 in Chemnitz, Germany.
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Released v1.1.0 of Bayesian Optimization for Unity, enabling a streamlined HITL workflow with Bayesian optimization (via BoTorch) to personalize designs.
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At the Long Evening of Science at Ulm University, presented novel human-vehicle interaction research to more than 2,000 visitors, including prospective students and families.
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Transportation Research Part F paper accepted: Longitudinal Effects of Visualizing Uncertainty of Situation Detection and Prediction of Automated Vehicles (AVs) on User Perceptions. A three-day study with 50 participants viewing real-world commute videos twice daily showed that clear, consistent AV uncertainty visualizations significantly increased trust over time while revealing the need for explicit AV intent cues and manual intervention options.
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OptiCarVis received an Honorable Mention Award at CHI '25 in Yokohama, Japan.
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At CHI '25, five papers led or co-authored were published, spanning sustainability, the impact of motion on interaction quality, and adaptive user interfaces for future mobility.
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Delivered the laudatio for Mark Colley at the SIGCHI Awards Dinner, honoring his Special Recognition for Early Career Researcher Award.
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Two papers published at HRI '25 in Melbourne, Australia: HUD-SUMO, linking SUMO and CARLA to simulate AR HUD settings and predict their impact on reaction time, speed adherence, lane changes, and acceleration; and UAM-SUMO, extending SUMO to model urban air taxi corridors alongside ground vehicles for large-scale studies of traffic flow, mode choice, and passenger trust.
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At the Bildungsmesse Ulm 2025, the VeMoR simulator attracted many prospective students interested in high-immersion motion feedback in a safe, lab environment. The speaker of the Baden-Wurttemberg parliament and Ulm's Mayor visited the booth.
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Started as a visiting researcher at the UCL Interaction Centre in London, UK, hosted by Mark Colley.
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At the Long Evening of Science Fair at Ulm University, showcased VeMoR, a VR vehicle-motion simulator enabling roll, pitch, and yaw synchronization to the virtual vehicle to bridge the gap between static lab setups and expensive full-motion rigs. Presented future mobility research to over 2,000 visitors.
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Transportation Research Part F paper accepted: Visualizing Imperfect Situation Detection and Prediction in Automated Vehicles: Understanding Users' Perceptions via User-Chosen Scenarios. EduLicit, a web-based platform, elicits public "challenging AV scenarios" and evaluates how visualizing an AV's perception, prediction, and planning influences user acceptance.
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The Social Engineer launched on Steam - a room-scale VR serious game for practicing social-engineering defense strategies.
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Registration Chair at AutoUI '23 in Ingolstadt, overseeing online and on-site registration and coordinating with ACM on organization and budgeting.
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First-author CHI '23 paper: AutoVis: Enabling Mixed-Immersive Analysis of Automotive UI Interaction Studies. AutoVis combines desktop and VR views with automotive-specific visualizations (context portals, driving-path events, avatars, trajectories, heatmaps), guided by expert requirements and validated on real and public datasets (demo).