Workshops Organized

ICEC 2025

Beyond Scripts: Designing and Evaluating GenAI-Based NPCs in Video Games

International Federation for Information Processing – International Conference on Entertainment Computing (IFIP-ICEC 2025)

Nima Zargham, Leon Tristan Dratzidis, Mehrdad Bahrini, Rachel Ringe, Lisa Hesselbarth, Rainer Malaka

CUI 2025

Personas Evolved: Designing Ethical LLM-Based Conversational Agent Personalities

Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

Mateusz Dubiel, Smit Desai, Nima Zargham, Thomas Mildner, Laura Spillner

IUI 2025

BEHAVE AI: BEst Practices and Guidelines for Human-Centric Design and EvAluation of ProactiVE AI Agents

Companion Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

Matthias Kraus, Sebastian Zepf, Rebecca Westhäußer, Isabel Feustel, Nima Zargham, Ilhan Aslan, Justin Edwards, Sven Mayer, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Nicolas Wagner, Elisabeth André

MUM 2024

Designing AI Personalities: Enhancing Human-Agent Interaction Through Thoughtful Persona Design

Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

Nima Zargham, Mateusz Dubiel, Smit Desai, Thomas Mildner, Hanz-Joachim Belz

CUI 2024

Voicecraft: Designing Task-specific Voice Assistant Personas

Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

Mateusz Dubiel, Smit Desai, Nima Zargham, Anuschka Schmitt

CHI 2024

CUI@ CHI 2024: Building Trust in CUIs—From Design to Deployment

Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Smit Desai, Christina Ziying Wei, Jaisie Sin, Mateusz Dubiel, Nima Zargham, Shashank Ahire, Martin Porcheron, Anastasia Kuzminykh, Minha Lee, Heloisa Candello, Joel E Fischer, Cosmin Munteanu, Benjamin R Cowan

HRI 2023

Human-Robot Conversational Interaction (HRCI)

Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Donald McMillan, Razan Jaber, Benjamin R Cowan, Joel E Fischer, Bahar Irfan, Ronald Cumbal, Nima Zargham, Minha Lee

CUI 2023

From C-3PO to HAL: Opening The Discourse About The Dark Side of Multi-Modal Social Agents

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

Vino Avanesi, Johanna Rockstroh, Thomas Mildner, Nima Zargham, Leon Reicherts, Maximilian A Friehs, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Nina Wenig, Rainer Malaka

CUI 2023

From C-3PO to HAL: Opening The Discourse About The Dark Side of Multi-Modal Social Agents

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

Vino Avanesi, Johanna Rockstroh, Thomas Mildner, Nima Zargham, Leon Reicherts, Maximilian A Friehs, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Nina Wenig, Rainer Malaka

CUI 2023

From C-3PO to HAL: Opening The Discourse About The Dark Side of Multi-Modal Social Agents

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

Vino Avanesi, Johanna Rockstroh, Thomas Mildner, Nima Zargham, Leon Reicherts, Maximilian A Friehs, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Nina Wenig, Rainer Malaka

Conference Organization Support

CUI 2025 - Provocations Chair

Conference Website

CHI PLAY 2022 - Local Chair

Conference Website

Volunteer Work

Global Game Jam Bremen (2019-2025) - Organizer

Event's Website

CHI Conference 2023 - Student Volunteer

Conference Website

Erasmus Initiative (2015-2019) - Event Organizer

EIB Website