Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn
Claudia Müller-Birn is the head of the research group Human-Centered Computing (HCC.lab) at the Institute of Computer Science at the Freie Universität Berlin and Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«.
Her research is in the field of Social Computing and Human Computer Interaction. Claudia undertook a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University in the School of Computer Science based on a Feodor Lynen Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
In her interdisciplinary research projects, she focuses on Human-Machine Collaboration, i.e., how we can intertwine algorithms more tightly with humans to achieve a shared goal. Her current application areas focus on interactive visualizations and human-centered machine learning. In her problem- and theory-driven research, she combines the engineering of software with their empirical evaluation, intending to contribute to value-oriented socio-technical system design. Claudia advocates Open Science in scholarly work.
Freie Universität Berlin
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Königin-Luise-Straße 24-26
14195 Berlin
Articles in Edited Volumes
Cypko, M. A., Timmermann, L., Sauer, I. M., Müller-Birn, C. 2022. »Towards Human-Robotic Collaboration: Observing Teamwork of Experienced Surgeons in Robotic-Assisted Surgery.« In Mensch und Computer 2022 (MuC '22), September 4–7, 2022, Darmstadt, Germany, New York: ACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3543758.3549891
Glinka, K., Fischer, P. T., Müller-Birn, C., Krohn, S. 2020. »Investigating Modes of Activity and Guidance for Mediating Museum Exhibits in Mixed Reality.« In Kultur und Informatik: Extended Reality, edited by Israel, J. H., Kassung, C., Sieck, J. Glückstadt: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, 231-255.
https://www.katringlinka.de/downloads/KuI_Glinka_et_al_2020.pdf, https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13494
Benjamin, J. J., Müller-Birn, C. 2019. »Zwischen Mensch und Technik. Das Experiment in der Informatik.« In Experimentieren. Einblicke in Praktiken und Versuchsaufbauten zwischen Wissenschaft und Gestaltung, edited by Marguin, S., Rabe, H., Schäffner, W., Schmidgall, F. Bielefeld: transcript, 215.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/2e/c8/71/oa9783839446386.pdf
Burghardt, M., Müller-Birn, C. 2019. »2. Workshop der Fachgruppe Informatik und Digital Humanities (InfDH).« In 50 Jahre Gesellschaft für Informatik. Informatik für Gesellschaft. Workshopbeiträge der 49. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, edited by Draude, C., Lange, M., Sick, B. 295, Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik, 75-77.
https://doi.org/10.18420/inf2019_ws07
Hoffmeister, A., Berger, F., Pogorzhelskiy, M., Zhang, G., Zwick, C., Müller-Birn, C. 2017. »Toward Cyber-Physical Research Practice based on Mixed Reality.« In Mensch und Computer 2017 – Workshopband, edited by Burghardt, M., Wimmer, R., Wolff, C., Womser-Hacker, C. Regensburg: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 395–400.
https://doi.org/10.18420/muc2017-ws08-0347
Löffler, F., Opasjumruskit, K., Karam, N., Fichtmüller, D., Schindler, U., Klan, F., Müller-Birn, C., Diepenbroek, M. 2017. »Honey Bee Versus Apis Mellifera: A Semantic Search for Biological Data.« In The Semantic Web: ESWC 2017 Satellite Events. ESWC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10577, edited by Blomqvist E., Hose K., Paulheim H., Ławrynowicz A., Ciravegna F., Hartig O. 10577 LNCS, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 98-103.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70407-4_19
Articles
Müller-Birn, C., Glinka, K., Sörries, P., Tebbe, M., Michl, S. 2021. »Situated Case Studies for a Human-Centered Design of Explanation User Interfaces.« arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.15462.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.15462.pdf
Picht, T., Calvé, M. L., Tomasello, R., Fekonja, L., Gholami, M. F., Bruhn, M., Zwick, C., Rabe, J. P., Müller-Birn, C., Vajkoczy, P., Sauer, I. M., Zachow, S., Nyakatura, J. A., Ribault, P., Pulvermüller, F. 2021. »Letter: A Note on Neurosurgical Resection and Why We Need to Rethink Cutting.« Neurosurgery. E289–E291.
https://doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyab326
Benjamin, J. J., Kinkeldey, C., Müller-Birn, C. 2020. »Participatory Design of a Machine Learning Driven Visualization System for Non-Technical Stakeholders.« Mensch und Computer 2020-Workshopband.
https://dl.gi.de/bitstream/handle/20.500.12116/33538/muc2020-ws-287.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Benjamin, J. J., Müller-Birn, C., Razniewski, S. 2020. »Examining the Impact of Algorithm Awareness on Wikidata's Recommender System Recoin.«
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.09049.pdf
Farda-Sarbas, M., Müller-Birn, C. 2019. »Wikidata from a Research Perspective – A Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata.« 11.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.11153
Kinkeldey, C., Müller-Birn, C., Gülenman, T., Benjamin, J. J., Halfaker, A. 2019. »PreCall: A Visual Interface for Threshold Optimization in ML Model Selection.« arXiv.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.05131.pdf
Mackeprang, M., Khiat, A., Müller-Birn, C. 2019. »Leveraging General Knowledge Graphs in Crowd-powered Innovation.«
https://dc2s2.github.io/2019/papers/dc2s2-mackeprang.pdf
Mackeprang, M., Müller-Birn, C., Stauss, M. T. 2019. »Discovering the Sweet Spot of Human-Computer Configurations: A Case Study in Information Extraction.« Article 195, Issue ed. by Nichols, J. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3 (CSCW): 1-30.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3359297
Auer, S., Gray, J., Müller-Birn, C., Pollock, R., Gray, S. 2010. »Proceedings of the 5th Open Knowledge Conference, OKCon 2010, London, UK, April 24, 2010.« 575
Müller-Birn, C., Meuthrath, B., Erber, A., Burkhart, S., Baumgrass, A., Lehmann, J., Schmidl, R. 2010. »Seeing similarity in the face of difference: enabling comparison of online production systems.« Social Network Analysis and Mining, 1 (2): 127-142.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-010-0007-3
Conference Proceedings
Sörries, P., Glaser, J., Müller-Birn, C., Ness, T., Zwick, C. 2022. »Coding IxD: Enabling Interdisciplinary Education by Sparking Reflection.« Presented at the EduCHI’22, April 30 – May 1 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.02713
Vaseva, L., Müller-Birn, C. 2020. »You Shall Not Publish: Edit Filters on English Wikipedia.« OpenSym 2020: Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Open Collaboration. ACM, 1-10.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3412569.3412580
Benjamin, J. J., Müller-Birn, C. 2019. »Materializing Interpretability: Exploring Meaning in Algorithmic Systems.« In Companion Publication of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (DIS '19 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. New York: ACM, 123-127.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3323900
Farda-Sarbas, M., Zhu, H., Nest, M. F., Müller-Birn, C. 2019. »Approving automation: Analyzing Requests for Permissions of Bots in Wikidata.« In The 15th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym ’19), August 20–22, 2019, Skövde, Sweden. New York: ACM, 1-10.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3306446.3340833
Fichtmüller, D., Gleisberg, M., Karam, N., Müller-Birn, C., Güntsch, A. 2017. »Terminologies as a neglected part of research data: Making supplementary research data available through the GFBio Terminology Service.«
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85031029506&partnerID=40&md5=b63a63437e922065f5647d3d85268bbc
Cuong, T. T., Müller-Birn, C. 2016. »Applicability of Sequence Analysis Methods in Analyzing Peer-Production Systems: A Case Study in Wikidata.« In: Spiro E., Ahn YY. (eds) Social Informatics. SocInfo 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10047. Springer International Publishing, 142-156.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47874-6_11
Müller-Birn, C., Karran, B., Lehmann, J., Luczak-Rösch, M. 2015. »Peer-production system or collaborative ontology engineering effort: what is Wikidata?« In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym '15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 20. ACM, 1-10.
https://doi.org/10.1145/2788993.2789836
Lehmann, J., Müller-Birn, C., Laniado, D., Lalmas, M., Kaltenbrunner, A. 2014. »Reader preferences and behavior on Wikipedia.« In Proceedings of the 25th ACM conference on Hypertext and social media (HT '14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York. ACM, 88-97.
https://doi.org/10.1145/2631775.2631805
Müller-Birn, C., Dobusch, L., Herbsleb, J. D. 2013. »Work-to-rule: the emergence of algorithmic governance in Wikipedia.« C&T 2013: 6th International Conference on Communities and Technologies. ACM Press, 80-89.
https://doi.org/10.1145/2482991.2482999
Others
Benjamin, J. J., Müller-Birn, C., Kinkeldey, C. 2019. Understanding Knowledge Transfer Activities at a Research Institution through Semi-Structured Interviews. Technical Report, Freie Universität, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
https://doi.org/10.17169/refubium-3970
Korjakow, T., Benjamin, J. J., Kinkeldey, C., Müller-Birn, C. 2019. Literature Mapping Study for Machine Learning Interpretability Techniques. Technical Report, Freie Universität, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
https://osf.io/t4q9s/download
Mackeprang, M., Khiat, A., Stauss, M., Müller, T. S., Müller-Birn, C. 2019. The Impact of Concept Representation in Interactive Concept Validation (ICV). Technical Report, Freie Universität Universität, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
Müller-Birn, C. 2019. Bots in Wikipedia: Unfolding their duties. Technical Report, Freie Universität Universität, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
https://doi.org/10.17169/refubium-2535
Talks & Presentations
Müller-Birn, C. Design Challenges for Privacy-Preserving Explanation User Interfaces. 2nd Virtual Meetup by the SIG on User-Centered Artificial Intelligence of the German Gesellschaft für Informatik. 7 April 2022.
Events & Workshops
Müller-Birn, C., Glaser, J., Sörries, P. (supervisors). Interactive Exhibition »Let's get: Physical«. CityLab Berlin. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, weißensee school of art and design berlin. 16 February 2023 - 23 February 2023.
https://www.codingixd.org/design-fair-lets-get-physical/
Cubasch, A. J., Cypko, M. A., Geoghegan, B., Miyazaki, S., Moeding, A., Müller-Birn, C., Stock, R. Automation, Control, and Incompetence. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 1 December 2022 - 2 December 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/7904/automation-control-and-incompetence-socio-technical-ecologies-of-responsible-filtering-in-the-20th-and-21st-century
Müller-Birn, C., Ness, T., Glaser, J., Sörries, P. (supervisors). Interactive Exhibition »Digital:Sovereignty«. Weizenbaum Institute. Supported by Digital Autonomy Hub, hosted by Weizenbaum Institute. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, weißensee school of art and design berlin. 16 February 2022 - 23 February 2022.
https://www.codingixd.org/design-fair-digitalsovereignty/
Müller-Birn, C., Ness, T., Glaser, J. (supervisors), Meier, S. (guest lecturer, City Lab Berlin), Wiesener, H (curator) Entity: City Exhibition at CityLAB Berlin. weißensee school of art and design berlin. 12 February 2020 - 14 February 2020.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/1271/entity-city-exhibition-at-citylab
Teaching & Courses
Müller-Birn, C., Sörries, P., Leimstädtner, D. (supervisors). Expanding:THE BODY. Practical course, weißensee school of art and design berlin, HCC Research Group at Freie Universität Berlin.. 16 October 2023 - 17 February 2024.
https://codingixd.mi.fu-berlin.de/expandingthebody/
Müller-Birn, C., Glaser, J., Sörries, P. (supervisors). Let's get: Physical. Practical course, weißensee school of art and design berlin, HCC Research Group at Freie Universität Berlin. 17 October 2022 - 17 February 2023.
https://www.codingixd.org/lets-get-physical/
Müller-Birn, C., Ness, T., Glaser, J., Sörries, P. (supervisors). Digital:Sovereignty. Practical course, weißensee school of art and design berlin, HCC Research Group at Freie Universität Berlin. 1 October 2021 - 18 February 2022.
https://www.codingixd.org/digital-sovereignty/
Müller-Birn, C., Ness, T., Glaser, J. (supervisors), Meier, S. (guest lecturer, City Lab Berlin), Wiesener, H (exhibition) Entity:City. Practical course, weißensee school of art and design berlin, HCC Research Group at Freie Universität Berlin, cityLAB Berlin. 1 October 2019 - 14 February 2020.
https://entitycity.designing-interactions.de/ https://entitycity.designing-interactions.de/ https://www.codingixd.org/entitycity
Cooperations
Müller-Birn, C., Ness, T., Glaser, J., Sörries, P. 2021 - 2022. Cooperation with Weizenbaum Institute. »Digital:Sovereignty« project cooperation and exhibtion with weißensee school of art and design berlin, HCC Research Group at Freie Universität Berlin, Weizenbaum Institute.
https://www.codingixd.org/digital-sovereignty/ https://www.codingixd.org/design-fair-digitalsovereignty/
Simbeck, K., Sieck, J. (project leaders), Kassung, C., Müller-Birn, C. Since 2021. ViCAR – Visual Communication with Augmented and Virtual Reality in Culture and Health. The African-German research network with HTW Berlin, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Namibia University of Science and Technology, German International University, Cairo, and University of Cape Town. The goal is to connect female researchers from Egypt, Namibia, South Africa, and Germany through publications, workshops, and a joint research agenda.
https://www.htw-berlin.de/forschung/online-forschungskatalog/projekte/projekt/?eid=3088
Müller-Birn, C., Ness, T., Glaser, J. (supervisors), Meier, S. (guest lecturer, City Lab Berlin), Wiesener, H. (exhibition) 2019 - 2020. City LAB Berlin. Entity:City Project cooperation and exhibtion with weißensee aschool of art and design berlin, HCC Research Group at Freie Universität Berlin, cityLAB Berlin.
https://entitycity.designing-interactions.de/ https://entitycity.designing-interactions.de/ https://www.codingixd.org/entitycity
Hosting of Guest Researchers at the Cluster
Cubasch, A., Kassung, C., Birn-Müller, C., Filtering: Digital Cluster Fellowship. Hosting Amira Möding. from Cambridge University. 1 September 2021 - 28 February 2022.
Brembs, B., Förstner, K., Kraker, P., Lauer, G., Müller-Birn, C., Schönbrodt, F., Siems, R. 2020. »Auf einmal Laborratte.« Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2 December 2020.
https://zeitung.faz.net/faz/geisteswissenschaften/2020-12-02/3a45541d53e23d3ae2cbea2c3e6a0af1/?GEPC=s9
Press Articles
Schwarz, S. 2022. »Ein Speicher voller Cookies: Wie souverän bewegen wir uns in der digitalen Welt? Die Daten haben uns im Griff: Studierende von Informatik und Design zeigen Geräte, mit denen wir selbstbestimmt über sie verfügen können. Ein Ausstellungsbesuch.« Interactive exhibition »Digital:Sovereignty« supervised by Glaser, J.; Müller-Birn, C.; Ness, T. Tagesspiegel, 21 February 2022.
https://plus.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/ein-speicher-voller-cookies-wie-souveran-bewegen-wir-uns-in-der-digitalen-welt-397969.html
Brembs, B., Förstner, K., Kraker, P., Lauer, G., Müller-Birn, C., Schönbrodt, F., Siems, R. 2020. »Auf einmal Laborratte.« Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2 December 2020.
https://zeitung.faz.net/faz/geisteswissenschaften/2020-12-02/3a45541d53e23d3ae2cbea2c3e6a0af1/?GEPC=s9