A very fortunate development: The University of Lübeck has been granted a new research building (by recommendation of the Wissenschaftsrat, a pivotal, joint federal- and state-level agency for these matters) .
Jonas Obleser had the privilege to help steer the conceptual stages of this new “Lübeck environment for minds and machines in interaction” (LEMMI – named after no famous cultural icon in particular). See here for the press release by the Wissenschaftsrat; the final say – as usual – will be with the „Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz“ (GWK) of German federal and state governments, which will convene next in July 2024.
The university came out with a press release just now, and we are all very excited that in the years to come a new, 3.000+ m2 research building worth up to 63 million € might be built on Lübeck campus premises that will cater specifically to the needs of immersive AI-steered environments and all specifics of psychological, computer-scientific and robotic research on human–AI interactions. 