• 09:30 - 10:00 CEST
• tba.
• 7th Floor

Registration

• 10:00 - 12:00 CEST
• Wilfrid Utz
• Seminar Room 4

Workshop "From Digital Design Thinking to Conceptual Models: The Scene2Model Approach"

Innovation and transformation, as well as the emergence of disruptive business ecosystems, supported by various software, have gained increasing significance. One approach to tackle this complex task is Design Thinking, which applies designer problem-solving techniques for agile, ideation, prototyping, and testing in innovative processes through collaboration among stakeholders. The goal is to generate ideas by using different design thinking methods, based on tangible visualization of certain aspects of the problem within a developed solution space, where collaboration among stakeholders plays a central role. Design Thinking enables early exploration and validation of design(s) of new services, smart products, and disruptive business models, but it restricts to location and temporal availability of stakeholders. Absent stakeholders must be informed afterward, which is often not directly supported by the Design Thinking methods applied. This hands-on tutorial allows, through the Scene2Model software tool, a transformation of the physical visualization into digital conceptual models, so that they can be processed and used within modelling tools, further decomposed, and combined with available enterprise assets. Scene2Model enables a software-supported design thinking environment that is location and time-independent, thus facilitating the collaboration of globally distributed networks and stakeholders, implied by the digital transformation and globalization of businesses. During the workshop, participants are encouraged to engage in the innovative scenario and co-develop a novel approach in the medical domain.

Lunch Break

• 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
• Marius Grundmann
• Lecture Theater (+ONLINE)

Keynote "Mobile Quantum Computing"

Quantum computing is a fast developing technology that uses the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems too complex for classical computers. While systems by IBM, Google and others require a permanent laboratory environment, mobile quantum computing systems have recently gained significant attention and interest. Based on the worldwide #1 patent portfolio for NV technology, the Leipzig-based startup SaxonQ develops such mobile quantum computers. After a short introduction to general aspects of quantum computing, SaxonQ-Co-Founder Marius will discuss the benefits of the NV technology for mobile quantum computing, the company's current freely programmable machine, and its scaling potential as well as several use cases.

• 15:00 - 15:30 CEST
• Fabian Sinz
• Lecture Theater (+ONLINE)

Research Talk "Exploring the Visual System with Functional Digital Twins and Inception Loops"

Deep nonlinear system identification models have set new standards in modeling the responses of large-scale populations of neurons to natural stimuli, yielding models that can accurately predict the response of thousands of neurons to arbitrary stimuli and can account for how behavior modulates responses of visual neuron. This allows us to treat the model as a functional digital twin of the neural population and probe neurons in ways that would not be feasible experimentally. With that, we can derive new hypotheses about the neural populations in silico and consequently verify them in vivo, in a paradigm we call inception loops. In this talk, I will give an overview over the models, how they can be probed to extract tuning manifolds and present multiple insights derived from them, including behavior-associated changes in color tuning, novel center-surround tuning and single cell invariances beyond complex cells in mouse visual cortex. We believe that the combination of large-scale recordings under natural stimulation and deep data-driven modeling is a paradigm shift in systems neuroscience towards understanding computations in sensory system on complex ecological stimuli.

• 15:30 - 16:00 CEST
• Chandan Kumar
• Lecture Theater (+ONLINE)

Research Talk "HCI-AI intersections: From Data to Information"

HCI-AI is an exciting and challenging field with significant potential for innovation and impact in diverse domains such as healthcare, education, commerce, and social media. In the field of HCI-AI, a major objective is to turn data to useful and interactable information for end-users, i.e., incorporate data analytics and machine learning to optimize the user experience. In this talk, we discuss how the intersections of data and design can create more personalized and intuitive experience for users, which can lead to efficient decision making, and increased engagement. We will provide several industrial use case examples and research challenges of unifying data science methodology with interface and interaction design.

• 16:00 - 16.30 CEST
• Carsten Lutz
• Lecture Theater (+ONLINE)

Research Talk "Learning Support for Ontology Design"

Ontologies, a main means of knowledge representation today, are assembled from concepts as basic building blocks. To provide support for ontology designers, it is useful to learn such concepts from examples. In this presentation, I will discuss the foundations of concept learning for ontologies, including both supervised and interactive learning scenarios. This brings together logic and computational learning theory in an appealing way.

Coffee Break

• 17:00 - 18:00 CEST
• Amna Asif
• Lecture Theater

Panel Discussion "Intelligent Systems - The Next 10 Years"

In this face-to-face closing session, we will bring together on-campus participants in order to review day 1 of LEISYS 2023, discuss lessons learned and identify future directions of research.