Pascal Jansen

PhD Candidate | Entrepreneur | Human-Computer Interaction Researcher

Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About

I am a Research Associate and PhD candidate in Human-Computer Interaction at Ulm University. I study how people interact with autonomous systems, including automated vehicles, robots, mixed-reality interfaces, and intelligent user interfaces. Autonomous systems increasingly act in situations that people also need to understand and control. They move, signal, explain, recommend, and adapt. My research asks how interfaces can make this behavior clear to users and how users can give feedback, set preferences, and keep agency over what the system does. I combine computational design, mixed-reality prototyping, simulation, and human-in-the-loop optimization. My work focuses on trust, perceived safety, cognitive workload, agency, and user-specific preferences in automated mobility, human–robot interaction, extended reality, and adaptive interfaces.

Experience

  • Co-Founder, CEO at Zefwih
    Dec 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • PHD Candidate at Ulm University
    Jun 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

    Research Interests: - Human-Computer Interaction - Machine Learning & Deep Learning - Automotive User Interfaces

  • Visiting Researcher at UCL
    Jan 2025 - Mar 2025 · 3 mos

  • Ulm University (Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland)
    • Graduate Research Assistant
      Mar 2018 - Feb 2021 · 3 yrs

      Ideation & development of a platform for multi-user augmented reality applications, Ideation & development of eye-tracking applications for augmented reality, Ideation & development of Amazon Alexa applications, Carrying out research activities and studies, Support of lectures and exercises

    • Teaching Assistant
      Oct 2017 - Feb 2018 · 5 mos

      Teaching Assistant in "Introduction to Computer Science"