Projects
AI Avatars
The challenge: The creation and customisation of avatars is often static, costly, and not easily accessible — especially for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Our focus: In this project, we will explore how artificial intelligence can enhance the flexibility and accessibility of avatar technologies. By leveraging recent advancements in large language models (LLM) and large vision models (LVM), we aim to gain new insights into more dynamic and efficient avatar solutions.
Lean Development Research
The Lean Development Research project aims at improving the sustainability of the SAP lean implementation through concurrent empirical research. The project is a joint activity of SAP and the Institute of Enterprise Systems at the University of Mannheim. The researchers seek to gain in-depth data on lean and agile practices, help improve existing measurement instruments, identify innovation opportunities, and thus, demystify new development methodologies. Our empirical results aspire to form a body of knowledge leading to new theory-based insight relevant to both researchers and practitioners.
M²OLIE
Mannheim Molecular Intervention Environment
Recent findings in bio-medical research enable the advanced analysis and description of processes in the human body on a molecular level. Thus, disease control evolves and these novel findings provide increasing potential enhancing treatment modalities. Furthermore, the shift from organic to cellular or even smaller molecular structures in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer reveals innovative processes and allows molecular interventions.
Due to the high complexity of interventions on the molecular level, a combination of most modern examination- and treatment modalities also requires diversified procedures. These include subjects from the medical and scientific area, and particularly contributions from the engineering and business science. For this purpose a unique and multidisciplinary research network, connecting medical, scientific, engineering, and business sciences, conduct an intertwined research project alias M²olie. As a partial project ProM²olie supports and integrates the efficient procedures of all the different actors, processes, and resources applying innovative and appropriate information technology.
mHealth Induced Behavior Change
Information Technologies that monitor health, such as smartwatches, smartphone, and sensors are becoming increasingly prevalent. These technologies provide the basis for mobile health applications (mHealth) and offer opportunities to improve individual and public health. Considering rising obesity rates and their impact on global mortality, mHealth has the ability to engage users in physical activity behavior and prevent public health threats.
The project „mHealth Induced Behavior Change“, funded by the German Research Foundation, deals with the design of intelligent health applications on mobile devices. It pursues the goal of designing and implementing mHealth apps in such a way that a more sustainable improvement in health behavior can be achieved. The focus is on dynamic analysis of user data to enable targeted and context-dependent delivery of push notifications using adaptive technologies. This is intended to ensure that mHealth users both continue to use the technology and change their health behaviors in the long term. To achieve this research and development work with smart mHealth apps is conducted. The collected, dynamic user data is then analyzed to design context- and time-sensitive user push notifications. If you would like to learn more about the project, feel free to reach out to Dr. Monica Fallon or Mechthild Pieper.
Center for Excellence in Mobile Innovation
We want to connect highly motivated students with state-of-the-art technology and real business problems in the mobile software domain. Therefore, we offer a software project environment including a Creativity Room for productive meetings and a Development Room with a variety of technology.
We aim to enable our students innovate ideas for tablet computers and smart phones. We have the goal to prepare our students best possible for their future business career. Be part of it!
