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Helping to understandunderstanding

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Which conditions and competences are needed for the successful utilization of digital media for knowledge processes and how can these be provided? Which role do innovative cognitive interfaces play for knowledge processes? How does digitalization change social and motivational factors of knowledge exchange and usage? How does a group of people construct new knowledge? At the IWM, we answer tomorrow's questions today.

News from the IWM

News | 23 Oct 2025

Man (Echo) Su was appointed as a new junior research group leader at IWM

The junior research group will be part of the newly established ‘Digital Education’ lab

Symbol discussion: Speech bubble on orange background

News | 20 Oct 2025

Ulrike Cress at a panel discussion on AI

On 23 October in Stuttgart, with Minister Petra Olschowski, among others

People standing around a multi-touch table, swiping

News | 16 Oct 2025

European Museum Prize for the Obersalzberg Documentation Center

Permanent exhibition includes a multi-touch table for analysing propaganda images, which was designed in collaboration with the IWM

Person wearing VR glasses in front of a screen

News | 24 Sep 2025

Virtual reality in museums

Ulrika Ferner's dissertation project

Publication highlights

Cervera Torres, S., Parra-Vargas, E., Carrasco-Ribelles, L., Marín-Morales, J., & Alcañiz, M. (2025). Detecting inhibition and activation tendencies in organizational behavior: A virtual reality and machine learning-based methodological framework.Current Psychology, 44(17), 14282-14293.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-08180-5

Open Access

Matschke, C., Kehrer, M., Nieder-Steinheuer, K., Thillosen, A., & Kimmerle, J. (2026). Instructions of digital media use in higher education: The impact of text abstractness on university teachers’ psychological distance, interest, and motivation to use digital media.Computers & Education, 241, Article 105477.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2025.105477

Open Access

Huff, M., & Ulakci, E. (2025). Judgments of learning distinguish humans from large language models in predicting memory.Scientific Reports, 15(1), 35030.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-22290-x

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3 Nov

Mike S. Schäfer: Science Communication in the Age of AI

Mike S. Schäfer is a professor in the Department of Communication and Media Research Science Communication at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

11 Nov

Sunny Xun Liu: Strong Media and Weak Media: Rethinking Media in the Age of AI

Dr. Sunny Xun Liu is the Director of Research at Stanford Social Media Lab of Stanford University, USA.

Future Innovation Space

The FUTURE INNOVATION SPACE (FIS) at the IWM is an experimental, testing and meeting place for prospective teachers.

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At the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien in Tübingen, more than 150 people from various disciplines are researching and working together on future topics relating to digital education, AI and knowledge transfer. Would you like to be part of our work? Then find out about our vacancies.

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Man (Echo) Su was appointed as a new junior research group leader at IWM

Ulrike Cress at a panel discussion on AI

European Museum Prize for the Obersalzberg Documentation Center

Virtual reality in museums

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Mike S. Schäfer: Science Communication in the Age of AI

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Sunny Xun Liu: Strong Media and Weak Media: Rethinking Media in the Age of AI

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