Teaching
Otto Von Guericke University, Madgeburg, GermanyFebruary 2024 - current: Course supervision for Eudaimonic Interaction Design
November 2023 - current: Course supervision for Human-Centered Approaches and Technologies
Hochschule Fresenius (University of Applied Sciences), Idstein, Germany
Januar 2021 - current: Online course supervision for Marketing Automation
Januar 2021 - current: Online course supervision for Data Integration
March 2022 - current: Online course supervision for Voice Control, Chatbots and Messenger Technology
h_da (University of Applied Sciences), Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany
April 2019 - Juli 2024: Course supervision for Search Engine Architectures & Optimization
Publications
Research Articles
Julian Marvin Joers; Ernesto William De Luca (2025): Measuring the Experience of Eudaimonic Virtues in Technology Interaction: Development and Validation of the Eudaimonic Interaction Inventory (EII). Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), Special Issue: Well-Being in the Digital World. accepted.Julian Marvin Joers; Ernesto William De Luca (2025): LLM-Enhanced Exploratory Learning with LaLaMoSuLe: Understanding the Interplay between AI-Powered Educational Interfaces, Eudaimonic Experience, Autonomy, and Competence Perceptions, The 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2025), July 22-26 2025, Palermo, Italy. accepted.
Julian Marvin Joers; Ernesto William De Luca (2025): Examining the EudAImonic Experience: Differences between Well-Being Orientations Regarding Motivation, Engagement, and Basic Psychological Needs in Interaction with AI @ The 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island, January 7-10, 2025. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/109566.
Julian Marvin Joers; Ernesto William De Luca (2025): Can We Ethically Influence Learning Processes By Technology? Effects Of Interruptions On Knowledge Assessment, Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Learning, doi: 10.1007/s10758-024-09805-7, 1-18.
Julian Marvin Joers; Ernesto William De Luca (2024): Perfect Eudaimonic User Experience Design That Aristotle Would Have Wanted @ ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark, doi: 10.1145/3656156.3663737.
Short Papers
Julian Marvin Joers; Ernesto William De Luca (2025): Eudaily: Supporting University Students In Daily Eudaimonic Reflection Using The Reflective Play Framework. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1, ISBN 978-989-758-746-7, ISSN 2184-5026, pages 484-491.Julian Marvin Joers; Ernesto William De Luca (2024): Tell Me What You Like & I Tell You What You Aim For: A Well-Being Centered Group Recommender System Using A Hybrid Approach @ Tagung der Wirtschaftsinformatik, Würzburg 2024. https://aisel.aisnet.org/wi2024/107/.
Julian Marvin Joers; Ernesto William De Luca (2024): Through Eudaimonia's Lenses: EudAImonic Well-Being Variables As Guiding Principles For AI Design @ CHI Workshop: Designing (with) AI for Wellbeing (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024), Honolulu, Hawaii.
Julian Marvin Joers; Ernesto William De Luca (2023): Predictive Behavior Modeling Through Web Graphs: Enhancing Next Page Prediction Using Dynamic Link Repository, @ 2023 IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), Venedig, Italy, doi: 10.1109/WI-IAT59888.2023.00068
Tutorials
Ernesto William De Luca; Julian Marvin Joers; Marko Tkalcic (2025). Designing Intelligent User Interfaces for Well-Being @ ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP Adjunct '25), New York, 16-19 June 2025.Pre-Prints
Julian Marvin Joers; Ernesto William De Luca (2024): Considering Well-being Orientation: the Eudaimonic and Hedonic Dataset for Well-being-centered Recommender Systems, do:10.21203/rs.3.rs-4589418/v1.Supervisor
Otto Von Guericke University, Madgeburg
Second supervisor for S. K. Mohanty (2025): Optimizing Regression Testing and a Comparison of Conventional and AI-Driven Tools for AI-Powered Automation in Enterprise Software Testing (running)Second supervisor for N. Sharma (2025): Detection and Mitigation of Gender Biases in Large Language Models (running)
Hochschule Fresenius University of Applied Sciences
Second supervisor for V. Gruetz (2025): Interactions between followers and virtual influencers: an investigation of parasocial relationships and their impact on purchase intentions (01.04.2025) - Fresenius University of Applied SciencesSecond supervisor for L. Kade (2025): The relevance of a strategically structured digital marketing communication concept for increasing brand value (27.01.2025) - Fresenius University of Applied Sciences
Second supervisor for L. Hueper (2024): The success factors of SMEs: An analysis using the KANO model based on the example of a medium-sized advertising agency (20.09.2024) - Fresenius University of Applied Sciences
Second supervisor for B. Reisert (2024): Technofeudalism in the age of GAFAM: A critical examination of Germany's and Europe's digital dependency, under consideration of current AI developments. (15.05.2024) - Fresenius University of Applied Sciences
Second supervisor for L. Rudel (2024): A double-edged sword: the use of AI-generated images in the communication of human rights organizations (08.01.2024) - Fresenius University of Applied Sciences
Second supervisor for S. Weinhart (2023): B2B goes AI -The use of artificial intelligence to personalise stakeholder communication (01.06.2023) - Fresenius University of Applied Sciences
Second supervisor for S. Wendt (2023): Marketing Image Bitcoin -A narrative misleading on social media without value or means of payment of the future? (09.02.2023) - Fresenius University of Applied Sciences
Second supervisor for N. Mayer (2023): Credibility of beauty influencers on Instagram - Influence of influencers on consumer attitudes, engagement and willingness to buy - Fresenius University of Applied Sciences (24.01.2023).
Second supervisor for A. Kirillova (2022): "Artificial Intelligence - Possible application in online fashion retailing for better customer communication and customer experience" - Fresenius University of Applied Sciences (01.12.2022)
Reviewer
Reviewer for (Full) Paper Track (2024): 27th International Conference on Discovery Science 2024 October 14-16 2024 | Pisa, Italy.Reviewer for (Full) Paper Track (2024): Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS58), 7.-10. January 2025, at Hilton Waikoloa Village | Big Island, Hawaii.
Reviewer for Short Paper Track (2024): Mensch und Computer 2024, 1.-4. September 2024, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Reviewer for Demo Track (2023): 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, University of Birmingham and Eastside Rooms, UK, Saturday 21 - Wednesday 25 October 2023.
Further Activities
Workshop: Human-centered design of AI applicationsThe aim of this workshop is an open, interdisciplinary discussion about the facets of the human-centeredness of AI applications and, above all, the understanding of the role of the respective research discipline.
Part of the Quality Assurance Committee for Bridging the Digital Humanities and Educational Media Divide in the West Balkans (Erasmus+ Project, EU Grant, Project 101129182 HOMO DIGITALIS)
Founder / Head of Skyscraper Marketing Limited since May 2017 (associated startup of the Department of Information Systems & Electronic Services at Darmstadt University of Technology since 2018.)
November 2023 - current: Data Steward @ Otto Von Guericke University, Magdeburg
Education
October 2018-2021: Information Systems, M.Sc. (University Hagen, Germany)October 2013-2018: Information Systems, B.Sc. (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Languages
German: Mother tongueEnglish: Professional
French : C1 (102+ hours of tutoring taken)
Italian : B1 (50+ hours of tutoring taken)