Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology

Hannah Deininger

Hannah Deininger is research associate and PhD candidate at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology. She conducts research at the intersection between psychology and computer science. Generally, she is interested in how machine learning methods and explainable AI can help to better understand and eventually improve learning processes.. Her main aim is an in-depth investigation of factors influencing learning success and the modeling of learning behavior. To this end, she analyses log file data from digital learning systems and multimodal behavioral data. Further, she works on generating theory-aligned behavioral indicators of learning within digital learning environments.

She is also part of LEAD as the research network gives her the opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary field and get valuable feedback while benefiting from the structured graduate program (e.g., events like the LEAD retreats and workshops).

Publications

  • Deininger, H., Lavelle-Hill, R., Parrisius, C., Pieronczyk, I., Colling, L., Meurers, D., Trautwein, U., Nagengast, B., & Kasneci, G. (2023). Can You Solve This on the First Try?–Understanding Exercise Field Performance in an Intelligent Tutoring System. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 565-576). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

  • Rabold, J., Deininger, H., Siebers, M., & Schmid, U. (2020). Enriching visual with verbal explanations for relational concepts–combining LIME with Aleph. In Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2019, Würzburg, Germany, September 16–20, 2019, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 180-192). Springer International Publishing.

  • Finzel, B., Deininger, H., & Schmid, U. (2018, May). From beliefs to intention: Mentoring as an approach to motivate female high school students to enrol in computer science studies. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Gender & IT (pp. 251-260).

Curriculum Vitae

Since Nov/2021
Research Associate and PhD Candidate

Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology

Apr/2020-Sept/2021
Student Assistant

Department of Psychological Research Methods, University of Ulm

Oct/2019-Oct/2021
M.Sc. Psychology

University of Ulm

Oct/2018-Sept/2019
Working Student

in the field of Deep Learning, Fraunhofer EZRT/IIS Fürth

Mar/2016-Sept/2019
Student Assistant

in the Women's Office of the Faculty of Information Systems & Applied Computer Science

Apr/2017-Sept/2019
M.Sc. Computing in the Humanities (Field of study: Applied Computer Science)

Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg

Aug/2015-Feb/2016
Semester Abroad

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Oct/2013-Mar/2017
B.Sc. Psychology

Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg