Prof. Dr. Arne Berger

Arne is Professor of Human Computer Interaction at Hochschule Anhalt and is fascinated by the complex, idiosyncratic and unintended interactions between humans and digital technology.

Prof. Dr. Arne Berger is a Professor of Human Computer Interaction at Hochschule Anhalt. His work is deeply influenced by the Scandinavian tradition of Participatory Design. His research focuses on early phases of design and development processes, exploring how co-design tools and methods can initiate and sustain participation. He is particularly interested in smart connected things and services in home contexts, helping people imagine and critically reflect on alternative futures.

With a diploma in Media Design from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and a doctorate from Technische Universität Chemnitz, he maintains strong connections with the international HCI community through publications at ACM CHI and DIS conferences. He has completed research visits at QUT Brisbane, UC Berkeley, and SFU Burnaby. Previously, he led Miteinander, a BMBF-funded junior researcher group.

His teaching follows a practice-based-research approach, bringing multidisciplinary inquiry into the classroom and engaging students with real-life design contexts through hands-on methods that bridge constructive and reconstructive paradigms.