Dr. Wolfgang Wörndl

(Dipl.-Inform., Dipl.-Kfm.)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Department for Informatics
Chair of Connected Mobility
formerly Chair of Applied Informatics / Cooperative Systems (Prof. Schlichter)

Managing Director of the Center for Doctoral Studies in Informatics and its Applications (CeDoSIA)

Email: woerndl@in.tum.de
Tel.: +49 89 289 18686
Fax: +49 89 289 18657
Office: Room MI 01.05.043
Address: Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748 Garching b. München

Times of absence:

Teaching WS 2020/21:

• Seminar Interactive Recommender Systems
• GR/AP Interactive Recommender Systems in Mobile Scenarios (topics available!)

The lecture course User Modeling and Recommender Systems (IN2119) is not offered anymore!

List of previous courses

Research interest areas:

• User modeling and recommender systems
• Mobile applications and context-aware computing
• (Mobile) Human-computer interaction
• Automotive domain, eTourism and travel

Current research focus: Interactive Recommender Systems in Mobile Scenarios

Selected previously funded project: Social and Collaborative Mobility Services in TUM Living Lab Connected Mobility (TUM LLCM)

Publications

Try out our Web-based prototypes for travel recommendation:

• TourRec (with Daniel Herzog and Christopher Lass): Web-based system to recommend a sequence of interesting places for visiting a city
  • Related mobile app TourRec is available in the Google Play Store
• Travel Region Recommender: Combine travel regions to recommend a composite trip
• CityRec (with Linus Dietz and Saadi Myftija): Conversational destination recommender for city trips

Selected current academic activities:

• Member of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) e.V.
• Vice chair of the board of the German Special Interest Group (SIG) on Adaptivity and User Modeling (ABIS), Gesellschaft für Informatik
• Organizing conferences, workshops and other scientific events, e.g.:
  • Local arrangement chair for ACM MobiSys 2018, June 2018
  • Co-chair of the ACM RecSys Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism (RecTour 2019), October 2019
  • Research track co-chair of ENTER2020 and ENTER2021 eTourism conferences
• Program committee member and reviewer for various journals, conferences and workshops

Private interests: Traveling; Photography; Sports (e.g. Golf); Outdoors (e.g. Hiking and Skiing); Music, Philosophy and Art.