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!
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)
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.