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Irina Brich began working at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien as a research associate and doctoral student in 2014. After completing her dissertation in 2020, she has been working as a PostDoc in the Perception and Action lab. Currently Irina Brich is investigating comprehension processes in visual narratives like comics, with a special focus on influencing factors like education, age, and literacy. In several projects, she is also concerned with the application of usage data and artificial intelligence to improve video learning and with the perception of risk in the interaction with emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.
Irina Brich graduated at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (M.Sc. 2014) with a focus on business psychology as well as knowledge, communication, and media psychology. She finished her dissertation at the University of Tübingen and the IWM in July 2020. In her dissertation project, she investigated with a multi-touch table how tailoring the interaction of human and technology to our cognitive architecture can improve information processing in group and individual situations.
Factors of Narrative Understanding
How do we read comics? – Investigating comprehension processes in visual narratives
Brich, I. R., Bause, I. M., Hesse, F. W., & Wesslein, A.-K. (2021). How spatial information structuring in an interactive technological environment affects decision performance under working memory load. Computers in Human Behavior, 123, Article 106860. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106860 [Data]
Bause, I. M., Brich, I. R., Hesse, F. W. & Wesslein, A. K. (2020). Does touching information on a surface tablet affect how it is evaluated. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 16(2), 127-146. https://www.jasnh.com/pdf/Vol16-No2-article5.pdf
Brich, I. R., Bause, I. M., Hesse, F. W., & Wesslein, A.-K. (2019). Working memory affine technological support functions improve decision performance. Computers in Human Behavior, 92, 238-249. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.11.014
Bause, I. M., Brich, I. R., Wesslein, A. K., & Hesse, F. W. (2018). Using technological functions on a multi-touch table and their affordances to counteract biases and foster collaborative problem solving. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 13(1), 7-33. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11412-018-9271-4
Huff, M., Maurer, A. E., Brich, I., Pagenkopf, A., Wickelmaier, F., & Papenmeier, F. (2018). Construction and updating of event models in auditory event processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44, 307-320. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000482
Brich, I., Schenk, A., Papenmeier, F., & Huff, M. (2023, March 26-29). Text in comics: Cross-codal information integration during visual narrative comprehension. 65th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP). University of Trier. [Talk]
Said, N., Brich, I., & Antes, N. (2023, March 26-29). Understanding sharing behavior on social media platforms - the influence of knowledge and confidence. 65th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP). University of Trier. [Talk]
Brich, I., Varkentin, E., Gagarina, N., & Huff, M. (2022, März 30). Digitale Comics als Weg zur Teilhabe – Narrationsverstehen in verschiedenen Alters- und Bildungsgruppen. Jahrestagung Leibniz-Forschungsverbund Bildungspotenziale (LERN). Frankfurt am Main (virtuelle Konferenz). [Vortrag]
Said, N., Brich, I., & Antes, N. (2022, October 7-8). Understanding sharing behavior on social media platforms: The influence of knowledge and confidence. Autumn Meeting of Experimental Cognitive Psychologists (HexKoP). Greifswald. [Talk]
Said, N., Schwesig, R., Brich, I., Buder, J., & Huff, M. (2022, March 20-23). Knowledge about Artificial Intelligence (AI) moderates the relationship between risk and opportunity perception of AI and people's willingness to use AI-based applications. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP) 2022 - 64th Conference of Experimental Psychologists. University of Cologne (online conference). [Talk]
Brich, I., Varkentin, E., Gagarina, N., & Huff, M. (2021, November 1-3). Do education and age influence visual narrative comprehension processes? (A representative study). MODE 2021: Methods of Online Discourse Elicitation Conference (Text & Tea with LITMUS-MAIN Meeting). Berlin. [Talk]
Brich, I. R., Henner, J., Papenmeier, F., & Huff, M. (2021, March 14-16). Cross-codal information integration in narrative comprehension occurs immediately upon encounter. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP) 2021 - 63th Conference of Experimental Psychologists. Ulm. [Talk]
Hoppe, A., Yu, R., Brich, I., & Liu, J. (2021, November 1). Second International Workshop on Learning During Web Search (IWILDS’21). 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’21). [Workshop Organisation]
Said, N., Brich, I., Buder, J., & Huff, M. (2021, November 4-7). Metacognitive insight into artificial intelligence knowledge predicts AI risk/opportunity perception. 62nd Annual Meeting Psychonomics Society 2021 (Psychonomics2021). New Orleans, LA, USA. [Poster]
Bause, I. M., Brich, I. R., Müller, T., Probst, L.-M., Rahn, J., Schweitzer, J., & Wesslein, A.-K. (2018, October). Turn the tables: An exploratory field study in higher education. Fachtagung IWM #LearnMap zum Thema “Lernprozess im Fokus: Forschung zu digitalen Medien in der Hochschullehre”. Tübingen. [Poster]
Bause, I. M., Brich, I. R., Wesslein, A.-K., & Hesse, F. W. (2018, April). Intuitive Use of Technological-Support-Kit Fosters Problem-Solving Processes in Human-to-Human Collaboration. National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) 2018 Annual Meeting. New York, NY, USA. [Talk]
Bause, I. M., Brich, I. R., Wesslein, A., & Hesse, F. W. (2017, March). Developing a paradigm to purely measure favorism of preference-consistent information. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP) 2017 - 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists. Dresden. [Talk]
Brich, I. R., Bause, I. M., Wesslein, A., & Hesse, F. W. (2017, March). Raising Hidden Profile Solution Rate by Supporting Working Memory Processes with Touch Technology. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP) 2017 - 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists. Dresden. [Talk]
Huff, M., Maurer, A. E., Brich, I., & Pagenkopf, A. (2016, September). Wahrnehmung dynamischer auditiver Ereignisse: Wie Menschen Hörspiele segmentieren und erinnern 50. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). Leipzig. [Vortrag]
Maurer, A. E., Brich, I., & Huff, M. (2015, September). Perceiving and remembering audio dramas. 9th Conference of the DGPs Media Psychology Division. Tübingen. [Talk]
Brich, I. R., Bause, I. M., Hesse, F., & Wesslein, A.-K. (2021). How spatial information structuring in an interactive technological environment affects decision performance under working memory load. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/AVTE8 [Publication]
Dr. Irina Brich
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