Academic Staff

Jonas Hummel

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Institute of Telematics / TECO

Vincenz-Prießnitz-Straße 1

76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

Building 07.07

Room 214

hummelδteco.edu

+49 721 608-41709

Jonas Hummel

Profile

After starting my PhD in August 2024, I centered my research on and around earable technologies. With a background in Psychology (B.Sc.) and Social and Economic Data Science (M.Sc.), and as a member of the KD2-School, I focus on identifying, developing, and evaluating use cases for earables, particularly OpenEarable 2.0, employing its multimodal capabilities. My work explores its applications in human-computer interaction, medical treatment and diagnosis as well as biosignal-adaptive systems. Furthermore, I lead the development and launch of EarXplore, an interactive online database on research on earables, which currently features studies on interaction with earables but is intended to be expanded to further topics soon, as well as the development of CHOMP, a system for chewing side detection using the multimodal sensing capabilities of OpenEarable 2.0.

Short CV

  • since 2024 PhD Candidate at TECO and Member of the Kd2 Graduate-School
  • 2021 – 2024 M.Sc. Social and Economic Data Sience at University of Konstanz
  • 2017 – 2021 B.Sc. Psychology at Philipps-University Marburg

Research Interests

  • Human-Computer-Interaction (with Earables)
  • Data Science
  • HealthTech
  • Biosignal-Adaptive Systems
  • Interdisciplinary Topics between Data Science and Psychology or Economics

Teaching

  • Praktikum: Wearable Computing (WS)
  • (Pro)Seminar: Biosignal-Adaptive Systems (SS)
  • Statistics @ Praxis der Forschung (WS/SS)

Projects

Theses

No open theses.

Topic Areas

Data MiningHealth/Medical Data AnalysisInterdisciplinary Projects Between Data Science and Psychology or Economics

Publications

2026
StreAM: An LLM-Based System for Stress-Adaptive Meditation at Work
Bennardo, L. L.; Weber, L.; Hummel, J.; Feick, M.
2026. CHI EA ’26: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Ed.: N. Oliver, 1–6, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3772363.3798694Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
2025
🏆 Best Paper Award
Heatables: Effects of Infrared-LED-Induced Ear Heating on Thermal Perception, Comfort, and Cognitive Performance
Zitz, V.; Küttner, M.; Hummel, J.; Knierim, M. T.; Beigl, M.; Röddiger, T.
2025. Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC’25), 91–97, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3715071.3750421Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
🏆 Honorable Mention
Demonstrating OpenEarable 2.0: An AI-Powered Ear Sensing Platform
Röddiger, T.; Zitz, V.; Hummel, J.; Küttner, M.; Lepold, P.; King, T.; Paradiso, J. A.; Clarke, C.; Beigl, M.
2025. CHI EA ’25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Art.-Nr.: 713, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3706599.3721161