Publications
Journal Articles
Mirowski, P., Branch, B., Lösel, G., Winter, T. (upcoming)
In and Out of the Circle of Expectations: Large Language Models in Improvised Comedy
Lösel, G. (upcoming)
Bayesian Creativity. How the Brain Invents Without Trying
Loesel, G. (2026)
The Spice of Surprise Modelling Patterns of Unexpectedness in Improvisational Acting Using AI. ↗
Loesel, G. (2025)
Künstliche Intelligenz performt. Theater, Humanismus und wie man digitale Agenten auf die Bühne bringt. ↗
Mirsky, I., Berov, L., & Loesel, G. (2025)
In Sync with a Machine. ↗
Baumbach, S. & Kuhn, J. (2024)
Approaching literature and culture and/as ‘intelligent systems’. ↗
Lösel, G. (2024)
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall. Tell me which chatbot you want and I will tell you who you are. ↗
Lösel, G. (2024)
Theatre dialogues with machines. ↗
Schwenke, D., Bleichner, M., Goregliad Fjaellingsdal, T., Meekes, J., Bögels, S., Kräplin, A., Kuhlen, A., Wehner, P. & Scherbaum, S. (2024)
Improving by improvising: The impact of improvisational theatre on handling expectation violation during social creativity. ↗
Stein, M., Dshemuchadse, M., Scherbaum, S. & Schnell, K. (2024)
Angewandte Improvisation in der Psychotherapie: Erfahrungs- und körperzentrierter Ansatz zur Flexibilisierung der Beziehungsgestaltung. ↗
Books & Book Chapters
Marschall, S., Zhang M. J. (upcoming)
The Answering Machine: Human-AI Entanglement in the Era of Conversational Agents.
Lösel, G. (upcoming)
Digitale Fäden: Zur Ästhetik digitaler Agenten
Zhang, M. J. (upcoming)
Künstliche Intelligenz in der Filmproduktion: Anwendungsfelder und Perspektiven.
Lösel, G. (2026)
Mechanical Mothers, Rubber Hands and Child Machines. On the Psychology of Anthropomorphization ↗
Lösel, G. (2025)
Personale (Re-)Präsentationen ↗
Dshemuchadse, M., Scherbaum, S. & Wolf, T. (2025)
Das I-Moment: Systemisch spielen, improvisieren und Beziehung gestalten. ↗
Lösel, G. & Blume, D. (2024)
Digitale Kränkung: Was macht uns menschlich? ↗
Marschall, S. (2024)
Universale Archive: Erinnerungskulturen und ihre medialen Praktiken. ↗
Burkhardt, A., Marschall, S. & Kramer, O. (2024)
Artificial Turn? Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Künstliche Intelligenz. ↗
Lösel, G. (2023)
Puppets, Pets or Deputies. On the Relationship between Actors & Avatars. ↗
Conference Contributions
Senftleben, U., Cunäus, L., Dulik, M., Helmert, J. R. & Greulich, R. S. (2025, September).
Hallucinations in human-like chatbots: Effects on service satisfaction, anthropomorphism and neural correlates
Poster presented at the International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON). Porto, Portugal.
Graffe, P., Senftleben, U. & Scherbaum, S. (2025, April)
Who creates the better story? Exploring the differences between human-human and human-AI co-creation.
Poster presented at the symposium “AI and the Society of the Future” of the VolkswagenStiftung. Hannover, Germany.
Senftleben, U., Turner, S., Graffe, P., & Scherbaum, S. (2024, September).
Same old story? Differences in interaction-based storytelling between human-human and human-AI interaction partners.
Poster presented at the congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs). Vienna, Austria.
Lösel, G. (2022, June)
The Robot in the Temple of Humanism.
Talk presented at the conference “Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society” of the Royal Anthropological Institute. London, UK.
Performance Videos
“The Day My Computer Thought It Had More Personality Than I Did” (in German)
Recording from March 25, 2023 (Premiere)
DIE BÜHNE, Dresden
“Humanize Me!”
Recording from April 6, 2024 (Premiere)
Jakobus Theater, Karlsruhe
“Memories of My Time as a Human” (in German)
Recording from March 27, 2026 (Premiere)
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
“From Cradle to Grave – Chatbots, Agents, Avatare” (in German)
Recording from March 27, 2026 (Premiere)
Kulturhafen, Dresden
Podcasts
Lösel, G., Axelsson, C., Bossow, E. P. (2024)
KI und Emotionen: Die Verführung durch Chat-Bots ist sehr stark. ↗
Lösel, G. (2020)
Theater und Bots. ↗
Vorträge
Zhang, M. J. (2026)
Voice-basierte KI und mentale Gesundheit
Studium Generale Sommersemester 2026, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Zhang, M. J. (2025)
Technological affordances to promote mental health: opportunities and challenges
transformativ – Sharing Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence, A conference by RHET AI and experimenta, Heilbronn
Zhang, M. J. (2025)
Forschen, Lehren, Weiterdenken: Einblicke in die akademische Laufbahn in der Medienwissenschaft
Institut für Medienwissenschaft, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Zhang, M. J. (2025)
Synthetic Voices, Authentic Connections: The Intersection of Artificial Voice, Human-AI Communication and Digital Mental Health
Aligning AI with Society Workshop, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, USA
Zhang, M. J. (2024)
Mein imaginärer Doppelgänger: Empathische Begegnungen mit künstlicher Intelligenz
Institut für Medienwissenschaft, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Zhang, M. J. (2023)
Kreatives Schreiben mit generativer KI. Generative KI als Chance oder Herausforderung?
KI Maker Space, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Zhang, M. J. (2023)
Forschung an und mit KI
Institut für Medienwissenschaft, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Zhang, M. J. (2023)
Emotional Attachment to Artificial Intelligence: Affective Engagement & Cognitive Effects
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM), Bonn