# Frederic Otto Gmeiner

> Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft and HCI researcher (PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University). Builds and evaluates intelligent systems that support complex human workflows: human–AI interaction, AI agents, multimodal generative AI, system building, and evaluation methods.

Also published as: Frederic Gmeiner, Frederic O. Gmeiner.

## Profile

- **Current role:** Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft
- **Education:** PhD, Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- **Research focus:** How increasingly capable AI systems can enhance — not only automate — people's reasoning, reflection, creativity, and learning. Develops and studies interactive AI systems for creative and analytical workflows across design, engineering, productivity software, and data analysis, combining system building with empirical study.
- **Themes:** Human–AI interaction · AI agents & multimodal systems · Cognitive / metacognitive support · Evaluation & prototyping methods for AI interactions
- **Previous experience:**
  - Research collaborations with product and research teams at Microsoft and Autodesk Research
  - Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah — taught design, innovation, and emerging technologies
  - Co-founder, FELD (Berlin design and technology studio) — managed an interdisciplinary team across software development, interaction design, and applied R&D for clients including Volkswagen, Almato, and the Fraunhofer Society
- **Skills:** Human–AI interaction research, AI agent and LLM application prototyping, multimodal / real-time GenAI systems, user studies and evaluation design, software engineering, interaction design, team leadership

## Selected publications

- [PointAloud: An Interaction Suite for AI-Supported Pointer-Centric Think-Aloud Computing](https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3772318.3790797) — CHI 2026 (with J. Thompson, G. Fitzmaurice, J. Matejka)
- [Prototyping Multimodal GenAI Real-Time Agents with Counterfactual Replays and Hybrid Wizard-of-Oz](https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3772318.3790800) — CHI 2026 (with K. Holstein, N. Martelaro)
- [Intent Tagging: Exploring Micro-Prompting Interactions for Supporting Granular Human-GenAI Co-Creation Workflows](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713861) — CHI 2025
- [AI-Instruments: Embodying Prompts as Instruments to Abstract & Reflect Graphical Interface Commands as General-Purpose Tools](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3706598.3714259) — CHI 2025, Honorable Mention
- [Exploring the Potential of Metacognitive Support Agents for Human-AI Co-Creation](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715336.3735785) — DIS 2025
- [An Evidence-based Workflow for Studying and Designing Learning Supports for Human–AI Co-creation](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3650763) — CHI EA 2024
- [Toward Measures of Human–AI Co-Creation](https://www.frederic-otto.com/papers/Toward_measures_of_human_ai_co.pdf) — AAAI 2024 Bridge Program on AI for Design
- [Exploring Challenges and Opportunities to Support Designers in Learning to Co-Create with AI-Based Manufacturing Design Tools](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3580999) — CHI 2023, Honorable Mention
- [POLAR: A Framework for Creating Geometric Architectural Dynamic Displays Embodying Light and Physical Motion](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3321335.3329681) — PerDis 2019

Full list: [Research & publications](https://www.frederic-otto.com/research) · [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WAij1MwAAAAJ)

## Pages

- [About](https://www.frederic-otto.com/): Bio and recent news
- [Research](https://www.frederic-otto.com/research): Research statement and publications
- [Interaction Design](https://www.frederic-otto.com/ixd): Design and creative-technology projects
- [News](https://www.frederic-otto.com/news): Talks, papers, and updates
- [Contact](https://www.frederic-otto.com/contact): How to get in touch

## Profiles

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederic-gmeiner/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/fregment)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WAij1MwAAAAJ)