Lisa Weidmüller
© Sven Ellger, TUD
Research Associate and PhD Candidate
NameMs Lisa Weidmüller M.A.
Web Content Manager
Send encrypted email via the SecureMail portal (for TUD external users only).
Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft
Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft
Visiting address:
Bürogebäude Zellescher Weg, Room A257a Zellescher Weg 17
01069 Dresden
Office hours:
- Tuesday:
- 13:30 - 15:00
Only by prior arrangement via email.
- Technology communication (e.g., perception, trustworthiness and acceptance of new information intermediaries and technologies)
- Science communication (impact of different formats, e.g. science comics, demonstrators; trust in science)
- Media use & impact research
| since 10/2017 |
Research Associate and doctoral student at the Institute of Media and Communication, Chair of Science and Technology Communication (Prof. Dr. Sven Engesser), TU Dresden, Germany |
| 02/2019 |
Research visit at the Robotics Lab of the Heriot-Watt-University, Edinburgh, Great Britain |
| 04/2017 |
Master's thesis on "News quality from the user's point of view - influences and developments" Supervisors: Dr. Anna-Maria Schielicke & Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Hagen |
| 01/2017 - 04/2017 | Research Assistant in the experimental laboratory of the Center for Methods in the Social Sciences (ZSM), TU Dresden |
| 02/2016 - 12/2016 |
Research Assistant at the Institute of Media and Communication, Chair of Political and Business Communication, TU Dresden (Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Hagen) |
| 08/2015 - 02/2016 |
ERASMUS stay at the Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden |
| 10/2014 - 04/2017 |
Master's degree program "Applied Media Research" |
| 09/2014 |
Bachelor's thesis on "The 'reading value' of the daily newspaper. A usage study based on the political and regional section of the Sächsische Zeitung" |
| 10/2011 - 09/2014 |
Bachelor's degree program "Media Practice/Media Research"at the Institute of Media and Communication, TU Dresden: Media and opinion research; supplementary area: Media Computer Science |
Bobbe, T., Weidmüller, L., Engesser, S., & Krzywinski, J. (2024, preprint). Interaction and Affect is Key: Understanding Technology Demonstrators for Science Communication on Dialogue Events. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/h4b3g
Engesser, S., Weidmüller, L., & Hagen, L. M. (2021). Public Opinion and the Tactile Internet. In F. H. P. Fitzek, S.-C. Li, S. Speidel, T. Strufe, M. Şimşek, & M. Reisslein (Eds.), Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (pp. 385–402). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821343-8.00029-0
Kaesling, K., Engesser, S., Fairhurst, M., Jugov, T., Klös, V., Krzywinski, J., Lauber-Rönsberg, A., Neumann, N., Pannasch, S., Strufe, T., Weidmüller, L, and Wolf, A. (forthcoming). Ethical, Legal and Societal Implications of Tactile Internet with Human in the Loop. In F. H. P. Fitzek, S.-C. Li, S. Speidel, S.-C. Li, T. Strufe, T. Mahmoodi, & M. Reisslein (Eds.), Tactile Internet Frontiers – Integrating Humans, Robots, and Virtual Worlds (pp. 496–484).
Mooshammer, S., Etzrodt, K. & Weidmüller, L. (2025). Trust in Gendered Voice Assistants – The Special Case of Gender Ambiguity. Publizistik. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-025-00907-5
Weidmüller, L. & Engesser, S. (2024). Oldies but goldies? Comparing the trustworthiness and credibility of ‘new’ and ‘old’ information intermediaries. Communications. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2023-0020
Weidmüller, L. (2022). Human, hybrid, or machine? Exploring the trustworthiness of voice-based assistants. Human-machine communication, 4, 85-110. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.4.5
Weidmüller, L., Etzrodt, K. & Engesser, S. (2022). Trustworthiness of voice-based assistants: Integrating interlocutor and intermediary predictors. Publizistik, 67, 625–651. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-022-00763-7
Weidmüller, L., Etzrodt, E., Löcherbach, F. Möller, J., & Engesser, S. (2021). Ich höre was, was du nicht hörst. Medienvielfalt und Transparenz bei Sprachassistenten. Report commissioned by the State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia. Link
2018 – 2025: Dissertation project "The trustworthiness of voice-based assistants as information intermediaries" (submitted August 28, 2025)
2021: SAMT
Preparation of an expert report on the role of voice assistants with regard to media diversity and source transparency (PI: Prof. Dr. Sven Engesser) on behalf of the State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia
2019 - 2021: CeTI - ETAC
Cluster of Excellence "Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop" (CeTI) in the project module "Ethical Implications of the Tactile Internet" (ETAC, PI: Prof. Dr. Sven Engesser), funded by the DFG Excellence Initiative
2015 - 2017: HELIOS
Research projects "HELIOS" and "HELIOS II" (PI: Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Hagen) on behalf of Helios Kliniken GmbH
Science & technology communication
| since 2021 |
Research project / theory seminars "Science and Technology Communication" (BA), Institute of Media and Communication, TU Dresden |
| 2021 | Research project seminar "Similarity and Trustworthiness of Artificial Agents" (BA), Institute of Media and Communication, TU Dresden, together with Katrin Etzrodt |
Research methods
| 2025 | Seminar "Applied Scientific Project Management" (BA), Institute of Media and Communication, TU Dresden |
| 2018 - 2020 |
Seminar "Content Analysis" (BA), Institute of Media and Communication, TU Dresden |
| 2018 - 2020 |
Repetitorium for Master's students "Scientific Project Management" (MA), Institute of Media and Communication, TU Dresden |
| 2017 - 2019 | Tutorial "Scientific Project Management" (BA), Institute of Media and Communication, TU Dresden |
Audience research
| 2019/20 | Seminar "Market-Media Studies" (BA), Institute ofMedia and Communication, TU Dresden |
| 2025 | Science Communication: Cooperation with the Barkhausen Institut on conducting survey research during the exhibition "Human, Robot! Robotics from Dresden science" in COSMO Wissenschaftsforum Dresden (10/2025 – 02/2026) |
| 09/2025 |
Conference: Organization of the first joint annual conference of the "Digital Communication" section of the DGPuK and the "Human-Machine Communication" interest group of the ICA on the topic "Machines as (new) actors in digital communication: challenges and opportunities for science and society", together with K. Etzrodt and S. Engesser Workshop: Organization of the joint doctoral consortium of DigiKomm and HMC, together with K. Frehmann and M. Dehnert |
| 05/2023 | Award: Best submission on the conference topic from early-career researchers (1st place) for the contribution"He, she... or what? Trust in gender-neutral language assistants", together with S. Mooshammer and K. Etzrodt, presented at the 68th Annual Conference of the DGPuK, Bremen |
| 02/2023 – 10/2024 | Maternity and parental leave |
| Since 03/2022 | Early-career scholars representative of the DGPuK section "Digital Communication", together with E. Greussing (03/2022 - 02/2024) and K. Frehmann (since 03/2024) |
| 2021 |
Science Communication: Cooperation with the Barkhausen Institut on designing an AI simulator for the exhibition "Artificial Intelligence: Machine — Learning — Human Dreams" at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum (11/2021 – 11/2022) |
| 01/2021 – 02/2023 |
Program development: Member of the IfK conception team for the reform of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science (leading function) |
| 09/2020 – 02/2023 |
Academic advisor for the Bachelor's degree program "Media Research" |
| 2020 | Science Communication: Cooperation with the Barkhausen Institut on designing an interactive panorama to demonstrate the applications of the Internet of Things for the „Schaufenster der Forschung“ in the Technische Sammlungen Dresden (09/2020 – 12/2021) |
| 09/2019 |
Conference: VIVA Summer School "Voice Interaction and Voice Assistants in Health Care", together with K. Etzrodt Workshops on the topics"Technological Impact on Society - Perceptions of Social Actors and Trust", "Interviews & Personas - Getting to know the users" and "Trust in Humans - Trust in Machines" |
| Since 2019 | Reviewing services for the annual conferences of ICA, ECREA, DGPuK and for academic journals (including New Media & Society, Publizistik, Human-Machine Communication, Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, MedienPädagogik) |
| 06/2018 | Anniversary event: "25 years of IfK and IfK-Förderverein" |
| 2018 – 2021 |
Annual event for knowledge transfer: "Praxisforum des IfK und seines Fördervereins " |
| 10/2017 |
Event: "How artificial intelligence is radically changing media usage behavior", lecture by Thomas Schultz-Homberg (FAZ) |
| 07/2017 |
Event :"Fake news and hate speech on the social web - what can and must the state do about it?", lecture by Heiko Maas (BMJV) |
| 09/2016 | Conference: Dresden Symposium "Digital Revolution in Democracy" (#DigiDem16) |