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Organizational Leadership and Diversity
Press Release
25-11-2025
The avatar in a wheelchair
A call for more diversity in the Metaverse
A study by the University of Stuttgart, the California State University at Fullerton, and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has found that there are benefits to representing one’s real-life disability through an avatar in virtual reality. The Metaverse is not just a technical platform, but also one for social interaction. Therefore, all users should be included in its development, including people with disabilities. The researchers appeal to companies to be more courageous in embracing diversity in virtual spaces as authentic self-representation allows people with disabilities to identify more strongly with their work.
Ksenia Keplinger
Phoenix Van Wagoner
Andria Smith
Haptic Intelligence
Organizational Leadership and Diversity
News
30-09-2025
Carl Schneider Foundation supports innovative technology at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart
Funding enables purchase of a functional near-infrared spectroscopy system
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Matthias Tröndle
Ksenia Keplinger
Organizational Leadership and Diversity
Award
25-06-2025
Ksenia Keplinger receives SIG Best Paper Award at the 2025 EURAM Conference
EURAM Conference in Florence, Italy, June 22-25, 2025
Ksenia Keplinger
Yulia Litvinova
Organizational Leadership and Diversity
Award
24-06-2025
Ksenia Keplinger receives EURAM/ERC Award
for advancing to the interview round of the ERC Starting Grant
Ksenia Keplinger
Robotic Materials
Organizational Leadership and Diversity
News
12-12-2024
Diversity and inclusion accelerate the pace of innovation in robotics
Diverse and inclusive teams are not merely a moral imperative but also a catalyst for scientific excellence in robotics, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems point out in a study. The team now published an article in which they outline how a scientific community can benefit if its leadership fosters an environment of diversity and inclusion, and propose a leadership guide for roboticists to help reap these benefits.
Daniela Macari
Ksenia Keplinger
Christoph Keplinger
Organizational Leadership and Diversity
24-02-2022
Wokshop Bosch
DEI exchange with Bosch senior leadership