Since October 2020 Vivian Gunser has been a research assistant and PhD student at IWM in the Multimodal Interaction Lab. Within the research network Human-Agent-Interaction, she is working on artificial intelligence and creativity and investigates whether artificial intelligence tools could be useful for the creative writing process. She is cooperating with the German Literature Archive Marbach and the Department of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Tübingen. Furthermore, Vivian Gunser is interested in how artificial intelligence can be used in healthcare and whether the technology is socially accepted.

Vivian Gunser studied psychology at the University of Klagenfurt (M.Sc. 2018) with a focus on organizational psychology and health psychology. During her studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Department of Health Psychology at the University of Klagenfurt and University of Konstanz. Before joining IWM, she worked as a lab manager of a usability lab at Furtwangen University and taught in the field of data analysis of the engineering psychology program.