Peter Sörries
I am an experienced interaction designer and design researcher with a doctoral degree in design studies. My work focuses on the evolving relationship between humans and tools or interfaces, and the diverse contexts in which this relationship unfolds. I explore how tools and interfaces shape how we think, feel, and act, and how new practices, routines, and perspectives can emerge from this interplay.
My work aims to make this interplay tangible, reflect on it critically, and open up new possibilities for interaction through design. For me, design is not only about creating, but also about asking questions and exploring them through research, experimentation, and co-creation. Equally important is sharing my knowledge, both in teaching and in practice, to support learning and skill-building in others.
I am also a member of »Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung« ↗︎ and »Design Society« ↗︎ .
Vita
Education
2021 – 2025
PhD in Design Studies
Burg Giebichenstein University of Art & Design Halle
PhD in Design Studies
Burg Giebichenstein University of Art & Design Halle
2018 – 2019
M.A. Product & Interaction Design
Department of Product Design
Weißensee School of Art & Design Berlin
M.A. Product & Interaction Design
Department of Product Design
Weißensee School of Art & Design Berlin
2014 – 2018
B.A. Product & Interaction Design
Department of Product Design
Weißensee School of Art & Design Berlin
B.A. Product & Interaction Design
Department of Product Design
Weißensee School of Art & Design Berlin
2012 – 2014
Technical Assistant for Product Design
Marcel-Breuer-Schule Berlin
Technical Assistant for Product Design
Marcel-Breuer-Schule Berlin
Experience
Since 2020
Interaction Designer & Design Researcher
Human-Centered Computing Research Group
Freie Universität Berlin
Interaction Designer & Design Researcher
Human-Centered Computing Research Group
Freie Universität Berlin
2023 – 2025
Interaction Designer & Design Researcher
Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material«
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Interaction Designer & Design Researcher
Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material«
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Since 2018
Freelance Designer
Freelance Designer
2017 – 2021
Designer & Concept Developer
Humboldt-Innovation GmbH
Designer & Concept Developer
Humboldt-Innovation GmbH
2017 – 2018
Tutor
eLab – Laboratory for Interactive Technologies
Weißensee School of Art & Design Berlin
Tutor
eLab – Laboratory for Interactive Technologies
Weißensee School of Art & Design Berlin
2017
Intern for Product & Industrial Design
Studio 7.5 Berlin
Intern for Product & Industrial Design
Studio 7.5 Berlin
2013
Intern for Toy & Product Design
Lippert Studios Berlin
Intern for Toy & Product Design
Lippert Studios Berlin
Teaching
2023 – 2025
Lecturer »Coding IxD« ↗︎
Department of Product Design
Weißensee School of Art & Design Berlin
Lecturer »Coding IxD« ↗︎
Department of Product Design
Weißensee School of Art & Design Berlin
2023 – 2025
Guest Lecturer
Department of Design Studies
Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle
Guest Lecturer
Department of Design Studies
Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle
Since 2021
Teaching Assistant for Human-Computer Interaction & Data Visualization
Institute of Computer Science
Freie Universität Berlin
Teaching Assistant for Human-Computer Interaction & Data Visualization
Institute of Computer Science
Freie Universität Berlin
Grants
2018
Projectfunding
Dubai Culture Foundation
Projectfunding
Dubai Culture Foundation
2018
Projectfunding
Profund Innovation, Freie Universität Berlin
Projectfunding
Profund Innovation, Freie Universität Berlin
2017
Scholarship
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Scholarship
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Publications & Activities
Publications
2026
Sörries, P. (2026).
I’m a designer, so why research? Cultivating a value-sensitive design practice through research.
http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/122072 ↗︎
Sörries, P., Schaeffner, A., Eger Domingos, D., Cypko, M. A., Timmermann, L., Queisner, M., Sauer, I. M., Zwick, C., & Müller-Birn, C. (2026).
ViRAS: Design artifacts to explore socio-material configurations through a research-through-design approach in robot-assisted surgery.
In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26), 33 pages.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790755 ↗︎
Klein, J., Sörries, P., Mutlugil, Y., George, C., Altendorf, M., Möckel, M., & Müller-Birn, C. (2026).
With, not For: Co-designing a patient-facing AI companion concept for the emergency department waiting area.
In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26), 27 pages.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790638 ↗︎
2025
Eger Domingos, D., Jünger, K., Sörries, P., & Zwick, C. (2025).
Exploring a stylus-based haptic interface to reflect on human-robot interaction.
In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Culture and Computer Science: Remixing Analog and Digital (KUI ’25), Article 13, 1-6.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3769526.3769631 ↗︎
2024
Sörries, P., Leimstädtner, D., & Müller-Birn, C. (2024).
Advocating values through meaningful participation: Introducing a method to elicit and analyze values for enriching data donation practices in healthcare.
In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1), 1-32.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3637293 ↗︎
2023
Sörries, P., Franzen, D., Sperl, M., & Müller-Birn, C. (2023).
Foregrounding values through public participation: Eliciting values of citizens in the context of mobility data donation.
In Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2023 (pp. 387-394).
https://doi.org/10.1145/3603555.3608531 ↗︎
Sörries, P., Leimstädtner, D., Sperl, M., & Müller-Birn, C. (2023).
Endorsing values through participation: Facilitating workshops for participatory value elicitation in two different contexts to inform sociotechnical designs.
In Mensch und Computer 2023 – Workshopband. Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).
https://doi.org/10.18420/muc2023-mci-ws02-412 ↗︎
2022
Sörries, P., Glaser, J., Müller-Birn, C., Ness, T., & Zwick, C. (2022).
Coding IxD: Enabling interdisciplinary education by sparking reflection.
ACM EduCHI Annual Symposium on HCI Education.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.02713 ↗︎
Franzen, D., Nuñez von Voigt, S., Sörries, P., Tschorsch, F., & Müller-Birn, C. (2022).
Am I Private and If So, How Many? Communicating Privacy Guarantees of Differential Privacy with Risk Communication Formats.
In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 1125-1139).
https://doi.org/10.1145/3548606.356069 ↗︎
Müller-Birn, C., Leimstädtner, D., & Sörries, P. (2022).
Taking a value perspective on medical data donation through participatory workshops.
In Mensch und Computer 2023 – Workshopband. Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).
https://doi.org/10.18420/muc2022-mci-ws02-235 ↗︎
Mucha, H., Correia de Barros, A., Benjamin, J., Benzmüller, C., Bischof, A., Buchmüller, S., de Carvalho, A., Dhungel, A., Draude, C., Fleck, M., Jarke, J., Klein, S., Kortekaas, C., Kurze, A., Linke, D., Maas, F., Marsden, N., Melo, R., Michel, S., Müller-Birn, C., Pröbster, M., Rießenberger, K., Schäfer, M., Sörries, P., Stilke, J., Volkmann, T., Weibert, A., Weinhold, W., Wolf, S., Zorn, I., Heidt, M. & Berger, A. (2022).
Collaborative speculations on future themes for participatory design in Germany. icom, 21(2), 283-298.
https://doi.org/10.1515/icom-2021-0030 ↗︎
Leimstädtner, D., Sörries, P., & Müller-Birn, C. (2022).
Unfolding values through systematic guidance: Conducting a value-centered participatory workshop for a patient-oriented data donation.
In Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2022 (pp. 477-482).
https://doi.org/10.1145/3543758.3547560 ↗︎
2021
Sörries, P., Müller-Birn, C., Glinka, K., Boenisch, F., Margraf, M., Sayegh-Jodehl, S., & Rose, M. (2021).
Privacy needs reflection: Conceptional design rationales for privacy-preserving explanation user interfaces.
In Mensch und Computer 2021 – Workshopband. Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).
https://doi.org/10.18420/muc2021-mci-wsc-389 ↗︎
Müller-Birn, C., Glinka, K., Sörries, P., Tebbe, M., & Michl, S. (2021).
Situated case studies for a human-centered design of explanation user interfaces.
ACM CHI Workshop on Operationalizing Human-Centered Perspectives in Explainable AI.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2103.15462 ↗︎
Activities
2026
Talk: »ViRAS: Design Artifacts to Explore Socio-Material Configurations through a Research-through-Design Approach Robot-Assisted Surgery«
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Barcelona, Spain)
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Barcelona, Spain)
2024
Talk: »Advocating values through meaningful participation: Introducing a method to elicit and analyze values for enriching data donation practices in healthcare«
ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (San José, Costa Rica)
ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (San José, Costa Rica)
Panel discussion: »FAIRDIENSTE – Fair Digital Services: Co-Valuation in the Design of Data-Economic Business Models«
Final event of the FAIRDIENSTE project (Kassel, Germany)
Final event of the FAIRDIENSTE project (Kassel, Germany)
Workshop: »Exploring the design space of human-AI collaboration through co-creation« — Matters of Activity. Image Space Material
Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Acitivity«
Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Acitivity«
2023
Talk: »Value-oriented participatory method to support citizens in exercising their data sovereignty«
Annual Conference Plattform Privatheit (Berlin, Germany)
Annual Conference Plattform Privatheit (Berlin, Germany)
Talk: »Foregrounding values through public participation: Eliciting values of citizens in the context of mobility data donation«
Mensch und Computer Conference (Rapperswil, Switzerland)
Mensch und Computer Conference (Rapperswil, Switzerland)
Talk: »Endorsing values through participation: Facilitating workshops for participatory value elicitation in two different contexts to inform sociotechnical designs«
Mensch und Computer Workshop — Partizipative & sozialverantwortliche Technikentwicklung (Rapperswil, Switzerland)
Mensch und Computer Workshop — Partizipative & sozialverantwortliche Technikentwicklung (Rapperswil, Switzerland)
Workshop: »Future Lab Informatics & Society«
INFORMATIK 2023 Conference (Berlin, Germany)
INFORMATIK 2023 Conference (Berlin, Germany)
2022
Talk: »Coding IxD: Enabling interdisciplinary education by sparking reflection«
ACM EduCHI Conference (New Orleans, USA, online)
ACM EduCHI Conference (New Orleans, USA, online)
2021
Talk: »Privacy needs reflection: Conceptional design rationales for privacy-preserving explanation user interfaces«
Mensch und Computer Workshop — Usable Security and Privacy (Ingolstadt, Germany, online)
Mensch und Computer Workshop — Usable Security and Privacy (Ingolstadt, Germany, online)
Workshop: »Value-based Design: Identifying and Integrating Values in Technology Design«
Human-Technology Interaction for Digital Sovereignty — BMFTR Event
Human-Technology Interaction for Digital Sovereignty — BMFTR Event
Workshop: »Designing Interactions through Scenario-Based Design«
Human-Technology Interaction for Digital Sovereignty — BMFTR Network Event
Human-Technology Interaction for Digital Sovereignty — BMFTR Network Event