Téo Sanchez
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teo [dot] sanchez [at] lmu [dot] de
teo [dot] sanchez [at] lmu [dot] de
I am a postdoctoral researcher specializing in human-AI interaction. I am a Marie-Skłodowska Curie (MSCA) fellow at the Munich Interactive Intelligence Initiative (MI3) at LMU, university of Munich, working with Prof. Ophelia Deroy.
My primary research focus is on understanding how people comprehend and can interact with AI systems. I am interested in designing reflective interactions with machine learning systems.
Second, I study communities of practice that develop around AI technology in the creative and cultural industries. This thread of research spans from the study of early artists that incorporated AI in their practice in the latter half of 2010s, to the recent recreative and online communities centered on text-to-image generation.
📰 News
| Aug 10, 2026 | Our workshop on “Mental models of AI: methods and challenges in the Generative and Agentic AI Era” has been accepted at IUI 2027, which will take place in Helsinki, Finland, on February 8th 2027. Check out the call for papers here! |
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| Jul 1, 2026 | 🥳 Our paper, Mental Models in Human-AI Interaction: Systematic Review of Empirical Methodologies and Guidelines, co-authored with Oleksandra Vereschak and Ophelia Deroy, has been accepted to IUI 2026, which will take place in Paphos, Cyprus, on March 23–26. The preprint is now publicly available. This marks an important milestone for the HAMLU project and reflects a highly productive collaboration! |
| Jan 1, 2026 | 🎉 Our paper Artists on a Decade of AI Evolution: An Interview Study of Affordances, Culture, and Artistic Practice with Machine Learning, conducted with Mariya Dhzimova, Stacy Hsueh, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Vaynee Vereschak, and Baptiste Caramiaux, has been accepted for publication at the CHI 2026 conference, to be held in Barcelona, Spain, on April 13-17, 2026. The pre-print of the paper is available on HAL and Zenodo. |
| Nov 16, 2025 | 🎬 I’ll give a talk at the Festival of Future Storytellers 2025, at the University of Television and Film Munich on the 21st of November 2025. I look forward to engage with movie makers and storytellers and share my perspective on the history of AI and human-computer interaction. |
📄 Selected publications
- C&CExamining the Text-to-Image Community of Practice: Why and How do People Prompt Generative AIs?In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2023
- Interactive Machine Teaching with and for NovicesUniversité Paris-Saclay, 2022🏆 Best dissertation award 2022 from the AFIHM