We had a wonderful few days at Mensch und Computer (MuC) 2026 in Duisburg this year! The conference kicked off with a strong workshop day, followed by a main program packed with talks, posters, and many interactive demos, giving us plenty of chances to catch up with the German-speaking HCI community and pick up new […]
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We are delighted and very proud to announce that Yusra Tehreem, a former member of our lab, has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Pfeiffer and PD Dr. Sven Wachsmuth at Bielefeld University. Her thesis is titled: “A Systematic and Scalable Design for Industrial Virtual Reality Training based on Maslow’s Theory […]
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We are happy to share that the submission and peer review phase for our workshop SWI5 – Smart Workers in Industry 5.0: Human-Centric Assistance and Work Planning has been completed, and we accepted nine papers for presentation. We were thrilled by the range and quality of the submissions. Together, the accepted contributions cover much of […]
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Visit from the Innovatie Cluster Drachten We had the honor of welcoming a delegation from the Innovatiecluster Drachten at the 23rd of February 2023! After the welcome speech by university president Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kreutz, the visitors from various Dutch companies got an insight into the newly set up Technikum of the department of electrical […]
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On February 20th Prof. Dr. Thies Pfeiffer was interviewed by Volker Mattick from the Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation e.V. (dini) in their DINItus Podcast format. In the interview, Prof. Pfeiffer talks about the project Heb@AR, in which the group created an augmented reality training application for smartphones for midwifes. He reports on the challenges of […]
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A special focus was on the presentation of the project ViRDiPA and the use of 360°-videos as basis for a non-linear learning experience that can be created without programming language or skills in 3D modelling and animation.
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Analyzing eye movements allows revealing insights into cognitive activities taking place in someone’s mind. In training contexts, this information can be used to draw conclusions about the learner’s cognitive load or expertise regarding the current learning task. In our talk “Eye Movements in VR Training: Expertise Measurement and it’s Meaning for Adaptive Chess Training” we […]
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On Saturday March 20th, 2021, the Johannes Wesling Klinikum Minden is inviting to a conference day on “Virtual Reality in Surgery – Theory and Practice”. Professor Dr. Thies Pfeiffer was invited to present the current reseach projects on the implementation of educational trainings for nurses and medical doctors using virtual and augmented reality. The conference […]
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In November 2020 researchers and practitioners in nursing met for the Pflegekongress20 in Viena. Really, well, due to the COVID-19 pandemic the meeting was held only virtually. One of the benefits of this is that most talks have been recorded on video and are now available online, e.g. on the youtube channel of the pflegenetz. […]
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