For AvaKIT, a research project at the Mixality Lab, Hochschule Emden/Leer, funded by the Hochschule’s Forschungsfonds WS26/27, we’re looking for a student assistant. We’re building an open source toolkit for anthropomorphic 3D AI avatars (AvaKIT) that can be embedded directly into Moodle courses as interactive, motivating learning units, combining a Unity-based 3D frontend, real-time AI […]
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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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On the 18th July 2026, the HyperBRIDGE project was present at the Public Day of the European Hyperloop Week (EHW), an international event that brings together student research teams and industry professionals working on Hyperloop technologies and the future of sustainable high-speed transportation. As part of the event’s exhibition area, Lars Pastoor and Lisa Wallesch from the HyperBRIDGE […]
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On July 15th, researchers and practitioners met at Crete for the first workshop on Smart Workers in Industry 5.0 (SWI5) during the PETRA 2026 conference. The workshop was organised by Dr Jonas Blattgerste and Prof. Dr Thies Pfeiffer, who also moderated it. Nine papers were presented, covering topics ranging from action monitoring at smart workstations to inclusive work […]
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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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The third edition of one of the standard German textbooks in the Mixed Reality context, Virtual und Augmented Reality (VR/AR) (Springer Vieweg), has been published and includes a case study on the Heb@AR project. Authored by Thies Pfeiffer, Jonas Blattgerste, Annette Bernloehr, Kristina Vogel, and Nicola H. Bauer, the section “Heb@AR: Skalierbares AR-Training fĂĽr Hebammen” […]
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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 fĂĽr 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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Our Mixality team, surrounding Prof. Dr. Thies Pfeiffer and Jonas Blattgerste, is proud to announce that our “Heb@AR” app has been recognized at the nextReality.Contest in Hamburg, where it won the “Interactive Education” Award. The app aims to support the training of academic midwives through the use of practical Augmented Reality (AR) trainings. It was […]
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On the 28th of October 2022, the final project meeting took place at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld. Members of the project presented what have been worked on for the last three years. The presentations ranged from didactical and medicine/ health-care background over results from testing and studying our work at different Universities and […]
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The final event of the “ViRDiPA” training took place on September 8th and 9th, 2022. The two major topics were: the presentation of the work results (self created learning tasks including 360° Video VR scenarios) and the development of ideas for the future use of virtual reality in educational institutions. After the presentation of each […]
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The EU Marie SkĹ‚odowska-Curie Project CHARMING had its final meeting. Nine members joined physically at KU Leuven, Belgium and 16 members joined remotely. The Work Package (WP) leaders presented the summary of the results of their ESRs (PhD researchers), also including the status of each ESR’s milestone, PhD and publications. From Mixality, Prof. Thies Pfeiffer […]
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The use of full-immersive VR learning environments promotes the individual skills andprior knowledge of students. However, more specific effects on learning and concepts forintegration are not sufficiently studied yet. As part of a BMBF-funded research project, this article pursues the following question: What are the design and didactical as wellas communicative-interactive differences between full-immersive virtual […]
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In medical and health care education, working on case studies is an important part of the training. In the research project “DiViFaG“, at the university of applied sciences Bielefeld digital interactive learning scenarios are developed that enable students to train practical skills necessary for their later profession in a virtual environment. The aim of the […]
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Last week we received congratulations from Information Systems Research that our paper Eye-Tracking-Based Classification of Information Search Behavior Using Machine Learning: Evidence from Experiments in Physical Shops and Virtual Reality Shopping Environments has been selected as one of the two runners-up for the Best Paper Award 2020. The full list of awardees can be seen […]
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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 May 27th the COGAIN Symposium took place virtually as a workshop co-located at ETRA’21.6 short papers and 1 position paper were presented in form of video presentations, organized by the program chairs Ken Pfeuffer and Augusto Esteves. The topics presented at the COGAIN ranged from gaze-based interaction, including eye typing, to measuring brain activity […]
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In our project HebAR we are investigating the use of augmented reality (AR) to provide new learning experiences for the education and training of midwifes. Our project partners and we invite you to participate in a digital conference in which we report on our progress in the project and discuss potentials and challenges with well-known […]
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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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