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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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 Skłodowska-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 […]
Read MoreIn 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 […]
Read MoreLast 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 […]
Read MoreA 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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