HCI Group Essen

Honored to speak at the Summer School on Cross Reality in Hagenberg, Austria. In my presentation, 'Designing and Prototyping Cross-Reality Systems', I emphasized the complexities involved and shared effective methods and prototyping tools to navigate these challenges. (Ad warning): It was also a great opportunity to pitch our startup GenerIO.ai and quickly demonstrate how we can simplify the creation of 3D assets for Cross-Reality Systems. My talk was embedded in a great program with talks from Mark Billinghurst, Daniel Zielasko, Frank Maurer, Dr. Abraham Campbell, Hans-Christian Jetter, and Daniel Roth. Thanks to Judith Friedl-Knirsch, Fabian Pointecker, and Christoph Anthes for the outstanding organization!

Congratulations to Dr. (!) Max Pascher on successfully defending his thesis titled 'An Interaction Design for AI-enhanced Assistive Human-Robot Collaboration'. In his research, Dr. Max Pascher investigated the use of robotic arms to aid individuals with limited mobility, enabling them to live more independently. Well done, Max!

Congratulations to Dr. (!) Max Pascher on successfully defending his thesis titled 'An Interaction Design for AI-enhanced Assistive Human-Robot Collaboration'. In his research, Dr. Max Pascher investigated the use of robotic arms to aid individuals with limited mobility, enabling them to live more independently. Well done, Max!

The deadline for submitting your full papers and technical notes to EICS for the first #PACM round is approaching fast! Remember to submit your work by the end of the day on July 26, 2024 AoE. https://lnkd.in/ebysFiib ACM SIGCHI #eics #eics2025 #trier

This week, Max Pascher attended the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems #EICS, hosted by the Università degli Studi di Cagliari in #Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Max presented our recent research on #AdaptiX - our transitional #XR framework for #AI-enhanced #assistive #robotics - and received the #best #paper #award on behalf of his co-authors Felix Ferdinand Goldau, Kirill Kronhardt, Udo Frese and Jens Gerken. 📑 https://lnkd.in/erTD2vAZ #eics2024 #human #robot #intetaction #collaboration #hri #hrc #shared #control #technology #opensource Technische Universität Dortmund Universität Duisburg-Essen HCI Group Essen Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)

Last week, I had the opportunity to present “Computer, Generate!” – Investigating User-Controlled Generation of Immersive Virtual Environments" on behalf of my co-authors Niklas Pfützenreuter, Jonas Auda, Uwe Gruenefeld and Stefan Schneegass at Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence Conference. It was great to discuss and connect with so many experts from different fields in human-ai research. Many thanks to the organization commitee for organizing this great conference 🎉 You can find our paper at: https://lnkd.in/dm5_ET-C

Super exited to share that “Computer, Generate!” – Investigating User-Controlled Generation of Immersive Virtual Environments" was accepted at #HHAI2024 🎉Many thanks to my co-authors Niklas Pfützenreuter, Jonas Auda, Uwe Gruenefeld and Stefan Schneegass 🤗 Abstract: For immersive experiences such as virtual reality, explorable worlds are often fundamental. Generative artificial intelligence looks promising to accelerate the creation of such environments. However, it remains unclear how existing interaction modalities can support user-centered world generation and how users remain in control of the process. Thus, in this paper, we present a virtual reality application to generate virtual environments and compare three common interaction modalities (voice, controller, and hands) in a pre-study (N = 18), revealing a combination of initial voice input and continued controller manipulation as best suitable. We then investigate three levels of process control (all-at-once, creation-before-manipulation, and step-by-step) in a user study (N = 27). Our results show that although all-at-once reduced the number of object manipulations, participants felt more in control when using the step-by-step approach. Looking forward to presenting this work in Malmö! The paper is aready published at: https://lnkd.in/dm5_ET-C #HHAI2024 #HCI #Research

It was an awesome experience to present our Late Breaking Work "Look Over Here! Comparing Interaction Methods for User-Assisted Remote Scene Reconstruction" at #CHI24 🌴 You can now find the work on the CHI website: https://lnkd.in/dT-NE-c5

We were happy to join the German Pre-CHI 2024 with 3 works: Jonathan Liebers presented his full paper "Kinetic Signatures: A Systematic Investigation of Movement-Based User Identification in Virtual Reality" with Patrick Laskowski, Florian Rademaker, Leon Sabel, Jordan Hoppen, Uwe Gruenefeld, and Stefan Schneegass. Stefan Schneegass presented the work of Dr. Sarah Faltaous, Marion Koelle, Julie Williamson, Max Pfeiffer, and Jonas Keppel: "Understanding User Acceptance of Electrical Muscle Stimulation in Human-Computer Interaction". Carina Liebers presented the LBW "Look Over Here! Comparing Interaction Methods for User-Assisted Remote Scene Reconstruction" with Niklas Pfützenreuter, Marvin Prochazka, Pranav Megarajan, Eike Furuno, Jan Löber, Dr. Tim C. Stratmann, Jonas Auda, Donald Degraen, Uwe Gruenefeld, and Stefan Schneegass. Thanks to Martin Schmitz, Jürgen Steimle, Antonio Krüger, Anna Maria Feit, and Dr. Paul Strohmeier for organizing the event! #HCI #GermanPreCHI #CHI2024

We were happy to join the German Pre-CHI 2024 with 3 works: Jonathan Liebers presented his full paper "Kinetic Signatures: A Systematic Investigation of Movement-Based User Identification in Virtual Reality" with Patrick Laskowski, Florian Rademaker, Leon Sabel, Jordan Hoppen, Uwe Gruenefeld, and Stefan Schneegass. Stefan Schneegass presented the work of Dr. Sarah Faltaous, Marion Koelle, Julie Williamson, Max Pfeiffer, and Jonas Keppel: "Understanding User Acceptance of Electrical Muscle Stimulation in Human-Computer Interaction". Carina Liebers presented the LBW "Look Over Here! Comparing Interaction Methods for User-Assisted Remote Scene Reconstruction" with Niklas Pfützenreuter, Marvin Prochazka, Pranav Megarajan, Eike Furuno, Jan Löber, Dr. Tim C. Stratmann, Jonas Auda, Donald Degraen, Uwe Gruenefeld, and Stefan Schneegass. Thanks to Martin Schmitz, Jürgen Steimle, Antonio Krüger, Anna Maria Feit, and Dr. Paul Strohmeier for organizing the event! #HCI #GermanPreCHI #CHI2024