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28 April 2025|HCI-UHH

Congratulations to Dr. Jenny Gabel

Dr. Jenny Gabel successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Immersive Inscribed Spaces: Spatial Interaction Techniques for Understanding Written Artefacts“ on Monday, April, 28th, 2025. Her work was conducted in the scope of the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts at University of Hamburg. Jenny was...

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23 April 2025|HCI-UHH

Congratulations to Dr. Bastian Dewitz

On April 23rd, 2025, Bastian Dewitz successully defended his dissertation entitled “Super-Natural Interaction: An Enactivism-Based Conceptualization and Applications in Immersive Telementoring“.
Bastian was cosupervised by Prof. Dr. Chris Geiger from the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf.
Prof. Dr. Eva Bittner...

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17 April 2025|HCI-UHH

Podcast launch

We have launched our podcast “Research of HCI Hamburg” on Spotify. Here, we will let artificial intelligence, in particular, large language models summarize our recent research papers. The first episode has been generated using NotebookLLM.

The first episode features our paper entitled “ACHOO - Bless you! Sense of Presence...

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3 April 2025|HCI-UHH

Girl's Day 2025: Creating and exploring virtual worlds

Girl's Day 2025 took place on April 3, giving girls in elementary and middle school the opportunity to try out various professions and disciplines. Jenny Gabel and Lucie Kruse from the Human-Computer Interaction workgroup once again offered a project in which the schoolgirls learned about virtual reality, explored it and...

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20 March 2025|HCI-UHH

Innovative Teaching at the Excellence University

At the University of Hamburg (UHH), excellent research and innovative teaching come together. Together, we engage in this diverse environment and aim to strengthen not only the university but also society for the future with our work. Who we are and what is important to us can be found on this page. Our group was chosen to...

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10 March 2025|HCI-UHH

ASPIRE for Top Scientists

The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST, President HASHIMOTO Kazuhito) has approved funding for 32 new research projects through the "ASPIRE for Top Scientists" and "ASPIRE for Rising Scientists" under the ASPIRE program.
The call for proposals was welcoming applications from Japan-based researchers and international...

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9 March 2025|HCI-UHH

Keynote about Spatial Computing at VR-HSA

Frank Steinicke gave a keynote entitled "Bridging between Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality in the Spatial Computing Era” at the 1st International Workshop on Virtual Reality for Human and Spatial Augmentation (VR-HSA). VR-HSA aims to unite experts and researchers in virtual reality, human augmentation, and...

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8 March 2025|HCI-UHH

Keynote at IEEE VR Workshop on NGA

Frank Steinicke gave a keynote entitled “Blending AI and XR for the Next Generation of Smart Avatars and Intelligent Virtual Agents” at the IEEE VR 2025 Next Generation Avatars (NGA) workshop. In his presentations, he highlighted the innovative integration of Generative AI with XR technologies. This was showcased by the...

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8 March 2025|HCI-UHH

Keynote at IEEE VR GenAI-XR Workshop

Frank Steinicke delivered a keynote speech entitled "Human-AI Synergy - Combining Generative AI and XR" at the Generative Artificial Intelligence meets Extended Reality (GenAI-XR) workshop, part of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces.

In his presentation, Steinicke highlighted the innovative...

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