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11 November 2024|HCI-UHH

Hamburg Future Kongress 2024

The Universitätsgesellschaft Hamburg (UHG) has organised the HAMBURGER ZUKUNFTS-KONFERENZ on November 11th, 2024 around the topic of the twin transformation at the Handelskammer Hamburg at Hamburg. Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke has participated in the panel "Can professionals and AI work together?”.
Together with
Rena Bargsten...

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24 October 2024|HCI-UHH

Congratulations to Dr. Ke Li

Dr. Ke Li successfully defended her Dissertation entitled "Towards a Particle Accelerator Metaverse: Mixed Reality Interfaces for Operations of Complex Physics Facilities” on Thursday, October 24. The committee awarded her doctor with the grade “magna cum laude”. The committee was composed of Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke...

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18 October 2024|HCI-UHH

Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke in Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg gewählt

Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke wurde zum Mitglied der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg (AdWHH) gewählt. Die Akademie, die zur Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften gehört und Mitglied in der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ist, wählt in Norddeutschland Mitglieder aus, die an der Spitze ihres Faches stehen...

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14 October 2024|HCI-UHH

UHH HCI at ACM SUI and VRST 2024

This year our HCI group made various contributions at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI'24) and the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST'24), which were co-located in Tier, Germany from October 8th until October 11th. At SUI we presented a Mixed Reality demo on the Magic Leap 2 and...

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18 September 2024|HCI-UHH

GI VR/AR 2024

This year, the GI VR/AR - the workshop of the special interest group Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) of
the Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (GI) - took place in Hamburg. It was organized by Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke from UHH, and Prof. Dr. Eike Langbehn from HAW.

This year, our group presented two papers:

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17 July 2024|HCI-UHH

Let's Move and Stay Healthy

In this year's Interactive Game Development course, we embraced the motto "Let's Move and Stay Healthy." Our dedicated teams of master students spent the semester designing and implementing 10 innovative exergames (i.e., exercise games) to tackle one of today's most pressing issues: the sedentary lifestyle.

Check out their...

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12 July 2024|Interview

Interview about Apple Visio Pro Launch

The WDR 5 show “WDR 5 Neugier genügt” featured an interview with Prof. Dr. Frank Steincke about the Apple Vision Launch in Germany. The full interview can be downloaded here: WDR 5

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5 June 2024|HCI-UHH

Ideas and Venture Fund of Universität Hamburg

Our postdoc, Dr. Fariba Mostajeran, will receive funding from the Ideas and Venture Fund (IVF) for her project "Green XR: Human-Nature Interaction in Immersive Multi-Sensory Extended Reality Environments". The funding will be up to 50.000 Euro and available from mid-June 2024 until October 31, 2025. The IVF is financed by...

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5 June 2024|HCI-UHH

Honorable Mention Award at ACM CHI 2024

Our student game design project "Language of Zelda: Facilitating Language Learning Practices Using ChatGPT" received an Honorable Mention at the CHI 2024 Conference. The paper was presented by our PhD student Sukran Karaosmanoglu.

The award-winning project was developed by a team of master students as part of the...

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