Carolin Wienrich, Marc Latoschik, and Andreas Hotho visited the Bavarian Digital Summit.
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MuC 2022
22.09.2022After two years of completely digital conferences, the largest conference series of human-computer interaction in Europe, "Mensch und Computer 2022", took place in presence for the first time again. The Psychology of Intelligent Interactive Systems Group was was represented in Darmstadt with contributions on various topics.
MehrOn October 19, 2022, Prof. Latoschik and Prof. Wienrich will speak at "Würzbürger Impulse: Künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik in der Medizin"
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10.08.2022The Summer EXPO 2022 for MCS/HCI, MK and GE was a great success! We thank all the contributors and guests for participating.
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22.07.2022Are you interested in Games, Virtual Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, and Science? Then this will be the right event for you!
MehrParticipants collaborated to explore crucial dimensions in user-centered AI-design, focusing on the trustworthiness, perceived safety, and overall appeal of (non-)humanoid AI-representations in virtual reality (VR).
MehrPIIS, HCI and PsyErgo at the CHI´22
19.05.2022Die ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (kurz „CHI“) fand nach mehreren online-only Durchgängen in diesem Jahr hybrid statt. Die CHI-Konferenz gilt als die größte Konferenz im Bereich der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion und die Uni Würzburg war mit drei Fachbereichen vertreten: PIIS, HCI und PsyErgo stellten Vorträge online und vor Ort vor. Nina Döllinger stellte ihre Arbeit zur Körperwahrnehmung in virtuellen Avataren vor.
MehrWir suchen Teilnehmer:innen für die ViTraS-Pilotstudie an der Universität Würzburg.
MehrPIIS Group @ IEEE VR 2022
07.04.2022The IEEE VR took place virtually March, 12.-16. 2022. The HCI and PIIS Groups presented one journal paper, one conference paper and two posters. We are very honored to have been nominated for the Best Paper Award for “Breaking Plausibility Without Breaking Presence - Evidence for the Multi-Layer Nature of Plausibility”.
MehrNew Publication: "AI Literacy: Kompetenzdimensionen und Einflussfaktoren im Kontext von Arbeit"
06.04.2022In cooperation with the think tank Digitale Arbeitsgesellschaft of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, a first holistic model for describing and predicting AI literacy was published.
MehrKick-Off AIL AT WORK
06.04.2022The project AIL AT WORK celebrated its official kick-off with the think tank Digitale Arbeitsgesellschaft of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.
MehrOut of more than 2,300 applications, Erik Wolf from the HCI and PIIS Group was selected as one of 37 outstanding PhD students to be funded within the 2022 Meta PhD Research Fellowship program. This prestigious achievement was granted to only six participants from outside the US and once again puts the Würzburg AR/VR research into the neighbourship of elite research facilities like Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, or ETH. Congratulations to Erik Wolf for this outstanding achievement!
MehrXR Hub @ WueWW
27.10.2021The XR Hub hosted an event for the WueWW on Friday, the 22nd of October 2021 to give an insight into the world of extended reality and to showcase fields of application of XR. The XR Hub Würzburg introduced five areas of application of XR: therapy and health, education and training, co-working and creativity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and fundamental research and knowledge transfer.
MehrAt Demo Day, exciting student projects from the nine Bavarian bidt innovation labs were presented. The event also marks the end of the current funding round. In addition to the presentation of the labs and their projects, participants expected an award ceremony in the categories of Play & Leisure, Education & Workplace, DigitalHealth, Data Science, and Sustainability.
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XR-Hub Würzburg @ Places_ VR Festival
12.10.2021The Places_ VR Festival took place from 16th to 18th of September in Gelsenkirchen.
The Places _ Virtual Reality Festival is Germany's first, largest, freely accessible, and free festival for virtual reality. In 2021, the festival already entered its third round. The Places _ VR Festival is aimed equally at a professional audience, but especially at a broad public audience, and has been held in Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf since 2018. Places is a meeting place for the German and European XR industry as well as a contact point for many people interested in VR.
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