Social VR holds the promise of engaging users in meaningful social interaction without leaving one’s physical environment. Particularly for disabled people, this could reduce barriers to social participation in the context of leisure, work, and education. However, the current shape of VR technology and research efforts ...

An established method for detecting usability problems is the analysis of user gaze behavior with an eye-tracker. These studies require a significant amount of time and effort to evaluate the data. An automated detection of good and bad usability in recorded user data can support usability experts in eye-tracking evaluation ...

Nowadays, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are acquiring increasing importance. In light of the fact that this is true not only for gaming or entertainment, but also for business and scientific scenarios, such immersive technologies may become as immensely important to us as Web 2.0 did over a decade ago. ...

I propose the notion of Roboticising User Interfaces (RUIs) that help cope with the daily problems we let into our homes and lives by automation. A culture of cooperation in the form of recommendations and requests is established by enabling a system to become part of a bidirectional (voiceless) dialogue instigated by ...

Smart City technology is a rapidly developing field that aims to solve city-problems through technological modernization of the environment and society, including safety and security of citizens. The level of safety of the urban space influences inhabitants’ mobility levels, meaning that unsafe places restrict citizens ...

Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der Entwicklung von AppliHelp, einem virtuellen Assistenten in Chatbotformat, welcher es Berufseinsteiger*innen ermöglichen soll, potenzielle Bewerbungshürden mithilfe von einem Zugewinn an Selbstvertrauen und weiterführenden Informationen zu überwinden. Vor der Umsetzung des ...

In recent decades various digital artifacts have been integrated into our daily life. One such integration is chatbots or conversational agents like Siri and Alexa. Even though those devices are helping primarily in daily activities, they can potentially be used for medical and health care purposes. In our research, we ...