Virtuelle und augmentierte Realität (VR/AR) sind mittlerweile wesentliche Technologien in vielen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen. So ermöglichen VR und AR digitale Partizipation und Teilhabe etwa im Kontext sozialer, kultureller und wirtschaftlicher Projekte. Insbesondere können vielfältige zukünftige, vergangene oder ...

Mit Virtual Reality (VR) kann in virtuelle Welten eingetaucht und mit einer immersiven 3-D Umgebung interagiert werden. Das virtuelle Erlebnis wird dabei durch Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) realisiert. Der zunehmende Einsatz von VR durch Unternehmen und Privatpersonen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen setzt sichere und ...

Control rooms are facilities of central importance in many safetycritical domains (e.g., rescue services, traffic management, power supply). At the same time, they are characterized by a complex IT infrastructure that can only be integrated and adapted to a limited extent for research activities in the area of human-computer ...

The fast-paced growth of Extended Reality (XR) technologies in complex environments, such as training scenarios, has highlighted the need to implement Artificial Intelligence (AI) modules in the simulations to support trainers and trainees in these unfamiliar contexts. Among the possible AI solutions, recommender systems ...

While there are already extensive pattern languages and collections in many application areas of computer science, one still must search intensively for user interface and interaction design patterns for virtual, augmented and mixed reality. The search for such patterns proves to be difficult and time-consuming. Some ...

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. ...