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On Monday, 15 December, Tonia Mielke successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘From Registration to Evaluation: Towards Efficient Human–Robot Interaction’. The work was carried out at the Research Campus STIMULATE and examines intuitive methods for controlling robotic arms using hand gestures and the support of these interactions through mixed reality. The doctoral colloquium and dissertation … Read more
On 11 December 2025, Oleksii Bashkanov from the Human–Machine Interaction research group at the Research Campus STIMULATE at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg successfully completed his doctoral colloquium. In his dissertation entitled ‘Multimodal Deep Learning for Enhanced Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Grading,’ he focused on the development of AI-supported methods for improved prostate cancer diagnostics. … Read more
VAR group members Robert Klank and Katarzyna Olszyńska, working with Daniel Oquelis and Maria Tam, won first prize in the Meta-sponsored category “AI & Passthrough Camera Access” at the international XR Creator Con Hackathon (30 October–26 November 2025). Organised by the XR Ecosystem, the competition is considered the largest independent hackathon for extended reality worldwide. … Read more
At the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) in Daejeon, South Korea, Tonia Mielke, in collaboration with Mareen Allgaier, Christian Hansen, and Florian Heinrich, received a Best Paper Honorable Mention award for their work “Extended Reality Check: Evaluating XR Prototyping for Human-Robot Interaction in Contact-Intensive Tasks.” ISMAR is one of the leading … Read more
Danny Schott successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Of Individual and Collaborative Experiences: Training and Learning in Immersive Environments for Medical Education,” with the distinction summa cum laude on April 3, 2025. The thesis committee included Prof. Dr. Dieter Schmalstieg (University of Stuttgart, Germany), Prof. Dr. Daniel Roth (Technical University of Munich, Germany), and Prof. … Read more
For the scientific contribution entitled “Exploring Interaction Concepts for the Manipulation of a Collaborative Robot: A Comparative Study“, Josefine Schreiter, in collaboration with Tonia Mielke, Marilena Georgiades, Maciej Pech, Christian Hansen and Florian Heinrich, was awarded an Honourable Mention at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in Melbourne, Australia. The video accompanying the paper can be found here. … Read more
Florian Heinrich was honoured by the Faculty of Computer Science at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg for his scientific achievements as a postdoctoral researcher. Florian has published numerous high-ranking conference papers, including IEEE VR, ACM VRST and ACM ISMAR. He has also contributed to numerous journal articles in IEEE Transactions on Visualisation and Computer Graphics and International Journal … Read more
Danny Schott received the Best Paper Award together with Matthias Kunz, Florian Heinrich, Jonas Mandel, Anne Albrecht, Rüdiger Braun-Dullaeus and Christian Hansen for “Stand Alone or Stay Together: An In-situ Experiment of Mixed-Reality Applications in Embryonic Anatomy Education” at the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) in Tier, Germany. The VRST is … Read more
Gino Gulamhussene successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “A Deep Learning Framework for Predicted 4D MRI” on 7 October 2024. The thesis committee members were Prof. Dr. Dietrich Paulus (University of Koblenz, Germany), Prof. Dr. Frank Zoellner (University of Heidelberg, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg, Germany). The thesis was supervised by … Read more
Florian Heinrich successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Projective Augmented Reality Techniques for the Navigation of Percutaneous Needle Insertion,” on December 5, 2023. The thesis committee included Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke (University of Hamburg, Germany), Prof. Dr. Marta Kersten-Oertel (Concordia University, Montréal, Canada), and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Preim (University of Magdeburg, Germany). Florian’s research was … Read more