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From 30 August to 10 September 2021, a team from our group participated in the second edition of the Medical Augmented Reality Summer School. The international online event brought scientists, clinicians and colleagues from industry together to listen to exciting talks on the topic of medical augmented reality. The Summer School was organized by scientists … Read more
Fabian Joeres successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Augmented Reality in Minimally Invasive Partial Nephrectomy” on December 13, 2021. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Stefanie Speidel (National Center for Tumor Diseases, Dresden), Prof. Dr. Thomas Neumuth (University of Leipzig) and Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg). Fabian conducted his research in … Read more
Florian Heinrich received the Karl Heinz Hoehne Award for his work in the field of medical augmented reality visualization. Two articles published in the journal “IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics” were considered. The combination of the articles allows for an evidence-based recommendation on which AR display and visualization concept to use for navigated … Read more
The IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) is the leading international event in the fields of virtual, augmented and mixed reality, showcasing groundbreaking research and accomplishments by virtual reality pioneers since 1993. Two of our PhD students had the opportunity to participate virtually in the event, which would normally have … Read more
Benjamin Hatscher successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Touchless, Direct Input Methods for Human-Computer Interaction to Support Image-Guided Interventions” on August 28, 2020. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Raimund Dachselt (University of Dresden), Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka (University of Bremen) and Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg). Benjamin conducted his research … Read more
Our group member Danny Schott teamed up with Patrick Saalfeld from the Visualization group for Ultraleap´s Beyond Touchscreens 3-week developer competition. They needed to develop an innovative public interface for a post-COVID-19 world using the Leap motion controller. The proof-of-concept shows an interactive prototype, which enables a contactless food configuration in restaurants by means of … Read more
Fabian Joeres received the Best Presentation Award at the FIN Doctoral Symposium for his contribution “intraoperative software assistance for minimally invasive partial nephrectomy”. The research for this project is carried out at the research campus STIMULATE.
Our new colleague Oleksii Bashkanov has received the FIN Research Award for students. The award is given by the Faculty of Computer Science (FIN) of the Otto-von-Gueircke University Magdeburg for graduate students who are already particularly active in research during their studies. Oleksii was able to publish two research papers as first author in 2019, which is … Read more
André Mewes successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Projector-based Augmented Reality and Touchless Interaction to Support MRI-Guided Interventions” on November 21, 2019. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Stefanie Speidel (University of Dresden), Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber (University of Bern) and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg). André conducted his research in … Read more
Gerd Schmidt received the Best Presentation Award at the IEEE EMBS Student Conference in Magdeburg for his scientific contribution “Intraoperative Distance Estimation usinng AR-Visualization and Auditory Display”. The research for this project was carried out together with Florian Heinrich, Dr. David Black and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen at the research campus STIMULATE as part of the DFG project “Improving … Read more