Awards

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

For the scientific contribution titled “Interactive Registration for robotic Augmented Reality: A Comparative Evaluation” Tonia Mielke in collaboration with Fabian Joeres, Danny Schott and Christian Hansen was awarded the Honorable Mention for the Best Poster at the International Symposium for Augmented and Mixed Reality (ISMAR) in Sydney, Australia. IEEE ISMAR is the leading international academic … Read more

Danny Schott has been distinguished with a Best Paper Honorable Mention together with Matthias Kunz, Tom Wunderling, Florian Heinrich, Rüdiger Braun-Dullaeus and Christian Hansen for the scientific contribution CardioGenesis4D: Interactive Morphological Transitions of Embryonic Heart Development in a Virtual Learning Environment at the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) in Shanghai, China. … Read more

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

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

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