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PhD students from three labs come together to present their ongoing projects

PhD students from three labs come together to present their ongoing projects

PhD students from the UMTL (Saarland University), the Interaction Experience Group (HTW Saar), and the Lab for Mobile and Distributed Information Technology (TH Köln) came together to present their ongoing projects.

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Martin Feick Receives the 2026 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award

Martin Feick Receives the 2026 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award

We are very proud to congratulate our alumnus Dr.-Ing. Martin Feick on receiving the prestigious 2026 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award!

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Five Full Papers & One Workshop Paper at CHI 2026

Five Full Papers & One Workshop Paper at CHI 2026

The UMTL has published 5 full papers and a workshop paper at the ACM CHI 2026 conference in Barcelona, Spain! Xinrong Wang presented her paper about User-reconfigured Haptics, which explores how to make passive VR haptics more dynamic while still keeping it lightweight. André Zenner contributed to four papers, spanning a diverse set of topics in human–computer interaction and virtual reality.

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Paper & Poster Publications at IEEE VR 2025

Paper & Poster Publications at IEEE VR 2025

The UMTL has published a new full-paper and a new poster at the international IEEE VR 2025 conference in Saint-Malo, France! The paper informs about how to enhance plant breeding with virtual reality. The poster introduces a novel haptic bracelet that simulates wind in virtual environments and was developed in the context of a Master's thesis at the UMTL.

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Four Papers & Best Paper Award at CHI 2024

Four Papers & Best Paper Award at CHI 2024

Four papers with the involvement of UMTL researchers have been accepted at CHI 2024 and one of them was awarded the Best Paper Award! Check out the research projects that range from sports technology, over VR illusions, to the preparation of human spaceflight missions to the Moon!

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André Zenner receives the IEEE Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award 2024

André Zenner receives the IEEE Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award 2024

André Zenner received the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award 2024 for his dissertation on haptics for virtual reality, supervised by Antonio Krüger. The award recognizes outstanding academic research and development in the field of virtual reality, with selection criteria including the significance and impact of the scholarly contributions, and the clarity with which these contributions are communicated.

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