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    • A Toolkit for Creating Intelligent Virtual Humans in Extended Reality
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    • The Influence of Avatar Visual Fidelity on Embodiment and User Experience in Virtual Reality
    • The Resound Sphere: Co-Exploring Alternatives for Community Remote Practice of Faith
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    • Wax Arts With Honeybees – Taking First Steps Toward Multispecies Co-Creation
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    • Am I the Odd One? Exploring (In)Congruencies in the Realism of Avatars and Virtual Others in Virtual Reality
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    • From 2D-Screens to VR: Exploring the Effect of Immersion on the Plausibility of Virtual Humans
    • From Avatars to Agents: Self-Related Cues through Embodiment and Personalization Affect Body Perception in Virtual Reality
    • Individual-, System-, and Application-Related Factors Influencing the Perception of Virtual Humans in Virtual Environments
    • Making Alternatives Through Design for Mediated Spiritual Practice
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    • Still Not a Lot of Research? Re-Examining HCI Research on Religion and Spirituality
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    • “hubbel”: A Hybrid Letterbox That Stimulates Civic Participation Through Local Information Sharing in Neighbourhoods
    • “If It’s Not Me It Doesn’t Make a Difference” – The Impact of Avatar Personalization on User Experience and Body Awareness in Virtual Reality
    • Are Embodied Avatars Harmful to our Self-Experience? The Impact of Virtual Embodiment on Body Awareness
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    • Designing for Uncontrollability: Drawing Inspiration from the Blessing Companion
    • Designing Tangible Interactive Artifacts for Religious and Spiritual Purposes
    • Embodiment and Personalization for Self-Identification with Virtual Humans
    • Holographic Augmented Reality Mirrors for Daily Self-Reflection on the Own Body Image
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    • SustainTourism – Experiencing Tourism From Home
    • The God-I-Box: Iteratively Provotyping Technology-Mediated Worship Services
    • The Impact of Avatar and Environment Congruence on Plausibility, Embodiment, Presence, and the Proteus Effect in Virtual Reality
    • Virtual Tourism, Real Experience: A Motive-Oriented Approach to Virtual Tourism
    • ‘I Did Digital Tidying up for a More Adult Stage of Life’: Ritualistic Technology Appropriations During Life Transitions
    • Analyzing Eye Tracking Data in Mirror Exposure
    • Co-Imagining Participatory Design in Religious and Spiritual Contexts
    • Collaborative Speculations on Future Themes for Participatory Design in Germany
    • Does Distance Matter? Embodiment and Perception of Personalized Avatars in Relation to the Self-Observation Distance in Virtual Reality
    • Exploring Presence, Avatar Embodiment, and Body Perception with a Holographic Augmented Reality Mirror
    • Plausibility and Perception of Personalized Virtual Humans between Virtual and Augmented Reality
    • Resize Me! Exploring the User Experience of Embodied Realistic Modulatable Avatars for Body Image Intervention in Virtual Reality
    • Spirituality at the Breakfast Table: Experiences of Christian Online Worship Services
    • Unavailability and Holism: Rethinking HCI with Concepts from Theology
    • Unavailability: Food for Thought from Protestant Theology
    • UNeedS: Development of Scales to Measure the Satisfaction and Frustration of 13 Fundamental Needs
    • Virtual Human Coherence and Plausibility – Towards a Validated Scale
    • Virtual Reality for Mind and Body: Does the Sense of Embodiment Towards a Virtual Body Affect Physical Body Awareness?
    • Affordable But Not Cheap: A Case Study of the Effects of Two 3D-Reconstruction Methods of Virtual Humans
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    • Segen: erfahren, erleben, erproben - VR-Erlebnis im außerschulischen Lehr-Lern-Szenario für den Religionsunterricht
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    • The Embodiment of Photorealistic Avatars Influences Female Body Weight Perception in Virtual Reality
    • Und dann kam Corona: Ein Technikentwicklungsprojekt zwischen Partizipation und Wirklichkeit
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    • Body Weight Perception of Females using Photorealistic Avatars in Virtual and Augmented Reality
    • Designing Ritual Artifacts for Technology-Mediated Relationship Transitions
    • Experience Matters: Design and Evaluation of an Anesthesia Support Tool Guided by User Experience Theory
    • Finally on Par?! Multimodal and Unimodal Interaction for Open Creative Design Tasks in Virtual Reality
    • MindPeaks: Formative Evaluation Method of Mindfulness Meditation Apps
    • Participant's View: Short-Term Evaluation of Realizing PD Ideals
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    • “Paint That Object Yellow”: Multimodal Interaction to Enhance Creativity During Design Tasks in VR
    • Monitoring Vital Signs with Time-Compressed Speech
    • Rapid Preparation of Eye Tracking Data for Debriefung in Medical Training: A Feasibility Study
    • Supporting Multiple Patient Monitoring with Head-Worn Displays and Spearcons
    • ViTraS - Virtual Reality Therapy by Stimulation of Modulated Body Image - Project Outline
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Project ViTraS receives DIVR Best Impact Award

Project ViTraS receives DIVR Best Impact Award

May 28, 2019·
Erik Wolf
Erik Wolf
Credit: DIVR

We are happy to share that Erik’s current PhD project ViTraS won the Best Impact Award at the annual DIVR meeting in Gelsenkirchen.

← Erik & Sara received Best Paper Runner-Up at ACM ICMI 2019 Oct 17, 2019

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