23 projects, 10 funding lines, €5.139M raised

Role: Project contributor · Funding: DAAD

International teaching and exchange network spanning Brazil, Japan, Thailand and India, with regional partners in Hamm and Lippstadt.

Running, funded through 2028.

Role: Subproject lead · Funding: EFRE (EU / State of North Rhine-Westphalia)

Immersive training for theatre technology, a domain where apprentices must learn high-risk rigging and stage-machinery procedures that are expensive and dangerous to practise physically.

Running, funded through 2029.

Role: Consortium coordinator · Funding: EFRE (EU / State of North Rhine-Westphalia)

A learning and assistance platform for metalworking firms and vocational training in South Westphalia, funded under the REGIONALE Südwestfalen call of the EFRE/JTF programme NRW. It runs on the web and as an app and combines a digital training record, a learning diary for reflecting on progress and a competence tracker; augmented-reality modules support standardised procedures at the workplace and help bring circular-economy principles into everyday processes.

I coordinate the consortium of four funded partners. It is developed user-centred with the chamber of skilled crafts HWK Südwestfalen, Hellweg Berufskolleg Unna and the companies Drahtwerk Elisental W. Erdmann and Franz Brannekemper, and piloted in their workshops. The consortium receives about €1.41M in total.

Running, funded through 2029.

Role: Consortium coordinator · Funding: EFRE (EU / State of North Rhine-Westphalia)

XR training and digital twins for critical industries, including wind-turbine maintenance, with five industry and academic partners.

Running, funded through 2029.

Role: Subproject lead · Funding: ZIM (BMWE)

Contact-free monitoring of vital signs and movement in home care settings, designed so that it neither stigmatises nor burdens the person being monitored.

Running, funded through 2027.

Role: Subproject lead · Funding: Innovationsprogramm für Geschäftsmodelle und Pionierlösungen (BMWE)

Tooling and business models that let non-specialists create XR events, lowering the entry barrier for cultural institutions and SMEs.

Running, funded through 2027.

Links

• xrwise.tech ↗

Role: Subproject lead · Funding: ZIM (BMWE)

Smartphone AR navigation for pedestrians, built with SWCode. My lab designed the multimodal interface and tested it in nine user studies and two field tests with more than 330 participants, comparing visual guidance cues, safety warnings, spatial audio and points of interest. SWCode released the SDK and the Ariadne Demo App as open source under the MIT licence.

The clearest results: a neon line on the ground guided best, nature sounds beat artificial ones, and spatial audio was preferred by 74% in the final field test, at the cost of a moderate rise in workload.

Completed 2026. 4 publications came out of it, the most recent From Wayfinding to Promotion: The Effect of Augmented Reality Points of Interest as a Marketing Medium.

Links

• HSHL project page ↗
• Open-source code on GitHub ↗

Podcast

Episode 2 of the lab podcast Inside Immersion: ARiadne: Finding Your Way with AR, Sound and Touch.

Role: Sole applicant · Funding: Training Optimization Programme (German Air Force)

Emergency-procedure training in XR under realistic stress, with physiological measurement of workload and adaptive resilience, a safety-critical test case for these methods.

Completed 2025.

Links

• Study video ↗

Role: Sole applicant · Funding: HSHL

Equipment funding for the Body Interaction Lab at Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences.

Completed 2023.

Role: Subproject lead · Funding: HORIZON Action Grant (European Union)

Dynamic and responsible digital twins for extended reality: building twins that stay synchronised with the physical world and are evaluated for user experience, not only for geometric fidelity. Two innovations from this project were recognised as Key Innovator entries on the European Commission's Innovation Radar in 2024.

Completed 2025. 3 publications came out of it, the most recent Exploring the Effect of Heights and User Stance on User Experience in Extended Reality Climbing.

Links

• didymos-xr.eu ↗

Podcast

Episode 3 of the lab podcast Inside Immersion: DIDYMOS-XR: Digital Twins That Keep Up with Reality.

Role: Consortium coordinator · Funding: mFUND (BMDV)

Predictive maintenance for rail infrastructure, combining sensor-based condition monitoring with user-centred design of the labelling and decision-support interfaces that operators use.

Completed 2025. 4 publications came out of it, the most recent DigiOnTrack: Körperschall, KI und Datenaustausch für die zustandsorientierte Instandhaltung im Schienenpersonennahverkehr.

Links

• HSHL project page ↗

Role: Subproject lead · Funding: Innovative Hochschule (BMBF; MKW.NRW)

Regional transfer programme bringing VR/AR capability to companies and public institutions across South Westphalia, with a Virtual Institute as the organisational vehicle.

Running, funded through 2027. 43 publications came out of it, the most recent Exploring the Effects of Different Asymmetric Game Designs on User Experience in Collaborative Virtual Reality.

Links

• digitalise-swf.de ↗

Role: Subproject lead · Funding: KIAS (BMBF)

Multimodal, interactive assistance for the digital collection of patient-reported outcome measures, comparing embodied avatars, robots and voice assistants in rehabilitation settings, with cross-randomised controlled trials at Charité Berlin and partner clinics.

Completed 2025. 7 publications came out of it, the most recent Size Matters: The Impact of Avatar Size on User Experience in Healthcare Applications.

Links

• mia-prom.de ↗

Role: Subproject lead · Funding: EIT Digital

Augmented and virtual reality for cultural tourism after COVID-19: smarter and more sustainable access to attractions, delivered through AR, VR and cloud applications for travel and event operators.

Completed 2020.

Role: Co-applicant · Funding: Charité / AOK Nordost

An assessment tool for residents and a self-evaluation tool for staff in residential long-term care, identifying resources and burdens from the perspective of the people concerned.

Completed 2021. The tablet application was built at TU Berlin and finished in February 2021; it ran offline on 35 iPads and uploaded once a network was available. Seventeen of eighteen care homes in Berlin, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern returned data — 232 resident questionnaires against a target of 200, and 225 staff questionnaires against a target of 354.

Role: Sole applicant · Funding: e-Therapists GmbH

Contract research for e-Therapists GmbH on the behavioural implications of a health score.

Completed 2019.

Role: Sole applicant · Funding: Huawei

Contract research for Huawei on physiological measurement methods for assessing workload.

Completed 2019.

Role: Co-applicant · Funding: Charité / BMBF

A junior research group on mobility and participation of very old people in rural areas, testing a tablet-supported health intervention in a randomised trial with GPS-measured mobility as the endpoint.

Completed 2020.

Role: Subproject lead · Funding: Innovationsfonds (G-BA)

A tablet-based intervention for outpatient dementia care, supporting guideline-based treatment planning for general practitioners and disease management for patients and their relatives.

Completed 2021. 5 publications came out of it, the most recent Dementia care and the role of guideline adherence in primary care: cross-sectional findings from the DemTab study.

Role: Sole applicant · Funding: GESOBAU AG

Contract research for GESOBAU AG: workshops for concept development.

Completed 2018.

Role: Consortium coordinator · Funding: JPI More Years, Better Lives (EU / BMBF)

Adaptive speech training for older people with aphasia: software that detects impaired language ability and personalises interface and interaction logic accordingly, validated in a control-group study.

Completed 2021.

Role: Sole applicant · Funding: Augletics GmbH

Contract research for Augletics GmbH on the motivation of rowing-machine users.

Completed 2016.

Role: Sole applicant · Funding: TU Berlin

Post-doctoral fellowship at Technische Universität Berlin.

Completed 2016.

Role: Subproject lead · Funding: GKV-Spitzenverband

A transferable model for technology-supported care and activation in residential dementia care, developed and scientifically evaluated in use.

Completed 2018. 2 publications came out of it, the most recent Eine Tablet-gestützte psychosoziale Intervention zur Erhaltung der Lebensqualität von Pflegeheimbewohnern mit Demenz.

Role: Project lead · Funding: Bernstein Focus (BMBF)

Neurotechnologies for improving intuitive and efficient human–machine interaction. The Bernstein Focus: Neurotechnology Berlin brought together a multidisciplinary faculty to apply insights from basic neuroscience directly to real-world applications, with a focus on non-invasive „brain reading" techniques.

Within it, project A3 „Neuro-Usability": Neurotechnologies for Human-Machine Interaction used biosignal sensors to measure and model aspects of usability: efficiency, satisfaction and joy of use. This is where my psychophysiological measurement approach originates.

Completed 2014.