Annalisa Degenhard, M.Sc.

Annalisa Degenhard joined the HCI group in July 2022 as a PhD student. Annalisa holds a M.Sc. in Media Informatics (2022) from the University of Ulm. As her master's thesis in cooperation with Schultech GmbH, she developed a mobile application for teachers that provides technical support when having to deal with technical equipment at schools. The title of her master's thesis was:  Conception and Realization of a Gamification-based Learning Software to Enhance Technical Knowledge of Teachers with React Native. She earned her B.Sc. in media informatics in Ulm with focus on Usability Engineering and mobile application development in 2019. As her Bachelor's thesis, in cooperation with the institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, she developed a gamification based mobile application that helps students in the field of biochemistry to practice for their exams.

Research interests

  • Gamification-based software development
  • Mobile Application Development
  • Immersion and Presence in augmented and virtual realities

Wissenschaftliche Aktivitäten

  • Reviewer for ACM CHI'23, DIS'23, CHI'23 LBW, CHI PLAY'24 Work in progress, CHI'25

Publications

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Degenhard, Annalisa; Tschoeke, Stefan; Spohrs, Jennifer; Rukzio, Enrico
Promoting Self-Efficacy in Trauma Therapy Through Virtual Reality Exposure Design
April 2026
CEUR
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
File:https://www.uni-ulm.de/index.php?eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=540478&token=1ee8aaf261af16d37ede668ecefc00a345a30392
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[English] Degenhard, Annalisa; Spohrs, Jennifer; Tschoeke, Stefan; Rukzio, Enrico
Empathy at the Boundary: Sustainable HCI Research Practice in Sensitive Contexts
April 2026
CEUR
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
File:https://www.uni-ulm.de/index.php?eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=540477&token=4c98dadb8a531d5ae11fefdcc1a02d7d07275088
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[English] Degenhard, Annalisa; Ppali, Sophia; Liarokapis, Fotis; Rukzio, Enrico; Tschoeke, Stefan; Spohrs, Jennifer
Responsible Trauma Research: Designing Effective and Sustainable Virtual Reality Exposure Studies
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791964
Weblink:https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.12349
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Degenhard, Annalisa; Askari, Ali; Rietzler, Michael; Rukzio, Enrico
When Do We Feel Present in a Virtual Reality? Towards Sensitivity and User Acceptance of Presence Questionnaires
Proceedings of the CHI 2025 (SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems),
Yokohama, Japan
Publisher: ACM
April 2025
DOI:10.1145/3706598.3714204
Weblink:https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.10162
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