Institute of Media Informatics
     

Julia Brich, M.Sc.

Julia Brich joined Prof. Weber's research group in 2014. Her dissertation is focused on the application of motivational game design factors in player-game adaptivity.

Julia completed her undergrad studies at the University of Applied Sciences Ulm (B.Sc., 2011) and Ulm University (M.Sc., 2014) with a focus on distributed systems. During her studies, she spent six months at EADS Germany for an internship.

Julia is connected to the following projects at Ulm University:
Serious Games – Skill Advancement Through Adaptive Systems
EffIS – Efficient and Interactive Studying

Research interests

  • Motivational effects of core game mechanics
  • Adaptivity in games
  • Game Design
  • Ubiquitous Computing
  • Home Automation

Teaching

  • Towards a generic mission generation framework for games (BT, 2017)
  • Player Motivation in Computer Games: Using Adaptive Achievements as Motivator (BT, 2016)
  • NutriDefense - Employing a Tower Defense game as intervention method for critical food intake (BT, 2016)
  • An Accessible Framework for Learning Computer Science Using IoT and Web Technologies: Addressing Interoperability and a Common Resource Representation Based on Domain Practice (MT, 2016)
  • Development and Evaluation of an Educational Game in the Field of Instructional Design (BT, 2015)
  • Developing a game for music ear training utilizing artificial synesthesia (BT, 2015)
  • Possible Correlations Between Time Pressure and Motivation in Serious Games (BT, 2014)
  • Game Engines for Serious Games (BT, 2014)

If you are interested in writing your bachelor or master thesis on adaptive games / player motivation, please email me. You can also find available topics here.

Scientific Activities

  • Student Volunteer at MUM'12
  • Reviewer for ACM CSCW'17

Publications

2018

10.
M. Rietzler, F. Geiselhart, J. Brich and E. Rukzio, "Demo of the Matrix Has You: Realizing Slow Motion in Full-Body Virtual Reality" , In Adj. Proc. of IEEE VR 2018 (2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces), Mar. 2018.
DOI:10.1109/VR.2018.8446136
File:pdfhttps://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/mitarbeiterbereiche/rietzler/document.pdf

2017

9.
J. Brich, M. Walch, M. Rietzler, M. Weber and F. Schaub, "Exploring End User Programming Needs In Home Automation" , Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Special Issue on End User Development for the Internet of Things, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 11:1--11:35, 2017.
DOI:10.1145/3057858
8.
C. Schrader, J. Brich, J. Frommel, V. Riemer and K. Rogers, "Rising to the Challenge: An Emotion-Driven Approach Towards Adaptivity", Serious Games and Edutainment Applications - Ma, Minhua & Oikonomou, Andreas, Eds. Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 3-28.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-51645-5_1
7.
J. Frommel, K. Fahlbusch, J. Brich and M. Weber, "The Effects of Context-Sensitive Tutorials in Virtual Reality Games" , Proceedings of CHI Play '17: The Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2017.

2016

6.
J. Brich, K. Rogers, J. Frommel, M. Weidhaas, A. Brückner, S. Mirabile, T. Dorn, V. Riemer, C. Schrader and M. Weber, "LiverDefense: How to employ a Tower Defense game as a customisable research tool" , The Visual Computer, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 429-442, Sep. 2016. Springer, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00371-016-1314-0.
DOI:10.1007/s00371-016-1314-0
5.
B. Schmitz, S. Stamm and J. Brich, "Ubidoo: Embedded Multi-room, Multi-user Tracking" , Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE), pp. 226-229, Sep. 2016. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7723504/.
DOI:10.1109/IE.2016.51

2015

4.
J. Brich, J. Frommel, K. Rogers, A. Brückner, M. Weidhaas, T. Dorn, S. Mirabile, V. Riemer, C. Schrader and M. Weber, "LiverDefense: An Educational Tower Defense Game as an Evaluation Platform" in Joint International Conference on Serious Games, Springer, May 2015, pp. 186-190.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-19126-3_17
3.
J. Frommel, K. Rogers, J. Brich, D. Besserer, L. Bradatsch, I. Ortinau, R. Schabenberger, V. Riemer, C. Schrader and M. Weber, "Integrated Questionnaires: Maintaining Presence in Game Environments for Self-Reported Data Acquisition" in Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2015. pp. 359--368.
DOI:10.1145/2793107.2793130
ISBN:978-1-4503-3466-2
File:fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/verz-ma-ehedem/frommel/Publications/IntegratedQuestionnaires_-_CHI_PLAY_15_-_camera_ready.pdf
2.
J. Brich, K. Rogers, J. Frommel, M. Weidhaas, A. Brückner, S. Mirabile, T. Dorn, V. Riemer, C. Schrader and M. Weber, "LiverDefense: Using a Tower Defense Game as a Customisable Research Tool" in 7th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games), Skövde, Sweden, 16-18 Sept., 2015. pp. 1-8.
DOI:10.1109/VS-GAMES.2015.7295779
File:http://doi.acm.org/10.1109/VS-GAMES.2015.7295779
1.
K. Rogers, J. Frommel, L. Breier, S. Celik, H. Kramer, S. Kreidel, J. Brich, V. Riemer and C. Schrader, "Mobile Augmented Reality as an Orientation Aid: A Scavenger Hunt Prototype" in International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE), 2015. pp. 172--175.
File:fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/verz-ma-ehedem/frommel/Publications/ie15_unirallye.pdf