M. Sc. Pascal Jansen
M. Sc. Pascal Jansen
PhD Candidate and Research Assistant
Pascal Jansen, M.Sc.
Pascal Jansen joined the HCI Group in June 2021 as a research associate and Ph.D. student.
Pascal has an M.Sc. with distinction in Media Informatics (2021) from Ulm University. The title of the master thesis was: SwiVR-Car-Seat: Utilizing a Motorized Swivel Seat to Explore Effects of Vehicle Motion on Interaction Quality in Virtual Reality Automated Driving. Before that, he studied Computer Science at Ulm University and obtained his B.Sc. in 2018.
In 2021, Pascal participated in the German Computer Game Award and was nominated with his team for the serious game The Social Engineer in the category Young Talent Award: Best Prototype. With The Social Engineer, Pascal was also a finalist for Best Student Game in the 2022 Games for Change Awards. The Social Engineer was additionally nominated for the nextReality.Contest 2022 in the "Young Talent" category.
Research interests
My research explores the design space of driver- and passenger-based automotive user interfaces, advancing Computational Interaction with Mobility centered around five key areas:
- Mobility User Interface Design as Unique Optimization Problem
- Computational Calibration of Driver/Passenger States
- Optimization of Accessibility - Accessible Mobility by Default
- Scalable Evaluation and Computational Mixed-Immersive Data Analysis
- Simulation and Simulacra of Future Mobility
For further information: pascal-jansen.github.io
Teaching
You are welcome to contact me via email if you are generally interested in projects or theses in the field of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Automotive User Interfaces, and Vehicle Motion Simulation. Of course, I am always open for topic suggestions.
I am looking forward to our cooperation.
Future Mobility:
| A small step for man... Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration |
| Exploring Motion Effects on Interaction Quality in Urban Air |
Generative AI in Human-Computer Interaction:
| Augmenting Human to Human Communication with Generative AI |
| Predicting User Interactions in Vehicles |
| Interfaces for Explainable In-Vehicle AI |
Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality:
| Social Engineering Awareness Training in Virtual Reality |
| ShARe: Asymmetric Multi-User Augmented Reality |
| Imaginary Text Entry for Virtual and Augmented Reality |
Human-Robot Interaction:
| Drone UI: Utilizing Drones as Mobile User Interfaces |
| Social Perception of Autonomous Household Robots |
Automotive User Interfaces:
Vehicle Motion Simulation:
| Vehicle Motion Simulation in Virtual Reality |
| Validity of Driver State Measures Across Simulators |
| Comparing Vehicle Motion Impacts on Interaction Quality Between Simulators |
Master Theses
- Investigating Acceptance and Trust of Auditory Cues in Vehicles - Based on a Systematic Literature Review
Bachelor Theses
- Exploring Vehicle Motion Simulation in Virtual Reality Using a Motorized Wheelchair
- Designing a Task-Driven Platform to Evaluate Performance Indicators’ Effects on the Understanding of Prediction Systems
- Progress Assessment for Adaptive Hints in Educational Virtual Reality Games
AutoVis: The Mixed-Immersive Analysis Toolkit for Automotive UI Interaction Studies
https://autovis-demo.onrender.com/
UVID: A Virtual Reality Framework for Immersive Exploration of Vehicle Interior Design
- Lecture Automotive User Interfaces '21 '22 '23 '24
- Lecture User Interface Softwaretechnologien '22 '23 '24
- Seminar Research Trends in Media Informatics '21 '22
- Project User Centered Design '21 '22 '23 '24
- Project Design Thinking for Interactive Systems '21 '22 '23 '24
- Project Software Engineering '23
Funded Projects
Cooperation partners: Ulm University, AVL Software & Functions GmbH, Human-Factors-Consult GmbH, Humatects GmbH, OFFIS e.V.
SituWare addresses a central obstacle for the introduction of highly automated vehicles (see also BASt) into complex traffic: the required time reserve for a safe transfer of control to the distracted driver. Even environment sensors available in the medium term cannot always guarantee large time reserves. SituWare reduces the takeover time through a targeted, situation-related driver perception adapted driver guidance and enables fluid vehicle behavior with high user acceptance by adapting automation to the driver's situational awareness.
Pascal investigates how handover processes can be made safer and faster by multimodal attention and information guidance.
Scientific Activities
I have contributed over 200 reviews to various venues:
Conference Reviewer: AutomotiveUI '21 '22 '23 ‘24 ’25, VRST '21, CHI '22 '23 '24 ‘25 ’26, IDC '22, ICWSM '22, GLS '22, MobileHCI '22 '23, IMX '22, ETRA '22, COGAIN '22, CogSci '22, DIS '22 '23, EICS PACM '22, CHI Play '22, ISS '22, ISMAR '22, Creativity & Cognition '22, MuC '22 ‘24 ’25, NordiCHI '22, ICIS '22, OzCHI '22 '23, ISWC '22, IEEE VIS '23, ICMI '23, HAI '23, PacificVis '24, CSCW '24, UIST ‘24 ’25, TEI ‘24 ‘25, CHIWORK ’25 ’26
Journal Reviewer: IMWUT ‘22 ‘23 ’24 ’25 '26, TVCG '22, TRF '24, BIT ‘24, IJHCS ’26
Distinguished Reviewer Board: TOCHI
For this, I have received 19 special recognitions:
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" IMWUT 2022
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" ISS 2022
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" AutomotiveUI 2022
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" DIS 2023
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" IEEE VIS 2023
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" AutomotiveUI 2023
2 "Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews" CHI 2024
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" CHI 2024 Late-Breaking Work
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" CSCW 2024
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" MuC 2024
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" UIST 2024
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" IMWUT 2024
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" CHI 2025
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" AutomotiveUI 2025
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" UIST 2025
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" IMWUT 2025
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" CHI 2026
1 "Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews" IMWUT 2026
I was also part of several organizing committees:
Organizer LBW: CHI '23 ‘24 ’25 Late-Breaking Work AC
Organizer Full Paper: AutomotiveUI ‘24 ’25, MuC ‘24 ‘25, CHIWORK ’25 ’26, and CHI ’26 Full Paper AC
Conference Organizer: Registration and Local Chair, AutomotiveUI '23, and Student Research Competition Chair, MuC 2026
Publications
2020
3.
P. Jansen,
F. Fischbach,
J. Gugenheimer,
E. Stemasov,
J. Frommel and
E. Rukzio,
"ShARe: Enabling Co-Located Asymmetric Multi-User Interaction for Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Displays",
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST),
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA,
October 20 - 23, 2020,
ACM,
Oct.
2020.
| DOI: | 10.1145/3379337.3415843 |
| Weblink: | https://youtu.be/6wuBt2Nv18w |
| File: | /fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/1-hci/hci-paper/2020/ShARe.pdf |
2.
M. Kraus,
F. Fischbach,
P. Jansen and
W. Minker,
"A Comparison of Explicit and Implicit Proactive Dialogue Strategies for Conversational Recommendation",
Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC),
May
2020.
European Language Resources Association.
| ISBN: | 979-10-95546-34-4 |
| File: |  https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.54.pdf |
1.
T. Drey,
P. Jansen,
F. Fischbach,
J. Frommel and
E. Rukzio,
"Towards Progress Assessment for Adaptive Hints in Educational Virtual Reality Games",
In Extended Abstracts of CHI 2020 (SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems),
Apr.
2020.
ACM.
| DOI: | 10.1145/3334480.3382789 |
| Weblink: | https://youtu.be/3uW-NBEatTg |
| File: | /fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/Papers/Prof_Rukzio/2020/Tobias_Drey-Adaptive_Hints-CHI2020_LBW.pdf |