Institute of Media Informatics
     

Teresa Hirzle, M.Sc.

Teresa Hirzle joined the HCI group in June 2017. Before, she studied Media Informatics at Ulm University. She received her Bachelor's degree in 2015 and Master's degree in 2017, both with distinction. During her studies she spent a year at the Universidad de Granada in Spain.

Teresa wrote her master's thesis in cooperation with the Department of General Psychology. The thesis was about applying implicit pupillary events for eyes only interaction strategies in virtual reality. The title of the master's thesis was Eyes Only Interaction in Virtual Reality (Cogain 2017).

Teresas research interests include eye-based Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) and mobile eye tracking. Her research focuses on developing interactive systems for eye-based interaction on AR/VR head-mounted displays. More specifically she is interested in investigating how AR and VR displays influence and change human visual perception and behavior. Since these devices are inherently relying on three dimensional information, they also require gaze to be estimated in three dimensions (3D Gaze). However, the interaction space that arises from that combination (3D Gaze + HMDs) is not yet fully understood and filled.

Research interests

  • Eye-based Human-Computer Interaction with Computerized Eyewear
  • How does gaze behavior differ in different environments?
  • 3D Gaze Interaction on Head-Mounted Displays
  • Designing Eye-based applications for "Visual Well-Being"

Teaching

  • Lectures, Projects and Seminars

  • Supervised Theses

    • Measuring Gaze Depth: How Eye tracking Measures Vary in Real and Virtual Environments (ongoing)
    • Using Eye Tracking To Improve Meditation by Applying EOG Signal Analysis to a Responsive Application (ongoing)

  • Open Theses Topics

    Open theses topics can only be accessed from the university network.

    If you are interested in one of the topics, have an own idea or want to inform yourself about the topics in general, please send me an e-mail.

Projects

  • A Symbiotic Human-Machine Depth Sensor

    A Symbiotic Human-Machine Depth Sensor

    The goal of this project is to explore how much we can learn about physical objects a user is looking at by observing gaze depth. We envision a symbiotic scenario, where current technology (e.g. depth cameras) is extended with "human sensing data". Here, a depth camera is able to create a rough understanding of a static environment and gaze depth is merged into the model by leveraging unique propetries of human vision.

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  • A Design Space for Gaze Interaction on Head-Mounted Displays

    A Design Space for Gaze Interaction on Head-Mounted Displays

    Augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) head-mounted display (HMD) applications inherently rely on three dimensional information. In contrast to gaze interaction on a two dimensional screen, gaze interaction in AR and VR therefore also requires to estimate a user's gaze in 3D (3D Gaze).

    While first applications, such as foveated rendering, hint at the compelling potential of combining HMDs and gaze, a systematic analysis is missing. To fill this gap, we present the first design space for gaze interaction on HMDs.

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Scientific Activities

  • Scientific Activities: CHI 2021 (SC Assistant for the UX Subcommittee), ETRA 2021 (Short Paper Co-Chair), ETRA 2020 (Web Chair), Virtual German CHI Event 2020 (Co-Organizer), MuC Short Papers (AC)
  • Conference Reviewer: CHI '21, CHI '20, '19, '18, NordiCHI '20, MobileHCI '20, '19, ISMAR '20, '19, ETRA '20, Mensch und Computer '20, '19, VRST '18, Augmented Human '18,
  • Student Volunteer: MUM '17

Publications

2021

11.
T. Hirzle, M. Cordts, E. Rukzio, J. Gugenheimer and A. Bulling, "A Critical Assessment of the Use of SSQ as a Measure of General Discomfort in VR Head-Mounted Displays" , Conditionally Accepted to CHI 2021 (SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), Apr. 2021. ACM.
10.
J. O. Rixen, T. Hirzle, M. Colley, Y. Etzel, E. Rukzio and J. Gugenheimer, "Exploring Augmented Visual Alterations in Interpersonal Communication" , Conditionally Accepted to CHI 2021 (SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), Apr. 2021. ACM.

2020

9.
T. Hirzle, M. Cordts, E. Rukzio and A. Bulling, "A Survey of Digital Eye Strain in Gaze-Based Interactive Systems" , ETRA '20 Full Papers: ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, Jun. 2020. ACM.
DOI:10.1145/3379155.3391313
ISBN:9781450371339
File:fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/mitarbeiterbereiche/hirzle/Publications/ETRA_2020_-_A_Survey_of_Digital_Eye_Strain_in_Gaze-Based_Interactive_Systems.pdf
8.
P. El.Agroudy, X. Wang, E. Stemasov, T. Hirzle, S. Shishkovets, S. Mehrotra and A. Schmidt, "SpotlessMind - A Design Probe for Eliciting Attitudes towards Sharing Neurofeedback" , Augmented Humans International Conference, Mar. 2020.

2019

7.
T. Hirzle, J. Gugenheimer, F. Geiselhart, A. Bulling and E. Rukzio, "A Design Space for Gaze Interaction on Head-Mounted Displays" , In Proceedings of CHI 2019 (SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), May 2019. ACM, https://www.uni-ulm.de/?gazedesignspace.
DOI:10.1145/3290605.3300855
File:https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/mitarbeiterbereiche/hirzle/Publications/A_Design_Space_for_Gaze_Interaction_on_Head-Mounted_Displays_CHI_19.pdf
6.
T. Hirzle, J. Gugenheimer, E. Rukzio and A. Bulling, "On the Importance of Visual (Digital) Wellbeing for HMDs" , In Proc. of CHI 2019 Workshop on Designing for Digital Wellbeing, May 2019. https://digitalwellbeingworkshop.wordpress.com.
File:https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/mitarbeiterbereiche/hirzle/Publications/On_the_Importance_of_Visual__Digital__Wellbeing_for_HMDs_CHI_19_Workshop_on_Digital_Wellbeing.pdf

2018

5.
T. Dreja, M. Rietzler, T. Hirzle, J. Gugenheimer, J. Frommel and E. Rukzio, "A Demonstration of VRSpinning: Exploring the Design Space of a 1D Rotation Platform to Increase the Perception of Self-Motion in VR" , In Adj. Proc. of UIST '18 (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology), Oct. 2018.
DOI:10.1145/3266037.3271645
Weblink:https://www.uni-ulm.de/in/mi/mi-forschung/uulm-hci/projects/vrspinning/
File:https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/Papers/Prof_Rukzio/2018/Demo_SpinVR_2_.pdf
4.
M. Rietzler, J. Gugenheimer, T. Hirzle, M. Deubzer, E. Langbehn and E. Rukzio, "Rethinking Redirected Walking: On the Use of Curvature Gains Beyond Perceptual Limitations and Revisiting Bending Gains" , In Proc. of ISMAR 2018 (IEEE International Symposium for Mixed and Augmented Reality), Oct. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR.2018.00041.
File:https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/mitarbeiterbereiche/rietzler/RedirectedWalking.pdf
3.
T. Hirzle, J. Gugenheimer, F. Geiselhart, A. Bulling and E. Rukzio, "Towards a Symbiotic Human-Machine Depth Sensor: Exploring 3D Gaze for Object Reconstruction" , In Adj. Proc. of UIST '18 (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology), Oct. 2018. https://www.uni-ulm.de/?hm_depthsensor.
DOI:10.1145/3266037.3266119
File:https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/Papers/Prof_Rukzio/2018/3DGazeAbstractUIST2018_both.pdf
2.
M. Rietzler, T. Hirzle, J. Gugenheimer, J. Frommel, T. Dreja and E. Rukzio, "VRSpinning: Exploring the Design Space of a 1D Rotation Platform to Increase the Perception of Self-Motion in VR" , In Proc. of DIS 2018 (ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems), Jun. 2018. https://www.uni-ulm.de/in/mi/mi-forschung/uulm-hci/projects/vrspinning/.
DOI:10.1145/3196709.3196755
Weblink:https://youtu.be/KzrtOPbr4t4
File:https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/Papers/Prof_Rukzio/2018/SpinVR_Small.compressed.pdf
1.
T. Hirzle, J. O. Rixen, J. Gugenheimer and E. Rukzio, "WatchVR: Exploring the Usage of a Smartwatch for Interaction in Mobile Virtual Reality", Apr. 2018.
DOI:10.1145/3170427.3188629
File:https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/Papers/Prof_Rukzio/2018/WatchVR_final_copyright.pdf