Chair for Media Psychology
Institute of Media Research
Faculty of Humanities
Chemnitz University of Technology
70, Reichenhainer Straße – Room A313
Chemnitz, D-09126 (Germany)

Mobile: +49 176 564 315 93
E-mail: steve.funke@phil.tu-chemnitz.de

 

Dissertation Project

Working Title:
“Effects of Interaction Between Users and Immersive Virtual Environments on Motor Control, Motor Learning and Motor Memory for Unimanual Precision Tasks”

Advisors:
Prof. Dr. Peter Ohler (Managing Director of the Institute of Media Research, Chair of Media Psychology)
Prof. Dr. Günter Daniel Rey (Chair of e-Learning and New Media)

Tandem partner:
Michael, Heidt, Dipl.-Inf.

Research Interests

The Smart Live
SensoriMotor and ARTifical Learning in Immersive Virtual Environments

Rank #1

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Empirical Studies in Cognitive Psychology (Quantitative Analysis)
• Spatial User Interfaces and Human Cognition
• Embodiement and Movement Studies

Rank #2

• Game and Media Studies
• Kinaesthetic and Gestural Input / Control
• 3D Interaction Devices
• Machine Learning for Motion and Gesture Recognition

Rank #3

• Spatial and Movement Data Visualization
• Participatory and Inclusive Design Approaches for Children and Interactive Systems
• Computer-Supported Collaborative and Cooperative Learning With Autonomous Agents in Informal Learning Settings
• Robotics and Prosthetics

Vita

since 04/2014	Ph.D. Candidate @ German Research Group – Graduate Program “Crossworlds”, Technische Universität Chemnitz
09/2012 – 03/2014	Teaching assistant while doing the doctorate, Education Centre of the Saxon Trading non-profit PLC, Chemnitz, Germany
06/2012 – 04/2014	External Ph.D. Candidate, Chemnitz University of Technology
06/2011 – 11/2011	Research Associate, Institute of Ergonomics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Publications

 

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings conference proceedings

Funke, S. (2014). Motor Learning in Immersive Virtual Environments. In: A. Jentzsch, T. Pape, S. Pasewaldt (editors), Proceedings of the 8^th Joint Workshop of the German Research Training Groups in Computer Science, Dagstuhl – June 15-18, 2014, Berlin: Pro Business GmbH.

Funke, S. (2015). Physical Practice in Virtual and Real Environments. In: A. Babari & C. Carapelle (editors), Proceedings of the 9^th Joint Workshop of the German Research Training Groups in Computer Science, Dagstuhl – May 31st – June 3rd, 2015.
Online available:
http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/quantla/images/documents/RTGs_joint_workshop_proceedings_2015.pdf

Conference Talks / Poster Presentations

Funke, S. (2014). Motor Learning in Immersive Virtual Environments. Presented at the 8^th Joint Workshop of the German Research Training Groups in Computer Science, Dagstuhl – June 15-18, 2014, Berlin.

 

Community Service / Activities

 

Student Volunteers Co-Chair

• 11^th ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces – ACM ITS 2016, November 6-9, 2016, Niagara Falls, Canada.

Programm Comittee

• 20^th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, March 29 – April 1, 2015, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Student Volunteer

• 10^th ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces – ACM ITS 2015, November 15-18, 2015, Madeira, Portugal

• 15^th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction – Interact 2015, September 14-18, 2015, Bamberg, Germany.

Participation

• 1^st International Conference – CrossWorlds: Theory, Development & Evaluation of Social Technology,  June 30 – July 1, 2014, Chemnitz, Germany,

• Student Media Days, April, 2014, Technische Universität Chemnitz.

Memberships

 

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) (since 02/2015)

ACM UIST Commuity of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM UIST) (since 08/2014)

Member of Friends of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Society (since 06/2014)

EU Move 2 – Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union (since 03/2014)

Reviews

 

4^th ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction – ACM SUI 2016 (Upcoming)
October 15-16, 2016, Tokyo, Japan. (application in progress)

15^th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality – IEEE ISMAR 2016 (Upcoming)
September 19-23, 2016, Merida, Mexico.(application in progress)

17^th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services –
ACM Mobile CHI 2015) (Upcoming)
September 6-9, 2016, Congress Palace, Florence (Tuscany), Italy.

• Demos (coming soon)
• Posters (coming soon)

15^th ACM SIG Conference on Interaction Design and Children – ACM IDC 2016 (Upcoming)
June 21 – 24, 2016, Media City, Manchester, United Kingdom.

• Papers and Notes

3^rd ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video – ACM TVX 2016 (Upcoming)
June 22 – 24, 2016, Chigago, USA.

• Papers (Long and Short) (coming soon)
• Workshop Proposals (coming soon)
• TVX in Industry (coming soon)

8^th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems – ACM EICS 2016 (Upcoming)
June 21-24, 2016, Brussels, Belgium.

• Workshops and Tutorials (coming soon)

16^th ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems – ACM DIS 2016 (Upcoming)
June 4-8, 2016, Brisbane, Australia.

• Papers and Notes
• Pictorials (coming soon)

34^th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing System – ACM CHI 2016 (Upcoming)
May 7-12, 2016, San Jose, California, USA.

• Papers and Notes
• Art Exhibition
• Workshops (coming soon)
• Courses (coming soon)
• Interactivity (coming soon)
• Doctoral Consortium (coming soon)
• Panels (coming soon)
• Student Game Competition (coming soon)
• Student Research Competition
• Video Showcase (coming soon)
• Alt.CHI (reviews in progress)

21^st ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces – ACM IUI 2016 (Upcoming)
March 7- 10, 2016, Sonoma, California, USA.

• Posters and Demos

19^th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing – ACM CSCW 2016 (Upcoming)
February 27 – March 2, 2016, San Francisco, California, USA.

• Papers
• Posters

10^th ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces – ACM ITS 2015
November 15-18, 2015, Madeira, Portugal.

• Papers & Notes
• Tutorials, Workshops & Studios
• Doctoral Symposium
• Posters
• Demos

2^nd ACM SIG Computer-Human Interaction Play – ACM CHI PLAY 2015
October 5-7, London, England.

• Full Papers
• Workshops/Courses/Tutorials
• Works-in-Progress
• Doctoral Consortium
• Student Game Design Competition
• Industry Submissions

14^th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality – IEEE ISMAR 2015
September 29 – October 3, 2015 Fukuoka, Japan.

• Papers
• Science and Technology Poster
• MASH’D Papers/ Posters

17^th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services – ACM Mobile CHI 2015
August 24- 27, 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Full Papers
• Demos
• Posters

3^rd ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Spatial User Interfaces – ACM SUI 2015
August 8-9, 2015, Los Angeles, California, USA.

• Full Papers

7^th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems – ACM EICS 2015
June 23-26, 2015, Duisburg, Germany.

• Full Papers
• Workshops
• Tutorials
• Demonstrations

14^th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children – ACM IDC 2015
June 21-25, 2015, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

• Full Papers
• Short Papers
• Demos

2^nd ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video – ACM TVX 2015
June 3-5, 2015, Brussels, Belgium.

• Workshop Proposals
• Courses

33^rd ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – ACM CHI 2015
April 18-23, 2015, Seoul, Republic of Korea

• Full Paper
• Works in progress
• Alternative CHI Papers

20^th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces – ACM IUI 2015
March 29 – April 1, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

• Long & Short Papers
• Demonstrations and Posters

peer-reviewded conference proceedings

peer-reviewed journal papers

peer-reviewed book chapters

monography

conference talks/poster presentations

non-peer-reviewed papers