Associated members of the Research Training group include external phd students, research students, interns and bachelor/master students working on associated topics.

External Post Docs

• Dr. Arne Berger
• Dr. Nicholas H. Müller
• Dr. Christian Pentzold
• Dr. Georg Valtin

External PhD Students

• Frederik Beuth (Working Title: A unified model of visual attention to investigate object recognition, visual masking, and single-cell recordings)
• Aida Farahani (Working Title: Facial expression recognition with biologically motivated deep learning)
• Robert Herms (Working Title: Identifizierung akustischer und linguistischer Merkmale zur automatischen Erkennung von kognitiver Belastung bei Fluglotsen)
• Amirhossein Jamalian (Working Title: Attentive robot vision)
• Kevin Lefeuvre (Working Title: tba.)
• Linda Pfeiffer (Working Title: Emotion-sensitive interfaces in the context of air traffic control)
• Matthias Sommer (Working Title: Über figurative Ordnungsbildung – Eine gegenstandsverankerte Theorie von Selektionsprozessen in der Lebenswelt)

Master Students

2015-2016 (Current Group)

• Sarah Paul (Title: “Modellierung einer Face-to-Face-Interaktion zwischen Mensch und Agent hinsichtlich der Übertragung emotionaler Werte durch Mimik”)
• Shirin Esmaeili Bijarsari (Title: “Schema development in robot construction”)

2012-2015 (Former Group)

• Linda Pfeiffer (Title: Entwicklung und Evaluation von interaktiven Systemen zur Unterstützung des kulturellen und sozialen Erlebens im musealen Kontext)
• René Richter (Title: A neurocomputational systems-level model of affective visual attention)
• René Larisch (Working Title: Combining biologically plausible STDP and iSTDP rules in a circuit of the primary visual cortex for robust simple-cell learning)
• Tom Schilling (Title: “Creating Interactive Prototypes of Muliti-User Applications on Multitouch Tabletops”)
• Steve Nebel (English Title: “Effects of Video Game GUIs on Spatial Presence”; Original German Title: “Das Fenster zur virtuellen Welt. Der Einfluss des GUI und der Spielerfahrung auf das Spatial Presence Empfinden und die Spielwahrnehmung in Videospielen”; submission: Nov 2012)
• Tobias Zach (Working Title: Immersive VR-HMD, Stereoscopy and Spatial Mapping)

Bachelor Students

2015-2016 (Current Group)

• Stefanie Dlouhy (Title: “Hyperlinks as interruption of schema acquisition?”)

2012-2015 (Former Group)

• Daniel Trommler (Title:”Mobile interactive edutainment screen”; Original German Title: “Mobiler interaktiver Edutainment Screen”)
• Gerald Meier (Working Title:”Video annotation environment with RCP/e4″)
• Markus Keller (Working Title: TBA)
• Robert Behm (Working Title: TBA)
• Thomas Seltmann (Title: Aspekte musealer Kontextualisierung von Empfehlungssystemen)
• Janne Münz (English Title: “Construction of spatial situation models in virtual environments”; Original German Title: Konstruktion räumlicher Situationsmodelle beim Erleben virtueller Welten. Gestaltung einer virtuellen Umgebung und Konzeption eines Studiendesigns zur Untersuchung von Spatial Situation Models beim Spielen von Videospielen)
• Sina Gierig (Title: Emotion recognition in speech)
• Michael Göthel (Working Title: Learning temporal dynamic receptive fields in a model of the primary visual cortex trough modeling inhibitory and excitatory neurons)
• Christian Achten (Working Title: Gesture-based interaction and Spatial Mapping)
• Laura Netzband (Working Title: Spatial Situation Models and Spatial Orientation Tasks in a Video Game Environment)
• Nils Czichon (Working Title: Continuous Measures for the State of Presence: A Review)
• Julia Hellmich (Working Title: Qualitative Videoanalyse von divergenten Altersgruppen an einem Multiuser Touchtable im Museum)
• Svenja Meier (Working Title: Interaktive Großdisplays im öffentlichen Raum – eine rhetorisch-strategische Untersuchung der Motive und Intentionen des Einsatzes)
• Philipp Knauth (Working Title: Guerilla Marketing – Chancen und Risiken des polarisierenden und innovativen Marketingkonzepts)

Research Students

2015-2016 (Current Group)

• Christoph Powazny (Dipl.-Inf. René Schmidt)
• Mehrdad Ahadi (Dipl.-Inf. René Schmidt)
• Yannik Augustin (M.Sc. Alexander Skulmowski)
• Teresa Duchilio (M.Sc. Alexander Skulmowski)
• Stefanie Dlouhy (M.Sc. Maria Wirzberger)
• Shirin Esmaeili Bijarsari (M.Sc. Maria Wirzberger)

2012-2015 (Former Group)

• Yannik Augustin (Research Team Communication I)
• Janne Münz (Research Team Sensomotorics I)
• Thomas Bengel (Research Team Sensomotorics I)
• Tobias Zach (Research Team Sensomotorics I)
• Florian Polster (Research Team Sensomotorics II)
• Jesper Bellenbaum (Research Team Sensomotorics II)
• Daniel Lohmeier von Laer (Researach Team Sensomotorics II)
• Peter Schulz (Research Team Sensomotorics II)
• Linda Pfeiffer (Research Team Sensomotorics II)
• Om Shandilya Choudhary (Research Team Emotion)
• Syed Azaruddin (Research Team Emotion)
• René Richter (Research Team Emotion)
• René Larisch (Research Team Emotion)
• Alex Schwarz (Research Team Emotion)
• Jeannine Oertel (Research Team Emotion)
• Sascha Jüngel (Research Team Emotion)
• Muhammad Faisal Abbas (Research Team Emotion)
• Christian Ebner (Research Team Emotion)
• Robert Baruck (Research Team Emotion)
• Falko Thomale (Research Team Emotion)
• Karsta Kühnlein (Research Team Learning)
• Frank Siegel (Research Team Learning)
• Falk Süß (Research Team Learning)
• Julia Speckmann (Research Team Learning)
• Jenny Espig-Eierdanz (Research Team Learning)
• Heidi Tarkpea (Research Team Communication II)
• Julia Hellmich (Research Team Communication II)
• Marius Paul (Research Team Communication II)
• Till Feige (Research Team Communication II)
• Sophie Krüger (Research Team Communication II)
• Anna Pawlowsky (Research Team Communication II)

Research Interns

2015-2016 (Current Group)

2012-2015 (Former Group)

• Christian Achten (Research Team Sensomotorics I: Manipulation of Spatial Situation Models)
• Bea Gödecke (Research Team Sensomotorics I: Manipulation of Spatial Situation Models)
• Anne Frey (Research Team Sensomotorics I: Development and Validation of a Stereoscopic Ability Test)
• Marius Paul (Research Team Sensomotorics I: Development and Validation of a Stereoscopic Ability Test)
• Tina Schönleitner (Research Team Sensomotorics I: Empirical Validation and Replication of the Spatial Presence Process Model)
• Peter Schulz (Research Team Sensomotorics II: Biomechanical Analysis and Synthesis of Gesture Input)
  
• Pöllmann (Research Team Communication II: Applications of Multi-touch-tables)
• Linda Pfeiffer (Research Team Sensomotorics II: Intertwinements of Digital and Tangible Materialities within Cultural Contexts)
• Alexander Pöllmann (Research Team Communication II: Applications of Multi-touch-tables)
• Björn Nauman (Research Team Communication II: Applications of Multi-touch-tables)
• Daniel Trauf (Research Team Communication II: Applications of Multi-touch-tables)
• Maxwell Shinn (Research Team Emotion: Structural plasticity in learning neuronal models for object recognition, DAAD RISE internship)
• Onur Karaduman (Research Team Emotion: Simulation of neuronal agents in virtual reality)
• Lucas Keller (Research Team Emotion: Evaluation of Active Appearance Models for the recognition of facial expressions)
• Alex Schwarz (Research Team Emotion: Implementation and evaluation of q-learning in an agent for investigating the Prisoners – Dilemma enhanced with different emotional states, using the Virtual Human Toolkit)
• Winfried Lötzsch (Research Team Emotion: Influence of emotions on reinforcement learning processes within a virtual environment, BeLL, Winner “Jugend Forscht” Saxony (German youth science competition), special award “Jugend Forscht” Germany)
• Philipp Roscher (Research Team Emotion: Recognition of emotions from facial expressions, BeLL)
• Hauke Schulzki (Research Team Emotion: Recognition of emotions from facial expressions, BeLL)
• Yannik Augustin (Research Team Emotion: Development and Validation of an Agency Attribution Tendency Test)
• Kevin Pfeffel (Research Team Emotion: Development and Validation of an Agency Attribution Tendency Test)
• Anne Jäkel (Research Team Emotion: Effects of behavioral authenticity of emotional expressions)
• Annemarie Lennike (Research Team Emotion: Effects of behavioral authenticity of emotional expressions)