GEVAKUB, BMBF
Design guidelines for virtual exhibition spaces for cultural education
Funded by the BMBF
Duration: 2017-2020
Project partners
Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology
University of Bayreuth
University of Regensburg
In the joint project GEVAKUB, the University of Regensburg, the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology, and the University of Bayreuth investigated how cultural educational offerings can be made accessible as a participatory, social experience in virtual spaces.
The project developed guidelines for the use of virtual realities to create cultural learning spaces and didactically based design guidelines for intrinsically motivated learning and transfer activities. Virtual learning spaces that can be experienced together were implemented as examples in order to empirically evaluate systematically developed design hypotheses. From this, guidelines were developed for the design of shared learning spaces, for directing attention through 360° interfaces and for the presentation of multimodal content in virtual learning spaces.
Project-related publications
Anna Wolf, Jens Reinhardt, Marco Kurzweg, and Katrin Wolf. SocialSlider: Changing the Transparency of Avatars. In Proceedings of the Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference 2022
Marco Kurzweg, Jens Reinhardt, and Katrin Wolf. Using Body Language of Avatars in VR Meetings as Communication Status Cue. In Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2021 (MuC’21), HONOURABLE MENTION
Jens Reinhardt, Marco Kurzweg, and Katrin Wolf. Placement of Teleported Co-Users in AR. In Proceedings of INTERACT 2021
Jens Reinhardt, Marco Kurzweg, and Katrin Wolf. Virtual Physical Task Training: Comparing Shared Body, Shared View and Verbal Task Explanation. In Proceedings of the Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference 2021
Jens Reinhardt, Luca Hillen and Katrin Wolf. Embedding Conversational Agents into AR: Invisible or with a Realistic Human Body?. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions (TEI) 2020
Sven Mayer, Jens Reinhardt, Robin Schweigert, Brighten JelkeValentin Schwind, Katrin Wolf, Niels Henze. Improving Humans’ Ability to Interpret Deictic Gestures in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2020
Jens Reinhardt and Katrin Wolf. Go-Through: Disabling Collision to Access Obstructed Paths and Open Occluded Views in Social VR. In Proceedings of the Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference 2020
Marco Kurzweg, Jens Reinhardt, Katrin Wolf. PLAY ME! Influencing Game Decisions through Suggestions made by Augmented Characters. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) 2020, ISBN 978-1-4503-8870-2/20/11
Jonna Häkkilä, Mikael Wiberg, Nils Johan Eira, Tapio Seppänen, Ilkka Juuso, Maija Mäkikalli, and Katrin Wolf. 2020. Design Sensibilities – Designing for Cultural Sensitivity. In Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society (NordiCHI ’20), October 25–29, 2020, Tallinn, Estonia. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3419249.3420100.
Steinicke, Frank and Wolf, Katrin (2020) New Digital Realities – Blending our Reality with Virtuality. i-com, 19(2), 61-65. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/icom-2020-0014
Dorothé Smit, Bernhard Maurer, Martin Murer, Jens Reinhardt and Katrin Wolf: Be the Meeple: New Perspectives on Traditional Board Games. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions (TEI) 2019
Jens Reinhardt, Eike Lewandowski and Katrin Wolf: Build your Own! Open-Source VR Shoes for Unity3D. In Proceedings of the Augmented Human International Conference (AH) 2019
Rufat Rzayev, Karaman Guerkan, Katrin Wolf, Niels Henze, and Valentin Schwind: The Effect of Presence and Appearance of Guides in Virtual Reality Exhibitions. Mensch-und-Computer-Konferenz 2019
Anna-Lena Spleet, Dennis Kahya, Sören Eckhardt, Nils Niercke, Katrin Wolf: Furniture CGI Presentation as 2D Renderings or Virtual Reality? Mensch-und-Computer-Konferenz 2019
Arbresh Ujkani, Jan Willms, Lezgin Turgut, Katrin Wolf: The Effect of Camera Perspectives on Locomotion Accuracy in Virtual Reality. Mensch-und-Computer-Konferenz 2019
Raoul Bickmann, Celine Tran, Ninja Ruesch, Katrin Wolf: Haptic Illusion Glove: A Glove for Illusionary Touch Feedback when Grasping Virtual Objects. Mensch-und-Computer-Konferenz 2019
Kristin Reich, Elisabeth Jäger, Xuan Linh Do, Katrin Wolf: ArmTouch: The Forearm as Touchpad for VR Control. Mensch-und-Computer-Konferenz 2019
Niels Henze, Jochen Koubek, Katrin Wolf, Moritz Puppel, Jens Reinhardt and Rufat Rzayev: Gestaltungsrichtlinien für virtuelle Lernräume in der kulturellen Bildung. In Jörissen/Kröner/Unterberg (Hrsg.): Forschung zur Digitalisierung in der Kulturellen Bildung. kopaed 2019, ISBN 978-3-86736-522-2, eISBN 978-3-86736-651-9
Schwind, Valentin; Wolf, Katrin; Henze, Niels: Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Virtual Character Design. In Interactions, 25 (5), pp. 45–49, 2018, ISSN: 1072-5520
Valentin Schwind, Jens Reinhardt, Rufat Rzayev, Niels Henze and Katrin Wolf: Virtual Reality on the Go? A Study on Social Acceptance of VR Glasses. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) 2018
Laurenz Berger and Katrin Wolf: WIM: Fast Locomotion in Virtual Reality with Spatial Orientation Gain & without Motion Sickness. In Proceedings of The 17th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) 2018.
Katrin Wolf, Jens Reinhardt and Markus Funk: Virtual Exhibitions: What Do We Win and What Do We Lose? In Proceedings of the Conference on Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA), London, 2018
Jens Reinhardt, Rufat Rzayev, Niels Henze and Katrin Wolf: GhostVR: Enhancing Co-Presence in Social Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the CHI 2018 Workshop on Novel Interaction Techniques for Collaboration in VR, April 22, 2018, Montréal, Canada
Valentin Schwind, Jens Reinhardt, Rufat Rzayev, Niels Henze and Katrin Wolf: On the Need for Standardized Methods to Study the Social Acceptability of Emerging Technologies. In Proceedings of the CHI 2018 Workshop on (Un)Acceptable!?! — Re-thinking the Social Acceptability of Emerging Technologies, April 21, 2018, Montréal, Canada
Jens Reinhardt and Katrin Wolf: Opportunities of Social VR in Digital Museum Twins. In Proceedings of the Berlin Conference on Electronic Media & Visual Arts (EVA) 2018