Dr. Sylvia Rothe

E-Mail	sylvia.rothe ät ifi.lmu.de
Address	Dr. Sylvia Rothe University of Munich (LMU) Media Informatics Frauenlobstr. 7a 80337 Munich, Germany
Room	448 (4th floor)

Research Interests

Collaboration in Augmented and Virtual Reality / XR
Learning in Augmented and Virtual Reality / XR
Guiding Attention in XR
Interaction Techniques in XR
Eyetracking, Machine Learning
Cinematic Virtual Reality / 360º Movies

Teaching

• WS 20/21: Praktikum Entwicklung von Mediensystemen: KI-Anwendungen
• WS 20/21: Praktikum Entwicklung von Mediensystemen: Immersive Arts
• WS 20/21: Hauptseminar Medieninformatik
• SS 2020: Praktikum Entwicklung von Augmented Reality Applikationen: Storytelling in AR
• SS 19/20: Praktikum Entwicklung von Mediensystemen: VR und AR Anwendungen für Museen
• WS 19/20: Design Workshop 2: Immersive Arts
• SS 2019: Praktikum Entwicklung von Mediensystemen: AR beyond the Hype - Augmented Reality im Fernsehen

Publications

2020
	Sylvia Rothe, Lewis Chuang Implications of Eye Tracking Research to Cinematic Virtual Reality ETRA '20 Adjunct: ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and ApplicationsJune 2020 Article No.: 37
	Sylvia Rothe Konzepte und Guidelines für Applikationen in Cinematic Virtual Reality Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Statistik
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Alexander Schmidt, Mario Montagud, Daniel Buschek, Heinrich Hussmann Social viewing in cinematic virtual reality: a design space for social movie applications Virtual Reality (2020). Springer London. 1-18
	Sylvia Rothe, Lang Zhao, Arne Fahrenwalde, Heinrich Hussmann How to Reduce the Effort: Comfortable Watching Techniques for Cinematic Virtual Reality Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics pp 3-21
2019
	Sylvia Rothe, Pascal Pothmann, Heiko Drewes, Heinrich Hussmann Interaction Techniques for Cinematic Virtual Reality IEEEVR'19, Workshop on Novel Input Devices and Interaction Techniques, Osaka, Japan
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Daniel Buschek, Heinrich Hussmann Guidance in Cinematic Virtual Reality - Taxonomy, Research Status and Challenges Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2019, 3. Jg., Nr. 1, S. 19.
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Boris Kegeles, Heinrich Hussmann Camera Heights in Cinematic Virtual Reality: How Viewers Perceive Mismatches Between Camera and Eye Height TVX'19, Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video. ACM, 2019, Manchester, UK
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Heinrich Hussmann Spaceline: A Concept for Interaction in Cinematic Virtual Reality Interactive Storytelling - 11th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2019 (bib)
2018
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Mario Montagud, Christian Mai, Daniel Buschek, Heinrich Hussmann Social Viewing in Cinematic Virtual Reality:Challenges and Opportunities. ICIDS '18 International Conference for Interactive Digital Storytelling , Dublin, Ireland (bib)
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Felix Althammer, Mohamed Khamis GazeRecall: Using Gaze Direction to Increase Recall of Details in Cinematic Virtual Reality MUM'18 International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Cairo, Egypt (bib)
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Tobias Höllerer, Heinrich Hussmann CVR-Analyzer: A Tool for Analyzing Cinematic Virtual Reality Viewing Patterns MUM'18 International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Cairo, Egypt (bib)
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Kim Tran, Heinrich Hussmann Positioning of Subtitles in Cinematic Virtual Reality ICAT-EGVE'18 International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, Limassol, Cyprus (bib)
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Boris Kegeles, Mathias Allary, Heinrich Hussmann The Impact of Camera Height in Cinematic Virtual Reality VRST'18 ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Tokyo, Japan (bib)
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Harald Brunner, Daniel Buschek, Heinrich Hussmann Spaceline: A Way of Interaction in Cinematic Virtual Reality SUI'18 Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, Berlin, Germany (bib)
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Heinrich Hussmann Guiding the Viewer in Cinematic Virtual Reality by Diegetic Cues International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics, Lecce, Italy (bib)
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Harald Brunner, Heinrich Hussmann Spaceline und Interaktion in Cinematischer Virtueller Realitaet MuC '18 Mensch und Computer, Dresden, Germany (bib)
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Kim Tran, Heinrich Hussmann Dynamic Subtitles in Cinematic Virtual Reality TVX'18 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video, Seoul, Korea (bib)
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Heinrich Hussmann Spatial statistics for analyzing data in cinematic virtual reality AVI'18 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Grosseto, Italy (bib)
2017
Download	Sylvia Rothe, Heinrich Hussmann, Mathias Allary Diegetic Cues for Guiding the Viewer in Cinematic Virtual Reality VRST'17 ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (bib)

Demos, Workshops:

Sylvia Rothe, Heinrich Hussmann. "A Role Concept and Design Space for Social VR Application", Workshop CHI'19, Glasgow, UK 2019.

Sylvia Rothe, Tobias Hoellerer, Heinrich Hussmann. "CVR-Analyzer: A Tool for Analyzing Cinematic Virtual Reality Viewing Patterns", Demo, SUI 2018, Berlin, Germany 2018.

Sylvia Rothe, Tobias Hoellerer, Heinrich Hussmann. "CVR-Analyzer", Demo, MuM'18, Kairo, Egypt, 2018.

Sylvia Rothe, Kim Tran, Heinrich Hussmann. "Subtitles in Cinematic Virtual Reality", Demo,ICAT-EGVE'18, Limassol, Cyprus, 2018.

Sylvia Rothe, Tobias Hoellerer, Heinrich Hussmann. "CVR-Analyzer", Demo, ISMAR'18, Munich, Germany, 2018.

Sylvia Rothe, Duc Anh Le, Christian Mai. "Collaborative Data Analyzing for Cinematic Virtual Reality", Workshop on Novel Interaction Techniques for Collaboration in VR, CHI'18, Montreal, Canada, 2018.

Theses (Bachelor/Master)

Open

In Progress

Fangli Lu	bachelor thesis	Kollaborationsunterstützendes Design für einen Raum des Deutschen Museums in Social Virtual Reality
Kim Tran	master thesis	Kollaboratives Interaktiondesign für einen Raum des Deutschen Museums in Social Virtual Reality
Anil Kerem Balkan	bachelor thesis	Interaktionen in Virtual Reality für das Organum Mathematicum
Pauline Sailer	bachelor thesis	Zielgruppenorientiertes Interaktionsdesign für den Themenbereich Musik des Organum Mathematicums
Sigrid Klinger	bachelor thesis	Museumsanwendung für den Themenbereich Festungsbau des Organum Mathematicum
Christoph Weber	master thesis	Polysemie Aware Sentence Embeddings for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
Philipp Mayer	master thesis	Deepfakes im Kontext multimedialer Lernplattformen
Sara Kasi	bachelor thesis	Moving Concept for VR Museum Tours
Hanna Shun	bachelor thesis	Collaborative Space Concepts for Museum Rooms
Julia Glöß	bachelor thesis	Collaborative Interaction Desings for Museum Objects
Jenny Huang	bachelor thesis	Development of a gesture driven UI for a museum exhibit
Karlheinz Reinhardt	master thesis	Vizualization of Collaborative Movements in Social Virtual Reality
Michael Hufnagel	master thesis	Visualization of Human Behaviour in VR
Paula Wöhlert	bachelor thesis	Interaction in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Astrid Johannsen	bachelor thesis	Aligned Cuts in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Nina Wüst	bachelor thesis	Spatial Audio in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Louise Paglionico	bachelor thesis	Interaktionskonzept für ein Museumsobjekt in Augmented Reality
Paul Huber	master thesis	Gestaltung von virtuellen 3D - Räumen für kollaboratives Lernen unter Berücksichtigung der Lerninhalte

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Closed Theses

2021
Simon von der Au	master thesis	Design Space für kollaborative AR Anwendungen im Fernsehen (gemeinsam mit IRT)
Thai Do	bachelor thesis	Einfluss der Raumgröße auf die Proxemik in SocialVR
2020
Evelyn Müller	master thesis	Blickbasierte Interaktion für interaktive Geschichten in Virtual Reality
Claudia Miemczyk	master thesis	Visualization of Historical Contexts
Michael Kölle	master thesis	Entwicklung und Evaluation eines Anzeigekonzepts für See-Through Head-Mounted Displays im Automobil (gemeinsam mit BMW)
Cristina Bolohan	bachelor thesis	Data aggregation for Natural Language Processing for the German Language (gemeinsam mit IRT)
Lisa Marie Bauer	bachelor thesis	Kulturerbe in AR:Evaluation eines AR-Erlebnisses zur Entdeckung einer Dokumentarreihe zum UNESCO-Welterbe (gemeinsam mit IRT)
Thomas Beck	bachelor thesis	Applying Diegetic Cues to an Interactive Virtual Reality Experience
Richard Schäffer	master thesis	Augmented Reality Fabrication Simulation for Intuitive Robot Operation (gemeinsam mit TUM/Architektur)
Vanessa Sarakiotis	bachelor thesis	Space Composition in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Pia Probst	bachelor thesis	Distanzen in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Niklas Esch	bachelor thesis	Augmenting dioramas with transparent displays and position tracking
2019
Arne Fahrenwalde	bachelor thesis	Engagement in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Dominik Beyer	bachelor thesis	Camera Positions in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Michaela Finger	bachelor thesis	Development of a Brain-Computer-Interface for users with motor impairment to control a video application (IRT)
Luca Speeter	bachelor thesis	Camera Positions in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Pascal Pothmann	bachelor thesis	Activiation Methods in Cinematic Virtual Reality
2018
Nicola Gora	bachelor thesis	Camera Movements in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Michaela Schmierl	bachelor thesis	Methods of Speaker Identification for Subtitles in Cinematic VR
Azabi Atef	bachelor thesis	The Influence of Voice Chat on Social Awareness in Cinematic VR
Dung Vo Duc	bachelor thesis	The Influence of Visual Communication on Social Awareness in Cinematic VR
Viet Duc Ngo	bachelor thesis	The Influence of Viewport Sharing on Social Awareness in Cinematic VR
Dung Vo Duc	master thesis	Learning Sign Language with Augmented Reality using KI
Alexander Schmidt	bachelor thesis	Collaborator Awareness in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Lang Zhao	master thesis	Less than 360º in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Simon von der Au	bachelor thesis	Utilization of Microsoft Spectatorview in Television Programs
Harald Brunner	master thesis	Affordances for Interaction in Cinemaitc Virtual Reality via WebVR
Evelyn Müller	bachelor thesis	Differences Between Cinematic VR and Traditional Movies
Lisa Götz	bachelor thesis	Enhanced Subtitle Methods in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Lili Tran	bachelor thesis	Embedding of Sign Language in Cinematic VR
Ziheng Gao	master thesis	Gaze Direction by High Frequence Flickering in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Richard Schäffer	bachelor thesis	Embedding of Sign Language in AR via Hololens
Felix Althammer	bachelor thesis	Guiding the User's Gaze in 360 Degree Videos
2017
Boris Kegeles	bachelor thesis	Influences of Camera Position to Attention and Presence in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Kim Tran	bachelor thesis	Subtitles in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Duc Anh Le	bachelor thesis	Nondiegetic Methods for Guiding Attention in Cinematic Virtual Reality