Marc Erich Latoschik

Human-Computer Interaction, University of Würzburg
 http://hci.uni-wuerzburg.de/people/marc/

Marc studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Paderborn, the New York Institute of Technology and the Bielefeld University, where he headed the AI & VR Lab until 2007. After professorships in Berlin and Bayreuth he became chair for Human-Computer Interaction at Würzburg University in 2011. Marc’s work has a strong interdisciplinary background. He combines artificial intelligence, real-time interactive systems, 3D graphics, cognitive sciences, and psychology on top of a strong engineering foundation. He is interested in highly interactive and immersive interfaces of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality (VR, AR, MR, short XR). His recent research on embodiment, i.e., of avatars and agents, body ownership and the Proteus effect, time perception, social VR, multimodal input/output, games and gamification made Würzburg one of the premier national research hot-spots for XR research with international visibility .

Selected Publications

  • Latoschik, M. E., Roth, D., Gall, D., Achenbach, J., Waltemate, T., and Botsch, M. (2017). The effect of avatar realism in immersive social virtual realities. In 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), pages 39:1–39:10.
  • Waltemate, T., Gall, D., Roth, D., Botsch, M., and Latoschik, M. E. (2018). The impact of avatar personalization and immersion on virtual body ownership, presence, and emotional response. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 24(4):1643–1652.
  • Achenbach, J., Waltemate, T., Latoschik, M. E., and Botsch, M. (2017). Fast generation of realistic virtual humans. In 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), pages 12:1–12:10.
  • Latoschik, M. E. and Tramberend, H. (2011). Simulator X: A Scalable and Concurrent Software Platform for Intelligent Realtime Interactive Systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE VR 2011, pages 171–174.
  • Latoschik, M. E. (2005). A user interface framework for multimodal VR interactions. In Proceedings of the IEEE seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI 2005, pages 76–83, Trento, Italy.

    • A complete list of publications can be found on https://www.hci.uni-wuerzburg.de/publications/

    All Sessions by Marc Erich Latoschik

    • 2. Summit Morning

      Nov. 19

    • 10:10  - 11:00
      Marc Erich Latoschik: From A(vatars) to Z(ero) Latency

      Avatars are the digital replicas of our physical selfs. They are the embodied interface to virtual words and our alter-ego in the digital realm. In contrast to the physical world, avatars can have almost any conceivable shape and appearance and are not restricted to match our original biological counterparts. Notably, this freedom consistently causes interesting effects regarding the plasticity of our body schema and resulting changes our self-consciousness: Our body changes our mind. These effects fuel philosophical questions about dualism and the relationship between mind and matter and initiate envisioning of a multitude of potential futures and consequences of an embodied internet. The talk will highlight the state of the art, our current findings of known effects, technical limitations and options, and the philosophical questions arising with such a technology.
      Where
      Online via Eventbrite




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