Workshop on Discomfort and Motion Sickness in Mobile Extended Reality Contexts

Luca Hilbrich is a Ph.D. student at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (BHT). He completed his master’s degree in Audio Technology at the Technical University of Berlin, focusing on the parallels between visual and auditory perception through cross-modal correspondences in his thesis. Currently, Luca’s research centers on advancing multimodal sensory illusions using haptics, graphics, and audio technologies. His work aims to alleviate cybersickness and enhance user comfort in extended reality applications as part of the „Real-time Intersensory Discomfort Compensation“ research project.

Yannick Weiss is a Ph.D. student at LMU Munich. His research interests surround haptics in and for extended reality, from understanding the underlying processes of haptic perception to creating and adapting haptic experiences for virtual and augmented reality interfaces. He received a master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction from LMU Munich in 2021 and is currently working on the research project „Real-time Intersensory Discomfort Compensation“, where he is investigating real-time sensing and mitigation of sensory conflicts.

Katharina Pöhlmann is a post doctoral researcher fellow in the Human Computer Interaction group in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on the detection and mitigation of cyber- and motion sickness using multi sensory cue strategies for mitigation. Katharina has received her PhD from the University of Lincoln in 2022 and since then has worked as a post doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow and the KITE Research Institute. She has served as paper chair at AutoUI 2024 and Mensch \& Computer 2024 and General Chair at VIMS in 2025.

Zhanyan Qiu is a Ph.D. student at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on virtual reality technology and mitigating motion sickness in VR applications in transportation. He is dedicated to designing innovative visual cues for VR that reduce the occurrence of motion sickness during in-vehicle VR use, while simultaneously minimizing potential distractions caused by these visual cues.

Kevin Fiedler is a Ph.D. student at RWTH Aachen University, where he previously received a master’s degree in computer science in 2023. His current research focuses on improving accessibility in extended reality and the real world by utilizing extended reality and multimodal input techniques, including mitigating motion sickness during in-car mixed reality use.

Albrecht Schmidt is a professor of computer science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, where he holds a chair for Human-Centered Ubiquitous Media. His teaching and research interests include human-centered artificial intelligence, intelligent interactive systems, ubiquitous computing, multimodal user interfaces, and digital media technologies. He studied computer science at the University of Ulm (Germany) and at the Manchester Metropolitan University, where he wrote 1996 his M.Sc. thesis with the title „A modular neural network architecture with additional generalization abilities for high dimensional input vectors“. In 2003, he completed his Ph.D. at Lancaster University. Albrecht chaired the technical program of ACM SIGCHI 2014, he is on the editorial board of the ACM TOCHI journal, and he is the co-founder of the ACM conference TEI and Automotive User interfaces. In 2018, he was inducted into the ACM SIGCHI Academy and in 2020 he was elected into Leopoldina, the Germany academy of science.

Katrin Wolf is a professor for Human-Computer Interaction at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology (BHT). Her research interests lie at the intersection of human-computer interaction and interaction design, focusing on how to make novel technologies more usable and useful. To date, Katrin’s research has focused on technologies and domains including mobile and wearable systems; virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, as well as interactive exhibitions. Katrin is actively involved in the research community. Most notably, she was General Chair of the German conference on Mensch \& Computer (MuC) 2019, Program Chair at TEI 2021, AHs 2019, and MUM 2018 as well as Late-Breaking Work Chair at CHI 2021 and Student Research Competition Chair of CHI 2019 and CHI 2020.

Stephen Brewster is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. There, he leads the Multimodal Interaction Group, which is very active and has a strong international reputation in HCI (http://mig.dcs.gla.ac.uk). His research focuses on multimodal HCI, or using multiple sensory modalities and control mechanisms (particularly audio, haptics, and gesture) to create a rich, natural interaction between human and computer. His work has a strong experimental focus, applying perceptual research to practical situations. A long-term focus has been on mobile interaction and how we can design better user interfaces for users who are on the move. Other areas of interest include VR/AR, wearable devices, and in-car interaction. He pioneered the study of non-speech audio and haptic interaction for mobile devices, with work starting in the 1990s. He was a General Chair of CHI 2019 in Glasgow, CHI papers chair in 2013 and 2014, and has previously chaired MobileHCI, EuroHaptics, and TEI. He is a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.