Dr. Tim Weißker and Dr. Daniel Zielasko receiving the Best Paper Award at the 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology Source: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Weyers
On October 10, 2023, Dr. Tim Weißker and Dr. Daniel Zielasko won the Best Paper Award for their work entitled “Stay Vigilant: The Threat of a Replication Crisis in VR Locomotion Research” at the 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. The paper presents a meta-analysis of research on navigation techniques in virtual reality and analyses the associated empirical user studies with respect to their reproducibility. The results indicate a strong need for improvement within the research community, from which the authors derive specific guidelines for the conduct and presentation of future research.
Who is behind the award winners
Dr. Tim Weißker joined the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University in February 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher in the Virtual Reality group of the Computational Science and Engineering department as well as the teaching and research area “Virtual Reality and Immersive Visualization”. Dr. Daniel Zielasko received his doctoral degree at the same teaching and research area before moving to his current position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Human-Computer Interaction at Trier University.
Our warmest congratulations!
We congratulate Dr. Tim Weißker and Dr. Daniel Zielasko on their well-deserved award and wish them many more projects and campaigns with their participation.
Responsible for the content of this article is the teaching and research area “Virtual Reality and Immersive Visualization”.
