252-3800-00L Advanced Topics in Mixed Reality

Semester	Frühjahrssemester 2024
Dozierende	C. Holz, A. Wang
Periodizität	jährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung
Lehrsprache	Englisch
Kommentar	The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the second week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar.

Kurzbeschreibung	In the recent years, there have been major technological advances in commercial virtual and augmented reality systems. Those advancements lead to many open challenges in terms of perception and interaction as well as technical challenges. In this course, students present and discuss papers from relevant top-tier research venues to extract techniques and insights from MR research.
Lernziel	The objective of the seminar is for participants to collectively learn about the state-of-the-art research in Mixed Reality (primarily augmented and virtual reality) and closely related areas. This includes the ability to concisely present results of pioneering as well as state-of-the-art research. Another objective is to collectively discuss open issues in the field and developing a feeling for what constitutes research questions and outcomes in the field of technical Human-Computer Interaction.
Inhalt	The seminar format is as follows: attendees individually read one full-paper publication, working through its content in detail and possibly covering some of the background if necessary, and present the approach, methodology, research question and implementation as well as the evaluation and discussion in a 20–25 min talk in front of the others. Each presenter will then lead a short discussion about the paper, which is also guided by questions posed to the audience.
Literatur	24 papers will be provided by the lecturer and distributed in the first seminar on a first-come, first-served basis according to participants' preferences. The lecturer will also give a brief run-down across all 24 papers in a fast-forward style, covering each paper in a single-minute presentation, and outline the difficulties of each project. The schedule is fixed throughout the term with easier papers being presented earlier and more comprehensive papers presented later in the term.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	All students (including students on waiting list) are welcome in the first seminar to see the overview over the papers we will discuss. After assigning papers, the seminar will be limited to 24 attendees, i.e., only enrolled students can participate in the presentations and discussions.