Private and Shared XR Content

Aufgabenstellung / Topic

Building on a previous student thesis, you implement several different designs for managing private and shared XR content in a collaborative setting and evaluate the designs with a user study. Results of the study could cover e.g. usability of the designs, how the different designs and representations of content affect collaboration, how both user and collaborator perceive the representation.
Focus: Implementation.

You will:

• Review literature on shared XR environments and managing private and shared content
• Design and implement different data sharing mechanisms for shared XR
• Conduct a user study to evaluate the different designs
• Analyze the designs, e.g. in regards to usability, feeling of control over data, transparency of what is shared with others,...
• Summarize findings in a thesis and (optionally) contribute to a research publication
• Present your work in the Disputationsseminar of Prof. Dr. Florian Alt

You need:

• Interest in usable privacy, HCI and XR environments
• Programming skills, ideally previous experience with Unity
• Interest to conduct user studies with careful selection of methods to capture user privacy behavior

If you are interested in this topic, please contact me via email and include your CV, academic transcript, intended start date and 1-2 sentences why you are interested in the topic.