Chris Zimmerer

• University of Wuerzburg

Multimodal Interfaces (MMIs) have been considered to provide promising interaction paradigms for Virtual Reality (VR) for some time. However, they are still far less common than unimodal interfaces (UMIs). This paper presents a summative user study comparing an MMI to a typical UMI for a design task in VR. We developed an application targeting crea...

Virtual Reality (VR) has always been considered a promising medium to support designers with alternative work environments. Still, graphical user interfaces are prone to induce attention shifts between the user interface and the manipulated target objects which hampers the creative process. This work proposes a speech-and-gesture-based interaction...

Semantic fusion is a central requirement of many multimodal interfaces. Procedural methods like finite-state transducers and augmented transition networks have proven to be beneficial to implement semantic fusion. They are compliant with rapid development cycles that are common for the development of user interfaces, in contrast to machine-learning...

This poster presents a maintainable method to manage lexical information required for multimodal interfaces. It is tailored for the application in real-time interactive systems, specifically for Virtual Reality, and solves three problems commonly encountered in this context: (1) The lexical information is defined on and grounded in a common knowled...

Quest - UbiquX fuses a multimodal mixed reality implementation of a traditional tabletop role-play game with a location-based mobile aspect to provide a novel Ubiquitous gaming eXperience (UbiquX). Mobile devices are used to progress the game in a single-player adventure phase based on the players location in the real world. In addition, they suppo...

Quest - XRoads is a multimodal and multimedia mixed reality version of the traditional role-play tabletop game Quest: Zeit der Helden. The original game concept is augmented with virtual content to permit a novel gaming experience. The demonstration consists of a turn-based skirmish, where players have to collaborate, control heroes or villains and...