Kathrin Knutzen

Technische Universität Ilmenau | TUI · Institut für Medien und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Sparked by the recent growth of online and remote teaching formats, social virtual reality (Social VR) applications are being employed in higher education teaching. This eliminates the need for physical presence in one classroom and allows for increased accessibility of classes. More engaging distant virtual classrooms and extracurricular activitie...

The present study deals with the question whether intercultural communication can be learned in social virtual reality (VR) in a way comparable to online studies. For this purpose, international students were interviewed by means of an online questionnaire and qualitative guided interviews with the focus on students’ experiences and on the improvem...

Zusammenfassung Einleitung Die orale HIV-Prä-Expositions-Prophylaxe (kurz HIV-PrEP, PrEP) ist eine relativ neue Methode der HIV-Prävention. Sie ist ein Medikament, mit dem sich HIV-negative Personen vor einer HIV-Infektion schützen können, etwa bei kondomlosem Sex mit einer HIV-positiven Person. Die Entwicklung und Einführung der PrEP wurde und wir...

Trust in self-driving cars is considered to ensure appropriate usage of such vehicles. Representing the automation system as an anthropomorphic virtual assistant that communicates the system's behavior could help to build and maintain trust. To explore such assistants, a prototype of an anthropomorphic virtual assistant was designed and integrated...