services

An overview of my academic services, including community involvement, teaching activities, and thesis supervision.

✍️ Academic Reviewing

I contribute to the HCI research community as a reviewer and program committee for top-tier conferences and journals.

  • CHI: 4× Full Papers (2023, 2024, 2025)
  • CHI LBW: 12× (2024, 2025 as AC)
  • IJHCS: 1×
  • ISS: 2× (2022)
  • MuC: 2× Short Papers (2024)

⭐ CHI Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews (2023 & 2024)

🙋‍♂️ Volunteering & Organization

Beyond reviewing, I am engaged in community service and academic event organization within the HCI community.

  • Student Volunteer: CHI (2022), Chinese CHI (2017)
  • Co-Organizer: German Per-CHI (2023)
  • Proposal Contributor: Center for Perspicuous Computing (CPEC, DFG – Phase Two)

📚 Teaching Experience

I have been involved as a teaching assistant in various Human-Computer Interaction and Data Visualization courses at Technische Universität Dresden:

  • Advanced User Interfaces (SS 2021, SS 2022, SS 2023, SS 2024, SS 2025)
  • Data Visualization (WS 2020/2021, WS 2021/2022, WS 2022/2023)
  • User Interface Engineering (WS 2024/2025)
  • Interactive Multimedia Technologies Seminar (WS 2020/2021, WS 2023/2024)

In Advanced User Interfaces, I also gave or will give lectures independently on the topic of 3D & Spatial Interaction (SS 2024, SS 2025).

Previously, I also worked as a teaching associate at Sun Yat-sen University:

  • New Media and User Research (Mar. 2018 – Jul. 2018)
  • Media Co-Design (Sep. 2017 – Jan. 2018)

🎓 Thesis Supervision

I have supervised and co-supervised 14 theses, exploring themes such as augmented reality, immersive analytics, multimodal interaction, and hybrid displays.

Diploma Theses (2)

  • Lukas Stracke (2021–2022)
    Design and Development of Hybrid Display Layout Strategies for Data Visualization and Exploration in Augmented Reality
  • Tino Helmig (2020–2021)
    Combining Augmented Reality and Mobile Devices for the Immersive Exploration of Medical Data Visualizations

Master’s Theses (5)

  • Sivanon Visutarporn (2024)
    Design and Development of Co-Located Immersive Presentation in Augmented Reality
  • Mark Abdelaziz (2023)
    Design and Development of Visual Structures of Data-Driven Storytelling in Immersive Environments
  • Mats Ole Ellenberg (2022)
    Exploring Layout and Placement Strategies for Augmented Reality Visualization in Immersive Environments
  • Sebastian Kranz (2022)
    Exploring Multimodal Interaction in Augmented Reality with a Spatially-Aware Mobile Device for Immersive Analytics
  • Julián Jesús Méndez Oconitrillo (2021)
    Concepts for Interactively Exploring Information Flow and Design Options of Knowledge-Based Systems

Bachelor’s Theses (7)

  • Benjamin Bogatsch (2025)
    Exploring Interaction Techniques for Collaborative Mixed Reality Ideation Workspaces
  • Patrick Nierling (2024)
    Natural Interaction for Exploring Immersive Data Stories
  • Amadeus Schröter (2023)
    Supporting Presenters in Immersive Data Storytelling
  • Xiangyu Hou (2023)
    Adaptive Visualizations for Orientation and Location Tasks Using AR
  • Marius Matzke (2023)
    Traceability of Design Decisions via Interactive Visualization in Immersive Environments
  • Laura Tobisch (2022)
    Trajectory Analysis with Info Visualizations as Labels in AR [🏅Best Thesis with Technische Visualistik Award]
  • Jingyan Xiedu (2021)
    Authoring AR Visualizations with Mobile Devices