Immersive Reality Lab – XR, Digital Health & UX Research

Core topics

XR & Spatial Interaction

We develop and evaluate interactive XR systems to understand and improve user experience, trust, and engagement in virtual and augmented environments. Our work spans education, tourism, public spaces, and collaborative tasks.

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Quality of Experience

We measure how network conditions, system behaviour, and content quality translate into perceived quality, trust, and adoption — the bridge between an engineering parameter and a product decision, and the basis of the ITU-T recommendations we help write.

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Psychophysiology & Behavioural Measurement

We use EEG, eye tracking, and other biosignals to investigate how people perceive and respond to digital content — complementing self-reports with continuous, objective indicators of workload, attention, and affect.

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Digital Health & Learning

We design and evaluate user-centered digital health and learning technologies — tablet apps, intelligent agents, XR-based interventions — for diagnostics, therapy, training, and everyday health management, particularly for older adults and vulnerable populations.

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Generative AI in Media Contexts

Embodied agents and synthetic media are entering training and health communication faster than the methods to evaluate them. We develop those methods, with calibrated trust as the target — neither blind reliance nor blanket rejection.

About the lab

XR / Spatial Interaction / Experience Measurement

The Immersive Reality Lab develops and evaluates extended reality systems, digital health technologies, and psychophysiological assessment methods. We combine human-centered design, controlled evaluation, and multimodal sensing to deliver reproducible research outcomes for healthcare, education, and public-sector innovation.

Immersive Reality Lab team and infrastructure

45

Journal articles

163

Conference papers

17

Standardization contributions

5

Core research tracks

22

Funded projects since 2015

€4.609M

Third-party funding since 2015

Record of our director, Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons, since 2015 — including his work at TU Berlin before he came to HSHL in 2021.

Selected highlights

Immersive assessment for cognitive health

We designed VR-based assessment workflows for older adults and vulnerable populations with multimodal interaction support.

Project context · Related publications

Evidence-based XR interaction design

We evaluate embodied interaction, trust, and engagement across education, tourism, and collaboration scenarios.

XR track · Active projects

Psychophysiological quality measurement

EEG and eye tracking methods support objective quality and workload assessment and standardization activities.

Methods · Transfer & standards

Teaching Methods & Infrastructure Transfer & Standardization

Our Lab

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We explore Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and Extended Reality (XR) across diverse application areas.

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