Juliane Henning

Research Scientist

Julie completed her Bachelor's degree in Media, Communications and Culture at Newcastle University. She completed her Master's degree in Media, Communications and Creative Industries at Sciences Po Paris. After working in journalism, project management and marketing, she joined the IRL team in 2024 as a project manager for the funded research project ARiadne. As part of her work in the project Julie conducted research in the realm of Augmented Reality (AR) Navigation for Pedestrians, examining factors such as user experience, safety, spatial audio and the visual representation of so called Points of Interest (POIs) within the urban space. In relation to her work around POIs, Julie has extended her research to AR Marketing.

Julie's interest in psychology and her contributions to papers on conversational avatars has led her to focus on VR and AR applications for wellbeing, as well as developing Virtual Patients for psychotherapists in training.

Research interests:

• VR/AR applications in healthcare and psychotherapy
• Virtual Patients for psychotherapy training
• Augmented Reality Marketing

Contact: +49 (0)2381 8789-992 · juliane.henning@hshl.de