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(January 2021)
Dr Julian Frommel
Julian Frommel joined the Institute of Media Informatics in October 2014. He studied Computer Science and Multimedia at Augsburg University and acquired his master degree with a master's thesis on "Learning Bayesian Networks From Multimodal Data to Control the Behaviour of Virtual Characters" at the Human-Centered Multimedia group of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André. His current research interests revolve around novel interaction concepts for games and their influence on players. In specific he is interested in emotion-based game adaptivity, the assessment of the player state, interaction and game design of VR and AR games, as well as serious games.
Mr Frommel has left the institute in October 2019 after having concluded his phd thesis. We thank him for his excellent contributions and wish him all the best to his future career.
Research interests
- Adaptivity in Games
- Player Assessment
- Emotion Recognition
- Virtual Reality
- Virtual Reality Games
Teaching
- Exploration of Techniques for Procedural Content Generation of Levels in Serious Games (masters thesis)
- Entwicklung eines Avatar Frameworks für Unity (Developing an Avatar Framework for Unity) (bachelors thesis)
- The Categorization of Player Types (bachelors thesis)
- Analyse von Bewegungsarten in der Virtual Reality (Analysis of Movement Methods in Virtual Reality) (bachelors thesis)
- Examining the Influence of Game Events on Emotion (master's thesis)
- Die Auswirkung von verschiedenen Varianten eines Tutorials in Virtual Reality auf das Spielerlebnis (The Influence of Different Tutorial Variants in Virtual Reality on Player Experience) (bachelor's thesis)
Projects
ShareVR is a proof-of-concept prototype using floor projection and mobile displays in combination with positional tracking to visualize the virtual world for the Non-HMD user, enabling them to interact with the HMD user and become part of the VR experience.
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Beer Routing – was developed as part of the project Game Design and Development: Professor Insanity attempts to improve the situation at his favourite bar. For this purpose, he teaches the waiter - i.e. the player - the Dijkstra algorithm and other routing strategies for optimal beer distribution.
Student team: Jonas Kraus, Matthias Mak, Philipp Speidel, Fabian Widmann
2084. Terrorism: under control. Work: performed by machines. Euro and dollar: collapsed. The only remaining currency: personal data.
That is the scenario of this pervasive game, developed as part of the Ubiquitous Computing project. Did you always want to experience the feeling of being shadowed in your everyday life? Do you want to test your ability to unobtrusively follow other players? This is your chance to experience the safe new world, where everybody spies on everyone.
Student team: Maximilian Baer, Thomas Dreja, Christian Hunger & Julian Winterfeldt
This project is funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Foundation and examines the areas of complex problem solving of players, as well as strategies and techniques for development thereof. The goal of this project is to develop an internationally visible centre for interdisciplinary serious games research at Ulm University that studies application oriented basic research on that topic.
Scientific Activities
ACM CHI (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), ACM CHI PLAY (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), ACM VRST (2017), ACM DIS (2018), IEEE VR (2019), ACM MobileHCI (2018), FDG (2017), DeLFI (2015)
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Applied Ergonomics und Behaviour & Information Technology
ACM CHI Late Breaking Work (2019), ACM CHI PLAY Work-in-Progress (2019), IEEE Conference on Games CoG: Game Interfaces and User Interaction, Short Papers, and Vision Papers (2019)
Publications
2019
26.
J. Frommel,
J. Gugenheimer and
K. Rogers,
"Opportunities and Challenges of Using Game Video Stream Data for Games Research",
CHI 2019 All the (World Wide) Web’s A Stage: A Workshop on Live Streaming (Position Paper),
May
2019.
| File: |  https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/mitarbeiterbereiche/frommel/Publications/CHI19_StreamingWorkshop_PositionPaper_Frommel_Opportunities_cameraReady.pdf |
25.
K. Rogers,
J. Funke,
J. Frommel,
S. Stamm and
M. Weber,
"Exploring Interaction Fidelity in Virtual Reality: Object Manipulation and Whole-Body Movements",
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019),
2019.
| DOI: | 10.1145/3290605.3300644 |
24.
I. Damen,
M. Brehm,
A. Bravo,
J. McClelland,
A. Harde,
J. Frommel and
R. Bernhaupt,
"MirrorMe: Increasing Prosocial Behaviour in Public Transport"
in Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
New York, NY, USA:
ACM,
2019,
pp. LBW1614:1--LBW1614:6.
| DOI: | 10.1145/3290607.3312961 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4503-5971-9 |
2018
23.
T. Dreja,
M. Rietzler,
T. Hirzle,
J. Gugenheimer,
J. Frommel and
E. Rukzio,
"A Demonstration of VRSpinning: Exploring the Design Space of a 1D Rotation Platform to Increase the Perception of Self-Motion in VR",
In Adj. Proc. of UIST '18 (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology),
Oct.
2018.
22.
M. Rietzler,
T. Hirzle,
J. Gugenheimer,
J. Frommel,
T. Dreja and
E. Rukzio,
"VRSpinning: Exploring the Design Space of a 1D Rotation
Platform to Increase the Perception of Self-Motion in VR",
In Proc. of DIS 2018 (ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems),
Jun.
2018.
https://www.uni-ulm.de/in/mi/mi-forschung/uulm-hci/projects/vrspinning/.
| DOI: | 10.1145/3196709.3196755 |
| Weblink: | https://youtu.be/KzrtOPbr4t4 |
| File: | https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/Papers/Prof_Rukzio/2018/SpinVR_Small.compressed.pdf |
21.
M. Rietzler,
F. Geiselhart,
J. Frommel and
E. Rukzio,
"Conveying the Perception of Kinesthetic Feedback in Virtual Reality using State-of-the-Art Hardware",
In Proc. of CHI 2018 (SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
Apr.
2018.
| DOI: | 10.1145/3173574.3174034 |
| Weblink: | https://youtu.be/IMiHyTDCE4o |
| File: | https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/mitarbeiterbereiche/rietzler/ConveyingThePerception.pdf |
20.
J. Gugenheimer,
E. Stemasov,
J. Frommel and
E. Rukzio,
"A Demonstration of ShareVR: Co-Located Experiences for Virtual Reality Between HMD and Non-HMD Users",
In Adj. Proc. of IEEE VR 2018 (2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces),
Mar.
2018.
| DOI: | 10.1109/VR.2018.8446551 |
| File: | https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/Papers/Prof_Rukzio/2018/IEEEVR_DemoShareVR.pdf |
19.
J. Frommel,
F. Fischbach,
K. Rogers and
M. Weber,
"Emotion-based Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment Using Parameterized Difficulty and Self-Reports of Emotion"
in Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play,
New York, NY, USA:
ACM,
2018.
18.
K. Rogers,
M. Colley,
D. Lehr,
J. Frommel,
M. Walch,
L. E. Nacke and
M. Weber,
"KickAR: Exploring Game Balancing Through Boosts and Handicaps in Augmented Reality Table Football"
in Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
New York, NY, USA:
ACM,
2018.
| DOI: | 10.1145/3173574.3173740 |
17.
J. Frommel,
C. Schrader and
M. Weber,
"Towards Emotion-based Adaptive Games: Emotion Recognition Via Input and Performance Features",
Proceedings of CHI Play '18: The Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play,
2018.
2017
16.
J. Frommel,
J. Gugenheimer,
D. Klein,
E. Rukzio and
M. Weber,
"CanTouchThis: Examining the Effect of Physical Contact in a Mobile Multiplayer Game"
in In Proceedings of CHI EA '17 (CHI '17 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems),
May
2017.
| DOI: | 10.1145/3027063.3053087 |
| File: | https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/Papers/Prof_Weber/2017-CHI-Frommel-CanTouchThis.pdf |
15.
M. Walch,
J. Frommel,
K. Rogers,
F. Schüssel,
P. Hock,
D. Dobbelstein and
M. Weber,
"Evaluating VR Driving Simulation from a Player Experience Perspective"
in CHI '17 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
New York, NY, USA:
ACM,
May
2017.
| DOI: | 10.1145/3027063.3053202 |
| File: | https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/Papers/Prof_Weber/2017/Walch2017Evaluating.pdf |
14.
J. Gugenheimer,
E. Stemasov,
J. Frommel and
E. Rukzio,
"ShareVR: Enabling Co-Located Experiences for Virtual Reality between HMD and Non-HMD Users",
In Proc. of CHI 2017 (SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems),
May
2017.
https://www.uni-ulm.de/in/mi/mi-forschung/uulm-hci/projects/sharevr-enabling-co-located-experiences-for-virtual-reality-between-hmd-and-non-hmd-users/.
| DOI: | 10.1145/3025453.3025683 |
| Weblink: | https://youtu.be/Uc5fkTFMHr4 |
| File: | /fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/1-hci/hci-paper/2017/2017-shareVr_small.pdf |
13.
B. Lugrin,
J. Frommel and
E. André,
"Combining a Data-driven and a Theory-based Approach to Generate Culture-dependent Behaviours for Virtual Characters"
in Advances in Culturally-Aware Intelligent Systems and in Cross-Cultural Psychological Studies, Colette Faucher, Eds.
Springer,
2017.
12.
J. Frommel,
S. Sonntag and
M. Weber,
"Effects of Controller-based Locomotion on Player Experience in a Virtual Reality Exploration Game"
in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG '17),
New York, NY, USA:
ACM,
2017,
pp. 30:1--30:6.
| DOI: | 10.1145/3102071.3102082 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4503-5319-9 |
| File: | /fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/verz-ma-ehedem/frommel/Publications/vrzoo_cameraReady.pdf |
11.
V. Riemer,
J. Frommel,
G. Layher,
H. Neumann and
C. Schrader,
"Identifying Features of Bodily Expression As Indicators of Emotional Experience during Multimedia Learning",
Frontiers in Psychology,
vol. 8,
pp. 1303,
2017.
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01303.
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01303 |
10.
C. Schrader,
J. Brich,
J. Frommel,
V. Riemer and
K. Rogers,
"Rising to the Challenge: An Emotion-Driven Approach Towards Adaptivity",
Serious Games and Edutainment Applications - Ma, Minhua & Oikonomou, Andreas, Eds.
Springer International Publishing,
2017,
pp. 3-28.
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-51645-5_1 |
9.
J. Frommel,
K. Fahlbusch,
J. Brich and
M. Weber,
"The Effects of Context-Sensitive Tutorials in Virtual Reality Games",
Proceedings of CHI Play '17: The Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play,
2017.
2016
8.
J. Frommel,
K. Rogers,
T. Dreja,
J. Winterfeldt,
C. Hunger,
M. Bär and
M. Weber,
"2084 - Safe New World: Designing Ubiquitous Interactions",
Proceedings of CHI Play '16: The Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play,
Oct.
2016.
| File: | /fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/verz-ma-ehedem/frommel/Publications/2084_-_CHI_PLAY_16_-_camera_ready.pdf |
7.
J. Brich,
K. Rogers,
J. Frommel,
M. Weidhaas,
A. Brückner,
S. Mirabile,
T. Dorn,
V. Riemer,
C. Schrader and
M. Weber,
"LiverDefense: How to employ a Tower Defense game as a customisable research tool",
The Visual Computer,
vol. 33,
no. 4,
pp. 429-442,
Sep.
2016.
Springer,
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00371-016-1314-0.
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00371-016-1314-0 |
2015
6.
J. Brich,
J. Frommel,
K. Rogers,
A. Brückner,
M. Weidhaas,
T. Dorn,
S. Mirabile,
V. Riemer,
C. Schrader and
M. Weber,
"LiverDefense: An Educational Tower Defense Game as an Evaluation Platform"
in Joint International Conference on Serious Games,
Springer,
May
2015,
pp. 186-190.
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-19126-3_17 |
5.
J. Frommel,
K. Rogers,
J. Brich,
D. Besserer,
L. Bradatsch,
I. Ortinau,
R. Schabenberger,
V. Riemer,
C. Schrader and
M. Weber,
"Integrated Questionnaires: Maintaining Presence in Game Environments for Self-Reported Data Acquisition"
in Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play,
New York, NY, USA:
ACM,
2015,
pp. 359--368.
| DOI: | 10.1145/2793107.2793130 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4503-3466-2 |
| File: | /fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/verz-ma-ehedem/frommel/Publications/IntegratedQuestionnaires_-_CHI_PLAY_15_-_camera_ready.pdf |
4.
J. Brich,
K. Rogers,
J. Frommel,
M. Weidhaas,
A. Brückner,
S. Mirabile,
T. Dorn,
V. Riemer,
C. Schrader and
M. Weber,
"LiverDefense: Using a Tower Defense Game as a Customisable Research Tool"
in 7th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games),
Skövde, Sweden,
16-18 Sept.,
2015,
pp. 1-8.
| DOI: | 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2015.7295779 |
| File: | http://doi.acm.org/10.1109/VS-GAMES.2015.7295779 |
3.
K. Rogers,
J. Frommel,
L. Breier,
S. Celik,
H. Kramer,
S. Kreidel,
J. Brich,
V. Riemer and
C. Schrader,
"Mobile Augmented Reality as an Orientation Aid: A Scavenger Hunt Prototype"
in International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE),
2015,
pp. 172--175.
| File: | /fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/verz-ma-ehedem/frommel/Publications/ie15_unirallye.pdf |
2.
B. Lugrin,
J. Frommel and
E. André,
"Modeling and Evaluating a Bayesian Network of Culture-dependent Behaviors"
in Culture and Computing,
IEEE,
2015.
| File: | /fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/verz-ma-ehedem/frommel/Publications/CC-Lugrin.pdf |