Institute of Media Informatics
        

Jana Funke, M.Sc.

Jana Funke joined the HCI group in June 2021 as a research associate and PhD student. Her research focus is on support and motivation for exercise and sports in HCI using extended reality (XR). 

Jana holds a M. Sc. in Media Informatics (2021) from the University of Ulm. She completed her master's thesis in cooperation with the Lennard Nacke and Katja Rogers from the University of Waterloo. The title of the master thesis was: Social Aspects of Virtual Reality Traveling Through Spectatorship.

Research interests

  • Supporting Physical Activity (Sport, Fitness or Rehabilitation) in Mixed Reality Scenarios
  • Motivating Physical Activity trough Technical Approaches
  • Augmented Reality
  • Virtual Reality
  • Motion Capture
  • Mobile Devices

Scientific Activities

Conference Reviewer: CHI '23, CHI PLAY '22, CHI PLAY '21,  CHI '22 LBW, 

Publications

2024

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J. Funke, M. Wolf, C. van Onzenoodt, K. Rogers, T. Ropinski and E. Rukzio, "A Wall I Enjoy: Motivating Gentle Full-Body Movements Through Touchwall Interaction Compared to Standing and Sitting Smartphone Usage", IMX '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, Jun. 2024. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3639701.3656302.
DOI:10.1145/3639701.3656302
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J. Funke, J. Spahr, T. Hirzle and E. Rukzio, "Where do you exercise? The Impact of Different Virtual Environments on Exergame Performance and User Experience: A Preliminary study", IMX '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, Jun. 2024. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3639701.3663632.
DOI:10.1145/3639701.3663632
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2023

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J. Funke, A. Schikorr, S. Karaosmanoglu, T. Hirzle, F. Steinicke and E. Rukzio, "Tiles to Move: Investigating Tile-Based Locomotion for Virtual Reality", Proc. ACM Human Computer Interaction 7, CHI PLAY, Article 414 (November 2023), 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3611060.
DOI:10.1145/3611060
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2019

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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
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