Institute of Media Informatics

Michael Rietzler, PhD

Michael Rietzler studied media informatics at Ulm University. He obtained his master degree in 2015. Since february 2015 he is an active and thorough researcher of the research group human computer interaction.

In July 2019, Michael Rietzler has successfully obtained a PhD degree of Ulm University. His thesis has the title: Physical and Virtual Worlds: Towards Interaction in Distinct Realities.

Research interests

  • Virtual Reality
  • Gesture-based Interaction
  • Depth camera-Systems/Tracking

Teaching

  • Researchtrends in Mediainformatics (RTMI) (Winter 15/16,  16/17)
  • Projekt Mensch-Computer-Interaktion (15/16)
  • User Interface Softwaretechnologie (SS 16)

Projects

FusionKit

FusionKit is a software suite developed in the course of the the research group's participation in the INTERACT project. It aims to be a low-cost tracking system based on multiple Kinect time-of-flight cameras, which enables markerless body tracking as well as marker-based object tracking for a broad range of HCI and tracking scenarios. The toolkit is to be released as fully open source software and can be used and modified by industry, researchers and other groups interested in an easy-to-setup, affordable tracking solution.

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INTERACT

In order to be competitive in a global scale, European factories should be operated by a highly skilled workforce supported by advanced automation and IT tools.  INTERACT aims to utilize workers’  knowledge on executing manual assembly tasks and include it in the digital tools used to support design, verification, validation, modification and continuous improvement of human-centred, flexible assembly workplaces.

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Scientific Activities

  • Reviewer für
  • CHI'17, '18
  • IEEE VR'17
  • ISWC'16
  • PerDis'16
  • GI'18

Publications

2024

32.
A. Zeqiri, P. Jansen, J. O. Rixen, M. Rietzler and E. Rukzio, "'Eco Is Just Marketing': Unraveling Everyday Barriers to the Adoption of Energy-Saving Features in Major Home Appliances", Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. (IMWUT), vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 27, Mar. 2024. ACM.
DOI:10.1145/3643558
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/1-hci/hci-paper/2024/IMWUT24_Eco_Is_Just_Marketing.pdf
31.
A. Zeqiri, M. Rietzler and E. Rukzio, "Exploring Contextual Feature Combinations for Prediction of Subjective Thermal Perceptions" in Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2024, pp. 371–376.
DOI:10.1145/3675094.3678487
ISBN:9798400710582
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/1-hci/hci-paper/2024/ubicomp_adjunct_contextual_feature_importance.pdf
30.
L. Meinhardt, M. Rück, J. Zähnle, M. Elhaidary, M. Colley, M. Rietzler and E. Rukzio, "Hey, What’s Going On? Conveying Traffic Information to People with Visual Impairments in Highly Automated Vehicles: Introducing OnBoard", Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. (IMWUT), 2024. ACM.
DOI:10.1145/3659618
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/1-hci/hci-paper/2024/IMWUT2024_Hey_whats_going_on_PrePrint.pdf

2023

29.
M. Colley, L. Meinhardt, A. Fassbender, M. Rietzler and E. Rukzio, "Come Fly With Me - Investigating the Effects of Path Visualizations in Automated Urban Air Mobility", Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT); Joint First Authors, Jun. 2023.
DOI:10.1145/3596249
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/1-hci/hci-paper/2023/IMWUT_2023_UAM_final_compressed.pdf
28.
T. Drey, M. Montag, A. Vogt, N. Rixen, T. Seufert, S. Zander, M. Rietzler and E. Rukzio, "Investigating the Effects of Individual Spatial Abilities on Virtual Reality Object Manipulation", In Proc. of CHI 2023 (SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), Apr. 2023. ACM.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581004
Weblink:https://youtu.be/5nitNnpFocM
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/1-hci/hci-paper/2023/CHI23_Spatial_Abilities_VR_Drey.pdf
27.
L. Meinhardt, M. Colley, A. Fassbender, M. Rietzler and E. Rukzio, "Up, Up and Away - Investigating Information Needs for Helicopter Pilots in Future Urban Air Mobility", In Extended Abstracts of CHI 2023 (SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), Joint First Authors, 04 2023. ACM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17dXbcwqU5c.
DOI:10.1145/3544549.3585643
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/1-hci/hci-paper/2023/CHI_2023_LBW_UAM.pdf

2022

26.
T. Drey, J. Janek, J. Lang, D. Puschmann, M. Rietzler and E. Rukzio, "SpARklingPaper: Enhancing Common Pen- And Paper-Based Handwriting Training for Children by Digitally Augmenting Papers Using a Tablet Screen", Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), vol. 6, pp. 1-29, Sep. 2022. ACM.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3550337
Weblink:https://youtu.be/iYGCJtrQIZY
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/1-hci/hci-paper/2022/IMWUT032022_Augmented_Writing.pdf
25.
G. Haas, M. Rietzler, M. Jones and E. Rukzio, "Keep it Short: A Comparison of Voice Assistants' Response Behavior", In Proc. of CHI 2022 (SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) (conditionally accepted), 05 2022.
DOI:10.1145/3491102.3517684
Weblink:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tOWyvrFdVo
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/1-hci/hci-paper/2022/CHI2022_Keep_it_short.pdf
24.
T. Drey, P. Albus, S. der Kinderen, M. Milo, T. Segschneider, L. Chanzab, M. Rietzler, T. Seufert and E. Rukzio, "Towards Collaborative Learning in Virtual Reality: A Comparison of Co-Located Symmetric and Asymmetric Pair-Learning", In Proc. of CHI 2022 (SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), May 2022. ACM.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517641
Weblink:https://youtu.be/_m32zfsjWcY
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/1-hci/hci-paper/2022/CHI2022_Collaborative_Learning_in_VR_Drey.pdf

2021

23.
T. Drey, F. Fischbach, P. Jansen, J. Frommel, M. Rietzler and E. Rukzio, "To Be or Not to Be Stuck, or Is It a Continuum?: A Systematic Literature Review on the Concept of Being Stuck in Games", Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CHI PLAY, Article 229 (September 2021), Sep. 2021. ACM.
DOI:10.1145/3474656
Weblink:https://youtu.be/BFDHEiZZLG8
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/1-hci/hci-paper/2021/PACMHCI2021_Stuck_in_Games_Tobias_Drey.pdf
22.
T. Drey, M. Rietzler and E. Rukzio, "Questionnaires and Qualitative Feedback Methods to Measure User Experience in Mixed Reality" in CHI 2021 Workshop - Evaluating User Experiences in Mixed Reality, May 2021.
Weblink:https://youtu.be/wRPfIhUyFl4
File:https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06221
21.
D. Wolf, M. Rietzler, L. Bottner and E. Rukzio, "Augmenting Teleportation in Virtual Reality With Discrete Rotation Angles", Jun. 2021. Arxiv.org.
File:http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.04257

2020

20.
G. Haas, E. Stemasov, M. Rietzler and E. Rukzio, "Interactive Auditory Mediated Reality: Towards User-defined Personal Soundscapes", In Proc. of DIS 2020 (ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems), Jul. 2020. ACM.
DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395493
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/1-hci/hci-paper/2020/DIS2020_IAMR_PrePrint-compressed.pdf
19.
M. Rietzler, T. Dreja and E. Rukzio, "Telewalk: Towards Free and Endless Walking in Room-Scale Virtual Reality", Proc. of CHI 2020 (SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), 2020. ACM.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376821
Weblink:https://youtu.be/qyWLkedJtjw
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/mitarbeiterbereiche/rietzler/RietzlerCHI2020Telewalk.pdf

2019

18.
M. Rietzler, G. Haas, T. Dreja, F. Geiselhart and E. Rukzio, "Virtual Muscle Force: Communicating Kinesthetic Forces Through Pseudo-Haptic Feedback and Muscle Input", In Proc. of UIST 2019 (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology), Oct. 2019. ACM.
DOI:10.1145/3332165.3347871
Weblink:https://youtu.be/4pfR75jP3oE
File:pdfhttps://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/Papers/Prof_Rukzio/2019/uist19-rietzler_virtualMuscleForce.pdf
17.
D. Wolf, M. Rietzler, L. Hnatek and E. Rukzio, "Face/On: Multi-Modal Haptic Feedback for Head-Mounted Displays in Virtual Reality", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Aug. 2019.
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2019.2932215
Weblink:https://www.uni-ulm.de/index.php?id=98825
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/1-hci/hci-paper/2019/2019_Wolf_TVCG_FaceOn.pdf
16.
M. Rietzler, "Physical and Virtual Worlds: Towards Interaction in Distinct Realities", 2019.
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/mitarbeiterbereiche/rietzler/Dissertation_MichaelRietzler.pdf

2018

15.
E. Stemasov, G. Haas, M. Rietzler and E. Rukzio, "Augmenting Human Hearing Through Interactive Auditory Mediated Reality", In Adj. Proc. of UIST '18 (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology), Oct. 2018.
DOI:10.1145/3266037.3266104
File:pdfhttps://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/Papers/Prof_Rukzio/2018/AugmentedHearing_Poster_UIST2018.pdf
14.
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.
DOI:10.1145/3266037.3271645
Weblink:https://www.uni-ulm.de/in/mi/mi-forschung/uulm-hci/projects/vrspinning/
File:pdfhttps://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/Papers/Prof_Rukzio/2018/Demo_SpinVR_2_.pdf
13.
M. Rietzler, J. Gugenheimer, T. Hirzle, M. Deubzer, E. Langbehn and E. Rukzio, "Rethinking Redirected Walking: On the Use of Curvature Gains Beyond Perceptual Limitations and Revisiting Bending Gains", In Proc. of ISMAR 2018 (IEEE International Symposium for Mixed and Augmented Reality), Oct. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR.2018.00041.
File:pdfhttps://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/mitarbeiterbereiche/rietzler/RedirectedWalking.pdf
12.
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:pdfhttps://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/Papers/Prof_Rukzio/2018/SpinVR_Small.compressed.pdf
11.
M. Rietzler, F. Geiselhart, J. Gugenheimer and E. Rukzio, "Breaking the Tracking: Enabling Weight Perception using Perceivable Tracking Offsets", In Proc. of CHI 2018 (SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr. 2018.
DOI:10.1145/3173574.3173702
Weblink:https://youtu.be/IqFZy6wg_sc
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/mitarbeiterbereiche/rietzler/Breaking_the_Tracking.pdf
10.
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:pdfhttps://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/mitarbeiterbereiche/rietzler/ConveyingThePerception.pdf
9.
M. Rietzler, F. Geiselhart, J. Brich and E. Rukzio, "Demo of the Matrix Has You: Realizing Slow Motion in Full-Body Virtual Reality", In Adj. Proc. of IEEE VR 2018 (2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces), Mar. 2018.
DOI:10.1109/VR.2018.8446136
File:pdfhttps://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/mitarbeiterbereiche/rietzler/document.pdf

2017

8.
M. Rietzler, F. Geiselhart and E. Rukzio, "The Matrix Has You: Realizing Slow Motion in Full-Body Virtual Reality", In Proc. of VRST 2017 (23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology), Nov. 2017.
DOI:10.1145/3139131.3139145
File:pdfhttps://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.100/institut/mitarbeiterbereiche/geiselhart/a2-reitzler.pdf
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