Visualization & HCI

Office	36-220
Tel.	+49 631 205-3502
Email	ebert@cs.uni-kl.de

Biography

Prof. Dr. Achim Ebert holds a degree and a doctor in Computer Science. He is the co-head of the Computer Graphics and HCI lab at the University of Kaiserslautern. He is also a member of the lead personnel of DFG’s International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Physical Modeling for Virtual Manufacturing Systems and Processes”. His current research topics include information visualization, immersive scenarios, and human-computer interaction. He participated or led several national and international research projects in the area of visualization and HCI, both with an academic or industrial focus. He has founded and is co-heading the IFIP working group 13.7 on Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization. He has published more than 100 refereed publications. Achim Ebert acts as a member of many international program committees (e.g, ACM and IEEE) and as a reviewer for several journals and conferences.

Research Interests

Human-Computer Interaction
Virtual Enviroments (XR/MR/AR/VR)
Scalable visualization
Collaboration
Improving usage of large display environments
Intuitive usage of small display devices

Education

04 / 2004 Dr. rer. nat. (Ph. D.) in Computer Science, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
01 / 1996 Diplom (M. Sc.), Computer Science, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Professional Experience

since 2011 apl. Professor for Human-Computer Interaction, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
2006-2010 Senior Consultant, Head of the new competence center “Human-Centered Visualization” (HCV), German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH
2005-2010 Juniorprofessor (W1) for Visualization, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
2001–2005 Senior Consultant, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH
1999–2001 Researcher, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH
1996–1999 Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Publications

2022

V. M. Memmesheimer and A. Ebert. Scalable Extended Reality: A Future Research Agenda. Big Data and Cognitive Computing, vol. 6, no. 1, 2022. 10.3390/bdcc6010012

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  author = {Memmesheimer, Vera Marie and Ebert, Achim},
  title = {Scalable Extended Reality: A Future Research Agenda},
  journal = {Big Data and Cognitive Computing},
  volume = {6},
  year = {2022},
  number = {1},
  article-number = {12},
  url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2504-2289/6/1/12},
  issn = {2504-2289},
  doi = {10.3390/bdcc6010012}
}

V. M. Memmesheimer and A. Ebert. Towards Advanced Evaluation of Collaborative XR Spaces. In Sense, Feel, Design – INTERACT 2021, LNCS 13198, C. Ardito et al., Eds., 2022, pp. 443–452. 10.1007/978-3-030-98388-8_40

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  author = {Memmesheimer, Vera Marie and Ebert, Achim},
  title = {Towards Advanced Evaluation of Collaborative XR Spaces},
  booktitle = {Sense, Feel, Design -- INTERACT 2021, LNCS 13198, C. Ardito et al., Eds.},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Springer},
  pages = {443--452},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-98388-8_40}
}

2015

L. Huettenberger, N. Feige, A. Ebert, and C. Garth. Application of Pareto sets in quality control of series production in car manufacturing. In 2015 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, PacificVis 2015, Hangzhou, China, April 14-17, 2015, 2015, pp. 135–139. 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2015.7156369

@inproceedings{hfeg15,
  author = {Huettenberger, Lars and Feige, Nils and Ebert, Achim and Garth, Christoph},
  booktitle = {2015 {IEEE} Pacific Visualization Symposium, PacificVis
  		  2015, Hangzhou, China, April 14-17, 2015},
  doi = {10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2015.7156369},
  pages = {135--139},
  timestamp = {Wed, 17 May 2017 10:54:54 +0200},
  title = {Application of Pareto sets in quality control of series
  		  production in car manufacturing},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2015.7156369},
  year = {2015}
}

apl. Prof. Dr. Achim Ebert