Tobias Langlotz

Dipl. Mediensys. wiss. (BU Weimar), Dr. techn. (TU Graz)
Professor

Room 4.27a, Otago Business School
Tel +64 3 479 8096
Email  tobias.langlotz@otago.ac.nz

• Background and interests
• Papers
• Supervision
• Professional duties
• Publications

Background and interests

I am a Professor at the University of Otago and co-lead Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) group. I was previously a senior researcher at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision (Graz University of Technology, Austria) where I also obtained my PhD.

My main research interests are in Human-Computer Interaction, Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing, often evolving around the usage of Augmented Reality and other techniques from Visual Computing. At the moment, I am mostly interested in Computational Glasses and Vision Augmentations and their potential for compensating vision impairments or enhancing human perception. I also work on nomadic, highly mobile, or wearable telepresence solutions allowing people to share their environment with remote users. Here, in particular, I am interested in new forms of collaboration and tourism using virtual and augmented reality technologies. Finally, I am very interested in challenges and technologies for continuous use of Augmented Reality technology (Pervasive Augmented Reality). Previous to my current research works, I worked in the field of Mobile and Handheld Augmented Reality, Spatial Augmented Reality and Holographic displays.

I am very active in the international research community and among other roles served as General chair for IEEE VR 2022 (Christchurch/Online) and IEEE VR 2023 (Shanghai).

I am humbled by being the winner of an "Early Career Award for Distinction in Research" from the University of Otago in 2017 and being a finalist for the supervisor of the year award in 2016. I also want to acknowledge that my research is supported by two Marsden grants, a National Science Challenge SfTI seed grant, and a Royal Society Catalyst seed grant, and he is a collaborator on an MBIE smart ideas grant. I have further received industry funding or support from Snap Inc., Qualcomm, Lumus, Internet NZ, and Nokia.

At the moment, I am serving as the deputy director of the ARIVE network (Australasian Researchers in Interactive Virtual Environments), and I am a member of IEEE, ACM, and commonly serve as a reviewer and editor for the leading venues in HCI/AR/VR.

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Papers

• INFO 203 Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience
• INFO 305 Advanced Human-Computer Interaction and Interactive Systems
• INFO 410 Interactive and Immersive Systems

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Supervision

I am the recipient of a Supervisor Award.

Currently supervising

• Jacob Young
• Matthew Cook
• Jonathan Sutton

Currently co-supervising

• Jonny Collins
• Chris Heinrich
• Lewis Baker
• Stuart Duncan
• Tanh Tran

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Professional Duties

Member of International Program Committees/Reviewer:

Journal and book reviews:

• IEEE Transactions of Computer Graphics and Visualization
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
• Elsevier Computer & Graphics Journal
• Computer Graphics Forum
• Springer Virtual Reality Journal
• Springer Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
• IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Member of International Program Committees/Reviewer:

• IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (Program Committee, Poster Chair, Workshop Organizer, Reviewer) 
• IEEE Virtual Reality (Program Committee, Reviewer)
• ACM Advances in Visual Interfaces (Associate Chair, Reviewer) 
• ACM CHI (Reviewer)
• ACM MobileHCI (Workshop Organizer, Reviewer)
• ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (Reviewer)
• ACM International Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Games (Program Committee, Reviewer)
• ACM Siggraph Asia (Reviewer)
• ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (Reviewer)
• ACM OZCHI (Program Committee, Reviewer)
• ACM Advances in Computer Entertainment (Reviewer)
• Graphical Interfaces (Reviewer)
• Joint Virtual Reality Conference (Reviewer)
• Mobile Games Workshop at International Conference on Entertainment Computing (Program Reviewer)

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Publications