Personal details

• Research Areas

  ? ? ?Mixed reality
  ? ? ?multi-user virtual reality
  ? ? ?collaboration in virtual multi-user environments?
  ? ? ?interaction with embodied conversational agents?
  ? ? ?social and mutual perception in VR
  ? ? ?VR accessibility.

• Curriculum Vitae

  2019-present
  Researcher, Virtual Reality and Visualization Chair, Bauhaus-Universit?t Weimar.?
  
  2021-2022
  Junior Project Lead for VR Training Simulator, Consensive GmbH.
  
  2020-2021
  Interaction Designer and Simulation Developer, RSP GmbH.
  
  2015-2019
  M.Sc. Computer Science and Media, Bauhaus-Universit?t Weimar.
  
  2018
  Erasmus, M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Hull.
  
  2011-2015
  B.Sc. Medieninformatik, Bauhaus-Universit?t Weimar.

• Publications

  Published Works
  
  Brehm, Karoline; Schott, Ephraim; Hartmann, Manuel; Froehlich, Bernd (2026). “Multi-WIM Paradigm: Comparing Urban Planning Variants with Worlds-in-Miniature.” In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2026.3679143.

  Schott, Ephraim; Zoeppig, Tony Jan; Viriyathomrongul, Pramoch; Lammert, Anton Benjamin; Froehlich, Bernd (2025). “VR Onboarding Procedures for Multiple Collocated Users: See-Through Tutorials and Group Transitions.” In: 2025 IEEE 欧洲杯投注地址_明升体育-竞彩足球比分推荐 Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), pp. 315-325. DOI: 10.1109/ISMAR67309.2025.00043.

  Schott, Ephraim; López García, Irene; Semple, Lauren A.; Froehlich, Bernd (2025). “Estimating Detection Thresholds of Being Looked at in Virtual Reality for Avatar Redirection.” In: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), pp. 1-14. DOI: 10.1145/3706598.3714041.

  Zoeppig, Tony Jan; Lammert, Anton Benjamin; Schott, Ephraim; Muehlhaus, Sebastian; Froehlich, Bernd (2025). “Follow Me: Confirmation-based Group Navigation in Collocated Virtual Reality.” In: 2025 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), pp. 548-558. DOI: 10.1109/VR59515.2025.00078.

  López García, Irene; Schott, Ephraim; Gohsen, Marcel; Bernhard, Volker; Stein, Benno; Froehlich, Bernd (2024). “Speaking with Objects: Conversational Agents’ Embodiment in Virtual Museums.” In: 2024 IEEE 欧洲杯投注地址_明升体育-竞彩足球比分推荐 Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), pp. 279-288. DOI: 10.1109/ISMAR62088.2024.00042.

  Schott, Ephraim; Zoeppig, Tony Jan; Lammert, Anton Benjamin; Froehlich, Bernd (2024). “Excuse Me: Large Groups in Small Rooms.” In: 2024 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), pp. 72-82. DOI: 10.1109/VR58804.2024.00031.

  Schott, Ephraim; Makled, Elhassan Belal; Zoeppig, Tony Jan; Muehlhaus, Sebastian; Weidner, Florian; Broll, Wolfgang; Froehlich, Bernd (2023). “UniteXR: Joint Exploration of a Real-World Museum and its Digital Twin.” In: VRST ’23: Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Article 25, pp. 1-10. DOI: 10.1145/3611659.3615708.

  Schott, Ephraim; Kulik, Alexander; Froehlich, Bernd (2020). “Virtual Projection Planes for the Visual Comparison of Photogrammetric 3D Reconstructions with Photo Footage.” In: Proceedings of the ACM on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Article 13. DOI: 10.1145/3385956.3418956.
  
  Demos
  
  Schott, Ephraim; López García, Irene; Zoeppig, Tony Jan; Hartmann, Manuel; Froehlich, Bernd (2024). “The Guide’s Apprentices: Engaging Visitors of Virtual Museums through Appropriate Agent Embodiments.” In: VRST ’24: Proceedings of the 30th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, pp. 1-2. DOI: 10.1145/3641825.3689529.

• Further Activities

  Presentations

  2020-2025
  Presentations of own first-author publications at international conferences, including ACM VRST, IEEE VR, IEEE ISMAR, and ACM CHI.

  Projects

  2020-2024
  Researcher in the MetaReal research project, Bauhaus-Universit?t Weimar. Development, coordination, and research on mixed reality access to digital twins and hybrid knowledge spaces. The project made knowledge in digital copies of real spaces accessible through virtual and augmented reality as well as AI-supported natural-language interaction. Online: https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/media/institutes/metareal/External link