At this year's IEEE VR conference, hosted virtually from New Zealand due to the pandemic, Katharina Krösl, researcher in our Multiple Senses Group, was awarded an Honorable Mention at the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation during the opening ceremony on March 14, 2022.
In the context of her interdisciplinary PhD thesis Simulating Vision Impairments in Virtual and Augmented Reality, Krösl has developed solutions that make it possible to better experience and understand the effects and implications of eye diseases through special simulations. In order to literally see visual impairments with one's own eyes, the researcher has developed a system that uses virtual reality and augmented reality to simulate refractive errors, cataracts, cornea disease, and age-related macular degeneration in a life-like way. Based on this approach, one part of the study analyzed common public signage, demonstrating that current international standards and norms do not sufficiently consider people with visual impairments. A second study focused on the perception of lighting systems for cataract patients and how lighting and guidance systems can be optimized.
With a demo of her PhD project, Katharina Krösl already received the IEEE VR Best Research Demo Award 2020.
Vienna, March 15, 2022