Univ.Prof. Dr. Hannes Kaufmann

Dr. Hannes Kaufmann is full professor of Virtual and Augmented Reality at the Institute of Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology at TU Wien. He conducted research in the areas of virtual reality, tracking, mobile augmented reality, training spatial abilities in AR/VR, tangible interaction, medical VR/AR applications, real time ray-tracing, redirected walking, geometry and educational mathematics software. His Habilitation (2010) was on “Applications of Mixed Reality” with a major focus on educational mixed reality applications. He has acted on behalf of the European Commission as a project reviewer, participated in EU projects in FP5, FP7 and Horizon2020, managed over 35 research projects and published more than 120 scientific papers.