A big part of my PhD happened during the pandemic, so I was more than thrilled to present my paper for the first time in front of a live audience at ACM VRST 23 in Christchurch New Zealand. The people there were so incredibly welcoming and the country was one of the most beautiful places I have ever gotten the pleasure to be in. The conference was an amazing experience, and I met so many great researchers.
Human error accounts for the majority of patient safety issues in intensive health care. I looked at using Augmented Reality in anesthetic inductions to aid anesthesiologists in surgery and increase their user experience, implicitly increasing patient safety. For that I implemented an AR patient monitoring system and evaluated it with senior anesthesiologists in a simulation study.
From September 2019 until Mid-December 2019, I worked for Dr. Francisco Ortega at his Lab for Natural User Interfaces (NUILab) in Fort Collins at Colorado State University. There, acting as a research scholar, I developed a multi-user colocated application to research collaborative work tasks in Augmented Reality.
We implemented a neural network from the ground up for detecting and differentiating between gestures. For this we recorded gestures with a Kinect and annotated the recorded videos with the performed gestures. Those gestures were then supposed to be used to control an image viewer, but because we thought that was a bit boring we implemented a short game in Unity to show off our gestures.
