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Together with Willem-Paul Brinkmann from TU Delft University our colleague Dr. Andrea Bönsch presented her work on German and Dutch Translations of the Artificial-Social-Agent Questionnaire Instrument for Evaluating Human-Agent Interactions" at IVA 2024.

Today, our colleague Andrea Bönsch successfully passed her Ph.D. defense and received a doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University for her thesis on "Social Wayfinding Strategies to Explore Immersive Virtual Environments". Congratulations!

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Together with Anne-Hélène Olivier, Julien Pettré, and Katja Zibrek from INRIA, Rennes our colleague Andrea Bönsch organized and hosted the 8th Workshop on Virtual Humans and Crowds in Immersive Environments at IEEE Virtual Reality 2024, while also presenting some work of our research group, including a gesture authentication approach with interactive virtual agents in collabration with Daniel Rupp and results of our investigation on audiovisual coherence, asking wether embodiment of background noise sources in populated environments is a necessity in collaboration with Jonathan Ehret. Jonathan also presented our work titled StudyFramework: Comfortably Setting up and Conducting Factorial-Design Studies Using the Unreal Engine at the Open Access Tools (OAT) and Libraries for Virtual Reality Workshop.