Research Interests

Human-Computer Interaction
Extended Reality (VR, AR, and MR)
Embodied AI (virtual avatars <-> robots)

Short CV

Since 12.2024	Research Team Leader at WIN (h-lab) KIT
2020-2025	Dr.-Ing. Computer Science, Saarland University
2019-2024	Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
2017-2019	M.Sc. Computer Science, HTW Saar
2014-2017	B.Sc. Computer Science, HTW Saar

Research internships and visits to the University of Calgary (Canada), University College London (UK) and M.I.T (USA). Work experience at DFKI GmbH and DEKRA Automobil GmbH.

Bachelor & Master Thesis
Title	Type
Meet Me in the Metaverse: Understanding Users’ Perception of Themselves in Immersive Meetings	Bachelor/Master Thesis
Leg and Foot Redirection in Virtual Reality	Bachelor/Master Thesis
Effects of Redirection Methods in VR on the Sense of Autonomy and Competence	Bachelor/Master Thesis
Investigating the Effects of Interaction Techniques on Questionnaire Responses in Virtual Reality	Bachelor/Master Thesis
Designing Virtual Embodied Avatars to Improve Participants' Engagement, Interest, and Openness to Share Information in Qualitative Interviews	Bachelor/Master Thesis
Investigating the Effects of Virtual Avatars‘ Gender Identity and Gender Expression on Participants‘ Responses in Qualitative Interviews	Bachelor/Master Thesis
Designing Embodied AI-Agents for Explanability at Work	Bachelor/Master Thesis
Embodied Product Experts as Online Shopping Assistants	Bachelor/Master Thesis
Understanding the Effect of Environment of Re-Embodied AI Online Shopping Assistants	Bachelor/Master Thesis

Publications

2025

Conference Papers

Worldhat: A Humanoid Social Robot Interpreter for Multilingual Dyadic Conversations
Müller, S.; Feick, M.; Mädche, A.
2025. Mensch und Computer 2025 - Workshopband, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). doi:10.18420/muc2025-mci-demo-298

GazeClass: Towards Gaze-Adaptive Cross-Device Learning Support for Virtual Classrooms
Liu, S.; Mädche, A.; Feick, M.
2025. CHI EA ’25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Ed.: N. Yamashita, Article No.: 299, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3706599.3720232

Imprinto: Enhancing Infrared Inkjet Watermarking for Human and Machine Perception
Feick, M.; Tang, X.; Garcia-Martin, R.; Luchianov, A.; Huang, R. W. X.; Xiao, C.; Siu, A.; Dogan, M. D.
2025. CHI 2025: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, 26 April 2025- 1 May 2025. Ed.: N. Yamashita, Art.-Nr.: 447, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3706598.3713286