Human-Computer Interaction

Philipp Krop, M.Sc.

Research Assistant

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Philipp Krop, M.Sc.
Human-Computer Interaction
Universität Würzburg
Emil-Fischer-Straße 50
D-97074 Würzburg

✆	+49 (0) 931 31 84191
⌂	Room 01.034, Building 50, Hubland North

Consultation-Hour
by appointment

About me

Philipp is part of both the HCI and the PIIS group. He studied Mensch-Computer-Systeme (B.Sc.) and Human-Computer-Interaction (M.Sc.) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. He developed an Unreal & Unity-framework for interactive surfaces as a student worker in the XRoads project, before developing a mobile app for physicians to order clinical orders on the go as part of the DZ.PTM project. He now investigates social effects of virtual agents and how the visual design and framing of embodied AI in the work context shapes human perception and trust in AI, as part of the AIL AT WORK project and as part of his doctor’s thesis titled “From Tool to Companion: Investigating the Visual Design and Social Effects of Embedded & Embodied AI”.



Projects

AIL AT WORK
AIL AT WORK is a project concerned with analysing, evaluating and developing AI simulations in a working context. It combines the expertise of computer science (Marc Erich Latoschik), human-computer interaction (Carolin Wienrich) and psychology (Astrid Carolus).
Social Buffering of Fear through Virtual Agents
Social Buffering of Fear through Virtual Agents is concerned with investigating if social buffering of fear can be induced through virtual agents, and how visual design of the virtual agent affets this effect. It is a cooperation with the Translational Social Neuroscience Unit of the University Hospital Würzburg, merging translational psychology and human-computer interaction methods.
Digitalisierungszentrum Präzisions- und Telemedizin (DZ.PTM)
This project serves to establish the structure of the DZ.PTM Würzburg–Bad Kissingen as a virtual centre with three locations designated to develop, test and implement digitization projects across Bavaria to support patient care and research.

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