Biography
Gerd Bruder is an associate professor at the UCF Department of Computer Science, advancing the frontiers of virtual and augmented reality. He received his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Münster and a habilitation from the University of Hamburg, conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Würzburg in Germany, and was a visiting researcher at INRIA Rennes in France.
Bruder’s research spans a wide spectrum of extended reality, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality (MR), with a particular focus on human factors, human-computer interaction, modeling and simulation, and digital twins.
Bruder’s research spans a wide spectrum of extended reality, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality (MR), with a particular focus on human factors, human-computer interaction, modeling and simulation, and digital twins.
Recent Publications
Forthcoming
Education
- Habilitation in Computer Science, University of Hamburg
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Münster
- Sc. in Computer Science, University of Münster
Specialties
- Extended reality (XR) systems and technologies
- Augmented reality, mixed reality, virtual reality, metaverse
- Human factors and human-computer interaction
- Perception and cognition
- Display optics and vision sciences
- 3D user interfaces
- Modeling, simulation, and training
- (Human) Digital twins
- Application domains (selected)
- Defense, healthcare, space, smart environments, architecture