The Promotion Award is donated by the Erhard-Höpfner-Foundation and was awarded to Thilo Michael, our former Q&U Lab scientist, on August 28, 2023 at the annual meeting of the Berlin Scientific Society.

We at Q&U Lab say congratulations!

Although the top ranked teams performed constantly well on the three test sets, it looks like that there are still lots of work to do! Stay tune to read the top papers in INTERSPEECH 2022.

Is this line of research interesting for you? In the Quality and Usability Lab, we are working on the state-of-the-art subjective and objective methods for…

The Frontiers Research Topic "Towards Omnipresent and Smart Speech Assistants“ is finally published. It contains 12 articles from 38 authors. Two of the editors, Benjamin Weiss and Stefan Hillmann, are from the Quality and Usability Lab.

The Research Topic is online available

In the field of Virtual and Augmented Reality, which can be subsumed under the term Extended Reality (XR), a wide range of infrastructures exist in the Berlin area that are used for outstanding scientific work.

The Quality and Usability Lab is founding member of the new Berlin XR Lab, an initiative supported by the Berlin University Alliance. The…

The recent growth of virtual reality (VR) has led to increased attention on consumer VR systems, however, the development of haptic feedback for simulating virtual object weight is still lagging.
Existing VR controllers rely on limited vibrotactile feedback and prior research prototypes involve complex hardware.

In my talk, I will present two…