Publications
Publications on Va.Si.Li-Lab and on the systems built with it.
If you use Va.Si.Li-Lab, please cite A Multimodal Data Model for Simulation-Based Learning with Va.Si.Li-Lab.
Va.Si.Li-Lab
Va.Si.Li-Lab: A Virtual Reality Solution for Applications in the Field of Educational and Social Science Technologies
Schrottenbacher, Abrami, Bagci & Mehler (2026). In Digitale Learning Designs für die Hochschullehre gemeinschaftlich entwickeln, Waxmann, 212–229. [DOI]
BibTeX
@incollection{Schrottenbacher:et:al:2026:b,
author = {Schrottenbacher, Patrick and Abrami, Giuseppe and Bagci, Mevl{\"u}t
and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {{Va.Si.Li-Lab}: A Virtual Reality Solution for Applications in
the Field of Educational and Social Science Technologies},
booktitle = {Digitale Learning Designs f{\"u}r die Hochschullehre gemeinschaftlich
entwickeln: Werkzeuge -- Ressourcen -- Szenarien},
editor = {Zeaiter, Sabrina and Stierwald, Mona},
publisher = {Waxmann},
year = {2026},
pages = {212--229},
doi = {10.31244/9783818851170}
}
Simulation-Based Learning in Virtual Reality: Three Use Cases from Social Science and Technological Foundations in Terms of Va.Si.Li-Lab
Bagci, Mehler, Abrami, Schrottenbacher, Spiekermann, Konca, Schreiber, Saukel, Quintino & Engel (2025). Technology, Knowledge and Learning, Springer Nature. [DOI]
BibTeX
@article{Bagci:et:al:2025,
author = {Bagci, Mevl{\"u}t and Mehler, Alexander and Abrami, Giuseppe and Schrottenbacher, Patrick
and Spiekermann, Christian and Konca, Maxim and Schreiber, Jakob and Saukel, Kevin
and Quintino, Marc and Engel, Juliane},
title = {Simulation-Based Learning in Virtual Reality: Three Use Cases
from Social Science and Technological Foundations in Terms of
Va.Si.Li-Lab},
journal = {Technology, Knowledge and Learning},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
year = {2025},
month = {April},
day = {01},
issn = {2211-1670},
doi = {10.1007/s10758-025-09837-7},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-025-09837-7}
}
Towards New Data Spaces for the Study of Multiple Documents with Va.Si.Li-Lab: A Conceptual Analysis
Mehler, Bagci, Schrottenbacher, Henlein, Konca, Abrami, Bönisch, Stoeckel, Spiekermann & Engel (2024). In Students', Graduates' and Young Professionals' Critical Use of Online Information, Springer, 259–303. [DOI]
BibTeX
@inbook{Mehler:et:al:2024:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Bagci, Mevl{\"u}t and Schrottenbacher, Patrick
and Henlein, Alexander and Konca, Maxim and Abrami, Giuseppe and B{\"o}nisch, Kevin
and Stoeckel, Manuel and Spiekermann, Christian and Engel, Juliane},
editor = {Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga and Nagel, Marie-Theres and Klose, Verena
and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Towards New Data Spaces for the Study of Multiple Documents with
Va.Si.Li-Lab: A Conceptual Analysis},
booktitle = {Students', Graduates' and Young Professionals' Critical Use of
Online Information: Digital Performance Assessment and Training
within and across Domains},
year = {2024},
publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
address = {Cham},
pages = {259--303},
isbn = {978-3-031-69510-0},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-69510-0_12},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69510-0_12},
}
A Multimodal Data Model for Simulation-Based Learning with Va.Si.Li-Lab
Mehler, Bagci, Henlein, Abrami, Spiekermann, Schrottenbacher, Konca, Lücking, Engel, Quintino, Schreiber, Saukel & Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia (2023). Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management (HCII 2023), Springer, 539–565. [Link] [RG]
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:et:al:2023:a,
address = {Cham},
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Bagci, Mevl{\"u}t and Henlein, Alexander
and Abrami, Giuseppe and Spiekermann, Christian and Schrottenbacher, Patrick
and Konca, Maxim and L{\"u}cking, Andy and Engel, Juliane and Quintino, Marc
and Schreiber, Jakob and Saukel, Kevin and Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga},
booktitle = {Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics
and Risk Management},
editor = {Duffy, Vincent G.},
isbn = {978-3-031-35741-1},
pages = {539--565},
publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
title = {A Multimodal Data Model for Simulation-Based Learning with Va.Si.Li-Lab},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-35741-1_39},
}
Va.Si.Li-Lab as a Collaborative Multi-User Annotation Tool in Virtual Reality and Its Potential Fields of Application
Abrami, Mehler, Bagci, Schrottenbacher, Henlein, Spiekermann, Engel & Schreiber (2023). Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '23). [Link] [PDF] [RG]
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:et:al:2023,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander and Bagci, Mevl\"{u}t and Schrottenbacher, Patrick
and Henlein, Alexander and Spiekermann, Christian and Engel, Juliane
and Schreiber, Jakob},
title = {Va.Si.Li-Lab as a Collaborative Multi-User Annotation Tool in
Virtual Reality and Its Potential Fields of Application},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400702327},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609076},
doi = {10.1145/3603163.3609076},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
articleno = {22},
numpages = {9},
location = {Rome, Italy},
series = {HT '23},
pdf = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3603163.3609076}
}
Systems using Va.Si.Li-Lab
The systems are described in Systems using Va.Si.Li-Lab.
InterView: Towards a Unified VR-Capable Interview Environment
Schrottenbacher, Mehler, Abrami, Kleine & Stingl (2026). Preprint, under review at the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. [DOI]
BibTeX
@misc{Schrottenbacher:et:al:2026:c,
author = {Schrottenbacher, Patrick and Mehler, Alexander and Abrami, Giuseppe
and Kleine, Lydia and Stingl, Doris},
title = {{InterView}: Towards a Unified {VR}-Capable Interview Environment},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {SSRN preprint},
doi = {10.2139/ssrn.7459949},
url = {https://ssrn.com/abstract=7459949},
note = {Under review}
}
ReEmote: Towards Emotion Representation in VR Through Va.Si.Li-Lab
Schrottenbacher, Mehler, Bernhardt, Rohe & Abrami (2026). Proceedings of XR Salento 2026, Springer (accepted).
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Schrottenbacher:et:al:2026:a,
author = {Schrottenbacher, Patrick and Mehler, Alexander and Bernhardt, Vivienne
and Rohe, Leon and Abrami, Giuseppe},
title = {ReEmote: Towards Emotion Representation in {VR} Through {Va.Si.Li}-Lab},
booktitle = {Proceedings of XR Salento 2026},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
note = {accepted}
}
Head and Hand Movements During Turn Transitions: Data-Based Multimodal Analysis Using the Frankfurt VR Gesture–Speech Alignment Corpus (FraGA)
Lücking, Voll, Rott, Henlein & Mehler (2025). Proceedings of the 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial '25), 146–156. [PDF]
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Luecking:Voll:Rott:Henlein:Mehler:2025-fraga,
title = {Head and Hand Movements During Turn Transitions: Data-Based Multimodal
Analysis Using the {Frankfurt VR Gesture--Speech Alignment Corpus}
({FraGA})},
author = {Lücking, Andy and Voll, Felix and Rott, Daniel and Henlein, Alexander
and Mehler, Alexander},
year = {2025},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th Workshop on The Semantics and Pragmatics
of Dialogue -- Full Papers},
series = {SemDial'25 -- Bialogue},
publisher = {SEMDIAL},
url = {http://semdial.org/anthology/Z25-Luecking_semdial_3316.pdf},
pages = {146--156},
}
VR-ParlExplorer: A Hypertext System for the Collaborative Interaction in Parliamentary Debate Spaces
Abrami, Bundan, Manolis & Mehler (2025). Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '25), 177–183. [Link] [PDF]
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:et:al:2025:c,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Bundan, Daniel and Manolis, Chrisowaladis
and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {VR-ParlExplorer: A Hypertext System for the Collaborative Interaction
in Parliamentary Debate Spaces},
year = {2025},
isbn = {9798400715341},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3720553.3746672},
doi = {10.1145/3720553.3746672},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
pages = {177--183},
numpages = {7},
location = {Chicago, USA},
series = {HT '25},
pdf = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3720553.3746672}
}
Geo-spatial hypertext in virtual reality: mapping and navigating global news event spaces
Schrottenbacher, Mehler, Berg, Hustedt, Gagel, Lüttig & Abrami (2025). New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 31(1–2), 76–105. [DOI]
BibTeX
@article{Schrottenbacher:et:al:2025,
author = {Schrottenbacher, Patrick and Mehler, Alexander and Berg, Theresa
and Hustedt, Jasper and Gagel, Julian and Lüttig, Timo and Abrami, Giuseppe},
title = {Geo-spatial hypertext in virtual reality: mapping and navigating
global news event spaces},
journal = {New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia},
volume = {31},
number = {1-2},
pages = {76--105},
year = {2025},
publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
doi = {10.1080/13614568.2024.2383601},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13614568.2024.2383601},
}
Viki LibraRy: Collaborative Hypertext Browsing and Navigation in Virtual Reality
Bönisch, Mehler, Babbili, Heinrich, Stephan & Abrami (2025). New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 31(1–2), 45–75. [DOI]
BibTeX
@article{Boenisch:et:al:2025:b,
author = {B\"{o}nisch, Kevin and Mehler, Alexander and Babbili, Shaduan
and Heinrich, Yannick and Stephan, Philipp and Abrami, Giuseppe},
title = {{Viki LibraRy: Collaborative Hypertext Browsing and Navigation
in Virtual Reality}},
journal = {New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia},
volume = {31},
number = {1-2},
pages = {45--75},
year = {2025},
publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
doi = {10.1080/13614568.2024.2383581},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13614568.2024.2383581},
}
Va.Si.Li-ES: VR-based Dynamic Event Processing, Environment Change and User Feedback in Va.Si.Li-Lab
Abrami, Wontke, Singh & Mehler (2024). Proceedings of the 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '24), 357–368. [Link]
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:et:al:2024:b,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Wontke, Dominik Alexander and Singh, Gurpreet
and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Va.Si.Li-ES: VR-based Dynamic Event Processing, Environment Change
and User Feedback in Va.Si.Li-Lab},
year = {2024},
isbn = {9798400705953},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3648188.3675154},
doi = {10.1145/3648188.3675154},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
pages = {357--368},
numpages = {12},
location = {Poznan, Poland},
series = {HT '24}
}
News in Time and Space: Global Event Exploration in Virtual Reality
Gagel, Hustedt, Lüttig, Berg, Abrami & Mehler (2023). Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '23). [Link] [PDF]
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gagel:et:al:2023,
author = {Gagel, Julian and Hustedt, Jasper and L\"{u}ttig, Timo and Berg, Theresa
and Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {News in Time and Space: Global Event Exploration in Virtual Reality},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400702327},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609080},
doi = {10.1145/3603163.3609080},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
articleno = {7},
numpages = {3},
location = {Rome, Italy},
series = {HT '23},
pdf = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3603163.3609080}
}
Viki LibraRy: A Virtual Reality Library for Collaborative Browsing and Navigation through Hypertext
Babbili, Bönisch, Heinrich, Stephan, Abrami & Mehler (2023). Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '23). [Link] [PDF]
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Babbili:et:al:2023,
author = {Babbili, Shaduan and B\"{o}nisch, Kevin and Heinrich, Yannick
and Stephan, Philipp and Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Viki LibraRy: A Virtual Reality Library for Collaborative Browsing
and Navigation through Hypertext},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400702327},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609079},
doi = {10.1145/3603163.3609079},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
articleno = {6},
numpages = {3},
location = {Rome, Italy},
series = {HT '23},
pdf = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3603163.3609079}
}
Semantic Scene Builder: Towards a Context Sensitive Text-to-3D Scene Framework
Henlein, Kett, Baumartz, Abrami, Mehler et al. (2023). Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management (HCII 2023), Springer, 461–479. [DOI]
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Henlein:et:al:2023b,
author = {Henlein, Alexander and Kett, Attila and Baumartz, Daniel and Abrami, Giuseppe
and Mehler, Alexander and Bastian, Johannes and Blecher, Yannic and Budgenhagen, David
and Christof, Roman and Ewald, Tim-Oliver and Fauerbach, Tim and Masny, Patrick
and Mende, Julian and Schn{\"u}re, Paul and Viel, Marc},
editor = {Duffy, Vincent G.},
title = {Semantic Scene Builder: Towards a Context Sensitive Text-to-3D Scene Framework},
booktitle = {Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics
and Risk Management},
year = {2023},
publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
address = {Cham},
pages = {461--479},
isbn = {978-3-031-35748-0},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-35748-0_32},
}
Presentations / Posters
Virtually Restricting Modalities in Interactions: Va.Si.Li-Lab for Experimental Multimodal Research
Henlein, Lücking & Mehler (2024). 2nd International Symposium on Multimodal Communication (MMSYM 2024), 96–97. [PDF]
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Henlein:Luecking:Mehler:2024,
title = {Virtually Restricting Modalities in Interactions: Va.Si.Li-Lab
for Experimental Multimodal Research},
author = {Henlein, Alexander and L{\"u}cking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Multimodal Communication
(MMSYM 2024), Frankfurt, 25-27 September 2024},
pages = {96--97},
year = {2024},
pdf = {http://mmsym.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/BookOfAbstractsMMSYM2024-3.pdf},
}
Towards grounding multimodal semantics in interaction data with Va.Si.Li-Lab
Henlein, Lücking, Bagci & Mehler (2023). Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN 2023), Nijmegen. [PDF]
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Henlein:et:al:2023c,
title = {Towards grounding multimodal semantics in interaction data with Va.Si.Li-Lab},
author = {Henlein, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Bagci, Mevlüt and Mehler, Alexander},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN)},
location = {Nijmegen, Netherlands},
year = {2023},
pdf = {https://www.gespin2023.nl/documents/talks_and_posters/GeSpIn_2023_papers/GeSpIn_2023_paper_1692.pdf}
}
