“Best Paper Award” at the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2023, Christchurch, New Zealand; “2021 Innovation Award” at TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo 2021, Washington (DC), USA; “Best Demo Award” at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2021, Virtual Conference; “Best Demo Audience Choice Award” at the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT) & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE) 2020, Virtual Conference; “Best Paper Award” at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2019, New Orleans (LA), USA; “Best Paper Award” at the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2018, Tokyo, Japan; “Best Paper Award” at the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT) & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE) 2018, Limassol, Cyprus; “Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award” at the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT) & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE) 2018, Limassol, Cyprus; “Best Paper Award” at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2018, Berlin, Germany; “Best Student Paper Award” at the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden; “Best Paper Award” at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2016, Tokyo, Japan; “Honorable Mention for Best Poster Award” at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2016, Tokyo, Japan; “Best Poster Award” at the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT) & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE) 2015, Kyoto, Japan; “Best Poster Audience Choice Award” at the ICAT-EGVE 2015, Kyoto, Japan; “Best Demo Award” at the GI VR/AR HMD App Contest, 2015, Bonn, Germany; “Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award” at the IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2015.
Research Experience
Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida; Postdoctoral research at the University of Würzburg in Germany; Visiting research experiences at INRIA Rennes in France, among other places.
Education
Habilitation in Computer Science from the University of Hamburg, Germany, 2017; Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Münster, Germany, 2011; M.Sc. in Computer Science with minor in Mathematics from the University of Münster, Germany, 2009.
Background
Research interests include 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. About: Gerd Bruder is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, where he plays a leading role in advancing the frontiers of Virtual and Augmented Reality.
Miscellany
Application domains include healthcare, military operations & training, space, smart environments, architecture.