Lina Klass is a PhD candidate in Media Informatics at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, supervised by Dr. Jan Ehlers. Her research focuses on human-computer interaction, eye tracking, and virtual reality.
Experience and Qualifications
07/2026 – 02/2028: Research assistant, BMFTR project REPLAY: “Role-playing in social virtual reality for reenacting, correcting, and evaluating conflict situations,” Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
06/2023 – 06/2026: Research assistant, BMFTR project GROOVE: “Experienced synchronization for connectedness and closeness in social virtual reality,” Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Publications
2026
Simon, L., Lammert, A., Klass, L., Ehlers, J., Froehlich, B., & Hornecker, E. (accepted). Feeling in Sync: Reducing the Impact of Network Latency on Joint Rowing. In IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces.
2025
Lammert, A., Klass, L., Simon, L., Hornecker, E., Ehlers, J., & Fröhlich, B. (2025). Rhythmic interaction influences synchrony perception in VR. In 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) (pp. 381–391). IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11220412/
[abstract, preprint, video]
Klass, L., Lammert, A., Simon, L., Hornecker, E., Froehlich, B., Ehlers, J. (2025). Perceived Asynchrony of Rhythmic Stimuli Affects Pupil Diameter and Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements. In 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713152
[abstract, preprint, video]
2024
Simon, L., Klass, L., Lammert, A., Froehlich, B., Ehlers, J. & Hornecker, E. (2024). Social VR Activities Should Support Ongoing Conversation - Comparing Older and Young Adults Desires and Requirements. In ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI ’24), Trier, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3371382.3378370
2020
Rosenthal-von der Pütten, A. M., Lugrin, B., Steinhaeusser, S. C., & Klass, L. (2020). Context matters! identifying social context factors and assessing their relevance for a socially assistive robot. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 409-411). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3371382.3378370