Flow with the beat! Human-centered design of virtual environments for musical creativity support in VR

R Schlagowski, F Wildgrube, S Mertes… - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
As previous studies have shown, the environment of creative people can have a significant
impact on their creative process and thus on their creations. However, with the advent of …

ASMRcade: Interactive Audio Triggers for an Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response

S Mertes, M Strobl, R Schlagowski… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a sensory phenomenon involving
pleasurable tingling sensations in response to stimuli such as whispering, tapping, and hair …

The Affective Bar Piano

H Ritschel, S Mertes, F Lingenfelser, T Kiderle… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Music is a great way of supporting a story. It adds a new layer of affective information and as
such substantially increases the listening experience in storytelling scenarios. However, in …

XR composition in the wild: the impact of user environments on creativity, UX and flow during music production in augmented reality

R Schlagowski, S Mertes, D Nazarenko… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
With the advent of HMD-based Mixed Reality, or “Spatial Computing” as framed by Apple,
creativity-and productivity-related use-cases in XR, such as music production, are rising in …

Intercategorical Label Interpolation for Emotional Face Generation with Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

S Mertes, D Schiller, F Lingenfelser, T Kiderle… - … Conference on Deep …, 2020 - Springer
Generative adversarial networks offer the possibility to generate deceptively real images that
are almost indistinguishable from actual photographs. Such systems however rely on the …