Denise Kahl

Dr. Denise Kahl, affiliated with the Saarland Informatics Campus and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, is a Researcher at the Ubiquitous Media Technology Lab. Her work focuses on Augmented Reality, Tangible User Interfaces, and Visualization, with a strong emphasis on prototyping interactive systems.

• Email: Denise.Kahl@dfki.de
• Office: Building Gebäude D3 4, Room +1.79, Saarbrücken, Germany

Research Interests:
Dr. Kahl specializes in Tangible Augmented Reality, exploring how environmental lighting affects AR perception, gaze-based interaction design, and adaptive scrolling algorithms for collaborative reading. Her projects include IRL APPsist, KoPoSaB, and ForeSight, aiming to integrate AR into daily applications like retail, smart homes, and educational tools.

• Key areas: Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, and Smart Glasses
• Recent trends: Optical See-through AR, Peripheral Vision Clarity, and Motion Gestures for Mobile Payment

Teaching & Advising:
She has coordinated Programming for Engineers (Summer 2017) and led Multi-User Gaze-Based Interaction seminars in 2014 and 2017. She supervises Master's theses on topics like virtual scene authoring, performance support via smart glasses, and adaptive gaze direction in AR.