Martin Fischbach

Martin Fischbach serves as an Akademischer Rat (Senior Lecturer) at the Department of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Würzburg, a position he has held since October 2019. His expertise spans virtual reality, multimodal interaction, and real-time interactive systems development.

His academic credentials include:

• Master's in Applied Computer Sciences (Bioinformatics), University of Bayreuth (2011)
• PhD, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (2017)

Dr. Fischbach's research focuses on Human-Computer Interaction with emphasis on Virtual and Mixed Reality, Multimodal Interaction, and Real-time Interactive Systems. He investigates psychophysiological effects in VR through projects like Interactive OPERA and develops novel software architectures for intelligent multimodal systems. His work on XRoads explores multimodal tabletop gaming interfaces using touch, speech, and gestures.

He leads multiple research initiatives including Simulator X (a testbed for real-time interactive systems) and GIB MIR (multimodal interfaces), demonstrating sustained funding and project leadership since 2009. These efforts have advanced VR/MR applications in human-robot interaction and computer gaming.

As a core member of the HCI chair, he collaborates with research teams to pioneer interactive surface technologies and semantic reflection frameworks for intelligent real-time systems, maintaining active contributions to the field's methodological foundations.