Department of Computer Science

VDI-Award Ceremony: First place for Jannik Brockerhoff

VDI-Preisverleihung 2022 -Platz 1 für Jannik Brockerhoff

Friday 27 January 2023

Jannik Brockerhoff, research assistant in the "Games Technology Network (GTN)" project at the H-BRS, is awarded 1st prize for his Bachelor's thesis on "Enhancing immersion in virtual reality by developing an inertial feedback system" by laudator and prize donor Stefan Weber (Bosch Thermotechnik GmbH - Buderus Deutschland) at the VDI sponsorship award ceremony. His supervisors Prof. Dr. Ernst Kruijff (H-BRS) and Prof. Dr. Jan Gugenheimer (TU Darmstadt) are proud of the scientific work and congratulate him warmly.

VDI-Preisverleihung 2022 -Platz 1 für Jannik Brockerhoff
f.l. Horst Behr Chairman VDI Kölner BV), Jannik Brockerhoff (H-BRS, Master Visual Computing & Games Technologie), Prof. Dr. Ernst Kruijff (H-BRS) and Stefan Weber Photo: VDI / Manfred Limbach

On 19.01.2022, Jannik Brockerhoff, research assistant in the "Games Technology Network (GTN)" project at the H-BRS, was awarded 1st prize at the VDI sponsorship award ceremony for his Bachelor's thesis on "Enhancing immersion in virtual reality by developing an inertial feedback system". The VDI Cologne district association awarded the prize as part of the annual Tec.Meet.Ing event for outstanding final theses from the technical faculties in the association's area. Brockerhoff can look forward to prize money of €2,000 and one year's free membership of the VDI.

Portrait Yannik Brockerhoff
B.Sc. Jannik Brockerhoff (H-BRS) at the VDI award ceremony Photo: VDI / Manfred Limbach

In his work, Brockerhoff developed a hardware system with mass flywheels that can generate inertia on the legs. The system is intended to enhance immersion in virtual reality (VR). When you walk through water, you feel resistance on your legs. Brockerhoff is developing a technology in which the user also feels resistance when walking through "virtual waters", for example, because the system makes the movement more sluggish.

With his work, Brockerhoff provides another building block for further development in the field of human computer interaction.

Kontakt

Jannik Brockerhoff

Research associate in the "Games Technology Network (GTN)" project

Location

Sankt Augustin

Room

C058

Address

Grantham-Allee 20

53757, Sankt Augustin

Telephone

+49 2241 865
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Ernst Kruijff

Professor for Human Computer Interaction, Co-Director Institute of Visual Computing (IVC)

Location

Sankt Augustin

Room

C 273

Address

Grantham-Allee 20

53757, Sankt Augustin

Telephone

+49 2241 865 9616

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