Carrie Lau


Carrie Lau

Research Assistant, PhD Student

Technische Universität München

TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology

Chair: Human-Centered Technologies for Learning

Visiting address:
Marsstraße 20-22
80335 München

Postal address:
Arcisstraße 21
80333 München

Room: 257

Office Hours: nach Vereinbarung

Tel.: +49 89 289 24343

E-Mail: carrie.lau@tum.de

My publications are on my Google Scholar profile. You can also find me on X , LinkedinGithub, and via my personal page.

Career development

  • 2014 – 2016: Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
  • 2019 – 2022: M.Sc. in Human-Computer Interaction at University of Siegen, Germany
  • 2023 – Present: PhD Candidate at Technical University of Munich, Germany
  • 2020 – 2021: ERASMUS Semester at University of Oulu, Finland

Outreach-Activities

  • 10/2023: Talk and Panel Discussion at Immersive Reality Chronicles: Cultural Diversity and Inclusion in Immersive Technologies
  • 07/2023: VR Showcase at Kunst Areal Fest
  • 07/2023: Scottish Curling VR Showcase at Festival der Zukunft

Publications

Enkelejda Kasneci, Hong Gao, Suleyman Ozdel, Virmarie Maquiling, Enkeleda Thaqi, Carrie Lau, Yao Rong, Gjergji Kasneci, and Efe Bozkir. 2024. Introduction to eye tracking: a hands-on tutorial for students and practitioners. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.15435 

Efe Bozkir, Süleyman Özdel, Ka Hei Carrie Lau, Mengdi Wang, Hong Gao, and Enkelejda Kasneci. 2024. Embedding Large Language Models into Extended Reality: Opportunities and Challenges for Inclusion, Engagement, and Privacy. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 38, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3640794.3665563

Ka Hei Carrie Lau, Efe Bozkir, Hong Gao, and Enkelejda Kasneci. 2024. Evaluating usability and engagement of large language models in virtual reality for traditional scottish curling. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.09285

Ka Hei Carrie Lau, Bhada Yun, Samuel Saruba, Efe Bozkir, and Enkelejda Kasneci. 2024. Wrapped in Anansi’s Web: Unweaving the Impacts of Generative-AI Personalization and VR Immersion in Oral Storytelling. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.16894

Research Interests

  • VR/AR/XR in Education
  • Embodied Learning
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Intangible Cultural Heritage

Scientific Activities

MuC '23, CHI '24, JOCCH '24