Carrie Lau
Research Assistant, PhD Student
Room: 257
Office Hours: nach Vereinbarung
Tel.: +49 89 289 24343
E-Mail: carrie.lau[at]tum[dot]de
My publications are on my Google Scholar profile. You can also find me on X , Linkedin, Github, 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
Lau, K.H.C., Bozkir, E., Gao, H., Kasneci, E. (2025). Evaluating Usability and Engagement of Large Language Models in Virtual Reality for Traditional Scottish Curling. In: Del Bue, A., Canton, C., Pont-Tuset, J., Tommasi, T. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 Workshops. ECCV 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15628. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91572-7_11
Lau, K.H.C., Yun, B., Saruba, S., Bozkir, E., & Kasneci, E. (2024). Wrapped in Anansi's Web: Unweaving the Impacts of Generative-AI Personalization and VR Immersion in Oral Storytelling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.16894.
Lau, K.H.C., Sen, S., Stark, P., Bozkir, E., & Kasneci, E. (2024). Adaptive Gen-AI Guidance in Virtual Reality: A Multimodal Exploration of Engagement in Neapolitan Pizza-Making. arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.18438.
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
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
Research Interests
- VR/AR/XR in Education
- Embodied Learning
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Intangible Cultural Heritage
Scientific Activities
MuC '23, CHI '24, JOCCH '24