About Us
Established in 2021 and relocated to the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2023, the Human-Centered Computing and Extended Reality Lab aims to pioneer new technologies to enhance medical care and healthcare. We pursue fundamental, translational, and radical blue-sky research to improve medicine for patients and healthcare professionals.
We adopt a holistic perspective on machine intelligence, emphasizing AI-driven technologies that enable meaningful collaboration between humans and machines. Therefore, we operate at the intersections of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, extended reality, robotics, and medicine. Exemplary research areas include AI-based assistance systems for surgical procedures, systems for diagnosing diseases and disorders, telepresence procedures, and robot-assisted rehabilitation measures.
We perform our research integrative as part of TUM’s School of Medicine and Health, TUM’s School of Computation, Information, and Technology, and the TUM University Hospital Department Clinical Medicine, affiliated with the Clinic for Orthopedics and Sports Orthopedics.
Our research is centered around the understanding, design, development, and evaluation of computing solutions and human-machine interfaces that improve the way we interact with, work with, and communicate through machines. A majority of our research considers AI driven Extended Reality user interfaces in the context of physical and mental health, such as Virtual-, Mixed- or Augmented Reality systems. Examples of these are assistive technologies for medical procedures or systems to assess and diagnose pathologies and disorders.
To do so, we strive for foundational, translational, and radical scientific contributions with high methodological and experimental quality. Our research is inspired by multiple disciplines, including but not limited to Computer Science, Psychology, Design, Medicine, and Neuroscience. We incorporate methods from these disciplines, such as computer vision, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and user-centered design in a broad methodological bandwidth to support our research goals. We closely interact with partners from medicine and industry to incorporate different perspectives.
We offer theses in various research areas. Applications for thesis are considered to the dates 1st of April for the Summer Semester and 1st of October for the Winter Semester. We offer topics in the following areas:
If you are interested, please send your transcript of records, CV and motivation to the respective supervisor with CC to hex-thesis.ortho@mh.tum.de.
We are currently not looking for student lab assistants. Please check back later or reach out to us.
If you have a strong research / study background in the areas of XR, HCI, Computer Vision, Medical Engineering, or Robotics drop us a mail and we’ll get back to you.
Please send all application related mail to hex-application.ortho@mh.tum.de
Prof. Dr. Daniel Roth
Technical University of Munich
Klinikum rechts der Isar
Machine Intelligence in Orthopedics
Human-Centered Computing and Extended Reality Lab