Sandra Birnstiel

Doctoral Researcher

School of Business, Economics and Society
Gamification Research Group

Room 5.260
Lange Gasse 20
90403 Nürnberg

Email: sandra.birnstiel@fau.de
Website: https://gamification.rw.fau.de

Sandra Birnstiel is a PhD candidate at the FAU and part of the Gamification Research Group. There she investigates innovative gamification approaches in team sports to optimize performance diagnostics and training.

She completed her Master’s degree in Human-Computer-Interaction in Würzburg, where she investigated the effect of virtual shoes in embodied virtual reality for her Master’s thesis. Sandra received her bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer-Systems, also in Würzburg. In addition to her studies, she worked as a student assistant and contributed to teaching and research.

Research Interests

Gamification, Exergames and Motivational Design
(Team) Sports
Quantified Self
eSports

Publications

2023

Oberdörfer S., Birnstiel S., Steinhäußer SC., Latoschik ME.:
An approach to investigate an influence of visual angle size on emotional activation during a decision-making task
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2023) (Copenhagen, 23. July 2023 - 28. July 2023)
In: Chen, J.Y.C., Fragomeni, G. (ed.): Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality 2023
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35634-6_47
URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35634-6_47

2022

Birnstiel S., Oberdörfer S., Latoschik ME.:
Stay safe! Safety precautions for walking on a conventional treadmill in VR
2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW 2022) (, 12. March 2022 - 16. March 2022)
In: Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops 2022
DOI: 10.1109/VRW55335.2022.00217
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9757410

2021

Oberdörfer S., Birnstiel S., Latoschik ME., Grafe S.:
Mutual benefits: Interdisciplinary education of pre-service teachers and HCI students in VR/AR learning environment design
In: Frontiers in Education 6 (2021), Article No.: 693012
ISSN: 2504-284X
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2021.693012
URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2021.693012/full
Oberdörfer S., Heidrich D., Birnstiel S., Latoschik ME.:
Enchanted by your surrounding? Measuring the effects of immersion and design of virtual environments on decision-making
In: Frontiers in Virtual Reality 2 (2021), Article No.: 679277
ISSN: 2673-4192
DOI: 10.3389/frvir.2021.679277
URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2021.679277/full
Oberdörfer S., Heidrich D., Birnstiel S., Latoschik ME.:
Measuring the effects of virtual environment design on decision-making
2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, VRW 2021
DOI: 10.1109/VRW52623.2021.00103
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9419338

2019

Birnstiel S., Steinmüller B., Bissinger K., Doll-Gerstendörfer S., Huber S.:
Gartenfreund: Exploring the botanical garden with an inclusive app
Mensch-und-Computer 2019 (MuC'19) (Hamburg, 8. September 2019 - 11. September 2019)
In: F. Alt, A. Bulling, T. Döring (ed.): MuC'19: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2019 2019
DOI: 10.1145/3340764.3344446
URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3340764.3344446