Lucas Küntzer has been working as a research assistant on the “Immersive Extended Reality for Physical ActiviTy and Health” (XR-PATH) research project since 2025. After completing his master's degree in computer science at Trier University of Applied Sciences in 2022, he began his doctorate as part of a collaboration between Trier University and Trier University of Applied Sciences.

His research investigates the potential and limitations of virtual reality technologies in health psychology applications to promote physical activity - especially in people with heart failure. A central aspect of his work is the research and development of dynamically adaptable training scenarios and feedback mechanisms to increase the motivation and effectiveness of VR-based interventions. He is also developing ROVER [Link: github.com/kuentzel/ROVER], a modular, versatile open-source tool that enables the easy integration and user-friendly use of questionnaires in immersive virtual environments.

Lucas Küntzer, Sandra Schwab, Heike Spaderna und Georg Rock (2024): Measuring User Experience of Older Adults during Virtual Reality Exergaming. In: 16th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2024). IEEE, Karlshamn, Schweden. [DOI: 10.1109/QoMEX61742.2024.10598263]

Lucas Küntzer, Sandra Schwab, Heike Spaderna und Georg Rock (2024): ROVER: A Standalone Overlay Tool for Questionnaires in Virtual Reality. In: EICS ’24 Companion: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems. ACM, Cagliari, Italien. [DOI: 10.1145/3660515.3661328]

Since 01.02.2025

Research assistant & PhD student in the laboratory for virtual reality and in the project “Immersive Extended Reality for Physical ActiviTy and Health” (XR-PATH), Department of Computer Science, Trier University of Applied Sciences

Since 01.01.2025

Research assistant in the project “AI Rollout Measure 1: From 0 to AI”, Department of Computer Science, Trier University of Applied Sciences

Since 01.11.2021

PhD student with the topic “Potential and limits of VR-based systems to support health psychology research”, University of Trier
 

01.08.2021 - 31.12.2024

Research assistant & PhD student in the laboratory for virtual reality and in the project “Immersive Extended Reality for Physical ActiviTy and Health” (XR-PATH), Department of Computer Science, Trier University of Applied Sciences

01.03.2018 - 31.07.2021

Research assistant in the teaching and research project “Development of the energy-efficient local transport vehicle proTRon EVOLUTION”, Department of Computer Science, Trier University of Applied Sciences

01.02.2021 - 30.04.2021

Master student (working student) with focus on “Introduction of VR-based development methods in the field of Technology Vehicle Engineering”, Volvo Construction Equipment Germany GmbH

• 01.09.2017 – 30.06.2021
  M.Sc. Informatik „Einführung von VR-basierten Entwicklungsmethoden im Bereich Technology Vehicle Engineering“, Hochschule Trier
• 01.03.2014 – 28.02.2018
  B.Sc. Informatik „Entwicklung des VR-Systems ‘proTRon EVOLUTION VR Experience‘ [...]“, Hochschule Trier
• 01.10.2015 – 28.02.2018
  Studentische Hilfskraft im Labor für Digitale Produktentwicklung, Fachbereich Technik, Hochschule Trier
• 01.10.2014 – 31.01.2018
  Studentische Hilfskraft in der Lehre, Fachbereich Informatik, Hochschule Trier