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Basics

Name Christian Krauter
Languages German, English
Interests Human-Computer Interaction, Augmented/Virtual Reality, Information Visualization, Motorcycles, Plants, Mechanical Keyboards

Education

  • Oct 2023 - Present
    Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
    University of Stuttgart
  • 2022
    M.Sc. Computer Science
    University of Stuttgart
    • Thesis: Designing the Next Smart Chair Based on a Posture Recognition and Feedback Literature Review
  • 2019
    B.Sc. Mediainformatics
    University of Stuttgart
    • Thesis: Exploring Notification Presentation in Virtual Reality

Awards

MuC 2025 'Life Time Day Captain' (student volunteer)
SFB-TRR 161 Hackathon 2025 'Out-of-the-box Design'
MuC 2024 'Leadership Legend'; 'Most Nominations for Awards' (student volunteer)

Volunteering

2026 CHI (assistant to the visualization subcommittee chairs), MuC (student volunteer co-chair)
2025 MuC (student volunteer, day captain), UIST (student volunteer)
2024 MuC (student volunteer, day captain)
2023 MuC (student volunteer)

Student Supervision

  • Master theses
    • 2024 Alaa Elghazaly, Making Female Researchers More Visible to the General Public Through Augmented Reality
    • 2024 Tim Halach, AR Driving Assistant for Wheelchairs
  • Bachelor theses
    • 2025 Mara Schulte, Visualization of Heart-Rate Data for OLED Smart Rings
    • 2025 Kateryna Ganina, Redesigning Progress Charts of Smartwatch Complications
    • 2025 Silas Kuhn, Development and Analysis of a Taxonomy for Augmented Reality in Safety Critical Environments
    • 2024 Simon Mittelhammer, Augmented Reality in Motion: Enhancement of Auditory Media
    • 2024 Ursula Krause, VisJacket: A Framework for Wearable Visualizations

Teaching Support

Information Visualization and Visual Analytics Summer 2024; Winter 2024/25, 2025/26
Bachelor Seminar Summer 2024, 2025
Master Seminar Summer 2026

Employment

  • Oct 2023 - Present
    Researcher Assistant (Ph.D. Candidate)
    University of Stuttgart
  • Mar 2023 - Aug 2023
    Research Assistant
    University of Cologne
  • Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
    Employee in technology and administration
    University of Cologne
  • Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
    Student research assistant
    University of Cologne
  • Feb 2019 - Aug 2020
    Working student in software development
    Valeo Germany
  • Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
    Tutor for human-computer interaction
    University of Stuttgart
  • Mar 2017
    Student assistant at the "BTW" conference
    University of Stuttgart
  • Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
    Tutor for media informatics
    University of Stuttgart
  • Sep 2013 - Mar 2016
    Part-time job in warehouse and shipping
    Mindvent GmbH
  • May 2011 - May 2013
    Part-time job in bicycle assembly and customer service
    Fahrrad Imle