Johann Wentzel
I'm on the job market! I plan to defend my dissertation in December 2024.
I'm a PhD candidate in the UWaterloo HCI Lab, supervised by Daniel Vogel. My work focuses on designing, implementing, and understanding interaction techniques that facilitate more inclusive computing.
My research process involves qualitative methods and co-design, prototyping new interfaces and interaction techniques, then deploying controlled user studies for empirical findings. My PhD explores improving VR’s accessibility for people with motor disabilities by combining more familiar input devices (game controllers, mice, etc.) to supplement or replace VR hand controllers.
Recently, I’ve been exploring how machine learning models of gaze-tracking can aid diagnosis of eye movement conditions, how users can interact with AI for VR environment design, and how inferring user context can make remapping 3D motion in VR easier for users as well as developers.
During my graduate studies I have interned with Meta Reality Labs (CTRL-Labs), Microsoft Research (Ability Team), Autodesk Research (UI Research Group), and New York University (Future Reality Lab).
