Dr. Inka Schmitz

PhD project "Effects of Gaze on Displays in the Context of Human-Machine Interaction",

Short CV

2025 Member of the Ethiktool-Project: Software for ethics applications
2024 – 2025 Postdoctoral researcher in the "Physics of Cognition" group, Chemnitz University of Technology
2020 – 2024 PhD student in the "Physics of Cognition" group, Chemnitz University of Technology; member of the CRC 1410 "Hybrid Societies" funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)
2017 – 2020 Sensors and Cognitive Psychology (M.Sc.), Chemnitz University of Technology
2014 – 2017 Sensors and Cognitive Psychology (B.Sc.), Chemnitz University of Technology

Publications

Schmitz, I., & Einhäuser, W. (2023). Gaze Estimation in Videoconferencing Settings. Computers in Human Behavior, 139,107517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107517 [Data]

Schmitz, I., & Einhäuser, W. (2023). Effects of interpreting a dynamic geometric cue as gaze on attention allocation. Journal of Vision, 23(8), 8. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.8.8

Schmitz, I., Strauss, H., Reinel L., & Einhäuser, W. (2024). Attentional cueing: gaze is harder to override than arrows. PLoS One, 19(3), e0301136. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301136 [Data]

Schmitz, I., Miksch, J., & Einhäuser, W. (2026). Task-irrelevant human and robot head movements bias gaze in humans who follow them through Virtual Reality. Scientific Reports, 16, article 5563. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-39130-1 [data]