Michael Recycles
Teaching & Mentoring
In my courses, students learn by doing: they build interactive systems and test them with real users. Below you'll find the courses, study projects, and theses I have taught and supervised.
Courses
Multimodal Interaction (MOOC) Lecturer
2018–2026Online course on the design and evaluation of systems that combine speech, gesture, touch, and other input and output modalities.
Technical University Berlin, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Usability Engineering Teaching Assistant
2021–2026Methods for designing and evaluating usable interactive systems.
Technical University Berlin, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Summer and Winter University Lecturer
2019–2026Intensive course on designing and developing VR and AR applications. The course title changed across editions.
Gaming for Virtual and Augmented Reality 2022–2026
Extended Reality: Design and Development 2021
Virtual Reality and Exergaming 2019–2020
Technical University Berlin
Communication Acoustics (MOOC) Teaching Assistant
2018–2024Online course on the fundamentals of acoustic communication and auditory perception.
Technical University Berlin, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Guest Lectures Guest Lecturer
2023–2025Invited lectures in courses at other universities.
Ethical Challenges of Using Immersive Technology: Security, Privacy, Accessibility
2025Immersive Technologies course, University of Zagreb (FER), Croatia
User Experience for Extended Reality
2023–2024Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality courses, Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt (HSHL), Germany
Study Projects
Advanced Projects Lecturer
Interdisciplinary Media Project and Study Project Quality & Usability
Stimulating Senses, Recreating Context – an Interdisciplinary Seminar on Art History and VR Technologies 2026/27
Yoga Reimagined: Developing and Validating a VR Experience 2024
Social eXtended Reality 2022
The Future of the Performing Arts with XR 2021
Virtual Reality in Support of Nuclear Disarmament: Interactivity, Curveballs, and Gameplay 2020
Develop and Design Data Streams in VR 2019
Technical University Berlin, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Project Media Creation Lecturer
I Can Hear Your Heartbeat: Augmented Reality Gaming Experience 2021
Inside Information: Project of Virtual Experience of Visualizing Data 2020
Environment Design in Virtual Reality 2019
Technical University Berlin, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Student Supervision
Thesis & Project Mentoring
I supervise Bachelor's and Master's theses at the Quality and Usability Lab, mainly on user experience in extended reality, multimodal interaction, and user-centred evaluation.
Focus Areas
- User experience in VR, AR and MR
- Multimodal interaction (hand tracking, voice, passthrough)
- Quality of Experience and user factors
- Serious games and exergaming
- Data visualization in VR
Project Types
- Bachelor's theses
- Master's theses
- Study and interdisciplinary media projects
- Research collaborations