Digital Wellbeing
Our Mission
The Digital Wellbeing Research Group acts at the intersection between digital technologies and human wellbeing. We work across disciplines, collaborating with clinical specialists, social scientists, and technical experts to tackle issues that affect the most vulnerable sectors of society. We develop our own tools, such as sensor-embedded, context-rich eye-tracking, to better understand large scale issues in physical and mental health.
Our goal is to contribute evidence-based, socially and technologically innovative concepts and solutions, and to inform policy on a regional and wider EU level.
Publications
Wanner, S., Ernst, M., Leung, V., & Consortium, X. (2026). XR2ESILIENCE – From Stress Traces to Resilience Profiles: Multimodal Biomarker Analytics in an XR Training for Healthcare Professionals. Proceedings of the Fachhochschulforum 2026.
Wanner, S., Ernst, M., Leung, V., & XR2ESILIENCE Consortium. (2026). From Self-Report to Multimodal Resilience KPIs: A Biomarker-Grounded Evaluation Framework for VR Stress–Recovery Training in Healthcare. Forschungsforum der Österreichischen Fachhochschulen 2026.
Vulpe-Grigorasi, A., Slijepčević, D., Schöffer, L., Wanner, S., Jespersen, A. E., Miskowiak, K. W., & Leung, V. (2025). CAVIR Cognitive Assessment in VR: An Eye-tracking and Machine Learning Approach. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Computing for Health and Medicine, 13–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3728424.3760766
Wanner, S. (2025, August 10). Beyond Questionnaires: Using Digital Biomarkers to Assess Cognitive Load and Stress in Virtual Reality Environments [Inivited talk]. Wuertual Reality XR-Meeting Würzburg 2025. https://www.wuertual.org/
Wanner, S. (2025, August 10). Live Demonstration of CAVIR: A Validated Cognitive Assessment in Virtual Reality [Demo]. Wuertual Reality XR-Meeting Würzburg 2025. https://www.wuertual.org/
Vulpe-Grigorasi, A., Gollan, B., & Leung, V. (2024). Assessing Cognitive Load in Distraction and Task Switching: Implications for Developing Realistic Clinical XR Training. 41st Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2024, Geneva, Switzerland, July 1–5, 2024, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 15339, pp 84-98. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82021-2_6
Vulpe-Grigorasi, A., Kren, Z., Slijepčević, D., Schmied, R., & Leung, V. (2024). Attention performance classification based on eye tracking and machine learning. Informatics 2024 Proceedings. IEEE International Scientific Conference on Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1109/Informatics62280.2024.10900810
Vulpe-Grigorasi, A. (2023). Cognitive load assessment based on VR eye-tracking and biosensors. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM "23, 589–591. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626705.3632618
Vulpe-Grigorasi, A. (2023). Multimodal machine learning for cognitive load based on eye tracking and biosensors. 2023 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3588015.3589534
Leung, V., Simone Hofbauer, Leonhartsberger, J., Kee, C., Liang, Y., & Schmied, R. (2022). Influence of education systems on children’s visual behaviours as an environmental risk factor for myopia: a quantitative analysis with LIDAR-sensor tracking in classrooms. 18th International Myopia Conference.
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Head of Research Institute
Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies
Senior Researcher
Center for Digital Health and Social Innovation
Department of Media and Digital Technologies
Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies
Senior Researcher
Center for Digital Health and Social Innovation
Department of Media and Digital Technologies