I am a Ph.D. student working at the Interactive Media Lab Dresden since December 2019. As a member of the project, Collaborative Research Centre “Foundations of Perspicuous Software Systems” funded by the DFG, I am discovering the new methods of selection, manipulation, navigation as well as collaboration for the Mixed Reality environment in the paradigm of Human-Computer Interaction. In general, my research interests are located on Augmented Reality, Immersive Analytics, and Social Computing.

Ellenberg, M.; Luo, W.; Satkowski, M.; Dachselt, R.
To appear in TVCG Special Issue on the 2026 IEEE Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (IEEE ISMAR) .ISMAR '26, Bari, Italy.IEEE,2026.
@article{Ellenberg:ImmPres:2026,
author = {Mats Ole Ellenberg and Weizhou Luo and Marc Satkowski and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {ImmPres: Exploring the Potential of Mixed Reality Presentations in Real-world Office Settings},
journal = {TVCG Special Issue on the 2026 IEEE Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (IEEE ISMAR) },
year = {2026},
month = {10},
location = {Bari, Italy},
publisher = {IEEE}
}
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Luo, W.; Rzayev, R.; Russig, B.; Visutarporn, S.; Satkowski, M.; Gumhold, S.; Dachselt, R.
In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.CHI'26, Barcelona, Spain.Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),2026.10.1145/3772318.3791398
@inproceedings{luo2026beyondlinks,
author = {Weizhou Luo and Rufat Rzayev and Benjamin Russig and Sivanon Visutarporn and Marc Satkowski and Stefan Gumhold and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Beyond Links: Exploring Visual Representations of Multi-View Relations in Mixed Reality},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
year = {2026},
month = {4},
isbn = {979-8-4007-2278-3/2026/04},
location = {Barcelona, Spain},
numpages = {19},
doi = {10.1145/3772318.3791398},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)},
keywords = {Spatiality, content organization, Multiple Views, Multi-view relations, Mixed Reality}
}
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Luo, W.; Ellenberg, M.; Satkowski, M.; Dachselt, R.
In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.CHI '25, Yokohama, Japan.Association for Computing Machinery,2025.10.1145/3706598.3713518
@inproceedings{luo2025documents,
author = {Weizhou Luo and Mats Ole Ellenberg and Marc Satkowski and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Documents in Your Hands: Exploring Interaction Techniques for Spatial Arrangement of Augmented Reality Documents},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
series = {CHI '25},
year = {2025},
month = {04},
isbn = {979-8-4007-1394-1/25/04},
location = {Yokohama, Japan},
numpages = {22},
doi = {10.1145/3706598.3713518},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713518},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {spatial layout, content organization, interaction design, user-centered design, Mixed Reality}
}
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Satkowski, M.; Luo, W.; Rzayev, R.
In CHI’25 Workshop: Beyond Glasses – Future Directions for XR Interactions within the Physical World.CHI '25, Yokohama, Japan.2025.10.48550/arXiv.2503.20406
@inproceedings{satkowski2025affordance,
author = {Marc Satkowski and Weizhou Luo and Rufat Rzayev},
title = {Of Affordance Opportunism in AR: Its Fallacies and Discussing Ways Forward},
booktitle = {CHI’25 Workshop: Beyond Glasses – Future Directions for XR Interactions within the Physical World},
series = {ACM CHI'25},
year = {2025},
month = {04},
location = {Yokohama, Japan},
numpages = {5},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2503.20406}
}
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Méndez, J.; Luo, W.; Rzayev, R.; Büschel, W.; Dachselt, R.
In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Volume 31, Issue 10).VIS '25, Vienna, Austria.IEEE,page 6839-6851,2025.10.1109/TVCG.2025.3531138Received "Best Student Presentation Award" at ACM SIGGRAPH MIG 2025 where it was presented as an invited TVCG article.
@article{MLRBD-2025-ImmDataStoriesReview,
author = {Juli\'{a}n M\'{e}ndez and Weizhou Luo and Rufat Rzayev and Wolfgang B\"{u}schel and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Immersive Data-Driven Storytelling: Scoping an Emerging Field Through the Lenses of Research, Journalism, and Games},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {31},
issue = {10},
year = {2025},
month = {1},
location = {Vienna, Austria},
pages = {6839--6851},
doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2025.3531138},
publisher = {IEEE},
address = {New Jersey}
}
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Design Space (.pdf), Scoping Review Corpus & Codebook (.xlsx)

Luo, W.; Abdelaziz, M.; Méndez, J.; Rzayev, R.
In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct).ISMAR '24, Seattle.IEEE,2024.10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct64951.2024.00077
@inproceedings{luo2024storybook,
author = {Weizhou Luo and Mark Abdelaziz and Juli\'{a}n M\'{e}ndez and Rufat Rzayev},
title = {Between Pages and Reality: Exploring a Book Metaphor for Unfolding Data-driven Storytelling in Immersive Environments},
booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)},
series = {ISMAR '24},
year = {2024},
month = {10},
location = {Seattle},
doi = {10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct64951.2024.00077},
publisher = {IEEE}
}

Krug, K.; Méndez, J.; Luo, W.; Dachselt, R.
In CHI 2024 Workshop on Designing Inclusive Future Augmented Realities.CHI '24, Honolulu, HI, USA.2024.10.48550/arXiv.2409.05374
@misc{krug2024inclusivemr,
author = {Katja Krug and Juli\'{a}n M\'{e}ndez and Weizhou Luo and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Don't Leave Me Out: Designing for Device Inclusivity in Mixed Reality Collaboration},
booktitle = {CHI 2024 Workshop on Designing Inclusive Future Augmented Realities},
year = {2024},
month = {5},
location = {Honolulu, HI, USA},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2409.05374}
}
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In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.CHI '24, Honolulu, HI, USA.ACM,2024.10.1145/3613905.3638181
@inproceedings{luo2024exploring,
author = {Weizhou Luo},
title = {Exploring Spatial Organization Strategies for Virtual Content in Mixed Reality Environments},
booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
series = {CHI EA '24},
year = {2024},
month = {5},
location = {Honolulu, HI, USA},
numpages = {6},
doi = {10.1145/3613905.3638181},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {Spatiality, spatial layout, content organization, affordance, Aug- mented Reality, Mixed Reality}
}
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Luo, W.; Yu, Z.; Rzayev, R.; Satkowski, M.; Gumhold, S.; McGinity, M.; Dachselt, R.
In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.CHI '23, Hamburg, Germany.Association for Computing Machinery,2023.10.1145/3544548.3580715
@inproceedings{luo2023pearl,
author = {Weizhou Luo and Zhongyuan Yu and Rufat Rzayev and Marc Satkowski and Stefan Gumhold and Matthew McGinity and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {PEARL: Physical Environment based Augmented Reality Lenses for In-Situ Human Movement Analysis},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
series = {CHI '23},
number = {381},
year = {2023},
month = {04},
isbn = {9781450394215},
location = {Hamburg, Germany},
numpages = {15},
doi = {10.1145/3544548.3580715},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580715},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {Immersive Analytics, physical referents, augmented/mixed reality, affordance, In-situ visualization, movement data analysis}
}
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30-Second Video Preview, 5-min Video Figure, 10-min Recorded Talk, Appendix, GitHub Repository

Ellenberg, M.; Satkowski, M.; Luo, W.; Dachselt, R.
In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.CHI '23, Hamburg, Germany.ACM,2023.10.1145/3544549.3585853
@inproceedings{ellenberg2023spatiality,
author = {Mats Ole Ellenberg and Marc Satkowski and Weizhou Luo and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Spatiality and Semantics - Towards Understanding Content Placement in Mixed Reality},
booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
series = {CHI EA'23},
year = {2023},
month = {04},
location = {Hamburg, Germany},
doi = {10.1145/3544549.3585853},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA}
}
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Luo, W.; Lehmann, A.; Widengren, H.; Dachselt, R.
In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.CHI '22, New Orleans, LA, USA.ACM,2022.10.1145/3491102.3501946
@inproceedings{luo2022arsensemaking,
author = {Weizhou Luo and Anke Lehmann and Hjalmar Widengren and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Where Should We Put It? Layout and Placement Strategies of Documents in Augmented Reality for Collaborative Sensemaking},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
series = {CHI '22},
year = {2022},
month = {4},
location = {New Orleans, LA, USA},
numpages = {16},
doi = {10.1145/3491102.3501946},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {spatiality, spatial layout, content organization, sensemaking, affordance, qualitative user study, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, collaborative sensemaking}
}
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Satkowski, M.; Luo, W.; Dachselt, R.
In Poster Program of the 2021 IEEE VIS Conference.VIS '21, Virtual Event.2021.10.48550/arXiv.2110.14312
@inproceedings{satkowski2021visualization,
author = {Marc Satkowski and Weizhou Luo and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {A Visualization Authoring Model for Post-WIMP Interfaces},
booktitle = {Poster Program of the 2021 IEEE VIS Conference},
year = {2021},
month = {10},
location = {Virtual Event},
numpages = {2},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2110.14312},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14312}
}
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Luo, W.; Goebel, E.; Reipschläger, P.; Ellenberg, M.; Dachselt, R.
In 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality.ISMAR '21, Bari, Italy.2021.
@inproceedings{fixme,
author = {Weizhou Luo and Eva Goebel and Patrick Reipschl\"{a}ger and Mats Ole Ellenberg and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Demonstrating Spatial Exploration and Slicing of Volumetric Medical Data in Augmented Reality with Handheld Devices},
booktitle = {2021 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality},
year = {2021},
month = {10},
location = {Bari, Italy}
}
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Satkowski, M.; Luo, W.; Dachselt, R.
In 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct).ISMAR '21, Bari, Italy.IEEE,2021.10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct54149.2021.00073
@inproceedings{satkowski2021towards,
author = {Marc Satkowski and Weizhou Luo and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Towards In-situ Authoring of AR Visualizations with Mobile Devices},
booktitle = {2021 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)},
year = {2021},
month = {10},
location = {Bari, Italy},
doi = {10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct54149.2021.00073},
publisher = {IEEE}
}

Luo, W.; Goebel, E.; Reipschläger, P.; Ellenberg, M.; Dachselt, R.
In 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct).ISMAR '21, Bari, Italy.IEEE,2021.10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct54149.2021.00076
@inproceedings{luo2021exploring,
author = {Weizhou Luo and Eva Goebel and Patrick Reipschl\"{a}ger and Mats Ole Ellenberg and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Exploring and Slicing Volumetric Medical Data in Augmented Reality Using a Spatially-Aware Mobile Device},
booktitle = {2021 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)},
year = {2021},
month = {10},
location = {Bari, Italy},
doi = {10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct54149.2021.00076},
publisher = {IEEE}
}
Luo, W.; Lehmann, A.; Yang, Y.; Dachselt, R.
In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems.CHI '21, Yokohama, Japan.ACM,2021.10.1145/3411763.3451588
@inproceedings{luo2021investigating,
author = {Weizhou Luo and Anke Lehmann and Yushan Yang and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Investigating Document Layout and Placement Strategies for Collaborative Sensemaking in Augmented Reality},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
series = {CHI EA '21},
year = {2021},
month = {5},
isbn = {78-1-4503-8095-9/21/05},
location = {Yokohama, Japan},
numpages = {7},
doi = {10.1145/3411763.3451588},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {user study, spatiality, sensemaking, content organization, grouping, physical environment}
}
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Pre-recorded talk, Full video, 30-seconds preview video, Poster

Wu, H.; Luo, W.; Pan, N.; Nan, S.; Deng, Y.; Fu, S.; Yang, L.
In Human-centeric Computing and Information Sciences (Volume 9, Issue 1).Springer,page 43,2019.10.1186/s13673-019-0204-7
@article{wu2019understanding,
author = {Huiyue Wu and Weizhou Luo and Neng Pan and Shenghuan Nan and Yanyi Deng and Shengqian Fu and Liuqingqing Yang},
title = {Understanding freehand gestures: a study of freehand gestural interaction for immersive VR shopping applications},
journal = {Human-centeric Computing and Information Sciences},
volume = {9},
issue = {1},
year = {2019},
month = {12},
pages = {43},
doi = {10.1186/s13673-019-0204-7},
publisher = {Springer}
}
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Design and Development of Hybrid Display Layout Strategies for Data Visualization and Exploration in Augmented Reality
July 9th, 2021 until January 28th, 2022
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Marc Satkowski, Raimund Dachselt
Combining Augmented Reality and Mobile Devices for the Immersive Exploration of Medical Data Visualizations
July 3rd, 2020 until March 2nd, 2021
Supervision: Eva Goebel, Weizhou Luo, Patrick Reipschläger, Raimund Dachselt
Investigating Visual Cues for Associating Views to Physical Referents in Mixed Reality
December 10th, 2025 until May 13th, 2026
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Rufat Rzayev, Raimund Dachselt
Designing for Multi-View Immersive Presentations: Visibility and Perspective Management in Augmented Reality
July 17th, 2025 until January 13th, 2026
Supervision: Mats Ole Ellenberg, Weizhou Luo, Raimund Dachselt
Design and Development of Co-Located Immersive Presentation in Augmented Reality
February 13th, 2024 until July 26th, 2024
Supervision: Mats Ole Ellenberg, Weizhou Luo, Raimund Dachselt
Design and Development of Visual Structures of Data-Driven Storytelling in Immersive Environments
June 19th, 2023 until November 20th, 2023
Supervision: Rufat Rzayev, Julián Méndez, Weizhou Luo, Raimund Dachselt
Exploring Layout and Placement Strategies for Augmented Reality Visualization in Immersive Environments
January 3rd, 2022 until July 4th, 2022
Supervision: Marc Satkowski, Weizhou Luo, Raimund Dachselt
Exploring Multimodal Interaction in Augmented Reality with a Spatially-Aware Mobile Device for Immersive Analytics
January 3rd, 2022 until June 20th, 2022
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Marc Satkowski, Raimund Dachselt
Concepts for Interactively Exploring Information Flow and Design Options of Knowledge-based Systems
October 5th, 2020 until March 8th, 2021
Supervision: Tamara Flemisch, Weizhou Luo, Tom Horak, Raimund Dachselt
Exploring AI-Augmented Data Storytelling Creation
June 25th, 2025 until October 10th, 2025
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Rufat Rzayev, Raimund Dachselt
Investigating the Level of Immersion for Collaborative Immersive Analytics
June 10th, 2025 until August 26th, 2025
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Ricardo Langner, Raimund Dachselt
Exploring Interaction Techniques for Collaborative Mixed Reality Ideation Workspaces
January 15th, 2025 until April 6th, 2025
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Mats Ole Ellenberg, Raimund Dachselt
Natural Interaction for Exploring Immersive Data Stories
September 16th, 2024 until December 15th, 2024
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Rufat Rzayev, Raimund Dachselt
Supporting Presenters in Immersive Data Stroytelling
June 12th, 2023 until August 28th, 2023
Supervision: Rufat Rzayev, Weizhou Luo, Raimund Dachselt
Design and Development of Adaptive Visualizations for Supporting Orientation and Location Tasks Using Augmented Reality
January 13th, 2023 until April 9th, 2023
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Rufat Rzayev, Raimund Dachselt
Supporting the traceability of design decisions in product architectures through interactive visualization in immersive environments
January 2nd, 2023 until March 20th, 2023
Supervision: Rufat Rzayev, Weizhou Luo, Raimund Dachselt
Supporting Trajectory Analysis with Information Visualizations as Labels in Augmented Reality
March 1st, 2022 until May 17th, 2022
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Rufat Rzayev, Raimund Dachselt
Designing Interaction Concepts for Authoring Augmented Reality Visualizations with Mobile Devices
March 8th, 2021 until May 24th, 2021
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Marc Satkowski, Raimund Dachselt
Exploring What-If Scenarios in Immersive Data Stories [CMS-PROJ, SS 25]
May 26th, 2025 until September 15th, 2025
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Rufat Rzayev
Crafting and Designing Data-Driven Storytelling in Immersive Environments [INF-PM-FPA, SoSe 23]
June 12th, 2023 until September 30th, 2023
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Rufat Rzayev
User-guided Immersive Storytelling [CMS-PROJ, SS 23]
January 27th, 2023 until May 19th, 2023
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Rufat Rzayev, Raimund Dachselt
Support for Evaluation of Content Arrangement During Affinity Diagramming in Collaborative Multi-display Environments [CMS-PROJ, WiSe 20/21]
November 27th, 2020 until March 5th, 2021
Supervision: Anke Lehmann, Weizhou Luo, Raimund Dachselt
Support for Evaluation of Content Arrangement During Affinity Diagramming in Collaborative AR Environments [CMS-PROJ, WiSe 20/21]
November 27th, 2020 until March 5th, 2021
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Anke Lehmann, Raimund Dachselt
Visualizing Model Checking Results of Hyperproperties and Information Flow
February 3rd, 2020 until May 18th, 2020
Supervision: Tamara Flemisch, Tom Horak, Weizhou Luo, Raimund Dachselt