Areas of expertise
- Game Technology
- Virtual Reality
- Augmented Reality
- Mobile Communication
- Multimedia Methods
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Interaction Design
- Interactive Media
- Digital Media
- Evaluation Methods
- Quantitative Research Methods
- Qualitative Research Methods
Skills
- Education and Research
- Interaction Technology
- User Interface
- User Research
- User Experience
- Quantitative Analysis
- Qualitative Methods and Research Design
Research areas
Wolfgang Hürst is an associate professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences and a lecturer in the Game and Media Technology master's program at the Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His research interests include augmented and virtual reality, mobile computing, human-computer interaction, and multimedia systems and technologies, mostly with a focus on gaming and media interaction. From 2020 to 2024, he served as education director of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences. Currently, he is the program leader of the MSc program on Game & Media Technology.
Hürst has a PhD in computer science from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and a master in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe (TH) / KIT, Germany. From January 1996 till March 1997 he was a visiting researcher at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. From March 2005 till October 2007 he worked as a teaching and research associate at the Faculty for Applied Sciences at the University of Freiburg, Germany.