Dr. Philipp Ackermann

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Head of Visual Computing Lab
• Deputy Programme Director Medical Informatics
• Delegate Entrepreneurship @ School of Engineering

Focus

• Visual Computing with focus in Augmented Reality
• Medical Informatics / Digital Health
• AR Patterns

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4607-7620

Social media

LinkedIn

Projects

• Automated recognition of modular product structures in AR to enable circular economy / Project leader / ongoing
• Digital Health Zurich: a practice lab for patient-centred clinical innovation / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• Surgical Proficiency – Data-driven transformation of surgical education for proficiency-based performance / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• AR Patterns / Deputy project leader / completed
• Mixed Reality in plant engineering / Project leader / completed
• Intelligent Viticulture / Project leader / completed
• Data Driven Medical muscle Training / Team member / completed
• DeepScore: Digital Music Stand with Musical Understanding via Active Sheet Technology / Team member / completed
• System for integrated, data-driven asset controlling of real estate / Project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Schläpfer, S., Murphy, C., Lukic, Y. X., Campos-Asensio, C., Colacicco, G., Lauber, B., Masneuf, S., Nyirö, L., Kajdi, G. W., Sutter, R., Laux, C. J., Ackermann, P., López-Alcalde, J., & Witt, C. M. (2026). Sex representation and user preferences in pain drawing body charts in back pain research : multimethod study. JMIR Human Factors, 13, e76175. https://doi.org/10.2196/76175
• Difrancesco, S., Bauert, M. M., Lehmann, C., Häsler, S., Zhang, Y., Hirsch, S., Ackermann, P., Stockinger, K., Reif, M., Mathieu, S., Götz, A., Wicki, A., Krauthammer, M., & Witt, C. M. (2025). Collaborative design and development of a patient-centered digital health app for supportive cancer care : participatory study. JMIR Human Factors, 12(e73829). https://doi.org/10.2196/73829
• Tuggener, L., Emberger, R., Ghosh, A., Sager, P., Satyawan, Y. P., Montoya, J., Goldschagg, S., Seibold, F., Gut, U., Ackermann, P., Schmidhuber, J., & Stadelmann, T. (2024). Real world music object recognition. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 7(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.157

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Ackermann, P., & Stockinger, K. (2019). Narrative visualization of open data. In Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business (pp. 251–264). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_14

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Häsler, S., Holler, A., Kessler, M., Schmidlin, S., Lukic, Y., & Ackermann, P. (2025). Illustrating AR patterns : a visual language for event-driven Augmented Reality [Conference poster]. In K. Helin, B. Schiavi, & E. Tsaknaki (Eds.), EuroXR 2025: Proceedings of the Application, Poster, and Demo Tracks of the 22nd EuroXR International Conference (Vol. 440, pp. 179–183). VTT. https://doi.org/10.32040/2242-122X.2025.T440
• Ackermann, P. (2025). SRswift : a spatial reasoning library in Swift [Conference paper]. In K. Helin, B. Schiavi, & E. Tsaknaki (Eds.), EuroXR 2025 : Proceedings of the Application, Poster, and Demo Tracks of the 22nd EuroXR International Conference (pp. 68–71). VTT. https://doi.org/10.32040/2242-122X.2025.T440
• Hasler, S., & Ackermann, P. (2025). Spatial Reasoner : a 3D inference pipeline for XR applications [Conference paper]. 2025 International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Virtual & Augmented Reality Simulations (ICVARS), 121–130. https://doi.org/10.1109/icvars66454.2025.11198690
• Moreno, S., & Ackermann, P. (2025). Multi-modal collaboration in spaces using hand-held AR [Conference paper]. In I. Wrase, M. May, Z. Wang-Speiser, M. Haase, & M. Meslec (Eds.), Tagungsband zur Facility Management Konferenz Spotlight FMplus 2025 – Wissenschaft und Praxis im Dialog: Next Generation FM – How FM adds value (pp. 129–138). ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-32149
• Stucki, S., & Ackermann, P. (2024). Physically-based path tracer using WebGPU and OpenPBR [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the 29th International ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology, 4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3665318.3677158
• Ackermann, P. (2023). AR patterns : event-driven design patterns in creating augmented reality experiences [Conference paper]. In G. Zachmann, K. Walczak, O. A. Niamut, K. Johnsen, W. Stuerzlinger, M. Alcañiz-Raya, G. Welch, & P. Bourdot (Eds.), Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality (pp. 93–114). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48495-7_6
• Moreno, S., & Ackermann, P. (2023). ARchi VR : real-time collaboration in augmented spaces [Conference paper]. MuC ’23: Proceedings of Mensch Und Computer 2023, 551–553. https://doi.org/10.1145/3603555.3609310
• Pidel, C., & Ackermann, P. (2020). Collaboration in virtual and augmented reality : a systematic overview [Conference paper]. In L. T. De Paolis & P. Bourdot (Eds.), Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics (pp. 141–156). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58465-8_10
• Ackermann, P., & Bach, T. (2015). Redesign of an introductory computer graphics course [Conference paper]. In M. Bronstein & M. Teschner (Eds.), EG 2015 - Education Papers (pp. 9–13). The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing. https://doi.org/10.2312/eged.20151021

Other publications

• Häsler, S., & Ackermann, P. (2025). Spatial Reasoner : a 3D inference pipeline for XR applications. ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-33034
• Heinlein, B., & Ackermann, P. (2016). Der virtuelle Körper als 3-D-Simulationsmodell. IT for Health, 2016(1), 44–45.
• Pauchard, Y., & Ackermann, P. (2014). Visual eHealth : an ICT innovation and dissemination strategy to improve our well-being [Conference paper]. S2B Science-to-Business Marketing Conference 2014, Münster, Deutschland, 2014, 241–249.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Ackermann, P., & Holler, A. (2024, October 29). Community platform to promote AR patterns. Augmented World Expo EU, Vienna, Austria, 29-30 October 2024. https://youtu.be/eWNjM4ub8dM

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