Industry Experience

Apple

Hardware Tech | Sensor Software & Prototyping

Advised by Dr. Tom Runia and Dr. Vittorio Megaro in Dr. Brian Amberg's Zurich Vision Lab, I've worked on the future of FaceTime Personas for Apple Vision Pro.

Academic Experience

ETH Zurich

Department of Computer Science | Institute for Intelligent Interactive Systems

I was a visiting PhD student to Prof. Dr. Christian Holz's Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab to work on space-constrained input in mobile VR.

California State University, Los Angeles

During my Master's degree, I was awarded a Fulbright full grant for studying a term in the United States.

University of Duisburg-Essen

Faculty of Business Administration | Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems

Before joining Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schütte's Integrated Information Systems research group as a PhD student in Computer Science, I obtained a bachelor's and a master's degree in Information Systems, and had worked as a student assistant in Prof. Schütte's group and Prof. Dr. Stefan Eicker's Software Engineering research group.

Papers

Mohamed Kari, Reinhard Schütte, Raj Sodhi

Scene Responsiveness for Visuotactile Illusions in Mixed Reality

36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2023.

Honorable Mention Award

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Mohamed Kari, Christian Holz

HandyCast: Phone-based Bimanual Input for Virtual Reality in Mobile and Space-Constrained Settings via Pose-and-Touch Transfer

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2023.

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new research: HandyCast—bimanual input for large virtual realities using a smartphone as a precise & fast controller.#CHI2023 @acm_chi

Full-range #VR in even the tiniest & constrained #spaces like airplane or car seats via #embodied motion amplification.

with @m0k4r1 @CSatETH pic.twitter.com/Buv4hVsROi
— Christian Holz (@cholz) April 25, 2023

Come to Hall C to learn from @m0k4r1 how to efficiently interact inside Virtual Reality anywhere you are.

HandyCast brings full-range immersive input to even the smallest spaces—using the smartphone as a convenient & standalone controller for two-handed input. 🎮 pic.twitter.com/0J9sX3iryt
— Christian Holz (@cholz) April 26, 2023

Mohamed Kari, Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Luis Falconeri Coelho, Andreas Rene Fender, David Bethge, Reinhard Schütte, Christian Holz

TransforMR: Pose-Aware Object Substitution for Composing Alternate Mixed Realities

20th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2021.

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THE VERGE. Why look at reality when you can edit what you see in real time? (Mirror on MSN News)

80 LEVEL. Using iPad Pro & Unity to Transform Real-Life Objects in Real-Time

new research: TransforMR: Pose-Aware Object Substitution for Composing Alternate Mixed Realities.

Our video see-thru system alters realities with semantic consistency in real-world environments.
Talk in 45 min @ismarconf Track A.@MohamedKari9 @andreas_fender @Porsche @ETH_en pic.twitter.com/1Maxr1YwXr
— Christian Holz (@cholz) October 6, 2021

This is the first example I have seen of automatic object substitution to create #augmentedreality that fits within the environment. With a #technology like this, it's up to the creatives to unleash their imagination.#mixedreality
Full article below 👇 pic.twitter.com/hw4AGCdFzi
— Gabriele Romagnoli (@GabRoXR) October 7, 2021

Mohamed Kari, Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Alexander Jagaciak, David Bethge, Reinhard Schütte, Christian Holz

SoundsRide: Affordance-Synchronized Music Mixing for In-Car Audio Augmented Reality

34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2021.

Best Paper Award

Also presented at: ACM SIGGRAPH 2023. The Future of Advanced User Interfaces: Best of UIST session.

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Podcasts

At Porsche, I have initiated, produced, and together with my fellow head of the PhD network David Bethge, co-hosted the Porsche PhD Podcast where we interviewed Porsche PhD students company-internally on their research and Porsche executives on the role of PhD research for innovation.

As a Fulbright alumnus, I have initiated, and now produce and host the Fulbright PULSE Germany podcast together with the German-American Fulbright Commission and the German Fulbright Alumni Association. Tune in on Apple Podcasts or Spotify on the first Monday of the next month or listen in on one of the following episodes!