Hello my name is Thomas Pollert, I'm working on my Masters Thesis under supervision of Paul Preuschoff since 2025. I'm designing lifelike, rhythmic animations for a robotic lamp and focus my research on its ability to improve cooperation in collaborative, musically related tasks.
Publications
- Thomas Pollert. Setup and Evaluation of a Robotic Lamp Mediating Musical Co-Creation. Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, 2026.


- Julian Wallerius, Pascal Raabe, Erik Østlyngen, Nuray Agaoglu, Lars vom Bruch, Siyan Chen, Mats Frenk, Yitong Guo, David Elias Chris Kopczynski, Hana Masara, Thomas Pollert, Shu Zhang, René Schäfer and Jan Borchers. The Deceptive Dungeon: Bringing Deceptive Patterns to the Physical World. In Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '25, pages 4, Association for Computing Machinery, April 2025.



