Lea Schirp
Research Assistant
Room 2.82
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+49 241 80-21070
Hello! I joined the Media Computing Group as a student assistant in February 2023 and started as a research assistant in November 2025. I currently assist Paul Preuschoff in his research on tools to support creative processes and maintain the chair's Android Apps.
Thesis Supervisions
I generally offer thesis topics based on my capacity and availability. However, I am also open to creative thesis ideas from students, especially if they are connected to music, haptics, or maps.
Currently running supervisions are marked with *
| Name | Topic | Type | Semester |
| Ísis Ripke* | tbd | Bachelor's Thesis | SS 26 |
| Labrik Gashi* | tbd | Bachelor's Thesis | SS 26 |
| Anubhav Punetha* | How VR Personal Space Invasion Countermeasures Impact the Invader | Master's Thesis Taken over from Kevin |
WS 25/26 |
| Paul Gilles* | Modular Toolkit for Fast Prototyping of Shape-Changing Interfaces | Master's Thesis Co-supervised with Sarah |
WS 25/26 |
| Hana Masara* | Designing Shape-Changing Interfaces for Atmospheric Mood Induction | Master's Thesis Co-supervised with Sarah |
WS 25/26 |
Teaching
| Semester | Course |
| Summer 2026 | Designing Interactive Systems II with Sarah |
| Winter 2025/26 | Media Computing Project with Sarah |
Former Projects
- Implementation of a magnet-based mid-air gesture input device for René
- Adaptation of my MCP project for our lab demo at CHI 2023
- Fabrication of Soft Robotics Prototypes for Anke
- Implementation of a locally running audio transcription tool for research tasks
- Support of textile interface research for René and Oliver
- Maintenance of the FabArcade
Publications
- Paul Preuschoff, Sarah Sahabi, René Schäfer, Lea Schirp, Marcel Lahaye and Jan Borchers. Groups vs. Booking Websites: Investigating Collaborative Strategies Against Deceptive Patterns. In Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '25, pages 9, Association for Computing Machinery, April 2025.
- Lea Emilia Schirp. The Effects of Deceptive Interface Design on Users With Autism. Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, April 2025.
- Oliver Nowak, René Schäfer, Elisabeth Jane Buttkus, Lea Emilia Schirp, Heiko Müller and Jan Borchers. Investigating Eyes-Free Recognition and Distinguishability of Textile Icons in Pairs. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI '25, pages 13, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, March 2025.
- Jan Borchers, Anke Brocker, Sebastian Hueber, Oliver Nowak, René Schäfer, Adrian Wagner, Paul Miles Preuschoff and Lea Emilia Schirp. The Aachen Lab Demo: From Fundamental Perception to Design Tools. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '23, pages 4, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, April 2023.