Christoph Borst

Christoph Borst
  • Faculty
  • Professor
  • Hardy Edmiston Endowed Professor in Computer Science II

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, 1993
The University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2002
Texas A&M University

Student Research/Collaboration

  • Virtual Reality
  • Visualization
  • Interaction
  • Graphics
  • Haptics

Publications

  • UA Jinan, Niloofar Heidarikohol, Christoph W. Borst, Mark Billinghurst, Sungchul Jung, “A systematic review of using immersive technologies for empathic computing from 2000-2024.” Empathic Computing 1.1 (2025): 202501-202501.
  • Mohamed Z.-E.-A. Amrani, Christoph W. Borst, Noara Achour, “Real-Time Supervision and Guidance for Rehabilitation Exercises via Computer Vision,” IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, vol. 55 no. 4, Aug. 2025, pp. 490-498, DOI: 10.1109/THMS.2025.3566248. 
  • Bharat KC, Bhoj B. Karki, Jason W. Woodworth, Adil Khokhar, and Christoph W. Borst, “Emotion Recognition in Interactive VR Tasks and in 360VR Videos with Transformer-Based Approaches and Multimodal Sensing,” 3rd Annual Workshop on Multi-modal Affective and Social Behavior Analysis and Synthesis in Extended Reality (MASSXR), IEEE VR 2025.
  • Niloofar Heidarikohol and Christoph W. Borst, “A Survey of Emotional Intelligence Applications in Immersive and Non-Immersive Technologies,” 2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), Saint Malo, France, 2025, pp. 997-1004, doi: 10.1109/VRW66409.2025.00202.
  • Adil Khokhar, Christoph W. Borst, Md Istiak Jaman Ami, and Niloofar Heidarikohol, “Enhancing Collaborative Dataset Exploration in VR: The Impact of Gaze Visualization on Tutors’ Spatial Guidance and Communication,” IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW 2025), pp. 596–603, 2025.