I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science (DIKU), University of Copenhagen, in the Human-Centred Computing Section, and affiliated with the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence. I co-lead the Extended Reality Research Group with Associate Professor Joanna Bergström.
I am a human-computer interaction researcher with a particular interest in how immersive technologies such as virtual and augmented reality affect human behavior, cognition, and health. My approach is interdisciplinary, combining theories from psychology and the behavioral sciences with the design, development, and empirical evaluation of human-centered systems that foster individual well-being and positive societal impact.
I am particularly interested in (a) the perceptual and psychological costs of immersive systems in everyday use and (b) harnessing these same psychological and behavioral mechanisms to design immersive interventions that drive positive behavior change.
News
- 2027 I will join the DFG Priority Programme Understanding Gaze (UGaze, SPP 2481) as a Mercator Fellow.
- 2026 Paper Chair of NordiCHI 2026.
- 2026 Two papers at CHI 2026: Experiencing Change, a scoping review of behavior change with extended reality, and Virtual Perspectives, on spatial presence and agency in VR perspective-taking.
- 2026 New journal paper in IJHCS on chaining subtle gaze direction cues in extended reality.
- 2025 Co-PI of the Generative Virtual Worlds programme and member of Bridging Minds and Machines (2025–2027).
Selected Publications
Teresa Hirzle, Mingyuan Jiang, and Kasper Hornbæk. Experiencing Change: A Scoping Review of Behavior Change with Extended Reality. CHI '26.
Liyue Da and Teresa Hirzle. Virtual Perspectives: Effects of Spatial Presence and Agency on Affective and Cognitive Virtual Reality Perspective-Taking. CHI '26.
Teresa Hirzle, Jonathan Sutton, Thomas Edward Larsen, Lise A Bruun, and Kasper Hornbæk. Chaining Subtle Gaze Direction Cues to Guide Users in Extended Reality. IJHCS 2026.
Andreea Muresan, Kasper Hornbæk, and Teresa Hirzle. Why and How to Act Through Multiple Avatars in Virtual Reality. IJHCS 2026.
Teresa Hirzle, Florian Müller, Fiona Draxler, Martin Schmitz, Pascal Knierim, and Kasper Hornbæk. When XR and AI Meet: A Scoping Review on Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence. CHI '23.
All papers are on the Publications page and on Google Scholar.
