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Scientist

Prof. Dr. Katharina Scheiter

Head of the Multimedia Lab.

Katharina Scheiter studied psychology at the University of Goettingen (diploma: 1999). Afterwards she first received a scholarship of the Graduate College for Cognitive Science funded by the DFG and then worked as a research associate at the Saarland University until 2002. Since 2002 she works as an assistant professor at the Department of Applied Cognitive Psychology and Media Psychology of the University of Tuebingen, where she also finished her PhD in 2003. In 2009 she received her habilitation in psychology for her work on the „Theoretical and empirical foundations of theories of multimedia learning: A critical reconsideration“. Since beginning of 2009 she heads a lab at the KMRC, where together with her fellow co-workers she investigates the cognitive and perceptual foundations of learning with multimedia. In 2009 she was honored with the Erik de Corte Award for Young and Promising Scholars in the Science of Learning and Instruction of the European Association for Learning and Instruction (EARLI). Together with Erica de Vries (University of Grenoble) she coordinates the Special Interest Group 2: Comprehension of Text and Graphics of the EARLI.

Research interests

Cognitive and perceptual processes in learning from multimedia, eye tracking