David Mal

407 total citations
17 papers, 290 citations indexed

About

David Mal is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, David Mal has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 290 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Human-Computer Interaction, 8 papers in Social Psychology and 5 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in David Mal's work include Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (16 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (7 papers) and Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (4 papers). David Mal is often cited by papers focused on Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (16 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (7 papers) and Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (4 papers). David Mal collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. David Mal's co-authors include Marc Erich Latoschik, Carolin Wienrich, Erik Wolf, Nina Döllinger, Mario Botsch, Daniel Roth, Gary Bente, Kai Vogeley, Matthias Beck and Johann Habakuk Israel and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

In The Last Decade

David Mal

16 papers receiving 262 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Mal Germany	10	249	131	65	52	31	17	290
Erik Wolf Germany	14	295 1.2×	150 1.1×	74 1.1×	85 1.6×	29 0.9×	29	384
Rodrigo Pizarro Spain	6	215 0.9×	125 1.0×	78 1.2×	72 1.4×	32 1.0×	9	312
Geoffrey Gorisse France	8	271 1.1×	153 1.2×	47 0.7×	111 2.1×	41 1.3×	21	355
Rebecca Fribourg France	7	200 0.8×	123 0.9×	34 0.5×	80 1.5×	12 0.4×	12	244
Maria Christofi Cyprus	10	113 0.5×	57 0.4×	43 0.7×	31 0.6×	30 1.0×	18	255
Matias Volonte United States	10	192 0.8×	119 0.9×	79 1.2×	54 1.0×	9 0.3×	34	311
Sukran Karaosmanoglu Germany	10	204 0.8×	41 0.3×	75 1.2×	39 0.8×	53 1.7×	22	288
Caglar Yildirim United States	9	232 0.9×	50 0.4×	112 1.7×	71 1.4×	27 0.9×	24	321
Martin Kocur Germany	10	247 1.0×	96 0.7×	45 0.7×	71 1.4×	95 3.1×	37	346
Nami Ogawa Japan	9	230 0.9×	103 0.8×	48 0.7×	141 2.7×	15 0.5×	19	275

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Mal

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17 of 17 papers shown

Döllinger, Nina, Natascha‐Alexandra Weinberger, Erik Wolf, et al.. (2025). Virtual body image exercises for people with obesity – results on eating behavior and body perception of the ViTraS pilot study. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 25(1). 176–176. 2 indexed citations

Mal, David, Erik Wolf, Nina Döllinger, et al.. (2024). From 2D-Screens to VR: Exploring the Effect of Immersion on the Plausibility of Virtual Humans. 1–8. 8 indexed citations

Wolf, Erik, Nina Döllinger, David Mal, et al.. (2024). From Avatars to Agents: Self-Related Cues Through Embodiment and Personalization Affect Body Perception in Virtual Reality. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 30(11). 7386–7396. 3 indexed citations

Döllinger, Nina, David Mal, Erik Wolf, et al.. (2024). Virtual Body Swapping: A VR-Based Approach to Embodied Third-Person Self-Processing in Mind-Body Therapy. 1–18. 6 indexed citations

Döllinger, Nina, Natascha‐Alexandra Weinberger, Erik Wolf, et al.. (2023). Auswirkung von (virtuellen) Körperbildübungen auf das Ernährungsverhalten von Personen mit Adipositas – Ergebnisse der ViTraS-Pilotstudie. 17(3). 142–142.

Döllinger, Nina, Matthias Beck, Erik Wolf, et al.. (2023). “If It’s Not Me It Doesn’t Make a Difference” - The Impact of Avatar Personalization on user Experience and Body Awareness in Virtual Reality. 483–492. 6 indexed citations

Mal, David, Erik Wolf, Nina Döllinger, Carolin Wienrich, & Marc Erich Latoschik. (2023). The Impact of Avatar and Environment Congruence on Plausibility, Embodiment, Presence, and the Proteus Effect in Virtual Reality. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 29(5). 2358–2368. 30 indexed citations

Döllinger, Nina, Erik Wolf, David Mal, et al.. (2022). Resize Me! Exploring the user experience of embodied realistic modulatable avatars for body image intervention in virtual reality. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 24 indexed citations

Wolf, Erik, Nina Döllinger, David Mal, et al.. (2022). Does distance matter? Embodiment and perception of personalized avatars in relation to the self-observation distance in virtual reality. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 11 indexed citations

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Döllinger, Nina, Erik Wolf, David Mal, et al.. (2022). Virtual Reality for Mind and Body: Does the Sense of Embodiment Towards a Virtual Body Affect Physical Body Awareness?. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts. 1–8. 18 indexed citations

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Wolf, Erik, David Mal, Nina Döllinger, et al.. (2022). Plausibility and Perception of Personalized Virtual Humans between Virtual and Augmented Reality. 489–498. 14 indexed citations

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Mal, David, Erik Wolf, Nina Döllinger, et al.. (2022). Virtual Human Coherence and Plausibility – Towards a Validated Scale. 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). 788–789. 23 indexed citations

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Wolf, Erik, et al.. (2021). The Embodiment of Photorealistic Avatars Influences Female Body Weight Perception in Virtual Reality. 65–74. 30 indexed citations

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Wolf, Erik, Nina Döllinger, David Mal, et al.. (2020). Body Weight Perception of Females using Photorealistic Avatars in Virtual and Augmented Reality. 462–473. 36 indexed citations

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Mal, David. (2020). [DC] The Impact of Social Interactions on an Embodied Individual’s Self-perception in Virtual Environments. 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). 545–546. 1 indexed citations

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Roth, Daniel, et al.. (2019). Technologies for Social Augmentations in User-Embodied Virtual Reality. 1–12. 60 indexed citations

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Roth, Daniel, et al.. (2018). Injecting Nonverbal Mimicry with Hybrid Avatar-Agent Technologies. 69–73. 18 indexed citations

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