Scientist

Dr. Manuela Glaser

Dr. Manuela Glaser

Since January 2007, Manuela Glaser has been a researcher in the Realistic Depictions lab at the IWM. Her research foci include learning with historical reconstructions and informal learning in museums. In her current projects, she is investigating factors influencing the learning of uncertain information in archaeological reconstructions as well as cognitive processes when visiting VR applications for the museum sector using eye-tracking and, in particular, the effects of spatial sound on experience and learning.

Main research topics:

  • Learning with historical reconstructions
  • Informal learning in the museum

Dr. Manuela Glaser

Schleichstr. 6

72072 Tübingen

Room 6.306

+49 7071 979-253m.glaser@iwm-tuebingen.de

Lab membership

Projects

Projects with a current term and projects that have taken place in the last 5 years are shown.

Publications

 

Articles (peer-reviewed) | Books and book chapters | Software | Other publications

Articles (peer-reviewed)

  • Glaser, M., Hug, L., Werner, S., & Schwan, S. (2025). Spatial versus normal audio guides in exhibitions: Cognitive mechanisms and effects on learning. Educational Technology Research and Development, 73, 169–198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-024-10424-3

    Open Access 1 | 2 

  • Glaser, M., Knoos, M., & Schwan, S. (2023). How verbal cues help to see and understand art. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 17(3), 278-293. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000372

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  • Glaser, M., Aberle, S., & Schwan, S. (2023). Learning versus researching in a desktop virtual reality: How reception goals influence the processing of uncertain information marked by verbal and visual cues. Computers & Education, 201, Article 104826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2023.104826

    Open Access

  • Glaser, M., Lengyel, D., Toulouse, C., & Schwan, S. (2022). How do we deal with uncertain information? Effects of verbal and visual expressions of uncertainty on learning. Educational Psychology Review, 34(2), 1097-1131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-022-09659-4

    Open Access

  • Glaser, M., Knoos, M., & Schwan, S. (2022). Localizing, describing, interpreting: Effects of different audio text structures on attributing meaning to digital pictures. Instructional Science, 50(5), 729-748. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-022-09593-6

    Open Access

  • Knoos, M., Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2021). Aesthetic experience of representational art: Liking is affected by audio-information naming and explaining inaccuracies of historical paintings. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 3009. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.613391

    Open Access

  • Knoos, M., Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2021). Multiple documents of text and picture: Naming a historical painting’s inaccuracies influences conflict regulation strategies. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 65, Article 101970. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2021.101970

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  • Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2020). Combining verbal and visual cueing: Fostering learning pictorial content by coordinating verbal explanations with different types of visual cueing. Instructional Science, 48(2), 159-182. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-020-09506-5

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  • Glaser, M., Knoos, M., & Schwan, S. (2020). The Closer, the better? Processing relations between picture elements in historical paintings. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 13(2), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.13.2.11

    Open Access

  • Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2019). Processing textual and visual certainty information about digital architectural models. Computers in Human Behavior, 96, 141-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.02.023

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  • Glaser, M., Lengyel, D., Toulouse, C., & Schwan, S. (2017). Designing computer-based learning contents: influence of digital zoom on attention. Educational Technology Research and Development, 65, 1135-1151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-016-9495-9

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  • Glaser, M., Lengyel, D., Toulouse, C., & Schwan, S. (2015). Designing computer based archaeological 3D-reconstructions: How camera zoom influences attention. In W. Bares, M. Christie, & R. Ronfard (Eds.). Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing WICED 2015. The Eurographics Association.
  • Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2015). Explaining pictures: How verbal cues influence processing of pictorial learning material. Journal of Educational Psychology, 107, 1006-1018. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000044

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  • Töpper, J., Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2014). Extending social cue based principles of multimedia learning beyond their immediate effects. Learning and Instruction, 29, 10-20.
  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2013). Historisches Denken bei der Exploration einer 3D-Rekonstruktion. In J. Hodel, M. Waldis, & B. Ziegler (Eds.). Forschungswerkstatt Geschichtsdidaktik 12. Beiträge zur Tagung „Geschichtsdidaktik Empirisch 12“ (pp. 131-142). hep Verlag.
  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2012). What do we learn from docutainment? Processing hybrid television documentaries. Learning and Instruction, 22, 37-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2011.05.006

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  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2010). Re-enactments in archäologischen Fernseh-Dokumentationen und ihr Einfluss auf den Rezeptionsprozess. In K. Arnold, W. Hömberg, & S. Kinnebrock (Eds.). Geschichtsjournalismus. Zwischen Information und Inszenierung (pp. 235-249). LIT-Verlag.
  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2009). Narrative-based learning: possible benefits and problems. Communications, 34(4), 429-447. https://doi.org/10.1515/COMM.2009.026

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Books and book chapters

To overview
  • Glaser, M. (2025). Lernen unsicherer Informationen in historischen virtuellen Realitäten. In Kuchler, C. & Muckel, K. (Hrsg.). Virtual Reality – Zukunft der historischen Bildung? (S. 64-74). Wallstein. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783835387881-64

    Open Access

  • Glaser, M. (2016). Narratives Verstehen. In N. Krämer, S. Schwan, D. Unz, & M. Suckfüll (Eds.). Medienpsychologie: Schlüsselbegriffe und Konzepte (2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, pp. 131-137). Kohlhammer. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2016.08.002

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  • Glaser, M. (2016). Populäre Wissenskommunikation in Geschichtsmagazinen aus rezeptionspsychologischer Sicht. In S. Popp, J. Schumann, F. Crivellari, M. Wobring, & C. Springkart (Eds.). Populäre Geschichtsmagazine in internationaler Perspektive (pp. 141-168). Peter Lang.
  • Glaser, M. (2015). Popular knowledge communication in history magazines from a receptional psychology point of view. In S. Popp, J. Schumann, & M. Hannig (Eds.). Commercialised history: popular history magazines in Europe (pp. 165-193). Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften.

    Open Access

  • Glaser, M. (2013). Transportation. Dorsch - Lexikon der Psychologie (S. 1573). Hogrefe.
  • Tibus, M., & Glaser, M. (2009). Informelles Lernen mit Massenmedien. In M. Brodowski, U. Devers-Kanoglu, B. Overwien, M. Rohs, S. Salinger, & M. Walser (Eds.). Informelles Lernen und Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung - Beiträge aus Theorie und Praxis (pp. 227-236). Budrich.
  • Glaser, M., Weigand, S., & Schwan, S. (2009). Mediendidaktik. In M. Henninger, & H. Mandl (Eds.). Handbuch Medien- und Bildungsmanagement (pp. 190-205). Beltz.

Software

To overview
  • Halfmann, M., & Glaser, M. (2024). Virtual Reality Umgebung des Hochsee-Bergungsschleppers Seefalke für eine Studie zu historischen Klängen mit räumlichen Audio. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen.

Other publications

To overview
  • Glaser, M. (2024). Authentische Darstellung historischer Objektklänge mittels Virtual Reality. Leibniz-Forschungsverbund Wert der Vergangenheit. https://valuepast.hypotheses.org/1358 [Blog post]

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  • Glaser, M. (2024). Welchen Mehrwert haben Digitalisate von Ausstellungsobjekten? https://valuepast.hypotheses.org/1438 [Blog post]

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  • Garsoffky, B., Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2012). Aufmerksamkeit und Filmerleben: Was uns physiologische Maße über das Empfinden von Transportation beim Filmsehen sagen können. Rabbit Eye - Zeitschrift für Filmforschung, 4, 102-117.
  • Glaser, M. (2010). Hybrid documentary formats: how narrative elements in archaeological television documentaries influence processing, experience, and knowledge acquisition. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-48166

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  • Glaser, M., & Oelkers, C. (2007). Elterliches Erziehungsverhalten und Zwang - eine Generationen übergreifende Studie. Z-aktuell, 3, 10-12.

Presentations und Conferences

Talks

  • Glaser, M., Werner, S., Kröger, L., Schilling, R., & Schwan, S. (2024, December 9). Influence of different types of object sound presentation on experience and knowledge acquisition in the VR of a historical tugboat. Conference Exhibiting the Sound of History - Practice and Theory of Acoustic Historical Research and Communication. Hamburg. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2024, May 14-15). Lernbezogene Rezeption von realen vs. holografischen Objekten in einer Experimental-Ausstellung. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung LERN 2024 - Wie steht es um unser Bildungssystem? Krisen anerkennen, Lösungsansätze gestalten. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM), Tübingen. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2024, September 4-6). Processing uncertain information in immersive virtual reality. European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Special Interest Group (SIG) 2: Comprehension of Texts and Graphics: From Human to Artificial Intelligence. Valencia, Spain. [Talk]
  • Aberle, S., Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2023, August 22-26). Instruction of reception goals as a method to direct the processing of uncertain information. 20th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI). Thessaloniki, Greece. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2023, June, 15-16). Potential of digital models of exhibition objects for reception. Eingeladener Vortrag auf der Internationalen Tagung “Knowledge through Digitized Material? - Objects, Images, Perspectives“. Bremerhaven, Bremen. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2022, März 30). Einfluss von Digitalisaten auf Objekt-, Installations- und Ausstellungsrezeption. Jahrestagung Leibniz-Forschungsverbund Bildungspotenziale (LERN). Frankfurt am Main (virtuelle Konferenz). [Talk]
  • Knoos, M., Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2021, June 23-26). Audio-texts naming discrepancies between historical paintings and “real” historic events: Effects on conflict regulation, transportation, and evaluation of the paintings. 17th Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL). [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., Lengyel, D., Toulouse, C., & Schwan, S. (2020, August). Influence of Certainty Visualizations on Memory for Architectural Information and its Certainties. European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI). Special Interest Group (SIG 2): Comprehension of Text and Graphics (online conference). Prague, Czech Republic. [Talk]
  • Knoos, M., Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2019, September). Comprehending Inaccuracies in Historical Paintings: Effects of Naming Discrepancies on Transportation, Trust and Learning. Gemeinsame Tagung der Fachgruppen Entwicklungspsychologie und pädagogische Psychologie (PAEPSY). Leipzig, Germany. [Talk]
  • Knoos, M., Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2019, August). Verbal Cueing: Enhancing Attention on and the Learning of Low-Salient Pictorial Elements. 18th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI). Aachen, Germany. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2017, August). The Interplay Between Verbal And Visual Cueing. 17th Biennal Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI). Tampere, Finland. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M. (2017, October). The influence of spoken text on attention and knowledge acquisition during picture processing. Invited talk at Biblia Docet. World, Image and Education in Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Art and Theatre. International Colloquium. Tübingen. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., Lengyel, D., Toulouse, C., & Schwan, S. (2015, May). Designing computer based archaeological 3D-reconstructions: How camera zoom influences attention. Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED) 2015. Zurich, Switzerland. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M. (2014, Juli). Geschichte als Erlebnis: Darstellungsformen und ihre psychologische Verarbeitung. Tagung Geschichte als Erlebnis: Performative Praktiken in der Geschichtskultur. Potsdam. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2014, August). Multimedie effect within a single presentation. European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI). Special Interest Group 2 (SIG 2: Text and Graphics Comprehension). Rotterdam, The Netherlands. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2012, Februar). Narrativierung von historischen Rekonstruktionen. Geschichtsdidaktik empirisch 12. Basel, Schweiz. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M. (2012, April). Was lernen wir von Docutainment-Programmen? Die Verarbeitung hybrider TV-Dokumentationen. Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW), Hochschule für Angewandte Psychologie. Olten, Schweiz. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M. (2011, December). Hybrid documentary formats: How entertaining elements in archaeological television documentaries influence processing, experience, and knowledge acquisition. Seminar Hybrid Documentaries. Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design. Brussel. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M. (2011, Januar). Was macht Geschichte unterhaltsam? Medienpsychologische Aspekte historischer Themen. Lehrstuhl für Didaktik der Geschichte der Philosophisch Historischen Fakultät der Universität Augsburg. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2010, July). Processing, experience, and knowledge acquisition with hybrid documantary formats. 12th biennial IGEL conference. International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media. Utrecht, The Netherlands. [Talk]
  • Garsoffky, B., Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2010, September). Transportation beim Fernsehen: Die physiologische Messung der Aufmerksamkeitskomponente. 47. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPS). Bremen. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2010, September). Wissenserwerb mit Narrationen in archäologischen Fernseh-Dokumentationen. 47. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPS). Bremen. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., & Garsoffky, B. (2009, June). Re-enactments in archaeological documentaries and their influence on reception processes. Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image 2009 Conference (SCSMI). Kopenhagen, Denmark. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2009, April). Re-enactments in archaeological television documentaries and their influence on the reception process. Workshop: Narrative fact and fiction. Patterns of narrative construction in media stories and differential effects. Vienna, Austria. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2009, Januar). Re-enactments in archäologischen Fernseh-Dokumentationen und ihr Einfluss auf den Rezeptionsprozess. Geschichtsjournalismus - zwischen Information und Inszenierung. Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Kommunikationsgeschichte. Eichstätt. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2008, July). Do reconstructions influence familiarity and dating of past periods? A preliminary study. XXIX International Congress of Psychology (ICP). Berlin. [Talk]
  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2008, September). Rekonstruktionen archäologischer Objekte in Dokumentationen. Lernen im Museum: Die Rolle digitaler Medien. Rückblick und Bilanz - Ausblick und Perspektiven. Workshop im Deutschen Museum. München. [Talk]

Poster presentations

To overview
  • Glaser, M., Werner, S., & Schwan, S. (2022, August 29-31). Audio-visual spatial contiguity in three-dimensional space. European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI). Special Interest Group (SIG) 2. Kiel. [Poster Presentation]
  • Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2018, August). Processing uncertainty in science communication: The Interplay Between Uncertain Text and Picture Information on Perceived Certainty and Knowledge Acquisition of Archaeological Reconstructions. European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI). Special Interest Group (SIG 2): Comprehension of Text and Graphics. Freiburg. [Poster Presentation]
  • Garsoffky, B., Glaser, M., & Schwan, S. (2010, July). The attentional component of transportation: What physiological measures can tell us about watching movies. 12th biennial IGEL conference. International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media. Utrecht, The Netherlands. [Poster Presentation]
  • Glaser, M., Garsoffky, B., & Schwan, S. (2008, February). Fictional formats in archaeological television documentaries and transportation into past periods - a work in progress. Workshop: WMEBR - When media environments become real. Bern, Schweiz. [Poster Presentation]

Other conference contributions

To overview
  • Glaser, M., Wolf, R., Staubermann, K., & Hogervorst, S. (2024, December 9). Invited participation in a panel on Exhibiting the sound of history - round-table & final discussion. Conference Exhibiting the Sound of History - Practice and Theory of Acoustic Historical Research and Communication. Hamburg. [Panel]
  • Glaser, M., Franken, L., von Lindern, K., & Samida, S. (2024, December 11). Invited participation in a panel on Materialität und Digitalität. Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. [Panel]
  • Glaser, M., & Garsoffky, B. (2010, September). Organisation: Narrationen in Medien. Symposium auf der Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). Bremen. [Symposium Organisation]

Event organisation

  • Schilling, R., Hashagen, U., Hünniger, D., Glaser, M., Wolf, R., Berdux, S., & Saupe, A. (2024, December 9-10). Exhibiting the sound of history: Practice and theory of acoustic historical research and communication. Hamburg. [Conference Organisation]
  • Schilling, R., Leitermann, K., Theiss, F., Colombi Ciacchi, L., Kahl, W.-A., Götz, P., Schwan, S., Glaser, M., & Garsoffky, B. (2023). Knowledge through digitized material? - Objects, images, perspectives. Internationale Tagung im Rahmen des Projektes DigiMat. Bremerhaven, Bremen. June 15-16. [Conference Organisation]
  • Glaser, M., & Garsoffky, B. (2010). Workshop Geschichtsvermittlung mit 3D-Rekonstruktionen: Potentiale und Probleme. IWM Tübingen. 03.12.2010. [Conference Organisation]
  • Garsoffky, B., & Glaser, M. (2010). Workshop Physiological Measurement of Transportation. IWM Tübingen. 09.12.2010. [Conference Organisation]

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