Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

Antonio Krüger at the University of Münster is running an infrastructure of public displays that show various kinds of information. Using ...

Yesterday we had the opportunity to see a set of research demos at the lab of Antonio Krüger at the University of Münster . We had some ti...

It seems that recently I come across many people that speak on the phone while they do their work. In Toronto on the bus to the airport the...

On my way home from Toronto it was surprising how many public displays I saw that provided me with ”information about the future”, e.g. tell...

The internatonal conference on pervasive computing in Toronto had an exiting program. The keynote was by Adam Greenfield on “Everyware:...

Together with Boriana Koleva I organized the doctoral colloquium at Pervasive 2007 in Toronto . We had 9 students presenting and discussing ...

After the Ubicomp PC meeting we went to a nice restaurant in Toronto for dinner. In the bathroom they had mounted TFT-screens above the uri...

The number of power plugs available to the public seems to be very close to zero at Frankfurt airport. If a persons sits somewhere on the f...

During our strategy meeting there was time for a canoe adventure and some late night reflections. To get the full experience we chose the ra...

News papers in the UK have reported that sales for audio tapes at Currys were down from 83 million in 1989 to 0.1 million in 2006 and hence ...

After having a really interesting discussion on privacy with a student at CDTM with regard to implicit interaction I saw the depicted privac...

The CDTM is a joint elite study program from LMU Munich and TU Munich ( http://www.cdtm.de/ ). It offers a set of complementary course for s...

At this years CHI - the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - we presented 3 contributions: a full paper, a CHI-note, and a wor...

Today I was invited at the Citizen Media seminar to discuss mobile and ubiquitous computing topics with people working in the project. Frau...

Dell started some time ago a web page where the public was asked for comments on improvement ( http://www.ideastorm.com ) – by now the list ...

This morning I washed my dished (manually in a kitchen sink) and afterwards (with dry hands) I tried to log on to my computer using the f...

In the castle on campus Ute Schütz and Michael Krapp from IAIS and SCAI organize a public panel discussion on citizen journalism and Web 2.0...

In Germany there are still too few girls and women interested in studying technical subjects – it may have different reasons but I think tr...

Some weeks ago I saw for the first time one of the intelligent scales in the wild (=outside the lab). At that time I was really impressed ho...

Making things visible that can not be seen with the naked eye? Overlaying personalized information onto objects or images? Such concepts mak...

Steffi Beckhaus , who is professor for computer science at the University of Hamburg, visited our group at B-IT. Meeting her was another cla...

How many sensors do we need? That was one point in the discussion after Kristof’s talk. His approach, in contrast to many others, is to u...

We are delighted to have a group of people visiting from Lancaster University in the UK . Prof. Nigel Davies and 2 of his PhD students, Ol...

My navigation system records simple statistics. I was surprised to see that I have been sitting in my car for about 25 hours in the last 4 ...

The Embedded Interaction Research Group ( www.hcilab.org ) moved in the beginning of April from the University of Munich to the University o...

This week the final presentations of the lab course were due. It was really interesting to see what motivated students can achieve in just 4...

An event this week reminded me that life has an end. Getting a link to a Google Map page (satellite image) where someone found his last rest...

Debora Estrin made an interesting statement. The “early challenges” (the thousands or millions of randomly scattered sensor notes) do not ha...

Gregor got for our Perci prototype (Supporting Mobile Service Usage through Physical Mobile Interaction) the best demo award. So it paid off...

This year we (my previous group from LMU Munich) have a significant presence at PerCom. Form the 20 full papers the Embedded Interaction Res...