Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

In 2005 Friedeman Mattern organized a symposium at ETH Zurich on how computing impacts everyday life ( http://www.comp21.inf.ethz.ch/ ). ...

It was interesting to see that smart objects / smart object services, context, NFC, and RFID become very mainstream. It seems that nearly ev...

I first saw a paper about a context-aware sink at CHI 2005 ( Bonanni, L., Lee, C.H., and Selker, T. "Smart Sinks: Real World Oppor...

The airport Köln-Bonn (CGN) has all the parking spaces monitored with a simple sensor (detects if there is a car or not) and provides displa...

Nigel, Oliver, Mike, and Andre from Lancaster University have been our colleagues at B-IT for the last 3 months. The time has passed very qu...

During our lab on context- and location-aware systems we have currently one task to create a novel application using the Ubisense indoor lo...

During the last weeks there has been a lot of discussion about the vulnerability of infrastructures after the experience in Estonia. One int...

Back in Bonn after my holidays I had to catch up on a few things. When I left the B-IT after midnight I was stunned by the sight of the post...

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...