Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

While waiting in Stuttgart in the lounge of the railway station I picked up a paper called “Auto-Bild” (the selection of magazines is reall...

Herbert Burkert gave a presentation at IAIS on the very basics of public law. He is professor of public law, information and communication...

Today Karl-Heinz Sylla and Reinhard Budde (both senior researcher at Fraunhofer IAIS) gave for the summer research project a tutorial on agi...

Today I finally got around visiting Jan Borchers ( media computing group at RWT H Aachen ). Tico Ballagas hat as part of his PhD defence a...

In a German science news ticker I saw an article a inspiring post reporting an experiment on orientation in relation to food . It describes ...

In the castle Birlinghoven on the Fraunhofer campus I had the privilege to meet Prof. Carl Adam Petri. He is a great mathematician and compu...

Yesterday our summer project started at IAIS . The students are highly motivated and the combined skill set of the participants is impressiv...

This morning I corrected the proofs for the Pervasive and Mobile Compting journal for the paper I had together with Lucia Terrenghi at Perc...

Skype is down for a few hours and is has an impact on users. It is interesting that for some people I do not have regular phone numbers anym...

In the resent month the question about ubiquitous, pervasive, ambient computing came up several times. An email by Jos Van Esbroeck motivate...

Sven Behnke, who won with his humanoid robots the RoboCup , visited us today at Fraunhofer IAIS . In his talk he presented the RoboCup visio...

Arriving in Zurich I was quite surprised by the masses of people in the train station. We picked the weekend of the Street Parade for our v...

Visiting the Zeppelin Museum I was impressed by the simplicity of the underlining principle and the great engineering that went into those...

W e visited the school museum at Friedrichshafen . Looking around the exhibition it became very obvious that teaching material used to be mu...

I often wonder why one would like to include sensing into other objects. It seems however that there is a tradition and has its roots before...

We visited the archeology and Stone Age museum in Bad Buchenau http://www.federseemuseum.de/ . For our visit we rented their audio guide s...

My first day of the holidays I got myself into an interesting project – setting up a satellite dish that receives Astra 19.2 (German TV) and...

After the Pertec07 workshop at Percom earlier this year we summarised the workshop results and the ongoing discussion in an article. This ...

At Zurich Airport Orange and Nokia are running a large printed advert. At a first glance it looks just as a printed large scale poster. The ...

I was at ETH Zurich for the PhD defence of Nagendra Bhargava Bharatula. His thesis is on context-aware wearable nodes and in particular on...

Based on the submissions we have selected in a peer-review process 4 papers for presentations and discussion the the Ubilog'07 workshop....

The visit to the eCulture Factory showed me again that bringing new media into the real public space creates new and very valuable insights...

Just talked to Matthias Kranz and he told me about an interesting MP3-Player module from http://www.roguerobotics.com - uMP3. It is not che...

After talking sometime ago to Monika Fleischmann I was curious about the eCultury Factory in Bremen, which is a part of Fraunhofer IAIS . T...

Not much time left to apply for the student research project . From 20.8. to 30.9.2007 we plan to design and implement a new specific search...

T his morning we presented selected demos of the lab on location and context awareness to people at the Fraunhofer IAIS . Besides the fact ...

Pascal Bihler send me today a link to an interesting teaching/research project at Ivrea ( http://courses.interaction-ivrea.it/strangely/ )....

In Linz I got some flyers for a new master program in Pervasive Computing which will be offered by the Johannes Kepler University in Lin...

It is always great to visit the pervasive computing labs in Linz - always new and cool research to see. Looking at my my Google News-Alert ...

This Morning Mario Pichler defended his PhD dissertation at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz . One central theme he investigated in...