Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

From Monday on I will be at the University of Duisburg-Essen. After a little less than a year in Bonn a new challenge is ahead: setting up a...

This afternoon our UbiLog workshop was held in Bremen as part of the Informatik 2007 conference. We selected 4 papers for presentation a...

At the dinner of this yeas GI conference Professor Gerhard Krüger became the 6 th honorary member of the German Computer Science Society (...

Over the last few days at Ubicomp 2007 in Innsbruck it was great to catch up with many people from the community. The discussions in the ev...

Alireza Sahami presented our CardiViz project at the demo session at Ubicomp. We were very happy that the project that was the result of our...

It is often discussed whether or not the user interface in the car matters or not. The basic argument is that cars are emotional and hence ...

Heiko Drewes and Richard Atterer, collegues from university of Munich , have travelled to Interact 2007. Their emails indicate that the con...

Some weeks ago Ben Sutherland from The Economist called. He was researching for an article discussing the computing revolution over the las...

In the school museum I came across two very simple pen-based computing aids. The devices are very simple mechanical tools that help to do ad...

After my daughter started school on Saturday we visited a historic school on Sunday. Comparing teaching materials is interesting. Especiall...

The last 3 days we were at the German HCI conference ( Mensch und Computer ) in Weimar. Overall the conference had a really interesting prog...

At the German HCI conference ( Mensch und Computer ) I organized together with Paul Holleis and Klaus Bengler (BMW Group) a workshop on auto...

At the moment I am travelling a lot on the train and it seems that there is an increase in people using their mobile devices (e.g. Sony PSP...

On Saturday on our way back home we made a stop in Cologne. After mounting the tower (509 steps) we had a look at the new window which lead ...

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...