Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

Today former colleagues from Fraunhofer IAIS visited the faculty of economics and computer science here in Essen . It was amazing how many ...

The week before Easter is the traditional time for the meeting of the GI group university professors ( GIBU ). GI (Gesellschaft für Informat...

The picture does not show a research prototype – it shows the actual interior of a 5-series BMW (fairly recent model). The driver (an elderl...

After having frost and snow yesterday morning in Germany being in Porto (Portugal) is quite a treat. The KDubiq application workshop is in ...

After inspiring discussions during the workshop and in the evening I reconsidered some ideas for automatically generated tutorials by user i...

This morning I presented a short talk on new ways for outdoor advertisement at CeBIT . Based on results from interviews we know that shop wi...

The proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction are online in the ACM digital library. Still not i...

Yesterday afternoon I was in Hannover at CeBIT to set up our part in a demo at the Fraunhofer stand (Hall 9, Stand B36). The overall topic ...

This morning we visited the inHaus innovation center in Duisburg (run by Fraunhofer , located on the University campus). The inHaus is a pr...

We have tried several of the applications (called activities) and the basic functions seem OK. Vivien liked it and was quite curious to expl...

After the conference I had finally some time to try out my new XO Laptop (OLPC). It is fairly small, has a rubber keyboard and a very good s...

Many keys (to rooms and buildings) are still tangible objects, where the tangible properties and affordances imply certain ways of usage .Wh...

Paul Holleis presented at TEI’08 the results of the research he did during his internship at Nokia Research [1]. Over the summer Paul spent...

At social events of conferences interesting things happen. One issue with a borrowed key reminded me of a paper that colleagues in the smart...

In the evening Prof. Hiroshi Ishii from the MIT Medialab presented a fascinating keynote at TEI’08. He gave an exciting overview of his work...

The first day of the conference went well – thanks to many helping hands. The time we had for the demos seemed really long in the program bu...

This morning a new working group on tangible interaction in mixed realities (in German Be-greifbare Interaktion in Gemischten Wirklichkeiten...

For people who already arrive on Sunday, the day before the conference, we organised some museum visits: Arithmeum, Haus der Geschichte, Deu...

On of the exhibits in the Arithmeum was a Quipu – which is a storage of numbers using knots. In comparison to other accounting aids it had...

One of the fun parts of organizing a conference is to work with a team of student volunteers. It is always amazing how quick many hands can ...

We have two press releases to announce TEI’08 – the second international conference on tangible and embedded interaction (in German only). T...

Before conferences time is always exiting – will things arrive in time or not… This time we are lucky: T-shirts for the SV, USB-Sticks for t...

Elise van den Hoven , the program co-chair of TEI08 , organized the printing of the proceeding. We went there on Tuesday to collect the book...

No we had the last lectures of the course User Interface Engineering for this term. We will have oral exams stating later this month. The wh...

Today I met with Matthias Kranz in Munich. Besides discussing his thesis I got to see his new car (a prius) – quite impressive and interest...

Today I was reminded of a discussion in 1998 on the implications of computing technologies becoming cheaper and cheaper. Even then it seemed...

This morning a heating and water technician checked on the wet spots on my wall in my new flat in Essen. Using a hygrometer he looked for th...

I was today in Karlsruhe at Learntec , a trade fare and congress for technologies in learning, training and education. Alois Ferscha organiz...

It seems that in the research community a lot of people are convinced of interactive public spaces and interactive window displays. Over the...

In the news section on standard software in the Germany IT magazine IX a Forrester Consulting survey was quoted that provides some evidence ...