Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

Today and yesterday I am visiting a conference that is concerned with ageing – looking at the topic from different perspective (computer sci...

Using electrodes to detect eye movement and to detect reading [1] – relates to Heiko’s work but uses different sensing techniques. If the sy...

Pervasive 2007 introduced a new form of tutorials – having a number of experts talking one hour about their special topic – I was last year ...

Gregor, a colleague from LMU Munich, presented work that was done in the context of the PERCI project , which started while I was in Munich....

Paul presented after lunch our full paper on a development approach and environment for mobile applications that supports underlying user mo...

Mark Billinghurst presented an interesting history of augmented reality and he showed clearly that camera phones are the platform to look o...

This morning the pervasive 2008 conference started in Sydney. The conference hotel is in the heart of the city at Darling Habour. As in rece...

Today we had our Pervasive at home workshop – as part of Pervasive 2008 in Sydney. We had 7 talks and a number of discussions on various ...

In Sydney I saw a legacy-free setup for washing hands in a public bathroom. I was surprised at the simple and solution with high utility! It...

Over the last day I have experienced that very basic location information in the display can already provide a benefit to the user. Being th...

After the exam board meeting at Trinity College in Dublin (I am external examiner for the Ubicomp program ) I went back with Mads Haahr (...

The parking meter is some streets of Dublin are an interesting example of an interface following the basic idea of physical mobile interacti...

Wherever I meet with companies at the moment one of the first questions is “do you have good students – we need people…”. It seems good comp...

In Gelsenkirchen (just 15 minutes on the train) was today a conference on accessibility “Einfach für Alle” (easy for all). http://www.einfac...

We made our plans for setting up a company for creating a unique learning experience more specific. Uwe Bayer from Fraunhofer IAIS used in ...

Andreas Bulling from Zürich sent me a link to some amazingly creative Wii projects: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ - it is re...

Yesterday evening we organized a teacher training session on JAVA programming for mobile phone. We introduced them to the basics of Java ME ...

Yesterday night I flew to Hamburg and traveled on to Lübeck – a quite nice town in the north of Germany - for the program committee meetin...

Arriving in Hamburg airport I was surprised by the advert for a rental car. You get a armored car for only 250€ a day. What does this tell ...

Ina Wagner, Volker Wulf and Kjeld Schmidt organized a meeting to get together people from all over Europe that work on human centred computi...

Florian Alt studied media informatics at the LMU in Munich and has now joined our group. In Munich he worked during his project thesis with ...

Some weeks ago we had a Dr. Thomas Schönert, a journalist with Medienhaus Bauer visiting our group in Essen. We explained the idea that dri...

People take mobile devices into their cars and the amount of information people have on those devices is huge – just consider the number of ...

Dagmar presented two work in progress papers at the poster session at CHI. One paper is a master thesis of Hema [1] and assess how we can pe...

Tampere University presented a study where a rotation element is used to create tactile output and the assessed emotional perception of th...

Raimund Dachselt presented FaceZoom, a widget for quick navigation, e.g. for a tree structure [1]. I liked his characterizing “a stacked tre...

This morning was a meeting of people interested in automotive user interfaces. It was an informal session where everyone could contribute. W...

The number of woman starting a computer science degree in German is very low and this has been recognized on many levels as we (as an econom...

Advertisement and markings using pervasive computing technologies is a topic a lot of people are talking about. Little publications are out ...

On Sunday afternoon I flew to Florence and we met up in the evening with former colleagues – CHI always feels like a school reunion ;-) and...