Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

Last winter term I was teaching a class on Unconventional User Interfaces at the University of Linz as part of the MSc in Pervasive Comput...

This year the German HCI conference (Mensch und Computer) is co-located with the German e-learning conference. The opening keynote this mor...

During mobile HCI I came across many interesting things (that is why one goes to conferences ;-) here is a selection of papers to look at – ...

Last year Paul did an internship a Nokia in Finland. He worked there on the integration of capacitive sensors in phones and clothing. After ...

Since Enrico Rukzio (my first PhD student) went to Lancaster he discovered and advanced a very exciting topic for mobile interaction: mobil...

I recently discussed with Felix von Reischach (from the group of Florian Michahelles at the autoidlabs /ETH Zürich) ideas for a survey and ...

After the conference reception and dinner we went around Amsterdam for some late night sightseeing. Amsterdam is an amazing place... On the ...

While listening to BJ Fogg, and especially on the motivation pairs (in particular instant pleasure and gratification vs. instant pain ) I wa...

BJ Fogg gave the opening keynote at mobile HCI 2008 in Amsterdam . The talk explained very well the concept of Captology (computers as pers...

Lots of people downloaded Google chrome during the conference. And it seemed that google managed to keep secret till the date it is launche...

The conference on mobile human computer interaction ( MobileHCI 2008 ) started today in Amsterdam with the tutorial and workshop day. I am...

Recently I get this question more often - especially how to keep up with developments outside the scientific community. Some tell this is no...

Together with Jonna Hakkila’s group (currently run by Jani Mantyjarvi) we had a two day workshop at Nokia in Oulu discussion the next big th...

Jonna Hakkila (Nokia), Jani Mantyjarvi (Nokia & VTT), and I discussed last year how we can improve the doctoral studies of our students ...

Christian Kray and I were colleagues in Lancaster for a very short time – he just joined the university when I left for Munich. After his p...

Today Matthias Kranz defended his PhD thesis „Engineering Perceptive User Interfaces“ successfully at the University of Munich! Congratulati...

Nicolas , who was the first BSc student I worked with in Lancaster, is now after finishing his PhD with Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK....

From Friday to Sunday I was in Potsdam for the yearly Emmy Noether meeting organized by DFG (German Science Foundation). The Emmy Noether ...

In my talk at ISUVR2008 I referred to an example where an insurance is monitor driving behavior and makes a tariff according to this. Some p...

When we re-entered South Korea I saw guard looking with an infrared camera at all arriving people. It was very hot outside so the heads were...

[ see the whole set of photos from tour to North Korea ] From Gwangju we took the bus shortly after midnight to go for a trip to North Korea...

Norbert Streitz – Trade-off for creating smartness Norbert gave an interesting overview of research in the domain of ubicomp based on his p...

In the evening we had a great Korean dinner. I enjoyed it very much – and I imagine we have seen everything people eat in Korea – at some po...

The first day of the symposium was exciting and we saw a wide range of contributions from context-awareness to machine vision. In following ...

Yesterday I arrived in Gwangju for the ISUVR-2008 . It is my first time in Korea and it is an amazing place. Together with some of the other...

When I arrived in Seoul at the airport I saw an interesting instance of embedded information. In Munich we wrote a workshop paper [1] about ...

Christofer Lueg (he is professor at the School of Computing & Information Systems at the University of Tasmania) and Trevor Pering (he...

Over the last years there have been many workshops and sessions in the ubicomp community that address the evaluation of systems. At Pervasiv...

Wolfgang just sent me another picture (taken by a colleague of him) with more information in the head-up display. It shows a speed of 180 km...

Recently I came across a device that tracks the GPS position and has additionally a card reader ( http://photofinder.atpinc.com/ ). If you p...