Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

While waiting for my conneting flight a saw a women posting a letter and filming this as she did it. She created some sort of proof. Thinkin...

The closing panel at Ubicomp dicussed the last 10 years of ubicomp and potential future direction (with regard to community and technology)....

Over the last days there were a number of interesting papers presented and so it is not easy to pick a selection... Here is my random paper ...

In the poster session we showed 3 ideas of ongoing work from our lab and got some interesting comments and had good discussions.  Ali presen...

TV and media consumption changes and one gets aware of this especially here in Seoul. People watch mobile TV on the subway and watching yout...

The opening keynote at Ubicomp 2008 was presented by Dr. Shim Yoon (Vice President Samsung SDS) on Realizing Ubiquitous Cities. She stated o...

In the doctoral colloquium at Ubicomp 2008 we saw an interesting mix of topics including work on context-awareness, interaction in smart sp...

We got a new  USB GPS tracker (from  Mobile Action , GT100) and had to try it out on the trip to Korea. It worked very well compared to the ...

On the way into town we got a really good price for the taxi (just make a mental note never to negotiate something with Florian and Alireza ...

I have learned about Chumby an interesting platform that is designed to replace devices on your bedside table. Looking forward to get one o...

Imagine there is a song – you know band and title – and you want to buy it. Should not be really something worthwhile reporting in a blog… ...

Yesterday there was a workshop on Mobile and Embedded Interaction as part of Informatik2008 in Munich. The talks and discussions were very ...

For the second time we ran this year a workshop on automobile user interfaces and interactive applications in the car at the German HCI conf...

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....