Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

We met in Munich at Docomo Euro Labs to start a new project that is related to context and ambient visualizations. And everyone already got ...

Over the last day I have learned about some (more) interesting things out there – here are some to share with you: OpenGeoDB: http://openge...

This afternoon Gordon Bolduan from Technology Review was visiting the lab. We talked about haptic and tactile interfaces and showed some de...

This term we teach digital system design and besides the essential (gates, flip-flops, 2-complements, alu, data path, etc) we decided to inc...

Enrico Rukzio (my first PhD from Munich, now lecturer in Lancaster) visited our Lab. He was make a small tour of Germany (Münster, Essen, O...

Arriving at the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport I saw some extra installations (and extra lines) for iris scan immigration. Arriving at 4...

On Thursday morning I flew to Boston for the CHI 2009 PC meeting. The review and selection process was organized very professional and effic...

Going to Christmas market is in Germany a tradition - and obviously our group went, too ;-) It is interesting that most of us had time for t...

Mandy Marder, a doctoral student at university hospital in Essen has done an interesting study, looking at the activity of the brain at diff...

In our user interface engineering class one of the tasks in the exercise is to create a concept design for providing information from the c...

The PC meeting for Percom 2009 took place at IBM in Hawthorne, NY. Percom had about 200 submissions and many good ones - so we could compil...

Looking into Paul Rayson's blog  and discovered an interesting link: http://www.genderanalyzer.com . It is a web form where you can put ...

Exoskeletons have received some attention over the last years (some with a clear application area in the army), e.g. Robot suit HAL  and the...

In Cologne in the Museum Ludwig I gave in the afternoon a talk on "Illusions 2.0 - embedded interactive media" at the Forum Medien...

We arrived in the evening in Köln and went to our hotel and around 10:30 pm the fire alarm sounded (really loud - you want to leave) and a v...

There many good reason to have an international team - especilly when doing research in pervasive computing and user interface engineering. ...

On Saturday we went for a walk and to make it more exciting we decided to look for a geocache ( GCXP87 , N 49° 08.775 E 010° 06.672). To our...

I have been chairing the Stream "Aging as a Global Issue" at the conference T echnologies of Globalization 2008  in Darmstadt. It ...

Today I was teaching my class on user interface engineering and we covered a selected history of HCI and looked at the same time at a poten...

In our master course we offer a project on pervasive advertisement (it is an interdisciplinary course project from computer science and mar...

Lucia Terrenghi and Thomas Lang from Vodafone R&D in Munich visited our lab. We talked at lot about the future role of mobile devices an...

As one issue this morning we came across issues related to privacy. In particular it seems that social network analysis based on behavior in...

The last 2 day we had a meeting - with all faculty of the ICB - discussing the future challenges of work at universities in the context of ...

Visiting Dublin is always a pleasure - even if the weather is rainy. Most of the day I was at Trinity College reading master theses (which i...

At LMU in Munich Richard Atterer defended his PhD thesis on Usability Tool Support for Model-Based Web Development . The external examiner ...

The current issue of the ct-Magazine (one of the largest computing magazines in Germany) features an introductory article on tangible user ...

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...