Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

Together Eva Eva Hornecker and Brygg Ullmer I was guest editor for a special issue of the International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJAR...

We put together a poster discussing some of our recent work on mobile displays for HotMobile . While presenting the poster I got a number of...

Comparing prices and finding the cheapest item has been a favorite application example over the last 10 years. I have seen the idea of scann...

Bob Iannucci from Nokia presented his keynote "ubiquitous structured data: the cloud as a semantic platform" at HotMobile 2009 in ...

After a stop-over in Stansted/Cambridge at the TEI conference I was today in Linz, Austria, as external for the PhD defense of Andreas Rien...

What is a simple and cheap way to get from Saarbrücken to Linz? It's not really obvious, but going via Stansted/Cambridge makes sense - ...

Today we visited Christian Müller at DFKI in Saarbrücken. He organized a workshop on Automotive User Interfaces at IUI last week. My talk...

During the workshop last week in Potsdam we got to see demos from students of Design of Physical and Virtual Interfaces class taught by Ret...

Since last year we have in Germany a working group on graspable/tangible interaction in mixed realities . In German the key term we use is “...

Following the workshop I got a few questions on what the important papers are that one should read to start on the topic. There are many (e....

This morning I met with Claudius Lazzeroni , a colleague from Folkwang Hochschule (they were part of our University till two years ago).   ...

Looking at interesting and novel interaction devices that would be challenging for students to classify (e.g. in the table suggested by Card...

As many of us I am skeptical of rankings (as long as I was not involved in making them ;-) Nevertheless sometimes they are interesting and h...

The February 2009 edition of technology review (German version) has its focus on new user interfaces and titles " Streicheln erwünscht...

In the User Interface Engineering lecture we discussed today input devices, especially to interact with 3D environments. In 3D environments ...

Earlier I had a tele-conference with Christian Becker and Gregor Schiele (we still try to write a book ;-) and I tryed MeBeam.com for the...

This morning I was coming back from Munich* on the train I got a phone call from a journalist from Radio Essen ( http://www.102.2radioessen....

Paul Holleis defended today his PhD thesis on "Integrating Usability Models into Pervasive Application Development" in Munich - M...

Instead of covering the history of calculating machines in the DSD lecture, we took the train and went to the Arithmeum in Bonn to the see ...

We organize at this year's Pervasive computing  conference in Nara, Japan a workshop on Pervasive Advertising - http://pervasiveadvertis...

Hans was for a meeting in Stuttgart and he stayed another day to discuss project ideas with me - won't tell them here ;-). Nevertheless ...

Over new year we went for a short skiing trip to Bödele in Austria. It is a small ski resort but great for learning to ski (and this is what...

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...