Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

Yesterday night I did an online check-in for my flight from Düsseldorf to Manchester. For convenience and curiosity I chose the mobile board...

Together with Rene Mayrhofer and Alexander De Luca I organized a technical training at the European Patent Office in Munich. In the lectures...

Last term we ran an interdisciplinary project with our MSc students from computer science and business studies to explore new ways in outdoo...

There is a study that looked at how the performace in solving certain cognitive/creative tasks is influenced by the backgroun color [1]. In ...

Over the last years there have been many ideas how to make devices more modular. Components that allow the end-user to create their own devi...

At Nokia Research Center in Tampere I gave a talk with the title " Computing Beyond Ubicomp - Mobile Communication changed the world -...

This trip was my first time in Tampere (nice to see sometimes a new place). After arriving yesterday night I got a quick cultural refresher ...

Bastian Pfleging joined us some weeks ago - his first day at work was at TEI'09 in Cambridge. We he came back he was so well integrted ...

We are curious in current practice in SMS use - and I hope for a good reason. Together with Jonna Hakkila and her group at Nokia Research we...

Zorah Mari Bauer , who describes herself as "… a theorist, pioneer and activist of innovative media", visited our lab. She works a...

If industries are not doing well one way forward is to promote innovation! Since a number of years it became apparened that many PhD student...

Monday and Tuesday I organized together with Gernot A. Fink a PhD awayday for students in computer science of the Universities Bochum, Dort...

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...