Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

Petra is teaching at the primary school in Satteldorf. As there is no University close by we decided to have a university afternoon at schoo...

Aaron announced that he is going to be the founding director of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory Australia and Professor at the U...

Currently we have an assignment in our Pervasive Computing class that asks students to design and develop a system where actions are associ...

By the end of the month FET Open will launch the call for the proactive initiative on Human Computer Confluence . The term is new and hopefu...

It was a great honor to be invited to Prof Thomas Christaller's 60th Birthday. During my time at Fraunhofer IAIS I had the pleasure of w...

"Sounds like a fun project" was my first reaction when I read some time back the first paper on Steve 's work on augmented toy...

The automotive user interface conference has received nearly 40 (to be exact 37) high quality submissions - we are really thrilled about th...

Having used the Sony PRS-505 now for a few weeks (mainly to read dissertations and project reports) I have quickly gotten used to carrying l...

In Miami airport I picked up the current issue of the wired magazine - and Airberlin gave me plenty of time to read it - was nearly through...

Ever wanted to cite the number of "Mobile cellular subscriptions per 100 inhabitance" in Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Aus...

Looking for a way to get from Essen (leaving not before 18:00) to Newcastle (arriving before 10:00 the next day) and going back from Newcast...

On his way from Eindhoven to Zurich Morten Fjeld was visiting our group. It was great to catch up and talk about a number of exciting resea...

On the way back from the PC-dinner we needed to get an update on another aspect of Japanese technologies and so we went into SEGA World in N...

Jörg just sent me a link on a rubber-like stretchable display that is published in Nature Material. There is a previous press release with ...

Pervasive 2009 had a really exciting program and provided a good overview of current research in pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Have a ...

I did a tutorial on Mobile Human Computer interaction at Pervasive 2009. The tutorial tried to give an overview of challenges of mobile HCI ...

Our group was involved in 3 papers that are published at Pervasive 2009 in Nara. The first contribution is a study on public display that wa...

Toshio Iwai gave the keynote at Pervasive 2009 on expanding media art. He introduced us to the basics of moving images and films. The exam...

We got a good set of submission for our workshop and had about 20 participants who joined us in Nara to discuss how pervasive computing will...

To get cheaper flights we took a flight on Thursday/Friday to fly from Europe to Japan (never really understood the pricing model of flights...

Today we had an open lab day - our first one in Essen. We invited colleagues, admin staff, students, friends, and family to have a look how ...

Andreas Riener from the University of Linz came to visit us for 3 days. In his research he works on multimodal and implicit interaction in ...

Sunday night I travelled to Lugano for a meeting public display networks. I figured out that going there by night train is the best option -...

When shopping for a sofa I used an interesting tangible user interface - magnetic stickers. For each of the sofas systems the customer can c...

When preparing my talk for the BMW research colloquium I realized once more how much potential there is in the automotive domain (if you loo...

I went to see Chris Kray at Culture Lab at Newcastle University . Over the next months we will be working on a joined project on a new appr...

On Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon I ran practical workshops on creating novel user interfaces complementing the tutorial on Wednesday morni...