Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

On Friday afternoon I was at the summer party of the chair of ergonomics at the Technical University of Munich . Klaus Bengler , who took ov...

It is about 15 years that I came across the idea of newspapers - printed in the shop where you buy them (sometime when I studied in Ulm). To...

Next week is the early registration deadline for the 1st International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular A...

Reto Wettach was in Essen so we took the opportunity to get together to flash out some ideas for a proposal - it is related to pain - in a ...

Why would I write a post about a power plug? Perhaps in some years this may be so common that we do not know when the first appeared ;-) And...

I came across this study in computer bild - you should not cite it as it in a scientific paper as "computer bild" - is consumer p...

In the afternoon I gave a talk at NEC labs in Heidelberg on ubiquitous display networks . Over the last year we developed and number of id...

Gilbert Beyer from Munich came to visit our lab. In Munich he is working on interesting projects that combine aspects of software engineeri...

Meeting with other researchers that run or have run Emmy Noether research groups is very different from normal conferences and meetings. The...

On the trip to Potsdam two young women sat opposite us - discussion one-by-one the pages in the yearbook of their school. The yearbook was f...

We got samples for USB sticks for the proceedings of the automotive conference - which one do you like best?

For the 1st International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2009) we got many qu...

Friday and Saturday we came to Velen ( Hotel SportSchloss Velen ) to discuss mainly administrative and strategic issues - and there are plen...

Elektor magazine features in the current issue a DIY Segway called Elektor Wheelie . The system is build around a ATMEGA32 and has obviousl...

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 ...