Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

The Auto-UI 2009 conference in Essen is over - and for us it was very enjoyable to have this many visitors at the University of Duisburg-Es...

In the evening we went to Zeche Zollverein - a world cultural heritage site called "the most beautiful coal mine in the world". ...

The proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2009)...

Dagmar presents her work on a design space for automotive user interfaces [1]. The design space allows to categorize user interface componen...

Tom Seder and I openend the conference and welcomed our keynote speaker. I was very excited that Gert Volker Hildebrand accepted to be the k...

On the weekend I went with Vivien to a fairground at the Volksfest in Crailsheim (smaller Version of the Oktoberfest). Vivien is now old eno...

Kentaro Toyama presented the closing keynote of MobileHCI 2009 with the title "Technology for Global Socio-Economic Development"...

Ali presented our joint work with Nokia Rearch and DoCoMo Eurolab in the paper on sharing emotions [1] (the acceptance rate was about 20%)....

At the evening event of MobileHCI2009 the best paper awards were presented. The best short paper was "User expectations and user experi...

Yesterday we discussed (again during the evening event of MobileHCI2009) how hard it would be to support the process of writing a high quali...

The opening keynote of MobileHCI 2009 in Bonn was given by Jun Rekimoto . He showed selected work that he did over the last year and showed ...

Together with colleagues from Nokia, VTT, and CMU we organized a workshop on Context-Aware Mobile Media and Mobile Social Networks at Mobil...

This year Enrico Rukzio organized the tutorials at mobile HCI 2009 . He got an exciting program together: Matt Jones: Mobile Search Luca Ch...

On Tuesday I was at the German human computer interaction conference called Mensch und Computer . The keynote by Alex Kirlik was on Ethical...

Together with Susanne Boll and Klaus Bengler I was guest editor for a special issue of the I-COM magazine on automotive user Interfaces . T...

After my talk at the Minerva School Roy Weinberg pointed me to a paper by Chris Harrison and Scott Hudson [1] - it also uses audio for crea...

Together with Stephan Karpischek (ETH Zurich) and Florian Michahelles (ETH Zurich & Auto-ID labs) I organize a workshop at Pervasive 20...

In the final part of the summer school the students worked in groups to create new ideas for displays and their use. We had 5 groups working...

If you do sports it typically requires another person to take the photos of you. Having the evening off in in Haifa Keith, Antonio and m...

I was invited to give a talk on " Embedded interaction with display environments " to discuss human computer interaction and techn...

During the summerschool in Haifa Prof. Noam Tractinsky from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev gave a presentation about Aesthetics in Hum...

Florian Alt is working on an idea of sonification of messages (if he is not enjoying himself at a summer school in Haifa). The approach is c...

Uppsala in Sweden is still one of the places I have never been to - and this year I missed another chance: Interact 2009 From our group Flor...

Yesterday after my talk I met briefly Prof. Brian Randell from the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University. Today we had a chat...

We are in Newcastle for a Workshop working on a new idea for tangible UIs that can be easily customized. The basic idea is to senparate func...

The Newspaper Recklinghäuser Zeitung runs a series on inventers in the region. We were honored to be part of this. The article " Jede ...

Tsvi Kuflik and Antonio Krüger organize from August 30th - September 3rd a German-Israeli Minerva School for Ubiquitous Display Environments...

If you study computer science in Germany you get a fair bit of math to do - especially in the first year. It is not liked by all students… N...

I had a recent post on a charging station in Essen - now RWE is running a big promotion in the pedestrian are close to the railway station....