Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

Having coordinated the editing of a shared document with about 100 pages I still wonder why I have not come across a really good solutions t...

The next European deadline is close and hence everyone is writing proposals… I wonder if someone has assessed how much work goes into propos...

Over the last three years I have been regularly to Dublin to act as external examiner for the Ubicomp MSc course. For me this was a good ex...

What did I do with Vivien the last weekends? We soldered a radio receiver kit (retro style) and it worked - there are still plenty of statio...

Every day per year one place or institution is Germany is awarded " a place in the land of ideas ". This initiative is quite comp...

Following our first workshop on this topic in Nara during Pervasive 2009 earlier this year we had on Friday the 2nd Pervasive Advertising W...

For some of the recent proceedings ( Automotive User Interfaces Conference and Pervasive Advertising Workshop) we used a tag cloud generato...

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...