Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

For the second time we organized an international doctoral colloquium on HCI - mainly with students from Germany and Finland. This year it w...

Creativity is a key issue of creating novel applications and interaction methods and techniques. Over two days we ran a hands on prototyping...

Jari Ikonen from the Finnish Ubicomp program contacted me last week - interestingly because I shared on this blog the information that I wi...

Social software and media is getting hugely popular and there are many longer explanations in CSCW and CHI why this works and what are the b...

In my digital systems design class we have used the eZ430-F2013 development kits - they are cheap (about 20 €) and most students get it wor...

I am very much in favor of teaching children more than one number system (e.g. binary additional to the decimal system). To me this gives ch...

This month at the Java User Group meeting some groups of the University presented their research. First I considered to talk about JAVA on m...

The current issue interactions ( http://interactions.acm.org ) features some interesting articles - at least scanning through it and reading...

Given the technologies around us I sometimes wonder how close we are to a vision of ubiquitous computing. In this month IEEE Computer Invisi...

Having a professional interest in advertising I really liked the link my colleague Bruno Müller-Clostermann sent to me. I obviously had to t...

After several tries we finally managed to travel to Dortmund (half an hour on the S-Train) to visit Gernot A. Fink 's group at the Techn...

At the moment there is an interesting discussion in Germany: should the state buy data (leaked out of a Swiss bank) that give details on peo...

We have a number of student projects that look at novel applications and novel application platforms on mobile phones. As Michael Rohs from...

Robustness and durability are typical qualities that we aim for when building interactive prototypes and systems. Tanja and Axel explored wh...

In the AmbiViz project we investigate how context information (explicitly or implicitly collected) can be provided to the user. The aim is t...

Kati Mäkitalo-Siegl, Jan Zottmann, Frederic Kaplan and Frank Fischer organized a workshop that resulted in the book: Classroom of the Future...

I thought I have seen all possible multi-touch installations ;-) but here is a new one: Ubice installation. Jonna and her group at NRC in F...

Since a wireless charger (RCA Airnergy) was announces at CES that harvests energy from wifi signals that are around the topic is everywhere...

This year RUHR.2010 - Essen and the Ruhr area - is European Capital of Culture . If you ever dreamed of visiting Essen - this is the year!

We wrote an article on the automotive user interface conference that took place in Essen in September 2009. In the current issue of the IEE...

From the 4th to the 8th of January we (Nigel Davies, Antonio Krüger, Marc Langheinrich, Martin Strohbach, and I) organized a Seminar on Perv...

While travelling I came across two very different books. On one of the airports I came through I came across Superfreakonimics by Levitt and...

December was filled with travel - twice to the US and several trips in Europe - and for the first time in two years I did not really get aro...

On Wednesday and Thursday Enrico visited our group in Essen. He gave a part of my lecture on user interface engineering talking about mobil...

The 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2009) was held in Cambridge, UK. The conference is fairly specific...

Finland is one country in Europe were it seems pretty hard to get to in the morning from Germany or Austria. If you have a meeting before 11...

Florian Alt presented our work on pervasive advertising, in particular on creating dynamic user profiles in the real world [1]. This researc...