Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

We recently discussed more ideas on sharing alarm clock settings and sharing of the interaction with the alarm clock. Conceptually we have c...

Due to the volcanic activity in Iceland (and the resulting cancellation of many flights) I was a few days longer in North America than plann...

Andrew Kun invited me to give a talk at the Univeristy of New Hampshire in Durham on my way back from CHI. The talk was on "Embedding I...

Over the last year we looked more closely into the potential of eye-gaze for implicit interaction. Gazemarks is an approach where the users...

It seems we have a lot of work in progress :-) and CHI is a great place to get feedback an talk to people about it. Florian Alt and others f...

Harrison, C., Tan, D., and Morris, D. 2010. Skinput: appropriating the body as an input surface . In Proceedings of the 28th international C...

EmoDetector, by University of Duisburg-Essen and Nokia Research Center, is an application that provides auditory cues in addition to the not...

2343 attendees came to CHI 2010 this year to Atlanta. Participants are from 43 countries and the colored map suggested that a good number c...

On Saturday there was a workshop on monitoring, logging and reflecting. Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life....

Having used these cups I found that they are great examples for the concept of an affordance. Their shape and design prohibits some usage sc...

Together with Matthias Kranz and Carl Fisher we had a full paper at Percom 2010 - and I had the honor to present it [1]. The paper reports w...

Pertti Huuskonen from Nokia presented his keynote at Percom in Mannheim. I worked with Pertti in 1999 on a European Project TEA - creating...

About 300 people are at Percom 2010, which is held in the palace in Mannheim - and amazing location! The conference had 233 submission and i...

Mohan Kumar and Marco Conti organized an EU/NSF workshop on Future Directions in Pervasive Computing and Social Networking for Emerging Appl...

The call for the 2nd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications is online - see http://...

A video describing the poker surface is available in youtube. It is an implementation of a poker game on a combination of a multi-touch tab...

Heiko worked the last 6 years towards his PhD. He did a lot of things during this time - and even though not everything was on his PhD topic...

For the second time we organize a doctoral seminar for PhD students in CS from Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg und Essen . The main purpose is to...

Friday and Saturday we hosted the GI working groups on tangible interaction ( GI Arbeitskreis Be-greifbare Interaction in gemischten Wirklic...

Nicolas visited us in Essen to give the opening talk of our German meeting on tangible interaction. In his talk he first showed some exampl...

I recently got more often used about cloud computing and what my take on it is. So far I have not had time to write up my view but I can sha...

I came across 2 Sensor module recently released by ST Microelectronics: LSM303DLH - 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis magnetometer in a single...

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...