Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

Michael Kuhn defended his PhD thesis on "Understanding and Organizing User Generated Data: Methods and Applications" at ETH Zurich...

Next year will be a special issue of the IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine on Automotive Pervasive Computing. I am honored to edit this iss...

We have started to experiment with reading articles and providing them as MP3 files or podcasts (see the facebook page or the blogpost ). S...

Enrico got for his project a handheld laser projector. The nice thing about this technology is that the projected image is always in focus -...

Why should we teach Ubicomp? What are the core issues when teaching Ubicomp? How do we cope with the rapid changes in technologies if we pro...

My first mobile phone in 1998 had a detachable antenna (you could just screw the antenna off). This design feature enabled a socially accept...

At the editorial board meeting we discussed new ideas on how to distribute content of the IEEE Pervasive Magazine in further ways. The maga...

Before the meeting close to Berlin I once more underestimated the size of the planet (and how far Berlin is away from any other place in Ger...

The IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine is one of 4 magazines I still read in paper (the others are IEEE Computer , Communications of the ACM...

Vivien visited us in the lab and tried out a number of ideas for the project "mobile phones as a learning platform". She really en...

Today I gave a talk at Automotive Interiors Expo 2010 in Stuttgart. Traditionally this fair is about car seats, wood for the dashboard, col...

At the University of Duisburg-Essen we have founded paluno - The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology. Stefan Eicker, Klaus Pohl, Michael ...

I had the pleasure to be external examiner for the PhD thesis of Ulrich Steinhoff at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Ulrich did his P...

I was invited to give a keynote at the 2010 UBI Summit in Helsinki. I looked into the recent developments of Ubicomp and in particular when...

Over the last years Felix looked at how mobile phones can enhance the shopping experience in the real world. In particular Felix compared di...

We are excitet to start a new European FET Open project on pervasive display networks. With pdnet we hope to create an entirely new communi...

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...