Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

I just watched one of my favorite adverts on UK TV ( http://meerkat.comparethemarket.com/home ). It is amazing that they have implemented a ...

As I am always on the lookout for user interfaces it was delightful to see the bridge and the engine room of the Queen Mary with truly tang...

This week I went for my first IEEE Computer editorial board meeting to Long Beach. The meeting was held in the meeting facilities on the Qu...

I got up this morning before 4am… that is really early. Arriving at the airport I found out that the 5:40 flight was canceled. I should have...

Gilian Crampton Smith is one of the people that massively influenced the field of interaction design from the very beginning. She is current...

Nic Villar and James Scott from Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, run a Studio on building interactive devices at TEI 2011 in Madeira....

This is now the 5th TEI conference and it has about 300 people attending. It is still a very young community, with many students attending,...

Over the last day we got together in Portugal to discuss the progress in the EU-FET-OPEN project pdnet . We are now 9 month into the project...

The answer is probably "my phone" - it seems that for many people the phone has become their primary alarm clock. We have discusse...

No posts for some time... the reason: I have changed jobs and this was eating up more time than expected. Since December, 17th 2010 I am wit...

At PARC I had the chance to talk to people about some of our current projects. Les Nelson has done interesting work on public displays [1]....

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The question "Do tangible user interface make sense?" is a question that probably everyone who seriously works in this field has a...

Seeing the recent post on blog.okcupid.com (Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex) made me think if we are approaching a point where our understanding o...

Spending 3 intensive days at the University of Freiburg as member of the jury at the finals of the German computer science competition ( Bun...

Today (Friday, October 1st 2010) there are two deadlines related to automotive computing research: Early registration deadline of the 2nd In...

Today the 12th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing (ubicomp2010) started in Copenhagen. The conference is very competitive sho...

Together with Adrian I organized a workshop at Ubicomp2010 in Copenhagen on Ubiquitous Computing for Sustainable Energy . The motivation for...

For our European FET open project PD-NET we have a web page at http://pd-net.org/ online. There we describe the project and there is alread...

Rikke Friis Dam and Mads Søgaard are currently working on a re-launch of the website interaction-design.org . The side has over the last yea...

From the cfp "The second Augmented Human (AH) International Conference will be held in Tokyo Water Front on March 12th, 13th and 14th 2...

After having read an electronics preprint some weeks ago Bernhard and Raimund showed me the first printed version of their book " Inter...

We had the great pleasure to have Ed H. Chi from PARC for the afternoon and evening in Essen. Ed gave a keynote at Mensch und Computer 201...

On Tuesday morning Steve Benford presented the entertainment interfaces keynote. He is interested in how to use computer technology to supp...

Ed H. Chi from PARC presented the opening keynote for Mensch&Computer 2010 . In the motivation of the talk he showed a document on ...

The German HCI conference Mensch und Computer 2010 started today. Under a single roof - called interactive culture - three more conference...

Felix von Reischach investigated in his PhD mobile product review systems. The paper [1] he presented at mobile HCI 2010 in Lisbon compares ...