Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

At the University of Leipzig a German Language corpus is available ( Projekt Deutscher Wortschatz ). The database can be queried from differ...

In this example the use of the location API is demonstrated. The API is a high level interface to geo location. How the location is determin...

This year's Percom conference was held in Seattle and offered an exciting and diverse program. Have a look the program to see it for y...

This examples shows how to activate the vibration motor / vibration actuator in the phone. The calls Microsoft.Devices.VibrateController.Def...

Over the next weeks I like to share some examples I have created while learning to program the Windows Phone 7 platform. The tutorial is mai...

I am putting together a Windows Phone 7 tutorial ... and then I came across the issue of how to include code in the blog posts. Here is the ...

I spotted this visualization of an underground line in Tokyo and thought that I can use this as an interesting introductory example in infor...

Together with Marc Langheinrich and Kristian Kersting we wrote an article on how computing is going to change our world [1] and featured in ...

Paul Lukowicz taked in the symposium on I nteraction with Smart Artifacts in Tokyo about "Large scale, context aware socio-technical s...

Hideki Koike talked at the Symposium on Interaction with Smart Artifacts in Tokyo . One of the examples he showed is the PhotoelasticTouch t...

After a long day/night of travelling I arrived in Tokyo. Arriving at the hotel we were met by our Japanese Colleague Yoshito Tobe and guided...

During my research visit at Microsoft Research in Cambridge with Steve Hodges group I spend a lot of time building things and programming ...

The deadline for the workshop on "International Workshop on Context-aware QoS Provisioning and Management for Emerging Networks, Applic...

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...