Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

I had the privilege to teach a course on context-awareness [1] as part of the SICSA Summer School on Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism ...

We have continued our work on the social alarm clock for Android phones. The Somnometer App can be used as a regular alarm clock but offers...

Seeing someone walking up the leaning tower in Pisa with shoes that were clearly not designed for this situation I wondered about the risks ...

At CHI 2011 we presented initial  work on how to use gestural input on a multi-touch steering wheel [1]; a 20 second video is also available...

  I was invited to present a keynote at EICS 2011 in Pisa. In the talk " Engineering Interactive Ubiquitous Computing Systems " I ...

In the opening keynote Howard Rheingold proclaimed that we are in a time for learners and he outlined the possibilities that arise from the ...

Patrick Baudisch showed in Paris at the Microsoft Software summit interesting photos of their DIY activity in creating a glass floor for tr...

Detecting gestures, orientations, and movement can be realized with the accelerometer. The accelerometer is a sensor that measures the accel...

If you want to save high scores or preferences you need persistent memory on the phone. On a traditional computer you would create a file an...

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...