User Interface & Software Engineering

Januar 2012

 

December 2011

 

Three students from Magdeburg – Irina Schumann, Ulrike Kister and Matthias Graf – are doing an internship in Canada since the last winter term (2011/2012). Their internships are part of the transatlantic exchange project LEIF. As research interns they are working on individual projects. Whereas Irina is supervised by and working with Prof. Nicholas Graham from the Queen’s University in Kingston (Ontario), Ulrike and Matthias started working at the University of Calgary (Alberta) supervised by Prof. Sheelagh Carpendale. (more…)

November 2011

 

This year, the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces took place from November 13 to 16 in Kobe. Raimund was traveling to Japan and presenting work of our group. On Sunday morning he was co-chairing the Doctoral Symposium followed by an active participation in the DEXIS Workshop, where he presented two papers on data exploration with interactive surfaces. In the very first conference talk on Monday he presented NEAT: A Set of Flexible Tools and Gestures for Layout Tasks on Interactive Displays (Download Full Paper, Video). This paper was well received, not the least since we went beyond the coolness of multitouch and pen interaction and presented truly effective gesture sets for layout tasks. Impressions of the conference, Hiroshi Ishii’s keynote (via Skype), the excellent conference dinners and the rich culture of Japan can be found in the picture gallery.

September 2011

Also this year we were part of the Mensch und Computer conference, which took place from 11th-14th September in Chemnitz, Germany (see photo gallery). This most important conference in German-speaking Europe was arranged by the GI in cooperation with the German UPA. During the workshop “Be-greifbare Interaktion in Gemischten Wirklichkeiten” Raimund Dachselt gave a keynote about “Tangible Magic Lenses – Graspable Displays for Exploring Information“. Our conference-paper presented by Jens Heydekorn was about gestural interaction with the title “Evaluating a user-elicited gesture-set” (PDF-article). This article contributes evaluation results regarding the user acceptance of a user-suggested gesture-set.

May/June 2011

 

In May, Raimund was invited to give a talk about Natural Ways of Interacting with Information Spaces at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben (Germany). This interesting visit of Falk Schreiber’s working group marked the beginning of joint project work in the field of natural diagram editing and using magic lenses for visualizing biological data.
One month later, Raimund also gave an invited talk at the University of Konstanz (Germany). This visit of Harald Reiterer’s HCI group was very inspiring, interesting and full of exciting demos. Harald’s group really conducts great research in the field of modern human computer interaction.

May 26-27, 2011

 

In May the first ACM conference on Novel Gaze-Controlled Applications was hosted in Karlskrona, Sweden. Researchers from various countries discussed suitable ways how to integrate our gaze for interacting with digital systems. On the one hand, this is of special interest for physically disabled people who may not be able to use other input modalities. On the other hand, new application areas for gaze-based interaction have been discussed, for which the consideration of a user’s visual attention may be beneficial. One example is the gaze-supported remote interaction with large-sized screens in combination with additional input modalities. (more…)

May 28th, 2011

 

Again, during the Long Night of Science 2011 in Magdeburg (in German) the UISE-Group informed about current trends and research projects in the field of Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI).

Numerous interested visitors came to analyse a virtual body of a patient using “magic lenses” or to get hands on a interactive layout application for creating and modifying the layout of graphical elements such as photos, text boxes or nodes in a graph. Children were especially delighted by the learning applications running on the SMART Tabletop, kind of a package of mini games for teaching fundamentals in physics in a playful way. Impressions of the Long Night of Science 2011 at the User Interface Lab can be found in the photo gallery.

May 2011

 

From May 7 to 12 the 29th ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems took place in beautiful Vancouver. The worlds leading HCI conference attracted more than 2700 participants from 48 countries. Mathias Frisch und Raimund Dachselt travelled to Canada to present work of our group. First, the CHI Note Grids & Guides: Multi-Touch Layout and Alignment Tools (acceptance rate 26%, Download Paper) and secondly the workshop contribution Interacting with Printed Books Using Digital Pens and Smart Mobile Projection (Download Paper) at the Workshop on Mobile and Personal Projection (MP²). This full day CHI workshop was also co-organized by Raimund and took place on Sunday before the official conference opening. Around 20 participants discussed the fascinating new research area of mobile projection. (more…)

April 2011

After receiving the call for a professorship at the University of Würzburg, the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg tenured Raimund Dachselt. He was appointed full University Professor in April 2011 and is now leading the Professorship User Interface & Software Engineering at the Computer Science Department in Magdeburg. We are happy about this success. Many thanks to the whole group and the “Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft” who was funding the Juniorprofessorship for more than three years from funds of the Claussen-Simon-Endowment.

January 4th, 2011

 

In May 2010, the first international workshop on personal projection via mobile and wearable pico projectors (Ubiprojection 2010) was held in conjunction with Pervasive 2010. This year’s edition will be a new workshop with a broadened scope at the premier HCI conference CHI 2011 in Vancouver (workshop acceptance rate: 36%). The Workshop on Mobile and Personal Projection (MP²) addresses questions around the exciting trend of pico-projectors which can be integrated into mobile and wearable devices and allow new forms of ubiquitous interaction. Please contribute to this workshop until January 14 or participate on May 8. Both events were co-organized by Raimund Dachselt.