The referees:

• Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer (University of Konstanz)
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Butz (LMU Munich)
• Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Keim (University of Konstanz)

People in picture (from left to right): Prof. Dr. Andreas Butz, Hans-Christian Jetter, Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer, Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Keim

In April, Christian will leave for London and start doing his post-doc at the University College London (UCL). More information at http://connected-cities.org/

Christian, we wish you all the best and hope you will miss us and return to Konstanz very soon .

Thanks to all listeners of the talk for the nice feedback on twitter, such as:

Meine derzeitigen Lieblingsthemen im Bibwesen werden am besten v d 3K realisiert: Konstanz, Köln, Kiel #bid13 #chapeau

— hjbove (@hjbove) 13. März 2013

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See the video:

Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer will give a talk about “A new Interaction Paradigm for Distributed User Interfaces” at the University of St. Andrews Computer Human Interaction research group (SACHI) http://sachi.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk on Monday 11th March 2013.

We would be pleased to welcome you at this event.

Abstract:

Large touch tables have great potential for co-located collaboration because of their ability to track multiple inputs simultaneously. However, the multi-user experience on these devices can be enriched significantly if touch points can be associated with the user performing an action. When the user’s identity is readily available, there are many new opportunities for systems deployed in multi-user scenarios. For example, multiple users can operate applications in different modes at the same time or the appearance of the interface can change to provide automatic translations or help cues for novice users. In my talk I will give an overview on different techniques and I will present a non-intrusive, high-accuracy technique for mapping touches to their corresponding user in a collaborative environment named Carpus.

By mounting a high-resolution camera above the interactive surface, we are able to extract unique features from the back of the user’s hands, from all hand postures that are common during the practical use of multi-touch systems. Carpus supports walk-up-and-use scenarios in which every touch can be identified transparently. Our system therefore enables an entire new range of applications in which the user’s identity is needed. For example, we envision interactive setups in shops in order for customers to get more information about products. Carpus could be used in this scenario to track the users’ interests over different sessions and suggest them other relevant products in which he might be interested in.

Bio:

Johannes Schöning is a professor of computer science with a focus on HCI at Hasselt University, working within the Expertise centre for Digital Media (EDM) – the ICT research institute of Hasselt University. In addition he is a visiting lecturer at UCL London within the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Cities. These web pages are intended to give you an overview on his academic activities.

Before that Johannes worked in industry and at the Innovative Retail Laboratory of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbrücken. During his time at DFKI he received a PhD in computer science at Saarland University (2010) and a Master in Geoinformatics at the University of Münster at the Institute for Geoinformatics (2007). For his PhD he was awarded with the Vodafone Research Advancement Award.

Johannes Schönings research interests are new methods and novel interfaces to mainly navigate through spatial information. In general he develops, design and tests user interfaces that help people to solve daily tasks more effectively. This includes the development of mobile augmented reality applications, interactive surfaces and tabletops and other “Post-Desktop” interfaces.

We will present two Works-In-Progress:

• Blended Shelf: Reality-based Presentation and Exploration of Library Collections
  Kleiner, Eike; Rädle, Roman; Reiterer, Harald
  
• Encouraging Collaboration in Hybrid Therapy Games for Autistic Children
  Marwecki, Sebastian; Rädle, Roman; Reiterer, Harald

one contribution to the Doctoral Consortium:

• Design and Evaluation of Proxemics-Aware Environments to Support Navigation in Large Information Spaces
  Rädle, Roman

and two workshop contributions :

• Blended Interaction as an Approach for Holistic Control Room Design
  Butscher, Simon; Mueller, Jens; Schwarz, Tobias; Reiterer, Harald
• Self-Organizing User Interfaces: Envisioning the Future of Ubicomp UIs
  Jetter, Hans-Christian; Reiterer, Harald

We are looking forward to an exciting conference in Paris!

Dr. Uta Hinrichs will talk about “Open-Ended Information Exploration in Exhibition Spaces: A Case for Visualization & Large Display Technology”. For more information on this event see also http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/gk/teaching/db_colloq/abstract.php?table=TALK&id=246.

The talk of Dr. Miguel Nacenta is entiteled “Perceptual-spatial Factors in the Design of Collaborative Interactive Displays”. To get more information about this talk visit http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/gk/teaching/db_colloq/abstract.php?table=TALK&id=245.

We would be pleased to welcome you at this event.

We are looking forward to an interesting conference!