We are happy to announce that TwisterSearch will be presented at the 2nd Workshop on Distributed User Interfaces: Collaboration and Usability (a CHI 2012 Workshop). The workshop will be on May 5th 2012 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas (USA). We are looking forward to meet like-minded researchers and hope for inspiring discussions on DUIs.
We are happy to announce that our group will organize a workshop on “Designing Collaborative Interactive Spaces for e-Creativity, e-Science and e-Learning” at this year’s AVI conference in Capri, Italy in May 2012.
Please have a look at the workshop website to learn about the details and see the call for paper.
Selected workshop submissions will be published as extended versions in a special issue of the Springer journal “Personal and Ubiquitous Computing”.
Today, Mahsa Jenabi successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on “PrIME: Primitive Interaction Tasks for Multi-Display Environments”.
Congratulations! We wish her all the best for the future.
People in picture: Mahsa Jenabi (front), Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Keim, Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer, Prof. Dr. Oliver Deussen (back, from left to right)
Yesterday, we were invited by ict AG and Samsung Electronics GmbH to test one of our Surface 1.0 applications on a SUR40 pre-release unit (Microsoft® Surface® 2.0). The Facet-Streams (PDF, Video) application, therefore, has been migrated from Microsoft® Surface® 1.0 SDK to Microsoft® Surface® 2.0 SDK with help of Microsoft® Surface® Migration Power Toy and a few manual changes in code. It took less than 30 minutes to fully migrate the application. Then, we tested Facet-Streams for Microsoft® Surface® 2.0 SDK on a SUR40 unit, which worked out very well (see pictures).
Our student project NAVI was finally released as Open Source under the BSD License. You can find it at http://navi.codeplex.com. Feel free to play around with the sources.
Our research group is featured in the current issue of ACM interactions magazine. Interactions magazine is a mirror on the human-computer interaction and interaction design communities and beyond. The magazine is circulated to approximately 6000 subscribers per issue, which includes all ACM members of SIGCHI. As the third largest ACM publication it has a very large readership. Click on the image to download a pdf of the article.
Our paper Designing Reality-Based Interfaces for Creative Group Work which we presented at the 8th ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference in Atlanta, USA was awarded with a Honorable Mention for Best Contribution to Creative Communication. Overall three papers were selected by the jury based on the following criteria: Communication, Creativity, Applicants, Design Innovation, Design for Realization, Design for Use, Value to Society, Performance and Reliability in Use.
The award was presented by Ernest Edmonds and Ben Shneiderman in the closing session of the conference on November 6th.
Winner
Philip Mendels for: Freed: A System for Creating Multiple Views of a Digital Collection during the Design Process (CHI 2011 proceedings)
Honorable Mention
Jelle van Dijk for: NOOT: a tool for sharing moments of reflection during creative meetings
Florian Geyer for: Designing Reality-Based Interfaces for Creative Group Work
The vision and the state of the art of our ongoing project Blended Library will be presented by Prof Reiterer at the 4th Autumn School ”New Services in Library and Information Science” (http://campus.hesge.ch/id_bilingue/weiterbildung/herbstschule/index_de.htm) in Bern. At this event the new book “Benutzerorientierte Bibliotheken im Web” (http://www.degruyter.de/cont/imp/saur/detail.cfm?id=IS-9783110258820-1) will be presented to the public. Our Blended Library project is presented in one of the chapters of this book. For more information see also our publications.
At the 7. World Usability Day (WUD) in Stuttgart the HCI Group is represented by Michael Zöllner and Stephan Huber with their
NAVI project. The two will carry along their prototypes and visitors are invited to try it out by theirselves.
The event will take place at the 10th of November at Treffpunkt Rotebühlplatz in Stuttgart and lasts from 10AM to 6PM.
