2016

Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer has been invited to a NII Shonan Meeting. The title of the seminar is “Immersive Analytics: A new multidisciplinary initiative to explore future interaction technologies for data analytics”. The seminar will take place from February 15-18, 2016. 

Read more about the Seminar: http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/shonan/blog/2015/04/01/immersive-analytics-a-new-multidisciplinary-initiative-to-explore-future-interaction-technologies-for-data-analytics/

In May we will present three papers, two full papers and a note, at CHI 2016 in San Jose. All papers are joint work with our research partners from the University of St Andrews, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, and University of Aarhus.

Uta Hinrichs, Simon Butscher, Jens Müller, Harald Reiterer. 2016. Diving in at the Deep End: The Value of Alternative In-Situ Approaches for Systematic Library Search. To appear: In Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI ’16), ACM, May 2016. Honorable Mention Paper Award.

Jens Müller, Roman Rädle, Harald Reiterer. 2016. Virtual Objects as Spatial Cues in Collaborative Mixed Reality Environments: How They Shape Communication Behavior and User Task Load. To appear: In Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI ’16), ACM, May 2016.

Johannes Zagermann, Ulrike Pfeil, Roman Rädle, Hans-Christian Jetter, Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose, Harald Reiterer. 2016. When Tablets meet Tabletops: The Effect of Tabletop Size on Around-the-Table Collaboration with Personal Tablets. To appear: In Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI ’16), ACM, May 2016.

We are looking forward to seeing you at CHI 2016 in San Jose!

We are pleased to welcome Jakob E. Bardram from the Technical University of Denmark as invited speaker on March, 3 2016. He will give a talk about “Activity-based Collaboration for Interactive Spaces”. The talk will be held at 5.00 pm in room ML 630.

Abstract:

Activity-based computing (ABC) have been proposed as a novel conceptual and technological framework for designing systems that provide more efficient user interaction. In ABC, rather than interacting directly with lower-level technical entities like files, folder, documents, etc., users are able to interact with ‘activities’ that directly map human work activities, and which encapsulates files and other low-level resources. In ABC an ‘activity’ can be shared between collaborating users and can be accessed on different devices. As such, ABC is a framework that suits the requirements of designing interactive spaces. This talk provides an overview of ABC with a special focus on its support for collaboration (‘Activity Sharing’) and multiple devices (‘Activity Roaming’). These ABC concepts are illustrated as implemented in two different interactive spaces technologies; ReticularSpaces [1] and the eLabBench [3, 2]. The talk discusses the benefits of activity-based collaboration support for these interactive spaces, while also discussing limitations and challenges to be addressed in further research.

[1] Bardram,J., Gueddana,S., Houben,S., Nielsen,S.: Reticularspaces: activity-based computing support for physically distributed and collaborative smart spaces. In: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’12, pp. 2845–2854. ACM, New York, NY, USA (2012).
[2] Tabard, A., Hincapi Ramos, J.D., Bardram, J.: The elabbench in the wild: supporting exploration in a molecular biology lab. In: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’12, pp. 3051–3060. ACM, New York, NY, USA (2012).
[3] Tabard,A., Hincapi-Ramos,J.D., Bardram,J.E.: The elabbench: An interactive tabletop system for the biology laboratory. In: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2011, ITS2011, pp. 301–310. ACM, New York, NY, USA (2011)

 Bio:

Dr. Bardram is a professor in computer science at theTechnical University of Denmark (DTU) and directs the Copenhagen Center for Health Technology (CACHET). Prior to this position, he was a professor at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) and an associate professor at the Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus and the co-founder and first manager of the Danish Centre for Pervasive Healthcare.

Dr. Bardram received his PhD in computer science in 1998 from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. During his academic career, he has raised considerable national and european funding for strategic research projects in cooperation with different industrial partners. He has published an edited book on Pervasive Healthcare and has edited several special journal issue on computing systems in healthcare. During his scientific career, Dr. Bardram has published more than 100 original peer-reviewed papers in international scientific books, journals, and conference proceedings.

Business Background:

Dr. Bardram has been involved in several start-ups based on his research. Recently (2013) he co-founded and serves as the CEO of the company Monsenso ApS that provides personal health technologies for metal disorders. In 2006, he co-founded the company Cetrea A/S, which specialize in the development of pervasive computing technology for hospitals. He has had several executive roles at Cetrea, including member of the board, chief executive officer (CEO) and chief scientific officer (CSO). Dr. Bardram also helped found CLC Bio A/S who develops bioinformatics software. Dr. Bardram has previously held positions as project manager and IT architect at IBM, and he has been an industrial research fellow at CSC, where he worked with software architectures for cooperative systems in hospitals.

The Human-Computer Interaction Group and the Information Science Group cordially invite you to come to the introduction of this semester’s Bachelor and Master projects. 

You will get a short overview on Monday, April 25 at 11:45 in our Media Room (Z 924). 

The offered projects – in which students have the opportunity to actively participate in ongoing research – will be presented by members of the HCI and Information Science Group and can be discussed afterwards if any questions remain.

Harald Reiterer and Mario Schreiner co-organized Cross-Surface 2016, the second international workshop on interacting with multi-device ecologies “in the wild”.

Jens Müller talked about Virtual Objects as Spatial Cues in Collaborative Mixed Reality Environments: How They Shape Communication Behavior and User Task Load.

Uta Hinrichs and Simon Butscher presented their paper Diving in at the Deep End: The Value of Alternative In-Situ Approaches for Systematic Library Search. Together with their co-authors Jens Müller and Harald Reiterer they received an Honorable Mention Award.

Ulrike Pfeil and Johannes Zagermann talked about When Tablets meet Tabletops: The Effect of Tabletop Size on Around-the-Table Collaboration with Personal Tablets.

Thank you all for a great CHI’16, interesting talks and inspiring conversations!

Im Rahmen der 17. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Bibliotheken und Informationseinrichtungen der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft vom 15. bis 16.9. 2016 im Institut der Deutschen Sprache in Mannheim wird Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer am Donnerstag, den 15.9. ab 13:30 Uhr im Themenblock ‘Zukunft der Bibliotheken’ einen Vortrag zum Thema ‘Blended Library’ halten. Weitere Vorträge und Programmpunkte können dem Tagungsprogramm entnommen werden.

Harald Reiterer has been invited to give a talk about “Technologies for supporting participation during search” at the 2016 Fall PIT Symposium in Aarhus. More about the Symposium: http://pit.au.dk/pages/the-2016-fall-pit-symposium/

We are happy to invite you to the following talk, which is part of the SFB-TRR 161 lecture series:

Web/Url

http://joernhurtienne.com/

Institution

Psychological Ergonomics at the institute Mensch-Computer-Medien [Human-Computer-Media] at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Description

Can we design user interfaces that are intuitive to use, innovative and inclusive – all at the same time? Although it is generally doubted that this would be possible, we found great promise in the cognitive-linguistic theory of image-schematic metaphors. The talk introduces the theory and research into the application of image-schematic metaphors in HCI. Our research suggests that the application of image schemas can contribute to user interfaces that are innovative, inclusive and intuitive to use. Along the way I will highlight aspects of how we quantify innovation, intuitive use and inclusiveness.

Short Bio

Jörn Hurtienne is Professor of Psychological Ergonomics at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Germany). He received his PhD from Technische Universität Berlin (Germany) and previously was a Research Associate and EU Marie-Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK). His research interests include designing for intuitive use, tangible interaction, embodied cognition, and the psychology of knowledge work.