Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer

Prof. Dr. Mag. Harald Reiterer holds a Magister (Mag.) degree (M.Sc. equivalent) from the University of Vienna in Computer Science and Economics. He defended his Ph.D. thesis in Computer Science at the University Vienna, Austria in 1991. In 1995 the University of Vienna conferred him the venia legendi (Habilitation) in Human-Computer Interaction. Prior to his appointment as full professor at the Computer and Information Science Department of the University of Konstanz in 2009, he was associate professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science of the University of Konstanz (1997-2009), assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Vienna (1995-1997), and senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (1990-1995) in Bonn, Germany. His main research interests include different fields of Human-Computer Interaction, like Interaction Design, Usability Engineering, and Information Visualization. He published a variety of articles in the top Journals and Conferences and works as a reviewer for various journals and conferences in these areas. He works also as a reviewer for different national science foundations like the DFG, Germany, the FFF, Austria and the SNF, Switzerland.
Responsibilities
- Human-Computer Interaction Group
Responsibility: Professor - Ständiger Prüfungsausschuss Information Engineering und Informatik
Responsibility: Professor (Best. Stuko v. 08.11.17 Stv. Vorsitz 2) (01.10.2017 – 30.09.2019) - Studienkommission Information Engineering (BA, MA) und Informatik BA, Computer and Information Science (MA) und Lehramt
Responsibility: Professor (Beschluss SR v. 20.07.18 4) (01.10.2018 – 30.09.2019)
Activities
Dagstuhl Seminars
- Ambient Notification Environments 2017
- Challenges in Document Mining 2011
- Human-Computer Integration 2018
- Information Visualization 2010
- Interaction Beyond the Desktop 2012
- Interactive Information Retrieval 2009
- Life-long Health Behavior-change Technologies 2015
- Proxemics in Human-Computer Interaction 2013
Shonan Meetings
Founding Member
Journal Reviewer
- i-Com – Zeitschrift für interaktive und kooperative Medien
- International Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS )
- International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Patents
Adaptives Zeigen - implizite Zuwachsanpassung für absolute Zeigevorrichtungen
Program Committee
- ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Eurographics Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics
- GI Mensch & Computer
- IASTED International Conference on Human Computer Interaction
- IEEE InfoVis Conference
- IEEE VAST Conference
- IEEE Visualization Conference
- IFIP INTERACT International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
- Internationales Symposium für Informationswissenschaft
- IV Information Visualization
Reviewer
- DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – Deutschland
- FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds – Österreich
- SNF Schweizer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung – Schweiz
Talks
Harald Reiterer’s talk on “Die reale Welt als Vorbild — Neue Wege der Interaktion mit digitalen Welten” as part of the GK CrossWorlds at TU Chemnitz is available on Youtube (german).
Harald Reiterer’s talk on “Blended Interaction — Konzepte für die Bibliothek der Zukunft” as part of the conference “Die Zukunft der Wissensspeicher” is available on the website of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung (german).
Conference
Workshops
- Blended Museum - INFORMATIK 2017
- Cross-Surface - ISS 2016
- Cross-Surface - CHI 2016
- Cross-Surface - ITS 2015
- Visual Adaptation of Interfaces - ITS 2013
- Blended Interaction - CHI 2013
- Proxemics - NordiCHI 2012
- DCIS 2012 - AVI 2012
Current courses
Title | Type |
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Seminar for the Master's Project Human-Computer Interaction | Project Seminar |
Master's Project Human-Computer Interaction | Project |
Bachelor's Project Human-Computer Interaction | Project |
Seminar for the Bachelor's Project Human-Computer Interaction | Project Seminar |
Projects
Publication list