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At this year’s exhibition "MS Wissenschaft" the SFB-TRR 161 shows an interactive table that presents the different research topics of various researchers of the SFB.

We are back from CHI’18 and happy to show you some impressions.

Im Rahmen des 1. Bibliothekspolitischen Bundeskongresses in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin am 1. und 2. März 2018 wird Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer an der Podiumsdiskussion “Digitaler Zugang zu und digitale Vermittlung von Kunst und Kultur” teilnehmen. Die Veranstaltung wird per Live-Stream auf der Webseite des dbv Bundeskongress und auf dessen Facebook-Seite übertragen. Aufzeichnungen des Live-Streams werden anschließend zur Dokumentation auf der Webseite des dbv bereitgestellt.

After the exhibition has closed in Konstanz it has now reopened in the Braunschweiger Landesmuseum. It is open from 20. Dezember 2017 – 29. April 2018.

The exhibition in the news: Focus Online, Hochrhein-Zeitung, Südwest Presse Online

In April we will present two papers at CHI 2018 in Montreal, Canada. All papers are joint work with our research partners from Aarhus University, the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, the Data Analysis and Visualization group of the University of Konstanz, and Microsoft Research.

Simon Butscher, Sebastian Hubenschmid, Jens Müller, Johannes Fuchs, Harald Reiterer. 2018. Clusters, Trends, and Outliers: How Immersive Technologies Can Facilitate the Collaborative Analysis of…

Harald Reiterer will give a talk about “Blended Interaction: Understanding Natural Interaction in Post-WIMP Interactive Spaces” at the Cognitive Systems Colloquium at Ulm University on January 25.

This year’s “Mensch und Computer” took place in September and was themed under the slogan “Spielend einfach interagieren”. Host-city was Regensburg. Carla Groeschel and Katja Vock participated as Student Volunteers and thereby ensured a smooth procedure of the conference as part of the team. Jonathan Wieland presented the paper “Loci Spheres: A Mobile App Concept Based on the Method of Loci”. The method of loci is an effective technique to support the memorization and retrieval of information.…

In November Moritz Skowronski presented Rebuild Palmyra? – Zukunft eines umkämpften Welterbes at the EVA Berlin 2017 (Electronic Visualization and the Arts). There he showed how the Augmented and Virtual Reality exhibits we built for the exhibition „Rebuild Palmyra?“ fit into the vision of Blended Museum.

Developing interactive systems that support collaboration between people, distribution across heterogeneous devices and user appropriation is notoriously difficult. Today’s software rests on a foundation built for personal computing, and to properly support the aforementioned qualities we need to revisit this foundation.