May 5-10
On the 4th of May, Sophie, Martin and Raimund were traveling to Austin (Texas) to be part of the 30th ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The anniversary edition of the world’s leading HCI conference was indeed celebrated with 30 large cakes and live music. However, 2555 participants from 46 countries had to share the birthday cakes at the last day of the conference… We had our own reason to celebrate: five UISE contributions, first of all two CHI full papers (acceptance rate: 23%). Martin presented a study on Tangible Magic Lenses (Download Paper) and Sophie novel techniques for gaze-supported target acquisition (Download Paper). We are very proud that we got a Best Paper Honorable Mention for this work (certificate). This means, the paper is among the top 5% of all accepted conference papers. (more…)
March 28-30, 2012
From March 28 to 30 the 7th ACM Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium (ETRA) took place in sunny Santa Barbara, California. ETRA is the leading eye tracking conference and attracted 160 participants from 17 countries. The goal of ETRA is to bring together computer scientists, engineers and behavioral scientists to enhance eye tracking technologies, advance the understanding of visual attention and eye movement controls, and to support the development of novel gaze-controlled applications.
Our research group was well represented at ETRA’12 by several contributions from Sophie Stellmach. On the one hand, people had the opportunity to test some of her gaze-based interaction techniques, such as steering through a virtual environment using your eye gaze. Furthermore, Sophie presented work about gaze-supported pan and zoom in combination with a smartphone as a poster: Investigating Gaze-supported Multimodal Pan and Zoom (Download Short Paper). Finally, Sophie gave a talk about gaze-based graphical steering user interfaces to move around in a virtual 3D scene: Designing Gaze-based User Interfaces for Steering in Virtual Environments (acceptance rate 34%, Download Full Paper).
February 2012
In May 2012 the premier international conference on human-computer interaction takes place in Austin (Texas) – the ACM SIGCHI Conference. Five contributions of the UISE group were accepted for this conference! We are especially proud about two full papers (acceptance rate 23%). One is a study of handheld display interaction above a tabletop. The other contributes novel target acquisition techniques on remote displays, whereas gaze and touch input on handhelds are effectively combined. Also in the field of gaze-supported interaction (Sophie Stellmach’s PhD topic), a CHI Special Interest Group was accepted on Gaze Interaction in the Post-WIMP World. Another achievement is the accepted CHI Interactivity called “Stackables: Faceted Browsing with Stacked Tangibles”. This is joint work with Petra Isenberg und Jean-Daniel Fekete from INRIA Paris. Finally, we will present a short paper at the CHI-Workshop 3DCHI – The 3rd Dimension of CHI. We are looking forward to a great conference in May!
December 2011
Three students from Magdeburg – Irina Schumann, Ulrike Kister and Matthias Graf – are doing an internship in Canada since the last winter term (2011/2012). Their internships are part of the transatlantic exchange project LEIF. As research interns they are working on individual projects. Whereas Irina is supervised by and working with Prof. Nicholas Graham from the Queen’s University in Kingston (Ontario), Ulrike and Matthias started working at the University of Calgary (Alberta) supervised by Prof. Sheelagh Carpendale. (more…)
November 2011
This year, the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces took place from November 13 to 16 in Kobe. Raimund was traveling to Japan and presenting work of our group. On Sunday morning he was co-chairing the Doctoral Symposium followed by an active participation in the DEXIS Workshop, where he presented two papers on data exploration with interactive surfaces. In the very first conference talk on Monday he presented NEAT: A Set of Flexible Tools and Gestures for Layout Tasks on Interactive Displays (Download Full Paper, Video). This paper was well received, not the least since we went beyond the coolness of multitouch and pen interaction and presented truly effective gesture sets for layout tasks. Impressions of the conference, Hiroshi Ishii’s keynote (via Skype), the excellent conference dinners and the rich culture of Japan can be found in the picture gallery.
September 2011
Also this year we were part of the Mensch und Computer conference, which took place from 11th-14th September in Chemnitz, Germany (see photo gallery). This most important conference in German-speaking Europe was arranged by the GI in cooperation with the German UPA. During the workshop “Be-greifbare Interaktion in Gemischten Wirklichkeiten” Raimund Dachselt gave a keynote about “Tangible Magic Lenses – Graspable Displays for Exploring Information“. Our conference-paper presented by Jens Heydekorn was about gestural interaction with the title “Evaluating a user-elicited gesture-set” (PDF-article). This article contributes evaluation results regarding the user acceptance of a user-suggested gesture-set.
May/June 2011
In May, Raimund was invited to give a talk about Natural Ways of Interacting with Information Spaces at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben (Germany). This interesting visit of Falk Schreiber’s working group marked the beginning of joint project work in the field of natural diagram editing and using magic lenses for visualizing biological data.
One month later, Raimund also gave an invited talk at the University of Konstanz (Germany). This visit of Harald Reiterer’s HCI group was very inspiring, interesting and full of exciting demos. Harald’s group really conducts great research in the field of modern human computer interaction.
May 26-27, 2011
In May the first ACM conference on Novel Gaze-Controlled Applications was hosted in Karlskrona, Sweden. Researchers from various countries discussed suitable ways how to integrate our gaze for interacting with digital systems. On the one hand, this is of special interest for physically disabled people who may not be able to use other input modalities. On the other hand, new application areas for gaze-based interaction have been discussed, for which the consideration of a user’s visual attention may be beneficial. One example is the gaze-supported remote interaction with large-sized screens in combination with additional input modalities. (more…)
May 28th, 2011
Again, during the Long Night of Science 2011 in Magdeburg (in German) the UISE-Group informed about current trends and research projects in the field of Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI).
Numerous interested visitors came to analyse a virtual body of a patient using “magic lenses” or to get hands on a interactive layout application for creating and modifying the layout of graphical elements such as photos, text boxes or nodes in a graph. Children were especially delighted by the learning applications running on the SMART Tabletop, kind of a package of mini games for teaching fundamentals in physics in a playful way. Impressions of the Long Night of Science 2011 at the User Interface Lab can be found in the photo gallery.
May 2011
From May 7 to 12 the 29th ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems took place in beautiful Vancouver. The worlds leading HCI conference attracted more than 2700 participants from 48 countries. Mathias Frisch und Raimund Dachselt travelled to Canada to present work of our group. First, the CHI Note Grids & Guides: Multi-Touch Layout and Alignment Tools (acceptance rate 26%, Download Paper) and secondly the workshop contribution Interacting with Printed Books Using Digital Pens and Smart Mobile Projection (Download Paper) at the Workshop on Mobile and Personal Projection (MP²). This full day CHI workshop was also co-organized by Raimund and took place on Sunday before the official conference opening. Around 20 participants discussed the fascinating new research area of mobile projection. (more…)
