Research

My research centers on the field of Human Computer Interaction, with a focus on gesture based multi-touch devices, such as interactive tabletops and surfaces (ITS). I am particularly interested in investigating and overcoming challenges that occur during development of ITS user interfaces. Further, i investigate how ITS can be applied to the domain of visual data analysis.

Publications

Please refer to my decicated list of publications.

Invited Talks

Multimodal User Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence in the Household
Plenum. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Cyber-Physical Systems group, Bremen, Germany. December 9, 2012.

Developing Innovative, Usable and Stable User Interfaces using Open Source Software 
EuropeanaTech Conference, Open Source Session. National Library of Austria, Vienna, Austria. October 2011.

Interactive Surfaces: Construction and Applications
University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany. Department for Media Informatics and Digital Media, 2011.

Visual Analytics on Surface Computers
Monday Colloquium, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Johann Bernoulli Institute. 2010.

Visual Analytics on Surface Computers
German Aerospace Center / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Braunschweig, Germany. Institut für Verkehrssystemtechnik. 2010.

Awards

Best Project Group 2008/2009
Supervision of the best student project group, Department of Computer Science, University of Oldenburg. Topic: Visual Analytics on Surface Computers. Sponsored by capgemini sd&m.

Organization, Committees and Reviews

Workshop Organization
- Co-Chair of Data Exploration on Interactive Surfaces (DEXIS) at ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS) ’11
- Co-Chair of Social Interaction in Spatially Separated Environments (SISSI) at ACM Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) ’10

Program Committees
Program Committee member of OMUE ’10

Reviews for conferences, workshops and journals
Including ACM CHI, DIS, MobileHCI, NordiCHI, EICS, ITS. Elsevier IJHCS. IEEE InfoVis, VAST, EuroVis, WIAMIS

Other Activities

CeBit 
Exhibition of TaP, an interactive tabletop-based visual analytics system, 2010

Dagstuhl Seminar
Participant of Dagstuhl Seminar 10011: Pervasive Public Displays, 2010. See report for results.

Projects

I have been involved in a number of projects on the European and national level, most notably:

Visual Analytics on Interactive Surfaces
Research of techniques and interaction designs for interactive tabletops and surfaces. Application of findings to the area of visual data analysis.

ESA-AERG
Research and development of novel interaction techniques for aerospace control rooms. In cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA).

GAL
Development of multimodal user interfaces for ambient assisted living (AAL), particularly for supporting elderly people in their home environment.

EuropeanaConnect
Development of innovative mobile access channels for the European digital library “Europeana“.

Raum 9 3/4
Research of methods to bring spatially separated groups closer together using pervasive displays.

GoKard
Development and design of innovative user interfaces for healthcare.

Memberships

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings