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Last week I had the pleasure of attending the inaugural symposium on The Future of Being Human, hosted by Elizabeth Churchill at the Mohamed bin…
Continue reading Reflections on the Future of Being Human: Insights from a Symposium at MBZUAI
Comments closedOn November 5, 2025, I gave my inaugural lecture at the Department of Computer Science at TU Dortmund University. Under the title Shaping Intelligent Environments…
Continue reading Inaugural Lecture: Shaping Intelligent Environments through Human AI Interaction
Comments closedWith the ongoing reviewer crisis in our community, I asked myself a simple but uncomfortable question: Am I reviewing as much as I am asking…
Continue reading Reflection on 11 Years of Reviewing
Comments closedThe Chair for Human-AI Interaction at the TU Dortmund offers a position within the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security as PhD Researcher. The…
Continue reading Hiring: PhD Position Physiological-AI Interaction (3 years)
Comments closedThe Chair for Human-AI Interaction at the TU Dortmund offers a position within the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security as PhD Researcher. The…
Continue reading Hiring: PhD Position Human-AI Interaction (3 years)
Comments closedIn June 2025, I officially joined TU Dortmund University as a Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science and became part of the Research Center…
Continue reading A New Chapter: Moving to Dortmund and Launching the Chair for Human-AI Interaction
Comments closedThe Chair for Human-AI Interaction at the TU Dortmund offers a position within the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security as PhD Researcher. The…
Continue reading Hiring: PhD Position AI-driven Human-Robot Interaction (3 years)
Comments closedAn Approach to Elicit Human-Understandable Robot Expressions to Support Human-Robot Interaction Full-Paper: Understanding the intentions of robots is essential for natural and seamless human-robot collaboration.…
Continue reading Great Success at CHI 2025
Comments closedI began my PhD in 2014, and my advisor’s “home” conference was the ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI). In 2024, I marked…
Continue reading 20 Years of MobileHCI Contributions
Comments closedPerceived Empathy of Technology Scale (PETS): Measuring Empathy of Systems Toward the User Full-Paper: Affective computing improves rapidly, allowing systems to process human emotions. This…
Continue reading Great Success at CHI 2024
Comments closedSketching with Hardware: Prototyping Tangible AI Summer School Empowers Participants to Create Innovative Balloon-based Tangible AI Projects The summer school on Sketching with Hardware: Prototyping…
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Comments closedAugmented Reality (AR) has been gaining popularity in recent years, offering endless possibilities for creative projects and innovative experiences. The Master course in Practical Augmented…
Continue reading Final Projects – Practical Augmented Reality
Comments closedThis course aims to teach students about current research areas of human-robot interaction (HRI) and the necessary knowledge to implement ideas in that field. After…
Continue reading Final Projects – Human-Robot Interaction Course
Comments closedDeep Learning Super-Resolution Network Facilitating Fiducial Tangibles on Capacitive Touchscreens Full-Paper: Over the last years, we have seen many approaches using tangibles to address the…
Continue reading Great Success at CHI 2023
Comments closedWe, the Media Informatics groups of the department of Informatics at LMU Munich, open our door for interested colleagues, students, friends, and families on October…
Continue reading Open Lab Day 2022
Comments closedDuring the CHI 2022 process, I was involved in the publications process as Publications Chair taking over from last year, with a more substantial role…
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Comments closedVirtual Reality (VR) has made its way into everyday life. While VR delivers an ever-increasing level of immersion, controls and their haptics are still limited.…
Continue reading “Flyables” received Honorable Mention Award
Comments closedOn top of being heavily involved in the publication process as Data & PCS Co-Chair. I am happy to announce that I also got three…
Continue reading Sucess at CHI 2021
Comments closedAfter spending the last 1.5 years in Pittsburgh it’s already time to end my postdoc time to take on my first ever faculty position at…
Continue reading Moving to LMU Munich
Comments closedAfter the successful opening of the two Enigma Machines in the Hunty Library last year, the Hunt Library asked us (Chris Harrison and myself) to…
Continue reading Picturephone – 50th Anniversary
Comments closedToday’s voice assistants lack fine-grained contextual awareness, requiring users to be unambiguous in their voice commands. In a smart home setting, one cannot simply say…
Comments closedToday, I was part of a VERY rare event at the CMU Library. We (the FigLab team) were invited to the Fine and Rare Book…
Continue reading Opening an Enigma Machine
Comments closedAfter I spend most of my life in the lovely region of “Schwaben” in the southwest of Germany, it is time to explore the world.…
Continue reading New Job as PostDoc
Comments closed4.5 years ago in the summer of 2014, when I started my Ph.D. it seemed like a long way to go. Now looking back on…
Continue reading Ph.D. graduation
Comments closedYesterday we (the HCI lab in Stuttgart) were invited to visit the ARENA2036 next to our lab on the university campus in Stuttgart Vaihingen. Here,…
Comments closedI call one first author papers, and two second author papers a big success. See all the details below. Effect of Orientation on Unistroke Touch…
Continue reading CHI’19: 3 accepted papers
Comments closedIn an effort to use enrich touch interaction our newest paper focuses on the possibility to distinguish different fingers based on the capacities data of…
Continue reading IUI’19: Finger Identification on Capacitive Touchscreens using Deep Learning
Comments closedThis year at UIST we presented a prototype to identify all fingers touching a smartphone. To get this project running we used our Fully Touch…
Continue reading UIST’18: InfiniTouch
Comments closedI gave this paper talk at Tuesday, April 24, 2018 – 16:00, Room: 515ABC (Paper Session: Smartphone use) at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors…
Comments closedThree first author papers, one second author paper, and one second last author paper is the success of CHI 2018 for me. After a hard…
Continue reading 5 papers accepted at CHI’18
Comments closedLast week we hosted the 17th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia #MUM2017, for me it was the first time being a local organizer. Together…
Continue reading MUM 2017 International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
Comments closedAt MobileHCI this year in Vienna I presented work which was conducted in cooperation with my Master student Perihan Gad from the German University in…
Continue reading Understanding the Ergonomic Constraints in Designing for Touch Surfaces
Comments closedI gave this paper talk in Brighton, UK on Thursday Oct 19, 2017 – 14:00 (Session 4: From Wall Displays to Liquid Matter ) at the 2017 ACM International…
Comments closedIn this tutorial, we show the basic steps for using TensorFlow on mobile devices. TensorFlow is a framework for training neural networks and use the…
Continue reading TensorFlow Tutorial at MobileHCI’17
Comments closedOver the last two years, I was asked quite a number of times if I could give a tutorial on python. So finally, today I…
Continue reading “Introduction to python” tutorial
Comments closedAfter, motionEAP, one of the project I was involved in finally ended, we released the source code of the system that where involved in a…
Comments closedProject webpage: https://projects.interactionlab.io/2048/ (offline since 2019)
Comments closedIn order to easily run an number of projects with Android phones we developed an app to record all sensor data of today’s Android smartphones.…
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Comments closedLast week I attended the 7th International UBI Summer School 2016 (UBISS 2016) (Update 2018: official webseit http://www.ubioulu.fi/en/UBISS2016/ is offline) were in total 68 students from…
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Comments closedLet your fingers dance! Start your dance tour across the amazing world of swipe dance. Project webpage: https://projects.interactionlab.io/swipedance/ (offline since 2019)
Comments closedWe just released a new version of our “Flappy Bird” clone “Flappy Easter”. Project webpage: https://projects.interactionlab.io/flappyeaster/ (offline since 2019)
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Comments closedMy average day started with a coffee from a coffee store named Bennu, on Woodlands Road, right around my house. Then I would pass Stravaigin…
Continue reading Internship University of Glasgow
Comments closedAnother webpage photographer went online today. Check it out at: www.foto-leibfritz.de.
Continue reading Webpage – foto-leibfritz.de
Leave a CommentDuring my intern at the University of Glasgow I took part in the first SICSA Summer School Computational Interaction. The course content included quantitative user…
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Leave a CommentI am part of the workshop “From Mobile to Wearable: Using Wearable Devices to Enrich Mobile Interaction” at mobileHCI’15 in Copenhagen. https://www.hcilab.org/frommobiletowearable/
Leave a CommentDistant pointing at objects and persons is a highly expressive gesture that is widely used in human communication. Pointing is also used to control a…
Continue reading Modeling Distant Pointing for Compensating Systematic Displacements
Leave a CommentFinally we made in to the upcoming carnival in south Germany, the new page of the “Narrenfreunde Remmingsheim” is online. For more information’s visit www.narrenfreunde-remmingsheim.de
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Leave a CommentAnother webpage went online today. Check it out at: www.steinebronn-photography.com. Since I released the last page in 2013 my style got more open and represents…
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Comments closedToday I got one more webpage developed by me online. Check it out at: www.maier-gefluegelhof.de.
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Comments closedFinally, the new webpage metzgerei-egeler.de went online. One more time I where I proved my skills to built a CMS from from scratch to perfectly…
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Leave a CommentMy first webpage went online www.mysg.de (UPDATE: the webpage is down since 2014). During the development we needed to basically built our own CMS. Since no…
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