The AVI (International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces) took place in Bari, Italy from June 07 to June 10 this year. Ulrich von Zadow represented the Interactive Media Lab Dresden there. He presented the full paper “YouTouch! – Low-Cost User Identification at an Interactive Display Wall”.
On February 1, 2016 the BMBF funded joint project fastvpn – Network Infrastructure for Industry 4.0 has started. The project address security in networked industry 4.0. The Interactive Media Lab Dresden investigates novel user interfaces to allow the fast on-site visualization and configuration of security level, network status, or bandwidth.
The anniversary edition of the ACM international conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces took place in Funchal on the beautiful island of Madeira from November 15 to 18. Five of us represented the Inveractive Media Lab Dresden to present our research work (see gallery). Raimund Dachselt, Tom Horak, Ulrike Kister, Ricardo Langner and Fabrice Matulic presented our seven contributions (see news). Highlights certainly were our two full papers (BodyLenses and Eyes-Free Touch Support) that contributed to the attractive programm of this year’s ITS.
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At this year’s anniversary ITS our group presents seven accepted contributions – 2 full papers, 2 posters, 2 workshop contributions, 1 doctoral symposium submission. The 2015 ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces takes place in Funchal, Madeira from November 15th to 18th, 2015. The subject of our full paper “BodyLenses – Embodied Magic Lenses and Personal Territories for Wall Displays” are personal body-controlled magic lenses at large vertical displays. Additionally, Fabrice Matulic will present the full paper “Eyes-Free Touch Command Support for Pen-Based Digital Whiteboards via Handheld Devices” which is joint work with ETH Zürich.
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Konstantin Klamka received an award for his project presented at OUTPUT 2015. Under the title “be creative – be innovative” dresden|exist, a group supporting founding of companies from TU Dresden, awarded Konstantin’s project Elasticcon as one of the most creative and innovative demos. Elasticcon is an elastic controller that allows remote-controlling of a computer using a retractable string and exchangeable traction knobs.
Many guests, students and faculty members came together on Friday, June 5th, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Chair of Multimedia-Technology at the Faculty of Computer Science.
The celebrations were initiated by Prof. Meißner (Chair MMT) discussing the importance and challenges of multimedia technology in our current world. Afterwards, Prof. Dachselt (Chair MT) talked about the work of the Interactive Media Lab and the important connection of media and human-computer interacton.
Then followed three interesting research talks by invited speakers Prof. Dr. Frank Schönefeld (T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Nürnberger (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg) und Prof. Dr. Susanne Boll (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg). Finger food in the lounge allowed for discussions of the topic.
This year’s Eurographics Conference on Visulaization (EuroVis 2014) was located in Swansea, Wales. The focus of this conference is novel ideas for information visualization and scientific visualization. Ulrike Kister presented a state-of-the-art report on Interactive Lenses in Visualization together with our collaborators from Rostock in our project GEMS. In a 90-minute talk, they presented classification of magic lenses of different application areas. They especially focused on lenses for different data types and interaction tasks. Ulrike presented existing interaction modalities and display setups for the positioning and adjustment of magic lenses.
Sophie Stellmach, former member and PhD student at the Interactive Media Lab Dresden, received the prestigious Dr.-Walter-Seipp award of the TU Dresden and the Commerzbank Endowment on May 26th. The award was presented for her outstanding dissertation Gaze-supported Multimodal Interaction. “In her dissertation, Sophie Stellmach researches how human vision can be combined with other modalities to control future computers. Her work was received very well internationally and significantly contributed to the establishment of a new form of human-computer interaction.”, the jury comments. We congratulate her on this admirable achievement. Find some impressions of this event in our photo gallery.
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The largest conference on human-computer interaction, the ACM CHI, took place in Toronto from April 28th to May 2nd with this year’s slogan “One of a CHInd”. The Interactive Media Lab Dresden was also involved as Martin Spindler, Ulrike Kister and former student Martin Schüssler presented a full paper and an interactivity (photo gallery). Both Martins gave a talk about their research on Pinch Drag Flick vs. Spatial Input: Rethinking Zoom & Pan on Mobile Displays. In this paper, we compared traditional multitouch navigation on mobile devices with spatial movements for pan and zoom. Additionally, the application could be experienced as an interactive demo called Move Your Phone: Spatial Input-based Document Zoom & Pan on Mobile Displays Revisited. For this they brought a whole setup of cameras and tripods to Canada. Ulrike and Martin Spindler were also student volunteers who supported conference organization.