28 Nov 2015

Our lab sucessfully represented at ITS 2015

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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2 Nov 2015

Strong Presence at 10th ITS in Madeira

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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6 Jul 2015

Invited Talk by Prof. Marc Erich Latoschik

Talk Marc Erich Latoschik

On Wednesday, July 8th, Professor Marc Erich Latoschik of the Chair of Human-Computer Interaction at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg will give a talk in the Dresden Talks on Interaction & Visualization.

The talk with the title Intelligent, Interactive, Multimodal – Techniques for Future Human-Computer Interfaces takes place in room APB 1004, starting at 1.15 pm. We look forward to this exciting research talk.

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6 Jul 2015

Two IMLD students receive awards

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.

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6 Jul 2015

IML Dresden active at OUTPUT and Long Night of Sciences Dresden

Engaging demos at the Interactive Media Lab Dresden again aroused a great deal of interest at this year’s OUTPUT and Long Night of Sciences.

OUTPUT 2015 took place on Thursday, July 2nd, celebrating its 10th anniversary. Students of the Faculty of Computer Science presented interesting projects that were created in last semester’s courses. We selected four student projects whose exciting results were presented to faculty members, students and guests visiting the lab. Konstantin Klamka presented his project Elasticcon, an elastic controller for everyday use that controlls the computer using various interaction techniques and features. Lars Beck, Maximilian Gräf and Christoph Plagge explained an interactive map exploration technique in front of the display wall. Continue reading

8 Jun 2015

We celebrate “20 years of Multimedia-Technology”

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.

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28 May 2015

Festveranstaltung “20 Jahre Multimediatechnik”, Gastvorträge

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Am Freitag, dem 5. Juni, findet zum Thema 20 Jahre Multimediatechnik an der Fakultät Informatik eine gemeinsame Festveranstaltung der Professur MMT und des Interactive Media Lab Dresden statt. Unter dem Titel “Perspektiven Multimedialer Technologien” wird ab 14:00 Uhr in einem Vortragsprogramm über vergangene Herausforderungen und zukünftige Perspektiven reflektiert. In diesem Rahmen freuen wir uns, drei spannende Gastvorträge ankündigen zu dürfen.

Prof. Dr. Frank Schönefeld von der T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH wird ab ca. 14:35 Uhr zum Thema “Digitale Disruption durch multimediale Technologien - Industrielle Herausforderungen und Chancen“ referieren.

Gegen 15:45 Uhr begrüßen wir Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Nürnberger von der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg zu seinem Vortrag “Exploring and Organizing Multimedia Collections: Meta-Data and Adaptivity“.

Schließlich wird Frau Prof. Dr. Susanne Boll von der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg um 16:30 einen Vortrag zum Thema “Multimedia trifft Mensch-Technik Interaktion“ halten.

Wir würden uns sehr über zahlreiche Teilnahme freuen. Das komplette Programm ist hier zu finden: Programm 20 Jahre MMT

24 Apr 2015

German HCI-Book “Interaktive Systeme” Vol. 2 published

Cover HCI Buch Band 2

In April 2015, the second volume of the most comprehensive German textbook on Human-Computer Interaction appeared in print. On 774 pages, Bernhard Preim and Raimund Dachselt address three larger topics in 12 chapters (download table of contents):
User Interface Engineering (the entire development process of User Interfaces), 3D User Interfaces (incl. input/output devices, basic and advanced 3D interaction) und Natural User Interfaces (gestural interaction, interactive surfaces, Tangible UIs).
In combination with volume 1, the comprehensive 1,400 page compendium now covers a wide range of HCI topics for a broad audience. The book can be ordered in print, as an eBook, or downloaded as a PDF at Springer Link. The accompanying book website contains more information, and a table of contents can be downloaded here (sorry, only in German, like the entire book ;-).

8 Jan 2015

Invited Talk by Prof. Dr. Gerik Scheuermann

On Friday, January 23rd, Professor Gerik Scheuermann of the Image and Signal Processing Group (Abteilung Bild- und Signalverarbeitung) at the University of Leipzig will start this year’s season of the Dresden Talks on Interaction & Visualization.

The talk about Topological and Feature Oriented Visualization of Simulations from Continuum Mechanics takes place in room APB E023, starting at 1 pm. We look forward to this exciting research talk.

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