Another successful OUTPUT has come to an end and the Interactive Media Lab was once again present with multiple student projects and research prototypes, as well as the recipient of an award for an excellent thesis written at our chair.
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Another successful OUTPUT has come to an end and the Interactive Media Lab was once again present with multiple student projects and research prototypes, as well as the recipient of an award for an excellent thesis written at our chair.
The 25th Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2023) was hosted as an in-presence event at the Leipzig University, in Germany, from June 12 to 16. Our researchers Marc Satkowski and Julián Méndez had the pleasure of attending the wonderful talks, with Julián also presenting our invited Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) article “Evonne: A Visual Tool For Explaining Reasoning with OWL Ontologies and Supporting Interactive Debugging“, a result of our collaborative work within the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 248 (CPEC).
The very first German edition of the prestigious ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) took place in Hamburg from April 23 to 28. Eight researchers from the IML team attended the conference and successfully presented a full paper, two Late-Breaking-Work posters and an interactivity demonstration. In addition, Raimund Dachselt served as session chair and Mats Ole Ellenberg as Student Volunteer.
On April 17, 2023, Wolfgang Büschel successfully defended his dissertation with the highest honor summa cum laude.
The topic of his dissertation “Spatial Interaction for Immersive Mixed Reality Visualizations” deals with the question of how spatial interaction can be beneficially used and evaluated in immersive visualizations.
We are happy to announce that the German Pre-CHI 2023 will take place March 30-31 in Dresden. This event aims to provide an opportunity for researchers from Germany to present their accepted CHI papers and discuss them in a smaller circle. Additionally, this is an excellent opportunity for younger researchers to get a taste of the quality of work presented at CHI and network. Therefore, everyone from students to professors interested in HCI is welcome! For more information, please check out or event page at https://imld.de/pre-chi.
On January 26, 2023, Konstantin Klamka successfully defended his PhD thesis.
His topic Blending the Material and Digital World for Hybrid Interfaces addresses the question, how future user interfaces can be able to provide useful digital functionality while maintaining their physical properties and familiar patterns of use in the real world.
This year, the ISMAR conference took place in Singapore. From October 17 to 21, exciting research papers were presented at this important augmented and mixed reality conference, for the first time also in hybrid form. A record was set both in the number of papers and the number of participants. The Interactive Media Lab was represented again this year: Katja Krug, Marc Satkowski and Wolfgang Büschel attended the conference from our Lab.
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We are happy to announce that two conference papers from our lab have been accepted at IEEE ISMAR 2022!
With an acceptance rate of 21%, this year’s ISMAR was again very competitive. We are glad that we are able to contribute to the community of the premier conference in the field of mixed reality with our research.
This year‘s OUTPUT was particularly successful for the Interactive Media Lab, since we received four awards for projects which were developed at our chair, including two awards for excellent theses and a shared first place for two of our demos.