The Physical-Digital Affordances Group at the University of Regensburg explores how the unique affordances of physical and digital media can be combined to enhance knowledge work and workflows (more about our goals).
The group is associated with the Chair of Media Informatics within the Department of Informatics and Data Science. It is led by Dr. Raphael Wimmer.
Supermarket chain Netto recently opened Europe's largest autonomous/smart pick and go supermarket in Regensburg and we got a tour of the place and the technology inside. (more...)
PDA was part of the MuC again, the annual German flagship conference on Human-Computer-Interaction and Usability. (more...)
CoShare: a Multi-Pointer Collaborative Screen Sharing Tool received the Best Short Paper award at MuC '23, the annual German flagship conference on Human-Computer-Interaction and Usability. (more...)
During July, a team from MIT will support Media Informatics students in developing the skills needed to found a successful startup. We will host the team at TechBase. (more...)
TipTrack: Precise, Low-Latency, Robust Optical Pen Tracking on Arbitrary Surfaces Using an IR-Emitting Pen Tip (2024-02-11) Vitus Maierhöfer, Andreas Schmid, Raphael Wimmer
Demonstrating SurfaceCast: Ubiquitous, Cross-Device Surface Sharing (2023-08-05) Florian Echtler, Vitus Maierhöfer, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen, Raphael Wimmer
Measuring the Latency of Graphics Frameworks on X11-Based Systems (2023-04-23) Andreas Schmid, Raphael Wimmer
Small Latency Variations Do Not Affect Player Performance in First-Person Shooters (2023) Andreas Schmid, David Halbhuber, Thomas Fischer, Raphael Wimmer, Niels Henze