Raphael Wimmer presented ongoing work on GraphIT at the KI-Campus Tool Tip Tuesday. Video recording (German, 35 minutes) available. (more...)
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...)
Nicole Schönwerth and Tina Emmert presented their master's research project “How Do Users Like Their Tangibles? — An Exploration of Interaction Techniques for Data Transfer with Everyday Objects” as a poster at the Women in Data Science conference at the University of Regensburg. (more...)
One of 15 Bavarian educators who received this prize for extraordinary effort and results in teaching in higher education. (more...)
Raphael Wimmer gave a Lightning Talk about the upcoming project at University:Future Festival. (more...)
Andreas Schmid presents Late Breaking Work on the latency of graphics frameworks at CHI 2023 in Hamburg. (more...)
We presented the progress of the VIGITIA project and our current prototypes of interactive tabletop applications at the final meeting of the BMBF program “Innovation and Technology Partnerships for Human-Technology Interaction: Intelligent, Connected Objects for Everyday Life” at Berlin Open Lab. (more...)
Last Friday we welcomed a new group of students taking the elective course “Pleasing Objects” of the Industrial Design program at OTH Regensburg together with their lecturer Katharina Scheidig at our VR4 lab. (more...)
Raphael Wimmer will be supporting Philipp Rümmer in organizing the programming workshop Rätsel lösen mit dem Computer: Experimente mit Constraintprogrammierung during Code Week Bayern. (more...)
Open Lab Day with tours and demonstrations (more...)
We are looking back on an exciting and insightful week at the Culture and Creative Center Degginger. (more...)
Sarah Thanner gave a talk with the title A hand is a hand is a hand is a table? On the (re)configuration of future choreographies at the 8th conference of the section Digitization in Everyday Life of the German Association of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore Studies (DGEKW) Digital Futures in the Making: Imaginaries, Politics, and Materialities at University of Hamburg. (more...)
As our rental agreement at the Techbase Regensburg was renewed, we got a visit by the mayor of Regensburg, Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer. (more...)
At this year´s Mensch und Computer conference, Andreas Schmid and Vitus Maierhöfer organized the 15th workshop Be-greifbare Interaktion. (more...)
The pop-up-science exhibition “VIGITIA meets Degginger” enters its fourth round. (more...)
At the SIGGRAPH'22 conference, Andreas Schmid presented the paper Determining the Orientation of Low Resolution Images of a De-Bruijn Tracking Pattern with a CNN as a virtual poster. (more...)
The mayor of Deggendorf, Christian Moser, visited our Lab VR4 where we presented some demos. (more...)
On 15.07.2022 we were represented with some demos at the Open Labs Day of the MINT-Labs Regensburg. (more...)
Sarah Thanner gave a talk at this year's EASST congress on the Politics of Technoscientific Futures in Madrid, Spain. (more...)
Walter Jonas, the district president of the Bavarian Upper Palatinate district (Oberpfalz), visited our VR4 Lab where we presented several demos. (more...)
We presented current and upcoming research. (more...)
Andreas Schmid presented the paper Extracting Handwritten Annotations from Printed Documents Via Infrared Scanning as a virtual poster at the CHI'22 conference. (more...)
In the beginning of April Sarah Thanner together with Libuše Hannah Vepřek gave a talk on the becoming of human-technology relationships (German title: Imaginieren – Intraagieren – Rekonfigurieren: Mensch-Technologie-Relationen im Werden) at the 43rd congress "Time. On the temporality of culture" of the German Association of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore Studies (DGEKW), organised by the Chair of Comparative European Ethnology at the University of Regensburg. (more...)
We are looking back on an exciting and insightful week of our pop-up science exhibition at the creative center Degginger. (more...)
The pop-up-science exhibition “VIGITIA meets Degginger” enters its third round. (more...)
The VIGITIA project presents its project progress at the networking meeting of the BMBF funding program “Human-Technology Interaction”. (more...)
On 2. November 2021, Raphael Wimmer gave a Lightning Talk on “Graph-based Development of Curricula and Courses” at the University:Future Festival '21. (more...)
We are looking back on an exciting and insightful week of our pop-up science exhibition at the creative center Degginger. (more...)
Raphael Wimmer participated in a great panel and said some smart things. (more...)
Check out our showreel of recent and upcoming projects. (more...)
Hands-on research: The pop-up science exhibition “VIGITIA meets Degginger” enters its second round. (more...)
We presented our projects ScreenshotMatcher (Short Paper, Demo) and DotTrack (Demo) at the Mensch und Computer 2021 conference. ScreenshotMatcher was awarded with an honorable mention award! Further information on can be found on the ScreenshotMatcher and DotTrack project page. (more...)
The second semester of the VIGITIA projects ongoing collaboration brought forth new exiting ideas for use cases as well as interaction design. (more...)
Together with members of the “Code in Ethnography” working group Rebecca Carlson (Toyo University), Ruth Dorothea Eggel (University of Bonn), Lina Franken (University of Vechta) und Libuše Hannah Vepřek (LMU Munich), Sarah Thanner organized a workshop on Methodologies for code in ethnographic research. (more...)
Together with colleagues from LMU Munich, University of Bonn and Toyo University Sarah Thanner is co-organizing a workshop that discusses ethnographic methods for researching computer code. The workshop will take place on July 2nd and July 3rd. Further information can be found on the website of the commission Digitalisierung im Alltag (Digitalization in everyday life). (more...)
We will present our paper Sketchable Interaction: Drawing User Interfaces with Interactive Regions as an Interactivity (Demo) at CHI2021 conference. Further information can be found on the Sketchable Interaction page. (more...)
The results report of the pop-up science exhibition “Interactive Tables in Everyday Life - Vigitia meets Degginger” (September 2020) is now online. (more...)
The result report of the online survey “Table use in everyday life” (06.04.2020-18.08.2020) within the VIGITIA project is now online. (more...)
Andreas Schmid will present a short paper on a new method for measuring end-to-end latency at the first Workshop on Esports and High Performance HCI, co-located with CHI'21. Further information on can be found on the project page. (more...)
The results of the course “Pleasing Objects”, that was offered last winter semester as part of the Industrial Design programme at the faculty of architecture at OTH Regensburg in cooperation with VIGITIA, are now being presented on a website. (more...)
We will present our paper Dothraki: Tracking Tangibles Atop Tabletops Through De-Bruijn Tori at TEI 2021 conference. Further information on can be found on the DotTrack project page. (more...)
As part of the cooperation with the elective course “Pleasing Objects” in the Industrial Design program of the Faculty of Architecture at the OTH Regensburg, we had the pleasure to welcome fourteen students together with their lecturer Katharina Scheidig to the virtual demo show and to give an insight into the current status of the VIGITIA project. (more...)
Review of a great and insightful week at the Degginger Creative Center. (more...)
Prototypenausstellung “Interaktive Tische im Alltag” von 14.-19.9.2020 im Degginger, Regensburg (more...)
We will present DispLagBox, a precise and easily replicable device for measuring display latency, as a short paper at Mensch und Computer 2020. (more...)
We started a survey to better understand how people work at tables. (more...)
On Wednesday, 27.5.2020, Sarah Thanner gave a talk at Media & Digital Anthropology Lab at Humboldt University of Berlin and presented her ongoing PhD research. (more...)
We are currently evaluating a custom, simplified HTML Editor developed for and with Technische Zentrale @UR. (more...)
The VIGITIA project presented its first prototype setup to creative professionals in the context of a workshop held at the center for creative culture Degginger in Regensburg. (more...)
The VIGITIA partners came together for a second project meeting to discuss the current status of the project and future work. (more...)
Our group co-organized and participated in the second ZD.B Symposium - the network congress for the ZD.B scientific initiatives. (more...)
On Thursday, 21. November 2019, Sarah Thanner gave a talk on possibilities and challenges in digital public health and nutrition at Fulda University of Applied Sciences. (more...)
First prototype of the University of Regensburg with demo applications for the projection of cutting patterns and the “rewind” function. (more...)
Raphael Wimmer presented past and ongoing research projects at the University of Regensburg booth. (more...)
Researchers at the University of Regensburg are developing interactive table surfaces to make everyday life easier. (more...)
We present the goals and methods of the VIGITIA project in a position paper. The paper will be presented at the VARECo workshop on September 8, 2019, as part of the Mensch und Computer 2019 conference. (more...)
On 25.07.2019, the VIGITIA partners gathered for a first joint meeting at the University of Regensburg. (more...)
On Wednesday, 05. June 2019, Raphael Wimmer will give a talk about the group's research on physical and digital affordances (event details). (more...)
We presented our paper "On the Latency of USB-Connected Input Devices" at CHI 2019 in Glasgow. (more...)
Tomáš Jan Podivínský, Ambassador of the Czech Republic visited our lab together with a delegation from the Regensburg Chamber of Commerce. (more...)
Am 21./22.2.2019 organisiert die Nachwuchsgruppe den diesjährigen Erfinderworkshop der GI-Fachgruppe “Be-greifbare Interaktion” in Regensburg mit dem Schwerpunkt Tangible Blocks. (more...)
We will present the current state of our DotTrack project at Mensch und Computer 2018. (more...)
We will present a poster and a workshop paper at CHI 2018. (more...)
On 9. April 2018, Raphael Wimmer presented initial work on using file system semantics for accessing structured data within files at the Salon de Refusés 2018. (more...)
Jürgen Hahn joined our group today as a PhD student. Jürgen recently finished his M.Sc. at University of Regensburg under the supervision of Bernd Ludwig. (more...)
Raphael Wimmer gave a talk about “Keeping the User in Control” at the Interactive Media Lab led by Raimund Dachselt at TU Dresden. Slides (PDF) (more...)
Florian Bockes joined our group today as a PhD student. Florian recently finished his M.Sc. at University of Regensburg under the supervision of Christian Wolff. (more...)
Preetha Moorthy joined our group today as a PhD student. Preetha recently finished her M.Sc. at Bauhaus University Weimar under the supervision of Eva Hornecker. (more...)
Raphael Wimmer gave a talk about the state of paper and digital documents in public administration at the Human-Computer Interaction and Interactive Technologies Lab at Saarland University. We talked a little bit about e-government, prototyping techniques, and lab organization. Slides (PDF) (more...)
Raphael Wimmer gave a Research Talk about “Affordances of Paper, Public Administration, and Toolkits” at the Bauhausinteraction Colloquium at the Bauhaus-University Weimar. Slides (PDF) (more...)
Raphael Wimmer gave a short talk about our research (and upcoming challenges) at the Media Interaction Lab in Hagenberg. Slides. (more...)