Raphael Wimmer

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Raphael Wimmer is a tenured lecturer at the University of Regensburg where he leads the *Physical-Digital Affordances' research group at the Chair of Media Informatics.

Raphael studied media informatics at the University of Munich (LMU) where he also received his PhD for a thesis on "Grasp-Sensitive Surfaces". His research revolves around technical, ergonomic, and organizational aspects of human-computer interaction. (more info in German and English)

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Visiting the Netto Pick and Go store (2024-02-05)

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...)


Raphael Wimmer awarded the Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2022 (2023-04-28)

One of 15 Bavarian educators who received this prize for extraordinary effort and results in teaching in higher education. (more...)


Visit by Minister-President Dr. Markus Söder (2022-05-05)

We presented current and upcoming research. (more...)


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→ complete list of news/blog posts involving me

Project: CovPass-Scanner: a dedicated solution for COVID-19 certificate scanning (2021 - 2022)

Dedicated solution for COVID-19 certificate scanning.


Project: Anoto Reverse Engineering (2017 - 2017)

Getting Anoto pens working on Linux


Project: BirdsEye: Capturing top-view images of tabletop usage (2020-05-01 - )

A toolkit for capturing and analyzing tabletop usage.


Project: Our Video Christmas card for 2023 (2023-11-30 - 2012-12-20)

We upcycled leftover stock from an advertising campaign to design our Christmas cards for 2023.


Project: CoShare: a Multi-Pointer Collaborative Screen Sharing Tool (2021 - )

CoShare, a proof-of-concept implementation for a novel approach to computer-supported remote collaboration


Project: Custom HTML Editor for an internal Content Management Scenario (2020 - 2020)

A previewable editor for facilitating a specific content management task at the University of Regensburg.


Project: Digital Tools for Universities (2017-08-01 - )

Beside our research on new tools and technologies for human-computer interaction, we have developed various tools together with and for the administration of the University of Regensburg. This page gives a short overview of some of the public projects.


Project: DIY Approach to Measuring Display Reaction Time (2019 - )

Easily replicable device for measuring the reaction time of displays.


Project: DotTrack (2017 - )

Absolute position tracking using the raw image of a mouse sensor


Project: Analysing the eAkte/eFile landscape in Germany (2017 - 2017)

Eine Untersuchung der eAkten-Landschaft in Deutschland


Project: Yet Another Latency Measuring Device (2020 - )

Measuring device for end-to-end (click to photon) latency based on cheap off-the-shelf components.


Project: Extensible Clipboard (2017 - )

A new foundation for seamlessly sharing information


Project: Measuring the Latency of Graphics Frameworks (2022 - )

Measuring method for graphics framework latency.


Project: GraphIT (2021 - )

A dependency graph for learning contents.


Project: Annotation Extraction with Infrared Light (2020 - )

We modified a flatbed scanner by adding an infrared LED to its light guide. As the ink of most pens is invisible in the infrared spectrum, this scanner can be used to extract handwritten annotations from printed documents.


Project: Input Device Latency (2017 - )

Measuring and understanding latency of input devices


Project: Latency Measurement (2017 - )

Measuring and understanding latency of computer systems


Project: PAtrack - Tracking physical personnel files in HR (2018 - )

PAtrack is a system for digitally tracking the location of paper files at the HR department of the University of Regensburg.


Project: Pop-Up Participatory Design facilitates Ideation, User Research, and Outreach (2020-01-09 - )

Pop-Up Participatory Design facilitates Ideation, User Research, and Outreach


Project: Reading on Different Media (2020 - )

We are investigating how different media affect reading performance and experience.


Project: Sketchable Interaction (2018 - )

An interaction concept for customizable desktop environments and workflows


Project: Standardized Study Designs for Human-Computer Interaction (2019 - 2019)

An extensible study design for an image-sorting task.


Project: Survey on table use in everyday life (2020-06-04 - 2020-08-18)

Results of our survey on table use in everyday life (2020).


Project: Sketching with Hardware (2012 - )

A Course for Teaching Interactive Hardware Prototyping to Computer Science Students


Project: Universal Files (2017 - )

Files and directories as information substrate


Project: Vigitia Meets Degginger 2.0 (September 2021) (2021-09-20 - 2021-09-25)

From September 20 to 25, 2021, we presented three prototypes to an interested public at Regensburg's Degginger Cultural and Creative Center. The primary goals of the exhibition were to generate ideas for further application scenarios and use cases, user research, public relations and science communication.


Project: VIGITIA meets Degginger 3.0 (March 2022) (2022-03-15 - 2022-03-19)

From March 15 to 19, 2021, we presented three prototypes to an interested public at Regensburg's Degginger Cultural and Creative Center. The primary goals of the exhibition were to generate ideas for further application scenarios and use cases, user research, public relations and science communication.


Project: Vigitia Meets Degginger (September 2020) (2020-09-14 - 2020-09-19)

Public exhibition of first project results


Project: Applying Voting Methods in User Research (2019 - 2019)

Investigating reliability and validity of Likert scales, Likert-type items and voting methods


For a list of older publications please have a look at my university web site

Vitus Maierhöfer, Andreas Schmid, Raphael Wimmer

TipTrack: Precise, Low-Latency, Robust Optical Pen Tracking on Arbitrary Surfaces Using an IR-Emitting Pen Tip

TEI '24: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, 2024-02-11 () (more...)

Florian Echtler, Vitus Maierhöfer, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen, Raphael Wimmer

Demonstrating SurfaceCast: Ubiquitous, Cross-Device Surface Sharing

Companion Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces, 2023-08-05 () (more...)

Andreas Schmid, Raphael Wimmer

Measuring the Latency of Graphics Frameworks on X11-Based Systems

Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023-04-23 () (more...)

Andreas Schmid, David Halbhuber, Thomas Fischer, Raphael Wimmer, Niels Henze

Small Latency Variations Do Not Affect Player Performance in First-Person Shooters

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI Play), 2023 () (more...)

Andreas Schmid, Michael Bierschneider, Johannes Hoffmann, Yu Liu, Raphael Wimmer

Effects of Text Input Latency on Performance and Task Load

Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM ’23), 2023 () (more...)

Andreas Schmid, Marie Sautmann, Vera Wittmann, Florian Kaindl, Philipp Schauhuber, Philipp Gottschalk, Raphael Wimmer

Influence of Annotation Media on Proof-Reading Tasks

Proceedings of the Mensch und Computer 2023, 2023 () (more...)

Martina Emmert, Andreas Schmid, Raphael Wimmer, Niels Henze

CoShare: a Multi-Pointer Collaborative Screen Sharing Tool

Proceedings of the Mensch und Computer 2023, 2023 () (more...)

Andreas Schmid, Lorenz Heckelbacher, Raphael Wimmer

Extracting Handwritten Annotations from Printed Documents Via Infrared Scanning

Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2022-04-27 () (more...)

Gideon Meyerowitz‐Katz, Lonni Besançon, Antoine Flahault, Raphael Wimmer

Impact of mobility reduction on COVID-19 mortality: absence of evidence might be due to methodological issues

Scientific Reports, 2021-12-07 () (more...)

Jürgen Hahn, Raphael Wimmer

Sketchable Interaction: Drawing User Interfaces with Interactive Regions

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2021 Extended Abstracts (CHI ’21 Extended Abstracts), 2021-05-08 () (more...)

Andreas Schmid, Raphael Wimmer

Yet Another Latency Measuring Device

Workshop on Esports and High Performance HCI 2021, 2021-04-10 () (more...)

Dennis Schüsselbauer, Andreas Schmid, Raphael Wimmer

Dothraki: Tracking Tangibles Atop Tabletops Through De-Bruijn Tori

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, 2021-02-15 () (more...)

Patrick Stadler, Andreas Schmid, Raphael Wimmer

DispLagBox: Simple and Replicable High-Precision Measurements of Display Latency

Proceedings of the Conference on Mensch und Computer 2020, 2020-09-06 () (more...)

Julia Sageder, Ariane Demleitner, Oliver Irlbacher, Raphael Wimmer

Applying Voting Methods in User Research

Mensch und Computer 2019 (Poster), 2019-09-08 () (more...)

Raphael Wimmer, Andreas Schmid, Florian Bockes

On the Latency of USB-Connected Input Devices

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19), 2019-05-09 () (more...)

Florian Bockes, Raphael Wimmer, Andreas Schmid

LagBox – Measuring the Latency of USB-Connected Input Devices.

CHI EA '18 Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018-04-21 () (more...)

Raphael Wimmer

Files as Directories: Some Thoughts on Accessing Structured Data within Files

Conference Companion of the 2nd International Conference on Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (Programming'18 Companion), 2018 () (more...)

Raphael Wimmer

Digitales Papier

Blick in die Wissenschaft, 2018 () (more...)