Raphael Wimmer

- Position: principal investigator
- Phone: +49 941 46297531
- E-Mail: raphael.wimmer@ur.de
- Web site: http://raphael.cc
- Address: TechBase, Room TechBase 1.102, Franz-Mayer-Str. 1, 93053 Regensburg
Office hours: Tuesday, 13-15 and Thursday, 12-14 (reserve a time slot).
About
Raphael Wimmer is a tenured lecturer at the University of Regensburg where he leads the junior research group “Physical Affordances for Digital Media and Workflows” funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts and coordinated by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt).
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)
News / Blog
PDA Group at CHI '2018 (2018-04-21)
We will present a poster and a workshop paper at CHI 2018. (more...)
Presenting 'Files as Directories' at Salon de Refusés 2018 (2018-04-09)
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...)
Invited Talk at TU Dresden (2018-01-09)
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...)
Invited Talk at Saarland University (2017-07-12)
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...)
Invited Talk at Bauhaus-University Weimar (2017-05-17)
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...)
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Projects
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: 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: 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: BMBF-Verbundprojekt VIGITIA - Vernetzte Intelligente Gegenstände durch, auf und um interaktive Tische im Alltag (2019 - 2022)
Enhancing interaction on tabletops via projected AR.
Project: Applying Voting Methods in User Research (2019 - 2019)
Investigating reliability and validity of Likert scales, Likert-type items and voting methods
Publications
For a list of older publications please have a look at my university web site
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...)
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...)