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). From 2017 to 2020, the junior research group was funded in the context of the Centre Digitisation.Bavaria (ZD.B). He 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
Das Analoge muss ins Digitale - talk at the Regensburg University Library (2019-06-05)
On Wednesday, 05. June 2019, Raphael Wimmer will give a talk about the group's research on physical and digital affordances (event details). (more...)
New paper: On the Latency of USB-Connected Input Devices (2019-05-09)
We presented our paper "On the Latency of USB-Connected Input Devices" at CHI 2019 in Glasgow. (more...)
Visit by the Ambassador of the Czech Republic (2019-04-25)
Tomáš Jan Podivínský, Ambassador of the Czech Republic visited our lab together with a delegation from the Regensburg Chamber of Commerce. (more...)
DotTrack at 'Mensch und Computer 2018' in Dresden (2018-09-02)
We will present the current state of our DotTrack project at Mensch und Computer 2018. (more...)
PDA Group at CHI '2018 (2018-04-21)
We will present a poster and a workshop paper at CHI 2018. (more...)
→ complete list of news/blog posts involving me
Projects
Project: Reading on Different Media (2020 - )
We are investigating how different media affect reading performance and experience.
Project: Sketchable Interaction (2018 - )
Project: Sketching with Hardware (2012 - )
A Course for Teaching Interactive Hardware Prototyping to Computer Science Students
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
Proceedings of the Mensch und Computer 2019 Workshop "Be-greifbare Interaktion", 2019-09-08 () (more...)
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...)
DotTrack: absolute und relative Positionsbestimmung von Tangibles mittels eines Maussensors
Workshopband Mensch und Computer 2018, 2018-09-02 () (more...)
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...)