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 *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)
News / Blog
PDA group at Mensch und Computer 2021 (2021-09-09)
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...)
Sketchable Interaction at CHI21 (2021-05-08)
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...)
PDA group at Workshop on Esports and High Performance HCI 2021 (2021-04-10)
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...)
DotTrack at TEI 2021 (2021-02-16)
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...)
DispLagBox at Mensch und Computer 2020 (2020-09-01)
We will present DispLagBox, a precise and easily replicable device for measuring display latency, as a short paper at Mensch und Computer 2020. (more...)
→ complete list of news/blog posts involving me
Projects
Project: Analysing the eAkte/eFile landscape in Germany (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: 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: 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: 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
ScreenshotMatcher - Taking Smartphone Photos to Capture Screenshots
Proceedings of the Mensch und Computer 2021, 2021-09-06 () (more...)
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...)
Yet Another Latency Measuring Device
Workshop on Esports and High Performance HCI 2021, 2021-04-10 () (more...)
Dothraki: Tracking Tangibles Atop Tabletops Through De-Bruijn Tori
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, 2021-02-15 () (more...)
DispLagBox: Simple and Replicable High-Precision Measurements of Display Latency
Proceedings of the Conference on Mensch und Computer 2020, 2020-09-06 () (more...)
Proceedings of the Mensch und Computer 2019 Workshop "Be-greifbare Interaktion", 2019-09-08 () (more...)
Applying Voting Methods in User Research
Mensch und Computer 2019 (Poster), 2019-09-08 () (more...)
A Prototypical Photo Sorting Study Design for Comparing Interaction Styles
Mensch und Computer 2019 (Poster), 2019-09-08 () (more...)
VIGITIA: Unterstützung von alltäglichen Tätigkeiten an Tischen durch Projected AR
Proceedings of the Mensch und Computer 2019 Workshop on Virtual and Augmented Reality in Everyday Context (VARECo), 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...)
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...)
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