Physical-Digital Affordances Group, University of Regensburg
The Physical-Digital Affordances Group at the University of Regensburg explores how the unique affordances of physical and digital media can be combined to enhance knowledge work and workflows (more about our goals).
The group is associated with the Chair of Media Informatics within the Department of Informatics and Data Science. It is led by Dr. Raphael Wimmer.
2023-04-26: GraphIT - was man alles mit einem Abhängigkeitsgraph für Lerninhalte machen kann
Raphael Wimmer will give a Lightning Talk about the upcoming project at University:Future Festival. (more...)
2022-11-22: BMBF meeting Human-Technology Interaction
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...)
2022-11-11: Ongoing cooperation with Industrial Design students at OTH Regenburg
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...)
2022-10-29: Workshop at Code Week Bayern together with Philipp Rümmer
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...)
Application that allows creating screenshots of a computer screen by photographing it with a smartphone.
Measuring and understanding latency of computer systems
An interaction concept for customizable desktop environments and workflows
A Course for Teaching Interactive Hardware Prototyping to Computer Science Students
Absolute position tracking using the raw image of a mouse sensor
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.
Enhancing interaction on tabletops via projected AR.
Using an Infrared Pen as an Input Device for Projected Augmented Reality Tabletops (2022-09-04) Vitus Maierhöfer, Andreas Schmid, Raphael Wimmer
Determining the Orientation of Low Resolution Images of a De-Bruijn Tracking Pattern with a CNN (2022-08-07) Andreas Schmid, Raphael Wimmer, Stefan Lippl
Extracting Handwritten Annotations from Printed Documents Via Infrared Scanning (2022-04-27) Andreas Schmid, Lorenz Heckelbacher, Raphael Wimmer
Impact of mobility reduction on COVID-19 mortality: absence of evidence might be due to methodological issues (2021-12-07) Gideon Meyerowitz‐Katz, Lonni Besançon, Antoine Flahault, Raphael Wimmer