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.
2022-04-06: Talk at the 43rd congress of the German Association of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore Studies
In the beginning of April Sarah Thanner together with Libuše Hannah Vepřek gave a talk on the becoming of human-technology relationships (German title: Imaginieren – Intraagieren – Rekonfigurieren: Mensch-Technologie-Relationen im Werden) at the 43rd congress "Time. On the temporality of culture" of the German Association of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore Studies (DGEKW), organised by the Chair of Comparative European Ethnology at the University of Regensburg. (more...)
2022-03-31: VIGITIA meets Degginger 3.0 - Recap
We are looking back on an exciting and insightful week of our pop-up science exhibition at the creative center Degginger. (more...)
2022-03-09: VIGITIA meets Degginger 3.0
The pop-up-science exhibition “VIGITIA meets Degginger” enters its third round. (more...)
2021-11-24: Virtual Networking Meeting Human-Technology Interaction
The VIGITIA project presents its project progress at the networking meeting of the BMBF funding program “Human-Technology Interaction”. (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
Enhancing interaction on tabletops via projected AR.
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.
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