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.
2022-07-15: Open Labs Day at MINT-Labs Regensburg
On 15.07.2022 we were represented with some demos at the Open Labs Day of the MINT-Labs Regensburg. (more...)
2022-07-08: Talk at the EASST 2022 congress „Politics of Technoscientific Futures“
Sarah Thanner gave a talk at this year's EASST congress on the Politics of Technoscientific Futures in Madrid, Spain. (more...)
2022-05-24: Visit by district president Walter Jonas
Walter Jonas, the district president of the Bavarian Upper Palatinate district (Oberpfalz), visited our VR4 Lab where we presented several demos. (more...)
2022-05-05: Visit by Minister-President Dr. Markus Söder
We presented current and upcoming research. (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.
A dependency graph for learning contents.
TipTrack: Precise, Low-Latency, Robust Optical Pen Tracking on Arbitrary Surfaces Using an IR-Emitting Pen Tip (2024-02-11) Vitus Maierhöfer, Andreas Schmid, Raphael Wimmer
Demonstrating SurfaceCast: Ubiquitous, Cross-Device Surface Sharing (2023-08-05) Florian Echtler, Vitus Maierhöfer, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen, Raphael Wimmer
Measuring the Latency of Graphics Frameworks on X11-Based Systems (2023-04-23) Andreas Schmid, Raphael Wimmer
Small Latency Variations Do Not Affect Player Performance in First-Person Shooters (2023) Andreas Schmid, David Halbhuber, Thomas Fischer, Raphael Wimmer, Niels Henze