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.
2022-11-22: 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...)
2022-10-21: Showcasing our research at Nacht Schafft Wissen '22
Open Lab Day with tours and demonstrations (more...)
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.
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
ScreenshotMatcher - Taking Smartphone Photos to Capture Screenshots (2021-09-06) Andreas Schmid, Thomas Fischer, Alexander Weichart, Alexander Hartmann, Raphael Wimmer
Approaching code as process: Prototyping ethnographic methodologies (2021-07-21) Rebecca Carlson, Ruth Dorothea Eggel, Lina Franken, Sarah Thanner, Libuše Hannah Vepřek
Sketchable Interaction: Drawing User Interfaces with Interactive Regions (2021-05-08) Jürgen Hahn, Raphael Wimmer