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.
2020-05-27: Augmented Realities put on the table - Talk at MeDiA Lab at Humboldt University of Berlin
On Wednesday, 27.5.2020, Sarah Thanner gave a talk at Media & Digital Anthropology Lab at Humboldt University of Berlin and presented her ongoing PhD research. (more...)
2020-05-18: Evaluating workflow-specific HTML Editor
We are currently evaluating a custom, simplified HTML Editor developed for and with Technische Zentrale @UR. (more...)
2020-01-23: VIGITIA: Workshop with Creative Professionals
The VIGITIA project presented its first prototype setup to creative professionals in the context of a workshop held at the center for creative culture Degginger in Regensburg. (more...)
2019-12-09: VIGITIA Project Partner Meeting
The VIGITIA partners came together for a second project meeting to discuss the current status of the project and future work. (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