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.
2018-04-21: PDA Group at CHI '2018
We will present a poster and a workshop paper at CHI 2018. (more...)
2018-04-09: Presenting 'Files as Directories' at Salon de Refusés 2018
On 9. April 2018, Raphael Wimmer presented initial work on using file system semantics for accessing structured data within files at the Salon de Refusés 2018. (more...)
2018-02-01: Jürgen Hahn joins the group
Jürgen Hahn joined our group today as a PhD student. Jürgen recently finished his M.Sc. at University of Regensburg under the supervision of Bernd Ludwig. (more...)
2018-01-09: Invited Talk at TU Dresden
Raphael Wimmer gave a talk about “Keeping the User in Control” at the Interactive Media Lab led by Raimund Dachselt at TU Dresden. Slides (PDF) (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.
Measuring the Latency of Graphics Frameworks on X11-Based Systems (2023-04-23) Andreas Schmid, Raphael Wimmer
How Do Users Like Their Tangibles? — An Exploration of Interaction Techniques for Data Transfer with Everyday Objects (2023) Martina Emmert, Nicole Schönwerth, Andreas Schmid, Anton Alešik, Raphael Wimmer
Influence of Annotation Media on Proof-Reading Tasks (2023) Andreas Schmid, Marie Sautmann, Vera Wittmann, Florian Kaindl, Philipp Schauhuber, Philipp Gottschalk, Raphael Wimmer
From Trash to Treasure: Experiences from Building Tangible Artifacts out of Discarded Components (2023) Andreas Schmid, Alexander Kalus, Raphael Wimmer