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.
2017-10-16: Florian Bockes joins the group
Florian Bockes joined our group today as a PhD student. Florian recently finished his M.Sc. at University of Regensburg under the supervision of Christian Wolff. (more...)
2017-08-16: Preetha Moorthy joins the group
Preetha Moorthy joined our group today as a PhD student. Preetha recently finished her M.Sc. at Bauhaus University Weimar under the supervision of Eva Hornecker. (more...)
2017-07-12: Invited Talk at Saarland University
Raphael Wimmer gave a talk about the state of paper and digital documents in public administration at the Human-Computer Interaction and Interactive Technologies Lab at Saarland University. We talked a little bit about e-government, prototyping techniques, and lab organization. Slides (PDF) (more...)
2017-05-17: Invited Talk at Bauhaus-University Weimar
Raphael Wimmer gave a Research Talk about “Affordances of Paper, Public Administration, and Toolkits” at the Bauhausinteraction Colloquium at the Bauhaus-University Weimar. 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