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Full Paper @ CHI 2012

Full Paper @ CHI 2012

Our paper “Regional Undo/Redo Techniques for Large Interactive Surfaces” got accepted for CHI. In this paper, we explore different user interfaces for undo/redo that have been designed for co-located collaboration on large interactive whiteboards, such as our NiCE Wall. More information about the paper can be found under undo/redo project site. CHI has already published the [...]

Impressions of ITS/Tabletop 2009

Impressions of ITS/Tabletop 2009

Last week we attended the International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Tabletops 2009 in Banff/Canada to have a look at the latest developments in Surface and Tabletop Research. We also presented a paper about our tabletop remote control CRISTAL and gave a tutorial about input technologies for large displays. The conference took place in the [...]

RTT Conference 2009 in Munich

RTT Conference 2009 in Munich

Last week we went to the 10th RTT Conference in Munich. In this conference Realtime Technologies (RTT) and its partners presented their newest products in high-quality real-time rendering. Completely surrounded by really nice renderings of cars we presented a small multi-touch tabletop application for manipulating textures on 3D-models. In addition our project CRISTAL won the [...]

CRISTAL @ Siggraph 2009

CRISTAL @ Siggraph 2009

We are happy to announce that we will present our project CRISTAL at the Emerging Technologies at Siggraph 2009 in New Orleans. CRISTAL (Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces) provides an extreme simple user interface for controlling multimedia devices and home automation systems.

Impressions of CHI 2009

CHI 2009 was highly impressive this year and we presented two demos at the Interactivity session: FLUX table and our Occlusion-Aware Menu. Our first attendance to CHI was a good chance to introduce our work to the HCI community. We got some really good feedback about both of our projects. Furthermore, we were able to watch some really [...]

Masahiko Inami @ MIL

Professor Masahiko Inami will visit the MIL in Hagenberg next Monday (April 27th) and will give a talk with the topic “Towards X-Men Computing: Enhancement of Human I/O”. If technology becomes more transparent to the end user, in the future we can behave as if we have supernatural powers. Masahiko Inami is a professor in [...]

SLIDE’09 Call for Papers

SLIDE’09 Call for Papers

In conjunction with DEXA 2009 we are organizing the first International Workshop on Small and Large interactive Interfaces for Data Exploration (SLIDE). The workshop will be held during the DEXA 2009 conference in Linz, Austria, from 31 August to 4 September. In this workshop, the latest research and new paradigms of Exploring Data using alternative [...]

City Planning Space

On his way to the RTT Conference in Vienna, Daniel Leithinger came for a short visit to the Media Interaction Lab. While he was here he presented his current project called “City Planning Space” that he worked on at the IML. City Planning Space facilitates multiple input devices (Anoto pens and 3D-trackers) and multiple displays [...]

Impressions from TEI’08

Impressions from TEI’08

From February 18 to 20 the research-community for Tangible User Interfaces came together at the 2nd conference on Tangible Embedded Interaction in Bonn, Germany. Matt Jervis from University of Waikato and Thomas from the MI-Lab presented the results of their work on enhanced filing folders and cabinets called “Aroo – Smart Folders“. One of the [...]

MIL Logos and Icons uploaded

We just uploaded more press-related material in our press section. Now you can download our logo in several formats and the MIL Icon.