Situation awareness is essential to the decision making process in the emergency response and control setting. Situation maps used for planning and decision making are fundamental to correct and complete situation awareness, and the maps have to fulfill requirements of various emergency cases. Moreover, operators often need to coordinate rescue squads from different organizational units…
To promote physical activity at the workplace, we suggest a paradigm shift in workplace design towards an integrated activity-promoting environment that supports the adoption of a physically active office workflow. Our design concept involves an ergonomically designed workspace that integrates traditional office furniture with elements such as active seats, height-adjustable standing desks, and whiteboards to…
In FLASHED, we will discover a new technology in the field of flexible displays. A major problem of flexible displays is still the lack of interactivity, because none of the market-ready touch solutions are flexible (bendable). Therefore, one major goal of FLASHED is the development of novel, flexible touchscreen solutions, covering aspects like cost-effectiveness (all-printed),…
The eGlasses project is focused on the development of an open platform in the form of multisensory electronic glasses and on the integration and designing of new intelligent interaction methods using the eGlasses platform. This is an initial development focused on long-term research and technological innovation in perceptual and super-perceptual (e.g. heart rate, temperature) computing.…
Within Innovation Playground, we present Foxel, a modular, smart furniture concept that allows users to create their own interactive furniture on demand by simply snapping individual building blocks together. The modular building blocks offer benefits through their flexibility in how they can be arranged and their added interactive functionality, which makes them particularly well-suited for…
We are proud to announce that this year we won a Honorable Mention Award at SUI for “Pocket6: A 6DoF Controller Based On A Simple Smartphone Application”. Additionally, we got the ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award and the UIST Best Paper Award for “RESi, a highly flexible, pressure-sensitive, imperceptible textile interface based on resistive yarns”.
We are proud to announce that our paper “What a Life! Building a Framework for Constructive Assemblies” won the Best Paper Award at ACM TEI 2017! This year, the 11th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions was held in Yokohama, Japan at the Keio University Graduate School of Media Design. Joanne Leong gave…
Today, the Federal Chancellor of Austria, Christian Kern, came to visit! As part of his tour of our lab, he was given live demonstrations of a number of our projects, including our work on creativity and security software for digital whiteboards, portable flexible displays, and smart textiles.
We are proud to announce that our paper “proCover: Sensory Augmentation of Prosthetic Limbs Using Smart Textile Covers” won a Best Paper Award at ACM UIST 2016! proCover was also featured on TechCrunch, Cool Wearable, RoboticGizmos, Inverse, and more! This work would not have been possible without an incredible team, including the many people from…
