Yearly News Archive: 2023
From the 16th to the 20th of October, the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2023) was held Sydney, Australia. The ISMAR conference explores exciting contributions in the commercial and research activities involving Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality. As part of the conference, and along with other top researchers in the area, Raimund Dachselt co-organized the first Workshop on “Hybrid User Interfaces”.
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This year, Fabian Plichta presented our work Growing Green Habits: Unobtrusive Gamified Eco-Feedback to Motivate Sustainable Behavior at the Mensch und Computer 2023 conference, which is one of the largest conference series on human-computer interaction in Europe. The MuC ’23 conference took place at at the OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences Campus Rapperswil (SG) at the Zürichsee in Switzerland.
A warm and stormy Long Night of Science has concluded and the Interactive Media Lab once again participated almost in its entirety. We had the chance to present a diverse cross-section of our research to curious visitors across various ages and professions.
Another successful OUTPUT has come to an end and the Interactive Media Lab was once again present with multiple student projects and research prototypes, as well as the recipient of an award for an excellent thesis written at our chair.
The 25th Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2023) was hosted as an in-presence event at the Leipzig University, in Germany, from June 12 to 16. Our researchers Marc Satkowski and Julián Méndez had the pleasure of attending the wonderful talks, with Julián also presenting our invited Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) article “Evonne: A Visual Tool For Explaining Reasoning with OWL Ontologies and Supporting Interactive Debugging“, a result of our collaborative work within the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 248 (CPEC).
The very first German edition of the prestigious ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) took place in Hamburg from April 23 to 28. Eight researchers from the IML team attended the conference and successfully presented a full paper, two Late-Breaking-Work posters and an interactivity demonstration. In addition, Raimund Dachselt served as session chair and Mats Ole Ellenberg as Student Volunteer.
On April 17, 2023, Wolfgang Büschel successfully defended his dissertation with the highest honor summa cum laude.
The topic of his dissertation “Spatial Interaction for Immersive Mixed Reality Visualizations” deals with the question of how spatial interaction can be beneficially used and evaluated in immersive visualizations.
We are happy to announce that the German Pre-CHI 2023 will take place March 30-31 in Dresden. This event aims to provide an opportunity for researchers from Germany to present their accepted CHI papers and discuss them in a smaller circle. Additionally, this is an excellent opportunity for younger researchers to get a taste of the quality of work presented at CHI and network. Therefore, everyone from students to professors interested in HCI is welcome! For more information, please check out or event page at https://imld.de/pre-chi.
On January 26, 2023, Konstantin Klamka successfully defended his PhD thesis.
His topic Blending the Material and Digital World for Hybrid Interfaces addresses the question, how future user interfaces can be able to provide useful digital functionality while maintaining their physical properties and familiar patterns of use in the real world.