How can we develop appropriate and natural forms of communication between humans and computers? In the future, computers will hardly be perceived as such, but will be seamlessly integrated into our living and working environments, e.g. in cyber-physical systems. How can people be effectively supported with their experiences, sensory organs, gestural means of expression and social needs?
Our work focuses on the systematic and fundamental research of different, preferably natural interaction modalities and their synergistic combination. We are researching gestural multi-touch interaction, digital pens in combination with digital paper, the efficient combination of touch and pen input, gestural interaction with hands, head and feet, gaze-supported interaction for remote displays, and tangibles. Our focus is on small and large interactive surfaces (mini-displays, smartphones, tablets, tabletops, high-resolution large wall displays) and their effective combination in multi-display environments.
We apply the developed techniques and principles in various application domains and projects with academic and industrial partners from Germany and abroad. We also investigate how modern user interfaces and interaction techniques can be used effectively in the fields of interactive information visualization, music informatics and semantic web.
PMC-VIS: Interactive Visualization for Probabilistic Model Checking
PEARL: Physical Environment based Augmented Reality Lenses for In-Situ Human Movement Analysis
@inproceedings{luo2025documents,
author = {Weizhou Luo and Mats Ole Ellenberg and Marc Satkowski and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Documents in Your Hands: Exploring Interaction Techniques for Spatial Arrangement of Augmented Reality Documents},
series = {CHI '25},
isbn = {979-8-4007-1394-1/25/04},
numpages = {22},
doi = {10.1145/3706598.3713518},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713518},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {spatial layout, content organization, interaction design, user-centered design, Mixed Reality}
}
@inproceedings{ellenberg2025endomersion,
author = {Mats Ole Ellenberg and Katja Krug and Yichen Fan and Jens Krzywinski and Raimund Dachselt and Rayan Younis and Martin Wagner and J\"{u}rgen Weitz and Ariel Rodriguez and Gregor Just and Sebastian Bodenstedt and Stefanie Speidel},
title = {Endomersion: An Immersive Remote Guidance and Feedback System for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery},
series = {IEEE VR '25},
numpages = {2},
keywords = {Mixed Reality, Remote Guidance, Telestration, Minimally Invasive Surgery}
}
@article{MLRBD-2025-ImmDataStoriesReview,
author = {Juli\'{a}n M\'{e}ndez and Weizhou Luo and Rufat Rzayev and Wolfgang B\"{u}schel and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Immersive Data-Driven Storytelling: Scoping an Emerging Field Through the Lenses of Research, Journalism, and Games},
doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2025.3531138},
address = {New Jersey}
}
@phdthesis{Langner-2025-ExploringMobileDev,
author = {Ricardo Langner},
title = {Exploring Mobile Device Interactions for Information Visualization},
numpages = {287},
url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-949500},
address = {Dresden},
keywords = {Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Mobile Devices, Visual Data Analysis, Multiple Coordinated Views}
}
@article{gerlach2024evonnemo,
author = {Lukas Gerlach and Alex Ivliev and Juli\'{a}n M\'{e}ndez and Simon Meusel and Raimund Dachselt and Markus Kr\"{o}tzsch},
title = {EvonNemo \&\#8211; A Symbiosis of Datalog Tracing and Proof Tree Visualization}
}
