ACM CHI 2026 in Barcelona

This year’s edition of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, widely regarded as the leading venue in Human-Computer Interaction, was held in Barcelona, Spain from April 13 to 17, 2026. Under the theme “Creant el demà junts” (“Creating Tomorrow Together”), the conference brought together researchers, designers, and practitioners from around the world. Six members from the IML team (Raimund Dachselt, Mats Ole Ellenberg, Julian Baader Katja Krug, Susmita Khadse, Weizhou Luo) attended the conference, contributing two full papers, one submission to the Student Mentoring Program, and four workshop submissions.

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Start of the DFG project tVISt

In October, our DFG project “tVISt: Data Visualization Beyond Planar Displays” commenced in collaboration with our French project partners, Anastasia Bezerianos from Université Paris-Saclay, as well as Tobias Isenberg and Petra Isenberg from the Inria Team Aviz.

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ACM CHI 2025 in Yokohama

group picture of the iml team at chi 2025 in front of the conference caligraphy logo. From left to right: Raimund Dachselt, Julián Méndez, Weizhou Luo, Mats Ole Ellenberg, Katja Krug, Marc Satkowski

This year’s ACM CHI was held in Yokohama, Japan, from April 26 to May 1. Our IMLD was on site with 6 people (Raimund Dachselt, Mats Ole Ellenberg, Katja Krug, Weizhou Luo, Julián Méndez, and Marc Satkowski). The Lab was involved in a total of three full papers, one of which is a journal paper (TOCHI), and four workshops which dealt with topics in mixed reality, AI, and affective interaction.

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Prof. Dachselt new CPEC Spokesperson

At a general meeting of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center 248 Center for Perspicuous Computing (CPEC), Raimund Dachselt was elected as the new spokesperson. Since January 2025, he has headed the transregional research network – together with the now vice spokesperson, Prof. Holger Hermanns, from Saarland University. The large-scale collaborative research initiative with 21 project leaders Continue reading

PhD Defense of Ricardo Langner

On December 16th, 2024, Ricardo Langner successfully defended his dissertation.

The topic of his dissertation “Exploring Mobile Device Interactions for Information Visualization” deals with the question of how mobile devices can be used for visualization use cases beyond personal data exploration.

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Freshman week (ESE) 2024 of the faculty of computer science

Once again this year, the Interactive Media Lab gave a short presentation of their current and past research projects to the new students of our faculty’s computer science programs.
As part of this year’s ESE, our group gave project presentations in our lab (APB/2046) on 09.10, showing the variety of hardware and use cases we researched.

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CPEC Fall 2024 General Assembly

The Fall 2024 General Assembly for the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 248 “Foundations of Perspicuous Software Systems”, otherwise known as CPEC (Centre for Perspicuous Computing), took place at our Faculty of Computer Science from Sept. 23rd to 25th.

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ACM CHI 2024 in Honolulu

The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) took place from May 11-16, 2024, at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Weizhou Luo attended the conference and successfully presented his work “Exploring Spatial Organization Strategies for Virtual Content in Mixed Reality Environments” at the Doctoral Consortium. He also discussed his poster about this work with other conference attendees.

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IMLD-Visit in Konstanz

Gruppenbild des Workshops in Konstanz | Group picture of the Workshop in Konstanz

On April 17 and 18 2024, six researchers of our Interactive Media Lab Dresden visited the Human-Computer Interaction Group of the University of Konstanz. In a joint workshop, we discussed several exciting research topics in the field of mixed reality. The two days were concluded with a public talk from Prof. Raimund Dachselt on the topic “Leaving the Confines of the Desktop: Towards Ubiquitous Data Visualization.”