Home
Our mission is to contribute toward a future of user interfaces that seamlessly merge with the physical world and the human body. We develop advanced interactive technologies and investigate new user interface concepts to create more effective, expressive and engaging interactions with interactive systems. [read more]
Featured Projects

WRLKit: Computational Design of Personalized Wearable Robotic Limbs
Abstract
Wearable...more

Double-Sided Tactile Interactions for Grasping in Virtual Reality
Abstract
For graspi...more

Biohybrid Devices: Prototyping Interactive Devices with Growable Materials
Abstract
L...more

Design and Fabrication of Body-Based Interfaces
(Demo of Saarland HCI Lab)
This Interactiv...more

I Need a Third Arm! Eliciting Body-based Interactions with a Wearable Robotic Arm
Abst...more

Handheld Tools Unleashed
A Mixed-Initiative Physical Sketching with a Robotic Printer
Abst...more

SparseIMU: Computational Design of Sparse IMU Layouts for Sensing Fine-Grained Finger Microgestures
...more
SparseIMU: Computational Design of Sparse IMU Layouts for Sensing Fine-Grained Finger MicrogesturesClient Review :
(TOCHI 2022)
(TOCHI 2022)

Interactive Bioplastics
A DIY approach for composing soft interactive devices from bio-based and ...more

Print-A-Sketch
A Handheld Printer for Physical Sketching of Circuits and Sensors on Everyday Surf...more

Computational Design and Optimization of Electro-Physiological Sensors
Abstract
Elect...more

Weirding Haptics
In-Situ Prototyping of Vibrotactile Feedback in Virtual Reality through Vocaliza...more

BodyStylus
Freehand On-Body Design and Fabrication of Epidermal Interfaces
In traditional bo...more
News
28/08/2023
3 Papers at UIST’23
We will present the following main track papers at UIST'23: Double-Sided Tactile Interactions for Grasping in Virtual Reality WRLKit: Computational...
Read More
27/07/2023
Congrats, Dr. Narges Pourjafarian!
We congratulate Narges on her successful PhD defense. Best wishes for her future research at Cornell University! The dissertation is...
Read More
28/04/2023
People’s Choice Best Demo Award at CHI’23
Our Lab Demo has received the People's Choice Best Demo Award at CHI 2023. We would like to thank everyone...
Read More
17/04/2023
Lab Demo at CHI’23
We will present our lab at CHI'23 in Hamburg with a Lab Demo in the Interactivity Session. Find more information...
Read More
17/02/2023
Our papers at CHI’23
Members of our group are authors of 8 accepted CHI'23 main track papers (see on our Publications page). We are...
Read More
09/02/2023
Program Chair of UIST’23
Jürgen Steimle will be chairing the technical program of UIST'23 together with Nathalie Henry Riche from Microsoft Research. The deadlines...
Read More
24/01/2023
ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant
The European Research Council is funding the new project "Feel-XR: Feel-through Haptic Feedback for Augmented and Virtual Reality" at the...
Read More
09/12/2022
Invited talk by Prof. Inami (U Tokyo)
We welcome our visitor Prof. Masahiko Inami from the University of Tokyo. He will give an invited talk on Dec...
Read More
02/12/2022
Article in ACM TOCHI
We present a computational design approach to recognize the desired set of freehand and/or grasping microgestures with minimal hand instrumentation....
Read More
18/10/2022
Best Paper Award at UIST’22
Our paper on Prototyping of Soft Devices with Interactive Bioplastics has been selected to receive a Best Paper Award at...
Read More