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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
Print-A-Sketch
A Handheld Printer for Physical Sketching of Circuits and Sensors on Everyday Su...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
SoloFinger
Robust Microgestures while Grasping Everyday Objects
Using microgestures...more
BodyStylus
Freehand On-Body Design and Fabrication of Epidermal Interfaces
In traditional bo...more
Eyecam
Anthropomorphic Webcam
What if seeing devices looked like us? Eye...more
Squish This
Force Input on Soft Surfaces for Visual Targeting Tasks
Today’s typic...more
bARefoot
Generating Virtual Materials using Motion Coupled Vibration in Shoes
Many fe...more
PolySense
Augmenting Textiles with Electrical Functionality using In-Situ Polymerization
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PhysioSkin
Rapid Fabrication of Skin-Conformal Physiological Interfaces
Advances in rapid...more
Soft Inkjet Circuits
Rapid Multi-Material Fabrication of Soft Circuits Using a Commodity Inkjet P...more
Skills : Best Paper Award
Tactlets
Adding Tactile Feedback to 3D Objects Using Custom Printed Controls
Rapid prototypi...more
Multi-Touch Kit
A Do-It-Yourself Technique for Capacitive Multi-Touch Sensing Using a Commodity M...more
Tacttoo
A Thin and Feel-Through Tattoo for On-Skin Tactile Output
Tacttoo is a feel-through ...more
Multi-Touch Skin
A Thin and Flexible Multi-Touch Sensor for On-Skin Input
Skin-based touch i...more
News
08/06/2022
Summer School on Computational Interaction
We are co-organizing the 6th Summer School on Computational Interaction. It will take place next week in Saarbrücken! You can...
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29/04/2022
Article in Communications of the ACM
Our research on Skin Computing is presented in an article in the Communications of the ACM (April 2022 issue). You...
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25/03/2022
Our papers at CHI
At CHI'22 we will present two full papers: Print-a-sketch: a handheld printer for physical sketching of circuits and sensors on...
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16/03/2022
Special Issue of TOCHI on Digital Touch now available online
The TOCHI Special Issue on Digital Touch, guest-edited by Jürgen Steimle together with his colleagues Sara Price, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze and...
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16/03/2022
Our new post-docs
We welcome our three new postdoctoral team members: Alice Haynes is joining us from U Bristol, Ata Otaran from Queen...
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08/03/2022
Best Teaching Award
We are very happy that our seminar Touch and Haptic Interfaces has received the "Best Beaver" Teaching Award in the...
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15/02/2022
Congrats, Dr. Aditya Nittala
Aditya Nittala has successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations! The full dissertation entitled "From Wearable Towards Epidermal Computing: Soft Wearable Devices...
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03/11/2021
Article in Nature Communications
We present a computational method for designing wearable electro-physiological sensors that capture muscle movement, heart rate, and galvanic skin response....
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14/10/2021
Paper at UIST 21 on Prototyping Haptic Feedback in VR
At UIST 21 we present a paper on rapid prototyping of vibrotactile feedback in virtual reality by leveraging the user's...
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09/06/2021
Multiple PhD and Post-Doc Positions
We are hiring! We have a total of 6 openings for post-doctoral researchers and PhD researchers. The application deadline is...
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