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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
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
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SparseIMU: Computational Design of Sparse IMU Layouts for Sensing Fine-Grained Finger Microgestures
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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
bARefoot
Generating Virtual Materials using Motion Coupled Vibration in Shoes
Many fe...more
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
News
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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21/07/2022
Congrats, Dr. Adwait Sharma!
Adwait Sharma has successfully defended his dissertation today. Congratulations to Adwait for his strong work on Design and Recognition of...
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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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