We are a research group in human-computer interaction. Our goal is to reinvent computer interfaces in order to seamlessly integrate digital media with the physical world, enabling more effective, expressive and engaging interactions. More…

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SkinMarks: Enabling Interactions on Body Landmarks

iSkin: Elastic On-Body Touch Sensors

PrintScreen: Digital Fabrication of Thin-Film Displays

More Than Touch

Flexpad

A Cuttable Multi-Touch Sensor

FoldMe

On Body Displays

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News

- Best Paper Award at ACM ISS 2018
  26. November 2018
  Our paper “FingerInput: Capturing Expressive Single-Hand Thumb-to-Finger Microgestures” has received the Best Academic Paper Award at the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and …More ...
- Visiting Researcher Konstantin Klamka (TU Dresden)
  7. November 2018
  We welcome our visiting researcher Konstantin Klamka from TU Dresden. Konstantin will give a talk this week on Friday at 13:00 in Bld E1.7, Room …More ...
- Colloquium on Haptics with Invited Talks by Karon MacLean (UBC) and Christian Holz (MSR)
  15. May 2018
  We are pleased to announce two invited talks on haptics: Friday, May 25, 2018, 10:15-11:45am, MPI for Informatics (E1.4), Room 019. Karon MacLean (University of …More ...
- Openings for postdoctoral and PhD researchers
  22. April 2018
  We have new openings with fully-funded positions for a post-doctoral fellow and a PhD researcher. You can find more information here. Related posts: Openings for …More ...
- Dagstuhl Seminar On-Body Interaction
  22. April 2018
  Together with Kasper Hornbaek (U Copenhagen), David Kirsh (UC San Diego) and Joe Paradiso (MIT), we co-organize a Dagstuhl seminar “On-Body Interaction: Embodied Cognition Meets …More ...
- Hager Award nomination for interactive dress with paper electronics
  13. March 2018
  “Read my mind” is an interactive dress that uses modular paper electronics to create a personal and customisable audio-visual experience. The installation was nominated for …More ...
- Student team won first prize in Sensors 2017 Contest
  29. January 2018
  A class project from our Physical Computing lecture won a first prize in the Sensors 2017 Contest of the Instructables platform. The project was led …More ...

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Affiliations

Saarland Informatics Campus

Saarland University

Cluster of Excellence MMCI

Max Planck Institute for Informatics