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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
Embrogami: Shape-Changing Textiles with Machine Embroidery
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Machine embroi...more
Capacitive Touch Sensing on General 3D Surfaces
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Mutual-capacitive sensing...more
Shaping Compliance
Inducing Haptic Illusion of Compliance in Different Shapes with Electrotactile...more
Flextiles
Designing Customisable Shape-Change in Textiles with SMA-Actuated Smocking Patterns
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WRLKit: Computational Design of Personalized Wearable Robotic Limbs
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Wearable...more
Double-Sided Tactile Interactions for Grasping in Virtual Reality
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For graspi...more
Biohybrid Devices: Prototyping Interactive Devices with Growable Materials
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I Need a Third Arm! Eliciting Body-based Interactions with a Wearable Robotic Arm
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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
Computational Design and Optimization of Electro-Physiological Sensors
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Elect...more
News
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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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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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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