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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
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 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
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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05/03/2021
Paper on Human-Robot Interaction at ICRA’21
We will present the following paper at the IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation 2021: Human-Like Artificial Skin Sensor...
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20/01/2021
5 Papers Accepted to CHI 2021
We will present the following main track papers at CHI 2021: BodyStylus: Freehand On-Body Design and Fabrication of Epidermal Interfaces...
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20/11/2020
Keynote at MUM’20 on Augmented Materiality
Jürgen Steimle will give the closing keynote at the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia MUM'20 on "Augmented Materiality"....
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19/10/2020
Marion Koelle receives Helene-Lange Award
She was awarded the Helene-Lange-Preis 2020 for her doctoral research on "Designing Socially Acceptable Body-worn Cameras". The award recognises outstanding dissertations contributing...
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25/09/2020
Special Issue of ToCHI on Digital Touch
We invite submissions to a special issue of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction on "Digital Touch: Reshaping interpersonal communicative capacity...
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12/03/2020
Honorable Mention Awards at ACM CHI 2020
Two of our contributions at ACM CHI 2020 were recognized with Honorable Mention awards: Rapid Iron-On User Interfaces: Hands-on Fabrication...
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03/03/2020
ACM SIGCHI Dissertation Award for Paul Strohmeier
We are excited that Paul Strohmeier is going to receive an ACM SIGCHI Dissertation Award for his PhD thesis. Paul...
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26/02/2020
Workshop at EuroHaptics 2020
We organize a workshop at EuroHaptics 2020 on Designing Digital Touch: Social and Sensory Aspects and Challenges. You can find...
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21/01/2020
5 Papers at CHI 2020
We will be presenting five papers at CHI'20. PhysioSkin: Rapid Fabrication of Skin-Conformal Physiological Interfaces Aditya Shekhar Nittala, Saarland University,...
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