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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

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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L...more

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
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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
News
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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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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