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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
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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21/01/2020
New post-doc Marion Koelle
We welcome our new team member Marion Koelle. Marion is joining our lab as a post-doctoral fellow. She has previously...
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13/03/2019 / news
Honorable Mention Awards at CHI 2019
Two of our contributions at ACM CHI 2019 were recognized with Honorable Mention awards: Like a Second Skin: Understanding How...
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13/08/2019 / news
4 Papers at UIST 2019
Four full papers have been (conditionally) accepted for publication at UIST’19. As always at UIST, all papers are accepted conditionally...
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13/01/2020 / news
Best Paper Awards at UIST 2019
Two of our contributions at ACM UIST 2019 are recognized with Best Paper awards: Soft Inkjet Circuits: Rapid Multi-Material Fabrication...
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13/01/2020 / news
Multi-Touch Kit is now on Github
Code for our latest UIST 2019 paper: Multi-Touch Kit is now released on Github. You can find Tutorials and the...
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13/01/2020 / news
Foldio kits: learn programming in a playful way
Our spin-off Foldio has made first starter kits available. Based on foldable electronics and an easy-to-use microcontroller, children can learn...
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