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Congratulations to Dr Madalina Nicolae on successfully defending her PhD thesis entitled “Prototyping Interactive Systems with Biomaterials: New Approaches for Human-Computer Interaction”. She is currently continuing her academic career as a visiting research scholar at the University of Sydney, School of Computer Science with Dr. Anusha Withana. Learn more about Madalina’s reasearch: https://madalinanicolae.com/

We are pleased to share that our lab contributed to the following eight papers accepted at CHI’26: HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION HaptEx: Investigating Haptic Notification Channels for Exoskeletons Across Different Levels of Actuation Forefeel the Move: Investigating Proprioceptive Feedback for Communicating Imminent Motions of Body-actuating Systems HUMAN-AI INTERACTION Scene2Hap: Generating Scene-Wide Haptics for VR from Scene Context with Multimodal LLMs (Best Paper) HAPTICS FOR VR User-reconfigured Haptics: […]

We are pleased to share that Prof. Dr. Jürgen Steimle and Marie Muehlhaus from our team are involved in organizing the following workshops at CHI’26: AI for Haptics and Haptics for AI: Challenges and Opportunities Organizers: Easa AliAbbasi, Sensorimotor Interaction Group, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany Dennis Wittchen, Sensorimotor Interaction, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany; […]

We are offering summer internships on various topics in which Master’s students and advanced undergraduate students have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with HCI research and are closely guided by members of the team in working on trending topics in interactive technologies! All our openings for this year’s research internship program have been filled. Stay tuned – we will have new openings in 2027.

We will present the following main track papers at UIST’25: GestureCoach: Rehearsing for Engaging Talks with LLM-Driven Gesture Recommendations Move with Style! Enhancing Avatar Embodiment in Virtual Reality through Proprioceptive Motion Feedback (Honorable Mention) Texergy: Textile-based Harvesting, Storing, and Releasing of Mechanical Energy for Passive On-Body Actuation eTactileKit: A Toolkit for Design Exploration and Rapid Prototyping of Electro-Tactile Interfaces (collaboration with Withana Lab, U Sydney) […]

Prof. Dr. Michael Beigl from KIT will give an invited talk on June 5th, 11-12, in Bld E1.7 001. Designing and Building Wearables: From Open Platforms to Embedded Interaction Thursday, 5th of June; 11:00-12:00; E1.7 001: Wearables – intelligent devices worn on the body – open up new perspectives for human-computer interaction (HCI) and health monitoring. This talk will introduce different wearable systems, in particular […]

Our team member Martin Schmitz will be awarded the DFG Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2025 – Germany’s most prestigious award for researchers in the early stages of their academic career. Many congratulations to Martin for this important achievement! Press release (in German)

We will present the following main track papers at CHI’25: 3HANDS Dataset: Learning from Humans for Generating Naturalistic Handovers with Supernumerary Robotic Limbs ExoKit: A Toolkit for Rapid Prototyping of Interactions for Arm-based Exoskeletons CreepyCoCreator? Investigating AI Representation Modes for 3D Object Co-Creation in Virtual Reality We are co-organizing the following workshops: Sensorimotor Devices: Coupling Sensing and Actuation to Augment Bodily Experience Digital communication moving […]

We are offering summer internships on various topics! You can find more information here.

We are honored that Google has selected our team member Arata Jingu to receive a Google PhD fellowship. Find more information here.