Invited Talk by Michael Beigl (KIT) on June 05

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 […]

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Martin Schmitz receives prestigious Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize

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)

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Our contributions at CHI’25

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 […]

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Summer internships

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

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Google PhD fellowship for Arata Jingu

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

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Honorable Mention Award at SIGGRAPH

Our forthcoming SIGGRAPH’24 paper on Capacitive Touch Sensing on General 3D Surfaces has been selected for a Honorable Mention Award. This work is a collaboration with Gianpaolo Palma and Paolo Cignoni from CNR-ISTI. More information can be found here.

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Our Papers at CHI’24

We will present the following papers at CHI’24: Shaping Compliance: Inducing Haptic Illusion of Compliance in Different Shapes with Electrotactile Grains Flextiles: Designing Customisable Shape-Change in Textiles with SMA-Actuated Smocking Patterns

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Invited talk by Xiao Xiao

It is our pleasure to announce an invited talk given by Dr. Xiao Xiao, Principal Investigator of the Human Learning Group at the Institute for Future Technologies of the Pôle Léonard de Vinci in Paris – La Défense. The talk’s title is “Music Learning as Inspiration for Interactive Technology Design: Insights from Piano and Theremin Practices”. It will take place on Wednesday, April 17th, 13:00 […]

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German Pre-CHI 2024 in Saarbrücken

The German Pre-CHI 2024 will take place in Saarbrücken on April 25-26. Find more information here.

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3 Papers at UIST’23

We will present the following main track papers at UIST’23: Double-Sided Tactile Interactions for Grasping in Virtual Reality WRLKit: Computational Design of Personalized Wearable Robotic Limbs Biohybrid Devices: Prototyping Interactive Devices with Growable Materials

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