PEOPLE / Prof. Dr. Jürgen Steimle

Fax: +49 (0)681 302 70155
Office Hours: By Appointment


PEOPLE / Prof. Dr. Jürgen Steimle

Lab Director

Jürgen Steimle is a full professor (W3) at the Department of Computer Science at Saarland University and Saarland Informatics Campus. He directs the Human-Computer Interaction and Interactive Technologies Lab. He is also the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Previously, he held positions as Independent Research Group Leader (W2) at Saarland University (2013-2016) and Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (2013-2018). From 2012 to 2014, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Darmstadt University of Technology.

His research investigates embedded and embodied user interfaces that seamlessly merge with the physical world and the human body, to enable more effective, expressive, and engaging interactions with computers and interactive devices. His current focus areas include flexible sensors and displays, on-body interaction and wearable computing, touch and haptic interfaces, digital fabrication and new materials for interaction.

He is serving as co-chair and member of program committees for major international conferences, including positions as program chair at UIST 2023 and TEI 2017, general chair at ACM ISS 2017, and workshops track chair for CHI 2014 and CHI 2015. From 2018-2020 he was the Dean of Studies for Computer Science at Saarland University.

CONTACT

Email: last name (at) cs.uni-saarland.de
Phone: +49 (0)681 302 71080 (Administrative assistant Anne Bardesono-Köpsel), direct extension -71081
Fax: +49 (0)681 302 70155
Office: Building E1.7, Room 2.23
Office Hours:
By appointment
 

 

 

CURRENT AND PAST PHD STUDENTS

 

CURRENT AND PAST POST-DOCS

 

SELECTED AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

  • ERC Starting Grant 2016
  • Holder of the Francqui Chair 2016 at Hasselt University, Belgium (invited guest professor)
  • Best Paper Awards at ACM UIST 2022, 2019 (2x), ACM ISS 2018, ACM CHI 2015, ACM UIST 2015, ACM UIST 2014, IEEE ICALT 2008, DeLFI 2007
  • Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards at CHI 2019 (2x), CHI 2016, CHI 2015, CHI 2013
  • CHI’23 People’s Choice Best Demo Award
  • Google Faculty Research Award 2015
  • Germany Land of Ideas – Landmark 2015 [Deutschland Land der Ideen – Ausgewählter Ort 2015]
  • Best Computer Science Dissertation Award 2009 by the German Informatics Society (GI), the Swiss Informatics Society (SI), the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and the German Chapter of the ACM (the most prestigious award for dissertations in computer science in the German-speaking countries)
  • Full scholarship of the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) 2002-2006

 

TEACHING

  • Core Lecture Human-Computer Interaction (9CP), in winter semesters
  • Lecture Interactive Systems (6CP), in summer semesters
  • Lecture Programming for Engineers (8CP), summer semester 2018
  • Advanced Lecture Physical Computing (6CP), in winter semester 2016/17
  • Lecture User Interface Design (9CP), in summer semester 2016
  • Seminars (7CP) on various topics, including AR/VR, Interactive Skin, Interactive Digital Fabrication, Physical Computing, Developing Embedded Interactive Systems, Embodied Interaction

 

CHAIRING AND ORGANIZATION

  • ACM UIST 2023 Program Chair
  • ACM TEI 2017 Program Chair
  • ACM ISS 2017 General Chair
  • ACM CHI 2024 Interactivity Jury
  • ACM UIST 2020 Doctoral Consortium Chair
  • ACM UIST 2018 Awards Chair
  • ACM CHI 2015 Workshops Track Chair
  • ACM ITS 2014 Doctoral Consortium Chair
  • ACM CHI 2014 Workshops Track Chair
  • ACM MobileHCI 2014 Workshops Track Chair
  • ACM ITS 2012 Demos Chair
  • Guest Editor of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI) 2021 special issue “Digital Touch: Reshaping interpersonal communicative capacity and social touch practices” (with Sara Price, Carey Jewitt, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze)
  • Guest Editor of the Informatik Spektrum special issue “Interaction Beyond the Desktop” (with Eva Hornecker and Albrecht Schmidt)
  • Organizer of 6th Summer School on Computational Interaction 2022 (with Anna Maria Feit)
  • Organizer of Dagstuhl Seminar “On-Body Interaction” 2018 (with Kasper Hornbaek, David Kirsh, Joe Paradiso)
  • Organizer of European Tangible Interaction Studio (ETIS) 2017 Summer School (with Dimitra Anastasiou, Valerie Maquil)
  • Organizer of ACM UbiComp 2016 Workshop “UnderWare: Aesthetic, Expressive, and Functional On-Skin Technologies” (with Joe Paradiso, Chris Schmandt, Katia Vega, Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, Rebecca Kleinberger, Xin Liu, Jie Qi, Asta Roseway, Ali K. Yetisen, Martin Weigel)
  • Organizer of ACM CHI 2013 Workshop “Displays Take New Shape: An Agenda for Future Interactive Surfaces” (with Hrvoje Benko, Alvaro Cassinelli, Hiroshi Ishii, Daniel Leithinger, Pattie Maes, Ivan Poupyrev)
  • Organizer of ACM CHI 2013 Special Interest Group “Visions and Visioning in CHI” (with Aaron Quigley, Alan Dix, Wendy Mackay, Hiroshi Ishii)
  • Organizer of Dagstuhl Seminar “Interaction Beyond the Desktop” 2012 (with Alan Dix, James D. Hollan, Albrecht Schmidt)
  • Organizer of ACM ITS 2012 Tutorial and Workshop “Beyond Flat Displays: Towards Shaped and Deformable Interactive Surfaces” (with Daniel Leithinger, Pol Pla, Pattie Maes)
  • Organizer of Mensch&Computer 2010 Workshop “Be-greifbare Interaktionen” [Tangible Interactions]
  • Organizer of Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Technology-enhanced Learning (IATEL) 2009 (with Max Mühlhäuser, Werner Sesink, Andreas Kaminski)

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEES AND SCIENTIFIC BOARDS

  • Editorial Board of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), since 2024
  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI) 2022
  • Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Leibniz Institute for New Materials (INM), since 2019
  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI) 2021
  • Augmented Humans (AHs) Conference 2020
  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI) 2019
  • Mensch & Computer 2018 Conference
  • ACM UIST User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST) 2017
  • Conference on Augmented Human (AH) 2016
  • Mensch & Computer 2016 Conference
  • Intl. Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis) 2016
  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI) 2015
  • ACM UIST User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST) 2015
  • IEEE Intl. Conference on RFID 2015
  • Intl. Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis) 2015
  • Conference on Augmented Human (AH) 2015
  • Mensch & Computer 2015 Conference
  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI) 2014
  • ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces Conference (ITS) 2014
  • Intl. Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis) 2014
  • Mensch & Computer 2014 Conference
  • ACM Intl. Conference on Multimedia (MM) 2013
  • ACM CHI 2013 Workshops Track
  • Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) 2013
  • Conference on Augmented Human (AH) 2013
  • Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2013 Posters and Demos Track
  • Mensch & Computer 2013 Conference
  • ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces Conference (ITS) 2011
  • ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces Conference (ITS) 2010