Mobile Interaction with the Real World
Niels is working as a research assistant in the Multimedia and Internet Information Services division at the research institute OFFIS in Oldenburg, Germany and is a PhD student at the Media Informatics and Multimedia Systems Group of the University of Oldenburg. He was involved in some national and European research projects such as the European IST project ENABLED for providing visually impaired with universal access to digital information and the project InterMedia researching in interaction with media using personal networked devices. Among his other research interests are advances in accessing digital information using real world entities.
Gregor is working as a research assistant and PhD student in the Media Informatics Group at the University of Munich (LMU), Germany. He is also part of the European IST project Simple Mobile Services (SMS) about the simple development, provision and usage of context-aware mobile services. Among his other research interests are advanced mobile interaction with the real world, its application to context-aware services as well as mobile usability. The focus of his current work lies on the evolution of physical mobile interaction to an approach that is driven by information rather than by technology.
Enrico is working as an academic fellow and lecturer at the Computing Department at Lancaster University. Enrico’s research interests are physical mobile interactions and applications as well as context-aware mobile services. Enrico believes that mobile devices which were so far mostly used for interactions between the user and the device itself will more and more be used for interactions with objects in the real world. Currently he works on the evaluation and comparison of physical mobile interaction techniques.
Michael is a senior research scientist with Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at TU Berlin. His research interests are in mobile and pervasive interaction and comprise interfaces at different scales, ranging from handheld device screens to large public displays, the integration of physical and virtual aspects of the user's environment, and sensor-based mobile interaction. His research currently focuses on small-display interaction, in particular navigation and visualization techniques for spatially aware displays. An example is using camera phones as magic lenses for large-scale paper maps in order to overlay personalized, up-to-date information. As part of his doctoral dissertation he developed camera-based interaction techniques for mobile devices, like optical flow control for large public displays and a marker recognition system for camera phones that uses device orientation as an input parameter.
Andreas is working as a senior researcher in the department "Information in Context" at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) in Sankt Augustin (Germany). He has a strong research background in context-aware computing and artificial intelligence, and his further research interests include areas such as nomadic systems and end-user control of ubiquitous computing environments. Within the scope of two European projects he currently manages, he is responsible for the user-centred design process and for the design of software architectures.