Category: hci

Germany / hci / ires / nsf

Introducing the 2019 IRES team

We are pleased to introduce the six students who will participate in the 2018 HCI in Ubicomp IRES program. The program is a collaborative effort between Andrew Kun of UNH and Orit Shaer of Wellesley College, and it is funded by the National Science Foundation, Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE). We are grateful for the support. As[…]

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announcement / hci

Graduate assistantship at the UNH HCI Lab

The University of New Hampshire HCI Lab is offering a fully-funded PhD position in Electrical and Computer Engineering, starting in the fall of 2019 (or as early as summer 2019). The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Kun, conducting research at the intersection of in-vehicle user interfaces for automated vehicles, speech[…]

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driving / Germany / hci / ires / nsf

IRES 2018: WeimAR/VR Summer School

Last week I had the amazing opportunity to participate in the summer school for NSF IRES students at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. I recognized the name Weimar from my european history education, but I had never known about the rich tradition of Bauhaus architecture and design that was born there. The Bauhaus school[…]

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Germany / hci / ires / nsf / ubicomp / unhires

Augmenting Reality at PerDis 2018

—–As originally posted on Medium —– I have never worked on augmented reality programs. I have experimented with VR a few times, but I have never developed applications for it. However, thanks to the IRES program, I will be conducting research in Ludwig-Maximilians University’s HCI lab all summer, using the Microsoft Hololens as my main device.[…]

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Germany / hci / ires / nsf / travel

HCI at OFFIS in Oldenburg, Germany

  Less than a year ago, I took my first course in Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) in which I began my involvement with Human Computer Interfacing (HCI). Thanks to the 2018 International Research Experience for Students (IRES), I got the chance to dive deeper into the world of HCI. The first week I spent getting familiarized[…]

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