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BMW Group R&D, Munich (7/21/2014)

Last week, we went on a day-trip to Munich to visit some of the Stuttgart HCI Lab’s colleagues and collaborators. We first visited the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, but I will describe that visit in a different post. During the second half of the day, we went to the center for BMW Group’s Research and[…]

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Eindhoven Technical University (TU/e), (7/7/2014)

Dr. Jacques Terken of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) hosted a very interesting tour of the TU/e campus and the Industrial Design Department during our day-trip to Eindhoven a few weeks ago. Much of the research we were shown had to do with the study of peripheral interaction, which incorporates elements from the fields of HCI,[…]

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Hasso Plattner Institute, HCI Lab (6/30/2014)

Dr. Dominik Schmidt of the Hasso-Plattner Institute (near Berlin) was a kind enough host to let the IRES team (myself, Micah Lucas, Michael Nguyen, and Rudra Timsina) visit his lab on Monday, June 30th. He and some of his colleagues gave us a tour of their impressive facility and demonstrated some of the research that they’re[…]

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Introduction to HCI Lab, Getting started in IRES projects, and thank you’s

So this is my first post on this blog, which was designed to chronicle the thoughts and experiences of the students privileged enough to participate in the 2014 “International Research Experience for Students” organized by the University of New Hampshire. It is part of a four-year program in which students spend their summer working with the[…]

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