During my 2-month stay in Germany so far, I’ve noticed many cultural and behavioral differences between people in the southeastern United States (where I’m from) and the southwestern region of Germany (where I’m currently living). I’ve even started getting used to some of them too, even though it’s a little late because I’ll be back in[…]
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Ludwig-Maximilian University Institute for Computer Science, Munich (7/21/2014)
As I mentioned in a previous post, the IRES students (including myself) were lucky enough to visit two HCI research labs in the same day during our trip to Munich. This current post will chronicle my experience of the LMU IFI as we were hosted and guided by Dr. Florian Alt. Most of the work we[…]
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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[…]