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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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Displays everywhere: PerDis 2018

As part of the IRES summer program in Munich, I attended part of PerDis, a conference on pervasive displays. On the first day of PerDis, I went to the tutorial on Public Displays where we discussed examples of pervasive displays, their implications on our daily lives, and some design challenges associated with the displays.   My previous[…]

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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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IRES 2018: Researching Pedestrian Interactions with Autonomous Vehicles in Oldenburg, Germany

Hallo! I’m starting my fourth week in Oldenburg. Last week, I really enjoyed going deeper into my project, which involves finding out whether gesture-based interactions between pedestrians and autonomous vehicles makes pedestrians feel safer and more in-control in jaywalking situations. Most research on interactions between pedestrians and autonomous vehicles gives the vehicles all of the[…]

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