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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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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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[…]