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Germany / hci / ires / nsf / travel
Of course, not all of our time in Europe was spent working (though working with the Hololens everyday was incredibly fun). Pretty much every weekend was packed with trips around Germany and Europe as a whole. In a previous post, I mentioned that we visited Milan, where we had gelato and pasta, clearly the most[…]
hci / hcilab / nsf / stuttgart / travel / unhires
Recently, the UNH IRES group visited Saarbrücken, Germany to tour two HCI labs at Universität des Saarlandes. We were all quite amazed by research effort at both labs. The Innovative Retail Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is conducting multiple studies on innovative shopping solutions and more! The simulated intelligent supermarket (pictured) provides shoppers with virtual assistance[…]
hci / hcilab / nsf / travel / Uncategorized / unh / unhires / visit
On June 30th, 2014 we met with Dominik Schmidt at Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI). HPI was Founded in 1998 and is the first, and still the only entirely privately funded university college in Germany. Dominik is currently doing research in human-computer interaction. More specifically, in his research, he scales natural user interfaces to span entire rooms and creates novel interaction[…]
travel / Uncategorized / unh / unhires
The Mercedes-Benz Museum was so much fun to see. It was my first automobile museum and it did not disappoint. The museum structure is a double helix and you start at the top of the building from the 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen to present time. The one thing I found interesting about the museum is that it not[…]
In a previous post, I described my visit to the Hasso Plattner Institute outside of Berlin and the time I spent with Dominik Schmidt in his lab. In the current post, I’ll discuss the other parts of the IRES team’s weekend trip to Berlin. The first thing we did, after checking into our hotel and dropping[…]