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Interaction design for user experience using emerging technologies
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am a senior researcher at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision,
Graz University of Technology.
My research areas are 3D User Interfaces (3DUI) for virtual and mixed
environments, creative and experimental systems, human factors and
ergonomics, collaborative systems, and a bit of robotics and mechatronics. I have coordinated multiple scientific projects and
designed, developed, and evaluated a variety of 3D input devices
and displays.
In addition I have taught courses at universities and conferences
(including ACM SIGGRAPH and CHI) in the areas of 3DUI, virtual reality,
modeling and animation, and general human-computer interaction
themes, and supervised multiple students.
I enjoy investigating new ways of interaction that enrich our daily life, often leading to creative and experimental applications. I try to design interfaces for user experience, offering compelling ways to perform "normal" actions, or doing more extraordinary things. I have foremost worked on art/design environments (design and design review, museum applications), but nowadays also focus on a wider spectrum of interactive graphics applications, among others exploring environmental science and medical areas.
I have published a multitude of refereed publications and, together
with Doug Bowman, Joseph LaViola and Ivan Poupyrev, authored
the book 3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice, published
in 2005 by Addison-Wesley. Furthermore, I am actively serving
a large number of programm and review committees.
I am a member of ACM, IEEE and igroup.
Current activities
HYDROSYS: I am coordinating an EU-funded project focusing on the development of spatial analysis tools for on-site environmental monitoring and management using mobile interactive graphics applications. The project deploys mobile sensor stations and a blimp to gather environmental data, displayed on outdoor augmented reality setups or cell phones. The project is a cooperation between TU Graz, EPFL (Switzerland), WSL (Switzerland), University of Cambridge (UK), Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), Ubisense (UK) and Luode consulting (Finland).
HYDROSYS website
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