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interactive. media. research.

Our group, headed by Prof. Dr. Jan Borchers, works in Human-Computer Interaction
(HCI). Grounded in Computer Science, we develop and study new interaction
theories, techniques, and systems in areas like personal digital fabrication and
personal design, mobile, wearable, and shape-changing user interfaces, soft
robotics, interactive textiles, handheld augmented reality, interaction with AI,
and visual coding environments. Our goal is to make the Brave New World of
interactive technologies useful by making it usable. Since starting in October
2003, we have become one of Germany's best-published research groups at CHI, the
premier international academic conference in the field.

We're part of the Computer Science Department and the HCI Center at RWTH Aachen
University, Germany's top-ranked University of Technology and one of
Germany's Excellence Universities. Our group is an Endowed Chair of the German
B-IT Foundation.



 


OUR CHI'23 CONTRIBUTIONS

We regularly present our work at ACM CHI, the world's premier conference on
Human-Computer Interaction. Here's what we shared there this year:

 

WHAT'S THAT SHAPE?

INVESTIGATING EYES-FREE RECOGNITION OF TEXTILE ICONS

Paper by Schäfer et al., CHI '23

 

FLOWBOARD:

HOW SEAMLESS, LIVE, FLOW-BASED PROGRAMMING IMPACTS LEARNING TO CODE FOR EMBEDDED
ELECTRONICS

TOCHI Paper by Brocker et al., CHI'23

 

EXPLORING SHAPE DESIGNS FOR SOFT ROBOTICS AND USERS’ ASSOCIATIONS WITH THEM

Late-Breaking Work by Brocker et al., CHI'23

 

ENHANCING NOTIFICATION AWARENESS FOR ONLINE PRESENTERS VIA A WRIST-WORN DEVICE

Late-Breaking Work by Schäfer et al., CHI'23

 

FABRICFACES:

COMBINING TEXTILES AND 3D PRINTING FOR MAKER-FRIENDLY FOLDING-BASED ASSEMBLY

Late-Breaking Work by Wagner et al., CHI'23

 

THE AACHEN LAB DEMO:

FROM FUNDAMENTAL PERCEPTION TO DESIGN TOOLS

Interactivity Demo by Borchers et al., CHI '23
Runner-Up for Best Demo Award at CHI

 

EIGHT CHALLENGES OF FUTURE ELECTRONICS TOOLKITS

Workshop Paper by Brocker and Borchers, CHI '23


NEWS & EVENTS

 * Our Late-Breaking Work Mappings in the Home: Selecting Home Appliances in 3D
   Space was accepted at ACM CHI'24—congratulations Oliver Nowak, Lennart
   Becker, and Sebastian Pettirsch! (Feb 29, 2024)
 * Our Late-Breaking Work How’s Your Sewing? Investigating Metrics to
   Automatically Assess Sewing Expertise was accepted at
   ACM CHI'24—congratulations Marcel Lahaye, Ricarda Rahm, Judith Ernstberger,
   and Andreas Dymek! (Feb 29, 2024)
 * Our paper about countermeasures against Dark Patterns in UI design was
   accepted at ACM CHI'24—congratulations René Schäfer, Paul Preuschoff, René
   Röpke, and Sarah Sahabi! (Jan 19, 2024)
 * We are co-organizing a workshop on Dark Patterns at ACM CHI'24! (Dec 19,
   2023)
 * Our publication "Attentive Notifications: Minimizing Distractions of Mobile
   Notifications Through Gaze Tracking" earns a Best Late-Breaking Work Award at
   ACM MobileHCI'23. Congratulations Sebastian and Eunae! (Sep 29, 2023).
 * Prof. Borchers gives an invited talk at the Aachen Chamber of Commerce on
   "The Golden Rules of Usable Technology" (Aug 10, 2023).
 * Our full paper "Investigating Visual Countermeasures Against Dark Patterns in
   User Interfaces" was accepted at MuC'23. (Jul 18, 2023)
 * At this year's "Helle Köpfe" event, 15 children from the region visited our
   lab and built rockets using press-fit kits made with our laser cutter. (May
   08, 2023)
 * At this year's Girls' Day, ten children visited our Fab Lab Aachen. (Apr 27,
   2023)
 * Our workshop proposal together with researchers from other institutions on
   "Soft Robotics and Actuated Materials for Human-Computer Interaction" was
   accepted at ACM DIS'23. More information and how to participate here. The
   submission deadline is June 15.  (Apr 03, 2023).
 * Our position paper Eight Challenges of Future Electronics Toolkits (Draft
   PDF) was accepted to the Workshop Beyond Prototyping Boards: Future Paradigms
   for Electronics Toolkits at ACM CHI'23. (Mar 06, 2023)
 * Three of our Late-Breaking Works have been accepted for presentation at ACM
   CHI'23. (Feb 27, 2023)
 * Prof. Jan Borchers' book Arduino in a Nutshell has been downloaded over
   200,000 times! (Feb 17, 2023).
 * For CHI'23, the world's premier HCI conference, Prof. Jan Borchers is an
   Associate Chair for the Building Devices Subcommittee, a member of the
   Student Research Competition Jury, and a member of the Interactivity Jury.
   (Jan 24, 2023)
 * The first in-person Aachen Maker Meetup (#143!) after the pandemic took place
   with lots of participants, projects, and pizza. (Jan 18, 2023)
 * Our full paper "What’s That Shape? Investigating Eyes-Free Recognition
   of Textile Icons" was accepted at ACM CHI'23. (Jan 16, 2023)
 * Earlier news & events...

 


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TEACHING WINTER 2022/23


DESIGNING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS 1


IOS APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Previous Semesters


FLAPP

FLApp, our mobile Future Lab Aachen App for iOS and Android, is the city's
official science-focused walking tour through Aachen's inner city. But instead
of historical facts, you'll learn about the latest discoveries and inventions
made by engineers and scientists at each location, with some locations using
Augmented Reality.

 
 


INTERESTED IN HCI?

 * Jan's Top Ten list of HCI books
 * What makes a good PhD student? (Jan, Jan 25, 2006)
 * HCI Journals and their Impact Factors (Jan, Jan 30, 2006)
 * Other HCI- and Media Computing-related groups at RWTH Aachen University
 * Join our low-traffic HCI Announcements list to be informed about HCI-related
   events at our chair, at RWTH Aachen University and in the area.

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Mensch–Computer–Interaktion) • Prof. Dr. Jan Borchers • RWTH Aachen University •
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