The Media Computing Group at RWTH Aachen University
interactive. media. research.
The Media Computing Group, headed by Prof. Dr. Jan Borchers, conducts research in Media Computing and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) beyond today's graphical user interface and desktop metaphor. Grounded in Computer Science, we develop and study new interaction theories, techniques, and systems in the areas of interaction with audio and video streams, ubiquitous computing environments, multitouch tables and interactive surfaces, tangible and wearable user interfaces, Physical Computing, personal digital fabrication, user interfaces for software development, and HCI design patterns. Our goal is to make the Brave New World of interactive technologies useful by making it usable. An overview of our research approach and research directions can be found here.
We're part of the Computer Science Department at RWTH Aachen University, Germany's top-ranked University of Technology and one of Germany's nine Elite Universities. Our group is an endowed chair by the German B-IT Foundation, and we also teach in the MSc in Media Informatics program at the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT Center). We started in October 2003, and have since become Germany's best-published research group at ACM CHI, the premier international conference in the field.
We are a member of the RWTH UMIC Excellence Cluster in Ultra High-Speed Mobile Information and Communication and the eHealth and Brain|Concept|Writing research groups in the HumTec Center, all funded by the DFG, the German National Science Foundation through its Excellence Initiative.
We offer several courses in Human-Computer Interaction. In this area of specialization, you learn how people interact with computers and technology, and how computer science can open up new ways of interacting with audio, video, and other types of information. For more information please refer to the specialization information for Media Computing and HCI.
Watch a short introduction of our group.
Our presentations at CHI 2012
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| Understanding Flicking on Curved Surfaces (Paper) | Fly: Studying Recall, Macrostructure Understanding, and User Experience of Canvas Presentations (Paper) | HoloDesk: Direct 3D Interactions with a Situated See-Through Display (Paper) |
| by Völker et al. | by Lichtschlag et al. | by Hilliges et al. |
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| Diskplay (Note / Interactivity) | DragLocks: Handling Temporal Ambiguities in Direct Manipulation Video Navigation (Note) | Evaluating the Benefits of Real-time Feedback in Mobile Augmented Reality with Hand-held Devices (Note) |
| by Heller et al. | by Karrer et al. | by Liu et al. |
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| Canvas Presentations in the Wild (Case Study) | Blaze: Supporting Two-phased Call Graph Navigation in Source Code (Work in Progress) | Text Entry on Interactive Tabletops Using Transparent Physical Keyboards (Workshop Paper) |
| by Lichtschlag et al. | by Krämer et al. | by Weiss et al. |
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| Direct Manipulation and the Third Dimension: A Design Space for Co-Planar Dragging on 3D Displays (Workshop Paper) |
| by Möllers et al. |
Our presentations (and an app) at UIST 2011
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| Stacksplorer (Paper) | FingerFlux (Paper) | UIST 2011 Conference (App) |
| by Karrer et al. | by Weiss et al. | by Diehl |
Our presentations at CHI 2011
Usability for Everybody in 18 Minutes: Prof. Borchers' TEDx Talk
News & Events
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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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