CHI Ranking Germany

The Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) is the premier international annual conference in the research field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Established in 1982, its acceptance rates for archival publications (CHI Papers and CHI Notes) range from 15 to 25%. Publications at this conference are internationally regarded equal, if not superior to, publications in HCI journals (see our list of ISI-ranked HCI journals), for example in tenure committees. The conference is organized by the non-profit Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the largest and most influential institutional body for computer science researchers worldwide, and generally acknowledged to fund conferences of the highest standards in computer science.

For the ranking below, we searched the official ACM Digital Library database, covering the proceedings (which, unlike the Extended Abstracts, include all and only the archival publication types of Papers and Notes), of all CHI conferences since 2003, and extracted all archival publications (Papers and Notes) that featured at least one author affiliated with an institution in Germany. For 2009, we used the Advance Program sorted by affiliations until the Digital Library is updated to include that year. We used an automated script to extract the information from the ACM Digital Library online database, and for verification went through the final program for each conference manually to catch any omissions, e.g., due to differently spelled institution names or missing country entries.

The list shows all German research institutions with such publications, with those listed first that contributed the most archival publications during the period covered.

The study shows that the Media Computing Group, since founded in 2003, has managed to become the most successful HCI research group in Germany in terms of total archival CHI publications. In fact, our group alone has contributed more such publications than any other university or other institution in Germany in its entirety.

Of course, the absolute numbers are small, and may shift in the years to come, but we are committed to continuing this positive track record to help strengthen RWTH Aachen University's existing status as one of the nine German elite universities acknowledged by the German National Research Foundation (DFG) in their Excellence Initiative.

We welcome your questions, comments, or corrections concerning the ranking; please contact Jonathan Diehl. Of course, I assume the sole responsibility for any remaining mistakes or omissions.

Prof. Dr. Jan Borchers

RWTH Aachen University, Aachen (Media Computing Group only)

• Eric Lee, Marius Wolf and Jan Borchers: Improving orchestral conducting systems in public spaces: examining the temporal characteristics and conceptual models of conducting gestures at CHI2005
• Rafael Ballagas, Faraz Memon, Rene Reiners and Jan Borchers: iStuff mobile: rapidly prototyping new mobile phone interfaces for ubiquitous computing at CHI2007
• Thorsten Karrer, Malte Weiss, Eric Lee and Jan Borchers: DRAGON: A Direct Manipulation Interface for Frame-Accurate In-Scene Video Navigation at CHI2008 (Best CHI Notes Award)
• Elaine M. Huang and Khai N. Truong: Breaking the Disposable Technology Paradigm: Opportunities for Sustainable Interaction Design for Mobile Phones at CHI2008 (Best CHI Papers Honorable Mention)
• Malte Weiss, Julie Wagner, Yvonne Jansen, Roger Lennings, Ramsin Khoshabeh, Jim Hollan and Jan Borchers: SLAP Widgets: Bridging the Gap Between Virtual and Physical Controls on Tabletops at CHI2009
• Leonhard Lichtschlag, Thorsten Karrer and Jan Borchers: Fly: a tool to author organic presentations at CHI2009
• Daniel Spelmezan, Mareike Jacobs, Anke Hilgers and Jan Borchers: Tactile Motion Instructions For Physical Activities at CHI2009
• Alexander Hoffmann and Jan Borchers: TypeRight: a Keyboard with Tactile Error Prevention at CHI2009

• Also from RWTH Aachen University, but not by our Media Computing Group: Martina Ziefle, Ulrik Schroeder, Judith Strenk and Thomas Michel: How younger and older adults master the usage of hyperlinks in small screen devices at CHI2007

Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich

• Richard Atterer and Albrecht Schmidt: Tracking the interaction of users with AJAX applications for usability testing at CHI2007
• Paul Holleis, Friederike Otto, Heinrich Hussmann and Albrecht Schmidt: Keystroke-level model for advanced mobile phone interaction at CHI2007
• Lucia Terrenghi, David Kirk, Abigail Sellen and Shahram Izadi: Affordances for manipulation of physical versus digital media on interactive surfaces at CHI2007
• Stefan Graf, Wolfgang Spiessl, Albrecht Schmidt, Anneke Winter and Gerhard Rigoll: In-car Interaction Using Search-Based User Interfaces at CHI2008
• Alexander De Luca and Emanuel von Zezschwitz: VibraPass - Secure Authentication Based on Shared Lies at CHI2009
• Otmar Hilliges and David Kirk Getting Sidetracked: Display Design and Occasioning Photo-Talk with the Photohelix at CHI2009

Knowledge Media Research Center (KMRC), Tuebingen

• Christoph Held and Les Nelson: With a Little Help from My Friends: Examining the Impact of Social Annotations in Sensemaking Tasks at CHI2009
• Yvonne Kammerer, Rowan Nairn, Peter Pirolli and Ed H. Chi: Signpost from the Masses: Learning Effects in an Exploratory Social Tag Search Browser at CHI2009
• Peter Pirolli, Evelin Wollny and Bongwon Suh: So you know you're getting the best possible information: A tool that increases Wikipedia credibility at CHI2009

Technical University (TU) Munich

• Ramon Hofer, Patrick Kaplan and Andreas Kunz: MightyTrace: Multiuser Tracking Technology on LC-Displays at CHI2008
• Andreas Löhr and Bernd Brügge: Mixed-Initiative Dialog Management for Speech-based Interaction with Graphical User Interfaces at CHI2008
• Stefan Graf, Wolfgang Spiessl, Albrecht Schmidt, Anneke Winter and Gerhard Rigoll: In-car Interaction Using Search-Based User Interfaces at CHI2008

Berlin University of Technology, Berlin

• Sascha Mahlke and Manfred Thüring: Studying antecedents of emotional experiences in interactive contexts at CHI2007
• Michael Rohs and Antti Oulasvirta: Target Acquisition with Camera Phones when used as Magic Lenses at CHI2008

University of Bonn

• Richard Atterer and Albrecht Schmidt: Tracking the interaction of users with AJAX applications for usability testing at CHI2007
• Paul Holleis, Friederike Otto, Heinrich Hussmann and Albrecht Schmidt: Keystroke-level model for advanced mobile phone interaction at CHI2007

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Bonn

• Stefan Parry Carmien and Gerhard Fischer: Design, Adoption, and Assessment of a Socio-Technical Environment Supporting Independence for Persons with Cognitive Disabilities at CHI2008
• Leonardo Ramirez, Sebastian Denef and Tobias Dyrks: Towards Human-Centered Support for Indoor Navigation at CHI2009

Folkwang University, Essen

• Evangelos Karapanos, Jean-Bernard Martens and Marc Hassenzahl: Accounting for diversity in subjective judgments at CHI2009
• Sarah Diefenbach and Marc Hassenzahl: The Beauty Dilemma at CHI2009

University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau

• Sarah Diefenbach and Marc Hassenzahl: The Beauty Dilemma at CHI2009
• Effie Law, Virpi Roto, Marc Hassenzahl, Arnold Vermeeren and Joke Kort: Understanding, Scoping and Defining User eXperience: A Survey Approach at CHI2009

Humboldt University, Berlin

• Gloria Mark, Daniela Gudith and Ulrich Klocke: The Cost of Interrupted Work: More Speed and Stress at CHI2008

Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin

• Sven Kratz and Rafael Ballagas: Unravelling Seams: Improving Mobile Gesture Recognition with Visual Feedback Techniques at CHI2009

Bielefeld University

• K. Yamazaki et al.: Revealing Gauguin: Engaging Visitors in Robot Guide's Explanation in an Art Museum at CHI2009

Dresden University of Technology, Dresden

• Raimund Dachselt, Mathias Frisch and Markus Weiland: FacetZoom: A Continuous Multi-Scale Widget for Navigating Hierarchical Metadata at CHI2008

University Duisburg-Essen

• Stefan Graf, Wolfgang Spiessl, Albrecht Schmidt, Anneke Winter and Gerhard Rigoll: In-car Interaction Using Search-Based User Interfaces at CHI2008

University of Hamburg

• Hartmut Obendorf, Harald Weinreich, Eelco Herder and Matthias Mayer: Web page revisitation revisited: implications of a long-term click-stream study of browser usage at CHI2007

DFKI, University of Kaiserslautern

• Georg Bucher, Edward Cutrell and Meredith Morris: What Do You See When You're Surfing? Using Eye Tracking to Predict Salient Regions of Web Pages at CHI2009

University of Passau

• Martin Schmettow and Wolfgang Vietze: Introducing Item Response Theory for Measuring Usability Inspection Processes at CHI2008 (Honorable Mention Papers)

University of Siegen

• Volker Wulf and Tim Reichling: Expert Recommender Systems in Practice: Evaluating semi-automatic profile generation at CHI2009

Bauhaus University, Weimar

• Bernd Froehlich, Jan Hochstrate, Verena Skuk and Anke Huckauf: The GlobeFish and the GlobeMouse: two new six degree of freedom input devices for graphics applications at CHI2006

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