Events

News & Upcoming Events

Past News & Events

• See TWEND and DRAGON in action at the inauguration ceremony of the new UMIC building for the Mobile Computing Excellence Cluster at RWTH Aachen University on Mar 18, 2009.
• Next NSCoder Night is on March 12, 2009
• The AATCe (Apple Authorized Training Center Education) at our chair is offering two courses, Mac OS X Support Essentials and Mac OS X Server Essentials, between March 2 and 12. (Feb 5, 2009).

• Carsten Roecker joins the Media Computing Group as a DFG-funded postdoctoral researcher. He will be working on ubiquitous computing solutions for eHealth applications in a HumTec project team within the Excellence Initiative at RWTH Aachen University. (Nov 12, 2008)
• Register for our World Usability Day 2008 local event on Nov 13 with a whole day of talks and workshops on usability!
• As of September 2008, the Media Computing Group is Apple Authorised Training Center for Education.
• See our Table Lemmings exhibit, Wearable Snowboard Assistant and DRAGON video navigation system at the Studieninformationstag on June 11, 2008!
• On May 20th from 5:30pm on we are celebrating the "Abend der offenen Tür" at our group. Here, you can get to know us and what we do and there will be free drinks and snacks!
• Our group is the leading research institution in Germany in terms of archival CHI publications since 2003, when our group was founded.
• At CHI 2008, we presented:
  • a CHI Note that received a Best Note Award on DRAGON, a direct-manipulation technique for video navigation by Thorsten Karrer et al.,
  • a full paper on Sustainable Interaction Design for Mobile Phones by Elaine M. Huang et al. that received a Best Paper Honorable Mention,
  • a Work-In-Progress paper and a workshop submission on the Wearable Snowboard Instructor by Daniel Spelmezan et al.,
  • a Work In Progress on the Associative PDA by Eileen Falke and Jonathan Diehl,
  • a Student Research Competition entry on TWEND, a bendable user interface, by Gero Herkenrath et al. that became runner-up in the competition,
  • and Experiments in Media and Mobility: HCI @ Aachen, an overview of our research vision and process by Jan Borchers, in the Research Landscapes track.
• Our administrator is now Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (Feb 11, 2008)
• Purple Surfer: How to tether your iPhone as an EDGE modem with your Mac.
• We have 1 open PhD position available.
• Starting in WS08/09, we will update our lecture sizes (SWS) and contents to accommodate the new Bachelor/Master program.

• Info sheet for online registration for the CS labs.
• Cocoa Heads is a new regular evening meeting of people with a background and interest in Cocoa development for Mac OS X, sponsored by Apple.
• RWTH Aachen University was determined as one of Germany's 9 Elite Universities by the DFG's (German Research Foundation's) Excellence Initiative, receiving a strong boost in extra research funding (Oct 19, 2007)
• Soccer Magic: i10 Red Cards Bring Back Two Trophies! (Apr 16, 2007)
• Informationen zu der Wiederholungsklausur Programmierung - Java.
• Prof. Borchers is away from RWTH during a research semester in WS07/08. We are only offering some of our courses that semester, including DIS 1, see CAMPUS. Video podcasts for private study are available, however. Please take that into account as you are planning your studies.
• Jun 13, 2007: The "Studieninformationstag" took place on Jun 13, 9.30am - 15pm. We contributed with a presentation of Personal Orchestra.

• The Bauhaus Europe project has been stopped. We leave our materials online for archival purposes (Bauhaus Europe Pages) (Dec 11, 2006).
• Coverage of Personal Orchestra 1 in Vienna City Guides after 6 years
• Nov 14, 2006: Aachen local event for the World Usability Day
• Nov 1, 2006: Our chair is a member of the new UMIC Research Cluster on Ultra-highspeed Mobile Information and Communication, established as part of the German government's Excellence Initiative. UMIC is funding Thorsten Karrer's PhD work on Organic and Adaptive User Interfaces.
• Oct 01, 2006: In WS06/07, the DIS I lecture was moved to Tuesdays from 2-5pm to join Bonn and Aachen classes via video.
• Jul 10, 2006: Check out the DIS2 Project Competion Video and the DIS2 Project Websites.
• Jun 22, 2006: Our "Helle Köpfe" workshop for school kids took place this Thursday (22-06-2006). We demonstrated how to build your own music instrument with a computer.
• Apr 27, 2006: Poultry.Internet was a big hit at CHI 2006 Interactivity:
  • The Guardian
  • The Age
  • PC World
• Apr 22, 2006: Check out the CHI 2006 Interactivity sneak peek (med. res, high res), produced by the Media Computing Group.
• Feb 01, 2006: DIS student projects - Designing an Interactive Large Public Display Application

• Dec 2, 2005: We organized the annual Tag der Informatik this year. We also showed several of our research projects, and the DIS 2 student projects there.
• Oct 27, 2005: Top Talent Quality Seal 2005 for coJIVE, our interactive jazz improvisation system, as one of the top 42 out of 411 submissions.
• Oct 15, 2005: * Video podcasts of our lectures are now available, beginning with DIS 1.
• Oct 01, 2005: Important change in teaching schedule: Starting WS05/06, we offer DIS1, Patterns, the seminar and the "Softwarepraktikum" in Winter, and DIS2, Current Topics, the "Praktikum" and the "Proseminar" in Summer, in order to better suit our students' needs. See CAMPUS for details.
• Sep 26-27, 2005: We show various interactive demos at the http://www.gi-workshop-vrar.org/
• Sep 26, 2005: Details on the Sun-Softwarepreis 2005 are available now
• Jun 8, 2005: http://www.rwth-aachen.de/zentral/abt14_dl_workshops_schueler_dies.htm
• Apr 28, 2005: http://www.rwth-aachen.de/zentral/gsb_girlsday_index.htm
• We were the only German research group with a full paper at CHI 2005, the world's premier conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 2004 only had U Magdeburg, 2003 we were again the only ones (then still at Stanford), 2002 had no German full papers. (CHI acceptance rates)
• Apr 05, 2005: Check out the CHI 2005 Interactivity Venue sneak peek (med. res, high res), produced by the Media Computing Group.
• Mar 07, 2005: Schüler-Informationstag
• Register for our seminar (11-21.01.2005) or for our proseminar (12-20.01.2005) during the next summer term.
• Jan 27, 2005: Prof. Bernt Schiele from the Lehrstuhl Multimodale Interaktive Systeme, TU Darmstadt will be giving a talk on "Multi-Sensor Context Awareness for Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing". See the streaming video of the talk and the presentation slides.
• Jan 19, 2005: Personal Orchestra presentation at the User Centered Computing in NRW Event, NRW House, European Union, Brussels. (View the Flyer)
• Jan 13, 2005: CrossY talk by Georg Apitz in room 2212 at 13:00 hours today.

• Dec 03, 2004: See the videos from Tag der Informatik.
• The 1st annual DIS2 Project Competition was a huge success! Be sure to check out some of the great videos.
• Jul 14, 2004: Learn more about our field of studies at the RWTH Information Day (Studieninformationstag) for high school students
• Apr 08, 2004: B-IT receives 5 million Euros (in German; use Mozilla to view)
• Submit your creative multimedia project to the 2004 Europrix Top Talent Award Europrix Top Talent Award! 1st prize: 10,000 Euros. Deadline: June 30th. Contact Britta (gruenberg(at)cs.rwth-aachen.de) for the DVD of last year's top projects and more materials.
• May 14-16, 2004: Try out our You're The Conductor exhibit at the WIRED NextFest in San Francisco!
• Apr 22, 2004: Create your own music video in our workshop during the RWTH Girls' Day
• Apr 19, 2004: Dr. Trevor Pering from Intel Research Berkeley presents Intel's PersonalServer research project