Dipl.-Inform. Florian Heller

Research Assistant

Office Location:	2314
Office hours:	9:00-18:00 See my basic schedule.
Telephone:	+49 241 80 - 21068
Email:	flo[ät]cs.rwth-aachen.de
Citations:	Google Scholar

Research

The general topic of my research is "Physical Interaction with Time-Based Media".
Since the use of digital audio became popular, the interaction with media also fundamentally changed. The very direct manipulation possibilites of analog media, e.g., cutting and scrubbing, were replaced by digital manipulation. Digital media has lot of advantages like non-destructive editing or exact copies. However, especially in the case of music, direct feedback is essential for fast performance. The aim of my research is to bring the direct manipulation metaphors of analog media in the digital age.

I am a teacher of the very successful iPhone Application Programming lecture.

Projects

	The Aixplorer is a next generation audio guide for the city of Aachen (read more)
	Corona lets you revive a medieval coronation feast using spatial audio rendering (read more) Work in Progress at CHI 2009.
	DiskPlay simplifies in-track navigation on turntables for DJs (read more) Note at CHI 2012.
	Me Hates This is a frustration expression system based on the sweet physicality of beating the crap out of your computer. (read more) Work in Progress at CHI 2011.
	Pinstripe is a textile Sensor that enables eyes-free continuous Input anywhere on interactive Clothing. (read more) Full paper at CHI 2011.
	PowerSocket An ambient power consumption display (read more) ACM Interactions 2012.

Other Projects

• Bookla! Battons for Personal Orchestra

Tutorials

• MSP430 Toolchain on OS X
• STM32 Toolchain on OS X
• mbed Playground

Student Theses

• Thomas Knott - CORONA
• Wolfgang Kluth - PowerSocket
• Justus Lauten - DiskPlay
• Konstantinos Tsoleridis - Counter Entropy
• Stefan Ivanov - Pinstripe / Textipad
• Nourhan Abdelhalim - Counter Entropy?
• Jan Thar - Pinstripe
• Christoph Halstenbach - Bookla
• Pierre Schoonbrood - PowerSocket?

Invited Talks

• Mobilité et Réalité Augmentée Urbaine (April 2011, Grenoble, France) - Le banquet de Charlemagne
• Ubisense User Group Conference (Sept. 2010, Cambridge, UK) - Recreating a Medieval Coronation Feast
• Apps im Rahmen der Polizei - Informationsveranstaltung Mobile Anwendungen, Ministerium für Inneres und Kommunales NRW (November 2011, Düsseldorf, Germany).

Publications

2012

	Florian Heller and Jan Borchers. Diskplay: In-Track Navigation on Turntables. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Austin, TX, USA, May 2012. ACM Press. .
	Florian Heller and Jan Borchers. Physical prototyping of an on-outlet power-consumption display. interactions, 19:14-17, Jan 2012. .

2011

	Florian Heller and Jan Borchers. Corona: Audio Augmented Reality in Historic Sites. In Marco de Sa, Elizabeth F. Churchill, and Katherine Isbister, editors, MobileHCI 2011 Workshop on Mobile Augmented Reality: Design Issues and Opportunities, pages 51-54, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2011. .
	Florian Heller and Jan Borchers. PowerSocket: Towards On-Outlet Power Consumption Visualization. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '11, pages 1981-1986, New York, NY, USA, 2011. ACM. .
	Florian Heller, Leonhard Lichtschlag, Moritz Wittenhagen, Thorsten Karrer, and Jan Borchers. Me Hates This: Exploring Different Levels of User Feedback for (Usability) Bug Reporting. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '11, pages 1357-1362, New York, NY, USA, 2011. ACM. .
	Thorsten Karrer, Moritz Wittenhagen, Leonhard Lichtschlag, Florian Heller, and Jan Borchers. Pinstripe: Eyes-free Continuous Input on Interactive Clothing. In Proceedings of the CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, May 2011. ACM Press. .

2010

Thorsten Karrer, Moritz Wittenhagen, Florian Heller, and Jan Borchers. Pinstripe: Eyes-free Continuous Input Anywhere on Interactive Clothing. In UIST 2010 Extended Abstracts, New York, NY, October 2010. .

2009

Florian Heller, Thomas Knott, Malte Weiss, and Jan Borchers. Multi-User Interaction in Virtual Audio Spaces. In CHI EA '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, pages 4489-4494, New York, NY, USA, 2009. ACM Press. .

2008

Florian Heller. CORONA - Realizing an Interactive Experience in Visually Untouchable Rooms Using Continuous Virtual Audio Spaces. Master's thesis, RWTH Aachen University, December 2008. .

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