Sebastian Hueber

Research Assistant

Room 2206
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Office Hours 7:30 — 16:00

I am a research assistant since May 2018. My research interest is using the human himself as input, rather than the conventional mouse or touch interactions. My research allows for new implicit and explicit interaction methods that become possible by visual tracking of facial features.
I am also developing the iOS and macOS software projects for industry clients and different research projects. While some of them are in Objective-C, most new projects are written in Swift. Speaking of Swift, I am also an Apple Certified Trainer for App Development with Swift. That's why I taught in multiple iterations of the iOS Application Development and Designing Interactive Systems 2 lectures.

Please note that I currently do not accept any new thesis students.

Research Projects

Teaching

Semester	Course
WS 2023/24	The Media Computing Project Lab tutor
SS 2023	Post-Desktop User Interfaces Organizer
WS 2022/23	Post-Desktop User Interfaces Organizer
SS 2022	Designing Interactive Systems 2 Lecture TA
WS 2021/22	iOS Application Development Lecture TA
SS 2021	Designing Interactive Systems 2 Lecture TA
WS 2020/21	iOS Application Development Lecture TA
SS 2020	Designing Interactive Systems 2 Lecture TA
SS 2019	Designing Interactive Systems 2 Lecture TA
SS 2018	Designing Interactive Systems 2 Lecture TA

Thesis Supervisions

Student	Type	Topic
Jovan Riman	B.Sc.	Optimizing for Latency in Multitouch and Tangible Interactions
Johannes Wilhelm	B.Sc.	Combining user- and device-perspective rendering for intuitive handheld AR
Eunae Jang	M.Sc.	Designing for Distraction in Mobile Notifications
Janosch Hübner	B.Sc.	Improving Indoor Location Awareness using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons
Rene Niewianda	M.Sc.	Are You Still Listening? Measuring Attention in Online Meetings
Kevin Fiedler	B.Sc.	Iterative Implementation of a Content Editor for Museum Guides
Krzysztof Kostrzewa	B.Sc.	Proximity Dependent Interfaces
Thomas Becker	B.Sc.	Gesture-Based Interaction Techniques for Handheld Mixed Reality Applications
Benedikt Völker	B.Sc.	In-place 3D Locomotion for Public VR Exhibits
Luisa Hoffmann	M.Sc.	Using Smartphone-based Augmented Reality Apps with Limited Freedom of Movement
Sven Titgemeyer	B.Sc.	Prototyping an On-Demand Routing App with Location-Based Content Push

Hiwis

Hiwi	Task
Lovis Suchmann	CS department website support
Anastasiia Petrova	CS department website support
Kevin Fiedler	iOS app development support

Software Projects

Personal Orchestra

Real time conducting simulator

In this exhibit you are the conductor! It uses an infrared camera to detect conducting gestures and uses them to stretch 4K video footage and provide a realistic audio simulation.

Centre Guide

Museum Guide Platform

The Aixplorer platform provides the foundation for our tourist guides. The Centre Charlemagne app uses this platform to provide guides for different exhibitions with multimedia content.

Kieke App

Museum Guide and CMS

This app guides visitors through Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg. AR features bring history to life and allow unique memories.

Terra Mosana

Novel MR Interactions for the Aachen Cathedral

Visit the 3D scan of the Aachen cathedral through a magic lens on your iPhone.

Inventory

Asset management system

This software allows the lab to keep track of its inventory. The inventory system helps to find items, print rental forms, and assists the reinventorization process.

FLApp

The Future Lab Aachen App

This mobile tourist guide that I developed during my time as student assistant showcases scientific activities in the city center with multimedia and AR content.

iEat

App for iOS and watchOS

Feeling hungry? With this app you have the mensa menu already in your pocket.

Touch Up

Touchscreen Driver for macOS

This user-space driver can inject common mouse events and pinch-to-zoom gestures with any USB HID-compliant touchscreen.

Publications

2023

• Sebastian Hueber, Johannes Wilhelm, René Schäfer, Simon Voelker and Jan Borchers. User-Aware Rendering: Merging the Strengths of Device- and User-Perspective Rendering in Handheld AR. In Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., pages 18, number MHCI, September 2023.
  
• Sebastian Hueber, Eunae Jang and Jan Borchers. Attentive Notifications: Minimizing Distractions of Mobile Notifications through Gaze Tracking.  In Press of Proceedings of MobileHCI ’23 Companion, Association for Computing Machinery, September 2023.
  
• Jan Borchers, Anke Brocker, Sebastian Hueber, Oliver Nowak, René Schäfer, Adrian Wagner, Paul Miles Preuschoff and Lea Emilia Schirp. The Aachen Lab Demo: From Fundamental Perception to Design Tools.  In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '23, pages 4, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, April 2023.
  

2020

• Sebastian Hueber, Christian Cherek, Philipp Wacker, Jan Borchers and Simon Voelker. Headbang: Using Head Gestures to Trigger Discrete Actions on Mobile Devices.  In Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI '20, pages 10, ACM, New York, NY, USA, October 2020.
  
• Simon Voelker, Sebastian Hueber, Christian Holz, Christian Remy and Nicolai Marquardt. GazeConduits: Calibration-Free Cross-Device Collaboration through Gaze and Touch.  In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '20, pages 451:1–451:10, ACM, New York, NY, USA, April 2020.
  
• Simon Voelker, Sebastian Hueber, Christian Corsten and Christian Remy. HeadReach: Using Head Tracking to Increase Reachability on Mobile Touch Devices.  In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '20, pages 739:1–739:12, ACM, New York, NY, USA, April 2020.
  

2018

• Sebastian Hueber. Seeing Analog Forests and Digital Trees? — Impact of Digital Devices on the Construal Level. Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, March 2018.
  

2015

• Sebastian Hueber. Back-of-device Tactile Landmarks for Eyes-free Touch Input. Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, September 2015.