MACS: Maritime Control Systems of the Future

The B-IT-endowed Chair for Media Computing, headed by Prof. Jan Borchers, has attracted 180,000 Euros of new third-party funding for the group in December 2011. The project MACS, in collaboration with Vestfold University in Norway and funded by the Norwegian Research Council, builds on the Media Computing Group's research in using tangible widgets on interactive tabletops, and aims to create the control bridge of future large maritime vessels. The funding will support, among other things, a three-year PhD student position in the Media Computing Group to work on this project.

Contact: Simon Völker

Projects

PERCs: Persistently Trackable Tangibles on Capacitive Multi-Touch Displays PUCs: Passive Untouched Capacitive Widgets

Publications

2016

• Florian Busch. PERCbots: Actuated Tangibles on Capacitive Touch Screens. Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, January 2016.
  

2015

• Simon Voelker, Christian Cherek, Jan Thar, Thorsten Karrer, Christian Thoresen, Kjell Ivar Øvergård and Jan Borchers. PERCs: Persistently Trackable Tangibles on Capacitive Multi-Touch Displays.  In UIST '15: Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST '15, pages 6, ACM, New York, NY, USA, November 2015.
  
• Simon Voelker, Kjell Ivar Øvergård, Chat Wacharamanotham and Jan Borchers. Knobology Revisited: A Comparison of User Performance between Tangible and Virtual Rotary Knobs.  In ITS '15: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, pages 35–38, ACM, New York, NY, USA, November 2015.
  
• Christian Cherek, Simon Voelker, Jan Thar, Rene Linden, Florian Busch and Jan Borchers. PERCs Demo: Persistently Trackable Tangibles on Capacitive Multi-Touch Displays.  In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, pages 389–392, ACM, New York, NY, USA, November 2015.
  
• Rene Linden. Multitouchkit: A Software Framework for Touch Input and Tangibles on Tabletops and Mobile Devices. Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, September 2015.
  
• Jan Thar. APUCS: Active Tangible Input Devices for Capacitive Multitouch Surface. Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, June 2015.
  

2014

• Simon Voelker, Christian Corsten, Nur Al-huda Hamdan, Kjell Ivar Øvergård and Jan Borchers. An Interaction Model for Grasp-Aware Tangibles on Interactive Surfaces.  In ITS '14: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, pages 279–282, ACM, New York, NY, USA, November 2014.
  
• Simon Voelker, Christian Corsten, Nur Al-huda Hamdan, Kjell Ivar Øvergård and Jan Borchers. An Interaction Model for Touch-Aware Tangibles on Interactive Surfaces.  In CHI '14: Extended Abstracts of the 2014 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,April 2014.
  
• Jan Borchers, Christian Corsten, Max Möllers and Simon Voelker. Von der Fläche zur Kurve: Multi-Touch auf beliebigen Oberflächen und Objekten.  In Multi-Touch: Interaktion durch Berührung, Xpert.press, pages 369–392, Springer Verlag,  Incollection, February 2014.
  
• Kosuke Nakajima, Yuichi Itoh, Simon Voelker, Christian Thoresen, Kjell Ivar Øvergård and Jan Borchers. PUCs: Detecting Transparent, Passive Untouched Capacitive Widgets on Unmodified Multi-touch Displays.  In Proc. IPSJ Interaction '14: Proceedings of the Conference on Information Processing Society of Japan, pages 108–113, Information Processing Society of Japan, 2014.
  

2013

• Simon Voelker, Kosuke Nakajima, Christian Thoresen, Yuichi Itoh, Kjell Ivar Øvergård and Jan Borchers. PUCs: Detecting Transparent, Passive Untouched Capacitive Widgets on Unmodified Multi-touch Displays.  In ITS '13: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, pages 101–104, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2013.
  
• Simon Voelker, Kosuke Nakajima, Christian Thoresen, Yuichi Itoh, Kjell Ivar Øvergård and Jan Borchers. PUCs Demo: Detecting Transparent, Passive Untouched Capacitive Widgets.  In ITS EA '13: Extended Abstracts of the ITS '13: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, pages 325–328, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2013.
  
• Simon Voelker, Kosuke Nakajima, Christian Thoresen, Yuichi Itoh, Kjell Ivar Øvergård and Jan Borchers. PUCs Demo: Detecting Transparent, Passive Untouched Capacitive Widgets on Unmodified Multi-touch Displays.  In UIST EA '13: Extended Abstracts of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pages 1–2, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2013.