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Oliver Nowak

Research Assistant

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I'm a research assistant at the Chair of Computer Science 10, RWTH Aachen University. In my research, I'm focussing on developing design guidelines for integrated controls in everyday objects in the home to control smart home devices.

Research Projects

Software Projects

 

Teaching

SemesterCourse
Winter 2023 Designing Interactive Systems I
Summer 2023 Designing Interactive Systems 2
Winter 2022 iOS Application Development
Summer 2022 Proseminar: Human-Computer Interaction
Winter 2021 Designing Interactive Systems I
Summer 2021 Current Topics in Media Computing and HCI
Winter 2020 Designing Interactive Systems I
Summer 2020 Seminar: Post-Desktop User Interfaces
Winter 2019 Designing Interactive Systems I
Summer 2019 Current Topics in Media Computing and HCI

Thesis Supervisions

Name Topic Thesis Type Year
René Schäfer Redesigning ARPen: Evaluating Different Marker Placements for Mid-Air Pen Interaction Master's Thesis Winter 2019
Georg Röhl Tilt-Watch: Inclination-Based Smartwatch Input in Relation to the Forearm Master's Thesis Summer 2020
Maurice Schwarze Non-Linear Menus: A Comparison of Linear and Non-Linear Menus on Mobile Devices Bachelor's Thesis

Summer 2020

Markus Horlemann PaperOrganizer: A Visual Bibliography to Support Structuring Scientific Literature Bachelor's Thesis

Winter 2020

Mahsa Mansouri The Taxonomy of Indoor Home Interfaces Bachelor's Thesis

Summer 2021

Mathis Beck AirPixel: Prototyping a Pneumatically Actuated Shape Display with a Textile Surface Bachelor's Thesis

Summer 2021

Yeganeh Hajimiri I can say “Navigate me there”: A Comparison of Different Interface Designs to Improve the Discoverability of Multimodal Interaction Techniques Master's Thesis

Summer 2021

Kevin Fiedler A WYSIWYG content editor for the Centre Charlemagne App Bachelor's Thesis Summer 2021
Sebastian Pettirsch Evaluating Out-of-Sight Textile User Interfaces for Multiple Devices Master's Thesis Winter 2021
Fabian Friedrichs Unused sides: Discovering the potential of unused surfaces in the home Master's Thesis Winter 2021
Lovis Suchmann Textile Icons: Design Guidelines for Recognizable Signifier for Out-of-Sight Textile User Interfaces Master's Thesis Winter 2021
Nikita Huber Avoiding Accidental Input: Evaluating Activation and Confirmation Techniques on Textile Sliders Bachelor's Thesis Winter 2021
Michelle Mirus Designing Tactile Guides for Smart Home Controls Bachelor's Thesis Summer 2022
Elisabeth Jane Buttkus Measuring Perceived Haptic Similarities Between Textile Icons Bachelor's Thesis Winter 2022
 Jasmin El Qoraichi Ansteuerung von Smart Textiles mit Orts- und Bewegungsdaten aus der VR Bachelor's Thesis Winter 2022
Thomas Becker End User Perspective on Using Everyday Objects for Smart Home Input Master's Thesis Summer 2023
Saad Safan Entwicklung einer benutzerfreundlichen Software-Schnittstelle zur Interaktion von Benutzern mit Smart Textiles Bachelor's Thesis Summer 2023
Maurice Schwarze People's Understanding of Textile User Interfaces with Different Complexity Master's Thesis Winter 2023
Erik Müller Finding the Limits of Textile Interface Design Guidelines Bachelor's Thesis Winter 2023
Erik Østlyngen Textile Interface in Real-Life Bachelor's Thesis Summer 2024
Julian Wallerius Tilting Icons Bachelor's Thesis Summer 2024
Lucy Plaßmann Investigating the Influence of Interface Familiarization on the Performance When Using Textile Interfaces Bachelor's Thesis Summer 2024

Publications

    2024

  • Oliver Nowak, Lennart Becker, Sebastian Pettirsch and Jan Borchers. Mappings in the Home: Selecting Home Appliances in 3D Space.  In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '24, pages 7, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, May 2024.
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  • 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.
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  • René Schäfer, Oliver Nowak, Lovis Bero Suchmann, Sören Schröder and Jan Borchers. What’s That Shape? Investigating Eyes-Free Recognition of Textile Icons.  In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '23, pages 12, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, April 2023.
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  • 2022

  • Oliver Nowak, René Schäfer, Anke Brocker, Philipp Wacker and Jan Borchers. Shaping Textile Sliders: An Evaluation of Form Factors and Tick Marks for Textile Sliders.  In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '22, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, April 2022.
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  • 2020

  • Philipp Wacker, Oliver Nowak, Simon Voelker and Jan Borchers. Evaluating Menu Techniques for Handheld AR with a Smartphone & Mid-Air Pen.  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.
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  • 2019

  • Philipp Wacker, Oliver Nowak, Simon Voelker and Jan Borchers. ARPen: Mid-Air Object Manipulation Techniques for a Bimanual AR System with Pen & Smartphone.  In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '19, pages 619:1–619:10, ACM, New York, NY, USA, May 2019.
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  • Oliver Nowak. ARMenus: An Evaluation of Menu Interfaces in Pen-based AR Applications on Smartphones. Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, February 2019.
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