Oliver Nowak
Research Assistant & Startup Advisor
Room 2205
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+49 241 80-21074
I'm a research assistant at the Media Computing Group. I'm interested in a wide range of topics in the field of HCI including any kinds of interaction techniques for mobile devices, improving the usage of smart home devices, and the investigation of productivity tools in research.
I'm also a startup advisor for RWTH Innovation in the field of computer science. If you have an idea for a start-up or already started to do the first steps to found a company, you can write me an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or come to my consultation hours on Tuesdays from 8:30 am to 11:30 am.
Research Projects
Teaching
| Semester | Course |
|---|---|
| Summer 2020 | Seminar: Post-Desktop User Interfaces Organizer |
| Winter 2019 | Designing Interactive Systems I Lecture TA and Lab tutor, with Krishna Subramanian |
| Summer 2019 | Current Topics in Media Computing and HCI Lecture TA and Lab tutor, with Marcel Lahaye |
Thesis Supervisions
| Name | Topic | Thesis Type | Year |
| Georg Röhl | Tiltwatch | Master's Thesis | Summer 2020 |
| Maurice Schwarze | Menu design for mobile devices | Bachelor's Thesis | Summer 2020 |
Software Projects
Publications
- Philipp Wacker, Oliver Nowak, Simon Voelker and Jan Borchers. Evaluating Menu Techniques for Handheld AR with a Smartphone & Mid-Air Pen. In Press of 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.
- 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.
- Oliver Nowak. ARMenus: An Evaluation of Menu Interfaces in Pen-based AR Applications on Smartphones. Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, February 2019.