Oliver Nowak
Research Assistant
Room 2205
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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.
Research Projects
Software Projects
Teaching
| Semester | Course |
|---|---|
| Winter 2021 | Designing Interactive Systems I Lecture teaching assistant and Lab tutor, with Marcel Lahaye |
| Summer 2019 | Current Topics in Media Computing and HCI Lecture teaching assistant and Lab tutor, with Marcel Lahaye |
| Winter 2020 | Designing Interactive Systems I Lecture teaching assistant and Lab tutor, with Marcel Lahaye |
| Summer 2020 | Seminar: Post-Desktop User Interfaces Organizer |
| Winter 2019 | Designing Interactive Systems I Lecture teaching assistant and Lab tutor, with Krishna Subramanian |
| Summer 2019 | Current Topics in Media Computing and HCI Lecture teaching assistant and Lab tutor, with Marcel Lahaye |
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 |
Publications
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.