Hello! I joined the Media Computing Group in February 2023 to assist Anke Brocker in the area of Soft Robotics. Aside from that, I support research on textile interfaces for René and Oliver, occasionally help out in the FabLab, and do maintenance of the FabArcade.
Additionally, I recently started working on my master's thesis, titled "The Effects of Deceptive Interface Design on Users With Autism", supervised by René.
Former Projects
- Implementation of a magnet-based mid-air gesture input device for René
- Adaptation of my MCP project for our lab demo at CHI 2023.
Publications
- Oliver Nowak, René Schäfer, Elisabeth Jane Buttkus, Lea Emilia Schirp, Heiko Müller and Jan Borchers. Investigating Eyes-Free Recognition and Distinguishability of Textile Icons in Pairs. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI '25 (Forthcoming), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, March 2025.
- 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.
