12 May 2025

ACM CHI 2025 in Yokohama

group picture of the iml team at chi 2025 in front of the conference caligraphy logo. From left to right: Raimund Dachselt, Julián Méndez, Weizhou Luo, Mats Ole Ellenberg, Katja Krug, Marc Satkowski

This year’s ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) was held in Yokohama, Japan, from April 26 to May 1.
IML Dresden was on site with 6 people (Raimund Dachselt, Mats Ole Ellenberg, Katja Krug, Weizhou Luo, Julián Méndez, Marc Satkowski). The Lab was involved in a total of three full papers, one of which is a journal paper (TOCHI). Furthermore, contributions were made to 4 workshops, which dealt with topics in mixed reality, AI, and affective interaction. In addition, Julián Méndez, as part of the dedicated student volunteer team, helped to ensure that the conference ran smoothly.

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14 Jan 2025

Prof. Dachselt new CPEC Spokesperson

At a general meeting of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center 248 Center for Perspicuous Computing (CPEC), Raimund Dachselt was elected as the new spokesperson. Since January 2025, he has headed the transregional research network – together with the now vice spokesperson, Prof. Holger Hermanns, from Saarland University. The large-scale collaborative research initiative with 21 project leaders Continue reading

16 Dec 2024

PhD Defense of Ricardo Langner

On December 16th, 2024, Ricardo Langner successfully defended his dissertation.

The topic of his dissertation “Exploring Mobile Device Interactions for Information Visualization” deals with the question of how mobile devices can be used for visualization use cases beyond personal data exploration.

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21 Oct 2024

Freshman week (ESE) 2024 of the faculty of computer science

Once again this year, the Interactive Media Lab gave a short presentation of their current and past research projects to the new students of our faculty’s computer science programs.
As part of this year’s ESE, our group gave project presentations in our lab (APB/2046) on 09.10, showing the variety of hardware and use cases we researched.

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27 Sep 2024

CPEC Fall 2024 General Assembly

The Fall 2024 General Assembly for the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 248 “Foundations of Perspicuous Software Systems”, otherwise known as CPEC (Centre for Perspicuous Computing), took place at our Faculty of Computer Science from Sept. 23rd to 25th.

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23 May 2024

ACM CHI 2024 in Honolulu

The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) took place from May 11-16, 2024, at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Weizhou Luo attended the conference and successfully presented his work “Exploring Spatial Organization Strategies for Virtual Content in Mixed Reality Environments” at the Doctoral Consortium. He also discussed his poster about this work with other conference attendees.

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26 Apr 2024

IMLD-Visit in Konstanz

Gruppenbild des Workshops in Konstanz | Group picture of the Workshop in Konstanz

On April 17 and 18 2024, six researchers of our Interactive Media Lab Dresden visited the Human-Computer Interaction Group of the University of Konstanz. In a joint workshop, we discussed several exciting research topics in the field of mixed reality. The two days were concluded with a public talk from Prof. Raimund Dachselt on the topic “Leaving the Confines of the Desktop: Towards Ubiquitous Data Visualization.”

4 Jan 2024

PhD Defense Marc Satkowski

On December 19, 2023, Marc Satkowski successfully defended his PhD thesis.

With his topic “Understanding Immersive Environments for Visual Data Analysis“, he investigated how future AR applications, specifically presenting information visualizations, need to be designed in a human-centered way.

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7 Sep 2023

MuC 2023 in Rapperswil, Switzerland

This year, Fabian Plichta presented our work Growing Green Habits: Unobtrusive Gamified Eco-Feedback to Motivate Sustainable Behavior at the Mensch und Computer 2023 conference, which is one of the largest conference series on human-computer interaction in Europe. The MuC ’23 conference took place at at the OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences Campus Rapperswil (SG) at the Zürichsee in Switzerland.

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