| Starting September 1, 2020 I'm a full professor for ubiquitous computing at TU Wien. I'm curious to continue my quest of investigating the boundaries between human and machine. After some wonderful years with the Artificial & Human Intelligence research group at Siemens Corporate Technology in Berkeley I have moved on and I'm happy to be back in academia. I'm grateful for the experience from industry of making things real that matter. I was fascinated by the drive, passion and focus of my collaborators at Siemens. Back in academia, I'm free again to investigate technologies with research questions in mind. |
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- how can we build digital companions [1] supporting humans in their tasks?
- which user-interfaces can we build in order to establish a seamless interaction between human and machine? [2]
- which modalities are most suited to proactively support users in their tasks? [3]
I'm in the process of setting up a new research lab in the heart of downtown Vienna:
- hardware lab: digital/physical tools in a workshop to create research prototypes
- creation lab: workspace for students to code, build, create, experiment
- user interaction lab: evaluation of prototypes, user studies, media-interaction
[1] Mareike Kritzler, Jack Hodges, Dan Yu, Kimberly Garcia, Hemant Shukla, and Florian Michahelles. 2019. Digital Companion for Industry. In Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference (WWW '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 663–667.
[2] Tian, R., Saran, V., Kritzler, M., Michahelles, F. and Paulos, E., 2019, October. Turn-by-wire: Computationally mediated physical fabrication. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (pp. 713-725).
[3] Funk, M., Marky, K., Mizutani, I., Kritzler, M., Mayer, S. and Michahelles, F., 2019, May. LookUnlock: Using Spatial-Targets for User-Authentication on HMDs. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Late Breaking Work.
