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Dr. Thorsten Büring

Research Interests

My research focus is on (Mobile) Human-Computer Interaction and Information Visualization. However, I am also interested in design-related disciplines such as Ambient Information Visualization and GUI Aesthetics.

Teaching

Wintersemester 2007/2008

• Vorlesung Information Visualization
• Hauptseminar "Mobile Visualization and Interaction"

Publications

Book

• Thorsten Büring: Zoomable User Interfaces on Small Screens - Presentation & Interaction Design for Pen-Operated Mobile Devices. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008 (in press).

Book Chapter

• Thorsten Büring: Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology, Chapter: Navigation support for exploring starfield displays on personal digital assistants. Information Science Reference, 2007 (in press).

Journal Articles

• Thorsten Büring, Jens Gerken, and Harald Reiterer: Interaction design for zooming maps on pen-operated devices. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2007 (submitted).
• Thorsten Büring, Jens Gerken, Harald Reiterer: User Interaction with Scatterplots on Small Screens - A Comparative Evaluation of Geometric-Semantic Zoom and Fisheye Distortion. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (also Proceedings Visualization / Information Visualization) , 2006.
• Thorsten Büring: Interaktionsstrategien für Punktdiagramm-Visualisierungen auf kleinen Bildschirmen, In i-com, Zeitschrift für interaktive und kooperative Medien, Vol. 9, 2006.

Conference Proceedings

• Thorsten Büring, Jens Gerken, and Harald Reiterer. Dynamic text filtering for improving the usability of alphasliders on small screens. In IV '07: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Information Visualisation, Zuerich, Switzerland, 2007 (in press). IEEE Computer Society.
• Thorsten Büring, Jens Gerken, Harald Reiterer. Usability of Overview-Supported Zooming on Small Screens with Regard to Individual Differences in Spatial Ability. In AVI'06: Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces, 2006. ACM Press.
• Thorsten Büring, Jens Gerken, Harald Reiterer. ZuiScat - Querying and Visualizing Information Spaces on Personal Digital Assistants. In MobileHCI '05: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services, 2005. ACM Press.