Projects

Public Funding

Convergence

The project Convergence aims at enhancing the internet with a content-centric, publish-subscribe service model, based on a common container for any kind of data, including representations of people and Real World Objects.

Funding: EU project
Website: http://www.ict-convergence.eu/
Contact: Alina Hang
Period: 06/2010-02/2013

Project Premium

Premium is a research project conducted by Media Informatics and HCI labs at LMU Munich. Premium stands for "Professional Engineering Methods for Ubiquitous Computing Machinery" and is concerned with researching methods and tools for designing and developing Ubicomp interfaces (that integrate all disciplines into the development process).

Funding: German Research Association (DFG)
Website: http://project-premium.org/
Contact: Alexander Wiethoff
Period: 06/2009-12/2012

NESSoS

Network of Excellence on Engineering Secure Future Internet Software Services and Systems

Funding: EU project (Network of Excellence)
Website: http://www.nessos-project.eu
Contact: Alexander De Luca
Period: 10/2012-03/2014

Industrial Funding

CAR@TUM

CAR@TUM is a cooperation between the chairs for Ergonomics, Industrial Design and Product Development of the Technische Universität München, the chair for Human-Computer-Interaction of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München as well as the BMW AG. Building on the concept of psychological needs, the goal is a generic process for creating and evaluating User Experience while interacting in the interior of electric vehicles.

Funding: BMW AG
Contact: Sebastian Löhmann
Period: 02/2011-01/2014

Implicit Authentication on Mobile Devices

The project explores alternative authentication approaches for mobile devices (mostly smartphones) to make them more convenient and more secure against attacks.

Funding: Google Research Award
Contact: Dr. Alexander De Luca
Period: 04/2011 - ?

Structured Human Collaboration (SHC)

The project analyzes a view on business processes focusing on the human communication rather than on organizational procedures.

Funding: Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG
Institution: ZIM
Contact: Prof. Hussmann
Period: 2010 - ?

Funded StartUps

TestBirds

The start-up company TestBirds is concerned with crowed based tests of mobile applications and web applications. This enterprise is mentored by the chair of media informatics (LMU).

Funding: BMBF EXIST
Website: http://www.testbirds.de/
Contact: Prof. Hussmann
Period: 06/2012-05/2013

Order & Pay

Order & Pay has a focus on the mobile order process for restaurants. It brings up the idea of ordering and paying via a mobile device by a direct integration in the pay system.

Funding: BMBF EXIST
Website: http://www.order-and-pay.de
Contact: Prof. Butz
Period: 03/2011-02/2012

Past Projects

Research Group Fluidum

The Fluidum project investigates interaction techniques and metaphors for ubiquitous computing.

Funding: DFG project
Website: http://www.fluidum.org/
Period: 2003-2009

EnterCom

EnterCom searches those technical, organizational and social developments which determine the organization communication in the future. With a horizon of 10 years the project establishes on the one hand a substantiated prediction and introduces, on the other hand, also strategies to face the remaining insecurity in an economical way.

Funding: Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co.KG
Website: http://www.zim.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/entercom/
Institution: Zentrum für Internetforschung und Medienintegration (ZIM)
Period: 02/2007-09/2007

Discreet

The project aims to define technical solutions to support the introduction of new mobile/ubiquitous services by addressing the related privacy issues.

Funding: EU project
Period: 12/2005-02/2008

SMS - Simple Mobile Services

The goal of the SMS (Simple Mobile Services) project is to create innovative tools enabling a new class of services, addressing the specific needs of mobile users and enabling individuals and small businesses to become service providers. We call these services Simple Mobile Services (SMS).

Funding: EU project
Website: http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/forschung/sms/
Period: 06/2006-11/2008

MediaNet

MediaNet identifies and examines new approaches of distributing professional and user-generated content.

Funding: Deutsche Telekom AG Laboratories (T-Labs)
Website: http://www.zim.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/medianet/
Period: 10/2006-11/2008

Intermedia

Intermedia is a joint research project dedicated to examining the impact of the Internet on information intermediaries in media-related businesses.

Funding: BMBF project
Website: http://www.zim.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/intermedia/
Institution: Zentrum für Internetforschung und Medienintegration (ZIM)
Period: 10/2003-09/2007

Perci (PERvasive ServiCe Interaction)

The project Perci aims at investigating and developing new methods for mobile interactions with the Internet of Things.

Funding: NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs
Website: http://www.hcilab.org/projects/perci/
Period: 10/2005-09/2007

Research Group Embedded Interaction

The main interest of the research group "Embedded Interaction" is the development of concepts, methods and toolkits to advance embedded human-computer interaction.

Funding: DFG project
Website: http://www.hcilab.org/
Period: 04/2004-12/2006

BitBarons

Bitbarons is an independent game development studio providing a number of games on various platforms, including pc, iPhone, iPad, games console.

Funding: BMBF EXIST
Website: http://www.bitbarons.com
Period: 2010-2011

Curefab

Curefab focuses on an innovative imaging method for medical applications.

Funding: BMBF EXIST
Website: http://curefab.com
Period: 2009-2010