Body, Movement, Gestures & Tactility in Interaction with Mobile Devices 

 
 

Organizer Biographies


Jakob Tholander

is a researcher at the Mobile Life center at Stockholm University. He holds a PhD in Human-computer interaction from the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University/KTH. His research interests include mobile and tangible technology, design and conceptualization of bodily engaging interaction, as well as theories that may inform design of mobile and tangible technology.


Carolina Johansson

holds a M. Sc. in Human Computer Interaction from Uppsala University, Sweden, and did her Master thesis as visiting researcher for Prof. Paul Dourish at the Institute for Software Research, UCI, US. Carolina is also a professional dancer and has studied and performed modern dance in Stockholm, New York and Los Angeles. Working in the Body Studies project, her research interests revolve around how we can understand, describe and design engaging and meaningful movement interaction with technology.


Jarmo Laaksolahti

Jarmo Laaksolahti is a researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) and the Mobile Life center at Stockholm University. He holds PhD in computer- and systems sciences from the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University/KTH. His research interests include bodily and affective interaction and how that fits into the future of mobile technology.


Sven Kratz

is a research assistant at the Department for Informatics of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Germany, where he is also currently pursuing his PhD studies. His primary research focus is on sensor-based mobile interfaces that allow for novel types of interaction. This includes gesture recognition, interaction based on distance sensing and pressure, tabletop applications for mobile devices and optical tracking technologies. Sven also conducts research into mobile interfaces providing efficient navigation of large information spaces such as maps, 3D environments or databases. Sven received his Diplom degree in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen in 2007.


Michael Rohs

is an assistant professor at the Department for Informatics of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Germany, where he is heading the Mobile Human-Computer Interaction Lab. His primary research interests are in mobile human-computer interaction, mobile interactive media, and pervasive computing. His work focuses on novel interaction techniques for mobile devices, applications of computer vision techniques in mobile HCI, the usage of sensors for mobile interactions, and the integration of physical and virtual resources in the user’s environment. Michael received a Diplom in Computer Science from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. In the past, he worked as a research assistant in the Distributed Systems Group at ETH Zurich and as a senior research scientist at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.


Kathrin Wolf

is a research assistant at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin. Her primary research focus is on embodied and onbodied microinteractions that allow augmenting everyday tasks through invisible appearance as interface layer on grasping hands. In 2010 she did a six months internship at the HITLab New Zealand investigating natural,gesture, embodied, and speech interactions with spatial interfaces. In 2009 Katrin Wolf was research assistant in the Competence Center of Mobile and Wireless Communication at the University of Arts Berlin. From 2007 - 2008 she was research assistant focused in interaction design in the project EMIKA of the University of Applied Science Berlin. There she developed in an interdisciplinary team a location aware multi media guide for the Jewish Museum Berlin. Katrin Wolf studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and successfullycompleted two German Diplomas - in Social and Economic Communications (2007) and in Design of Electronic Business(2004).


Jörg Müller

is a senior researcher at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin. His research interests are context adaptive digital signage and advertising in pervasive computing. In particular, he is interested how audience measurement (e.g. via cameras) can be used to implement self-optimizing advertising schedules on digital signage (similar to Google AdWords on the Web). In this context, he deployed the iDisplays (with Münster University) and MobiDiC (with German Telekom) digital signage networks. Jörg earned a PhD on context adaptive digital signage in transitional spaces in Münster. He studied computer science at the universities of Freiburg and Saarbrücken and worked on user interfaces for and-held projectors (with Sony), driver workload estimation (with Daimler), and Mind Mapping (FreeMind).


Mathias Wilhelm

studied Computer Engineering at the Technische Universität Berlin. During his studies he worked as a student research assistant in the HCI group of the DAILabor of the Technische Universität Berlin. There he dealt with gesture-based interaction in smart home environments. He finished his studies with a thesis about device independent gesture recognition. Currently he is a Ph.D. student at the DAI-Labor. He focuses on different aspects of gesturebased interaction. In particular he is interested in gesture algorithms for accelerometer-based devices and vision systems, the automatic segmentation of continuous signals to recognize meaningful patterns (e.g. gestures) and the application of gestures for natural interaction in smart home environments.