Alexander Wiethoff

Mail	alexander.wiethoff ät ifi.lmu.de
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Address	Alexander Wiethoff University of Munich (LMU), LFE Mediainformatics Amalienstr. 17 80333 Munich Germany
Room	501 (5th floor)

About me
Publications
Teaching Experience
Project, Bachelor and Diploma Theses

About me

Alexander is a passionate interaction designer committed to developing and implementing visionary strategies that support architectural, industrial and interaction design objectives. Prior to working as a HCI researcher at the University of Munich he was teaching at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) graphical user interface (GUI), tangible user interface (TUI) and rapid prototyping courses for two years. At the internal consultancy at CIID he was developing projects for international clients such as Nokia, Intel and Novo Nordisk. Before his time at CIID, Alexander worked in Italy for two years, where he led key initiatives at the design consultancy Syneo Srl. (Milan) including the setup of an interaction design lab and interactive trade show experiences. He holds a BA in space&designstrategies from the University of Linz (A) where he graduated with distinction and an MA in Interaction Design from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea / Domus Academy, Milan. Currently his key research focus is the analyzation of design processes in the area of pervasive computing, the creation of work process tools that support communication of multidisciplinary teams and the design of usability testing methods in this domain.
Blog from current projects in conjunction with some ouf our students.

Publications

2012
	Alexander Wiethoff, Hanna Schneider, Michael Rohs, Andreas Butz, Saul Greenberg Sketch-a-TUI: Low Cost Prototyping of Tangible Interactions Using Cardboard and Conductive Ink To appear in Proceedings of the 6th International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - TEI 2012, Kingston, Canada, February 19 - 22, 2012 (bib)
2011
	Alexander Wiethoff, Hendrik Richter Hybrid Interactions on In-Car Touch Interfaces Workshop AutoNUI: Automotive Natural User Interfaces, in conjunction with the international Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications - Automotive UI 2011, Salzburg, Austria, November 30th - December 2nd, 2011
Download	Hendrik Richter, Alexander Wiethoff Augmenting Future In-Vehicle Interactions With Remote Tactile Feedback Workshop AutoNUI: Automotive Natural User Interfaces, in conjunction with the international Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications - Automotive UI 2011, Salzburg, Austria, November 30th - December 2nd, 2011
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Sven Gehring Interacting with Light In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence - AMI'11, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2011. (bib)
Download	Hendrik Richter, Sebastian Löhmann, Alexander Wiethoff HapticArmrest: Remote Tactile Feedback on Touch Surfaces Using Combined Actuators In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence - AMI'11, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2011. (bib)
Download	Hendrik Richter, Benedikt Blaha, Alexander Wiethoff, Dominikus Baur, Andreas Butz Tactile Feedback without a Big Fuss: Simple Actuators for High-Resolution Phantom Sensations In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing - UbiComp'11, Beijing, China, September 2011. (bib)
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Gregor Broll SoloFind: Chains of Interactions with a Mobile Retail Experience System In Extended Abstracts of the 29th ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4503-0228-9 (bib)
Download	Sebastian Boring, Sven Gehring, Alexander Wiethoff, Magdalena Blöckner, Johannes Schöning, Andreas Butz Multi-User Interaction on Media Facades through Live Video on Mobile Devices Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2011 (bib)
Download	Sven Gehring, Sebastian Boring, Alexander Wiethoff Multi-User Painting on Media Facades through Live-Video on Mobile Devices In Extended Abstracts of the 29th ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4503-0228-9 (bib)
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Magdalena Blöckner LightBox - Exploring Interaction Modalities with Colored Light In Proceedings of the 5th International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - TEI 2011, Funchal, Portugal, January 23 - 26, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4503-0478-8 (bib)
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Robert Kowalski, Andreas Butz inTUIt-Simple Identification on Tangible User Interfaces In Proceedings of the 5th International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - TEI 2011, Funchal, Portugal, January 23 - 26, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4503-0478-8 (bib)
Download	Hendrik Richter, Alexander Wiethoff EdgeMatrix: Remote Tactile Feedback on Interactive Surfaces using a Shape Display OUI'11: Second International Workshop on Organic User Interfaces, 5th International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - TEI 2011, Funchal, Portugal, January 23 - 26, 2011 (bib)
2010
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Andreas Butz Process Tools for Interaction Design In the International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI), 2010. ISSN 1861-4280
Download	Alina Hang, Gregor Broll, Alexander Wiethoff Visual Design of Physical User Interfaces for NFC-based Mobile Interaction In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing interactive Systems, DIS '10. Aarhus, Denmark, August 16 - 20, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4503-0103-9.
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Raphael Wimmer, Hendrik Richter, Andreas Butz Different Brainstorming Methods Within the Context of Physical Computing In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Technology for Education (T4E), Bombay, India, July 01-03, 2010. ISBN 0-7803-8977-8 (bib)
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Andreas Butz ColourVision Controlling Light Patterns through Postures In Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, Banff, Canada, June 24-26, 2010. ISBN 978-3-642-13543-9
Download	Martin Hommer, Robert Kowalski, Bettina Conradi, Alexander Wiethoff, Sebastian Boring, Heinrich Hussmann Creating Conversation Opportunities in Urban Spaces through Public Displays and Personal Devices Workshop on Designing for Crowds (in Conjunction with Pervasive 2010), Helsinki, Finland, May 2010 (bib)
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Bettina Conradi, Andreas Butz Artifacts in the design process of pervasive computing Workshop Artifacts in Design: Representation, Ideation, and Process. 28th ACM Conference on Human factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010). Atlanta, GA, USA, April 10-15, 2010.
Download	Bettina Conradi, Doris Hausen, Fabian Hennecke, Max Maurer, Hendrik Richter, Alexander Wiethoff, Heinrich Hussmann Prototyping Media Informatics Advanced Seminar, Winter Term 2009/2010 (bib)
2009
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Alexander Sorg Entwicklung benutzerorientierter Embedded MMIs : Den Anwender im Blick Article in "Markt und Technik" Issue 49/2009. ISSN 0344-8843
Download	Fabian Hennecke, Sebastian Boring, Bettina Conradi, Sara Streng, Raphael Wimmer, Alexander Wiethoff, Andreas Butz Interactive Surfaces Media Informatics Advanced Seminar, Summer Term 2009 (bib)

Teaching Experience

Lecturer & Tutorials. LMU - Interaction Design / Summer Term 2011, Munich, Germany
Visiting Lecturer. Open University, UK - Hybrid Prototyping as a Design Process Tool / Summer Term 2011, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Visiting Lecturer. CDTM Munich - Prototyping as a Design Process Tool / Summer Term 2011, Munich, Germany
Supervisor. LMU - Sketching with Hardware / Winter Term 2010/11, Munich, Germany
Visiting Lecturer. Interface Design / Winter Term 2010/11, Munich, Germany
Visiting Faculty. University of Applied Sciences Munich - NEFF Design Workshop / Winter Term 2010/11, Munich, Germany
Visiting Lecturer. CDTM Munich - Prototyping as a Design Process Tool / Winter Term 2010/11, Munich, Germany
Visiting Lecturer.University Tor Vergata2 Rome - Physical Prototoyping and Usablity / Summer Term 2010, Rome, Italy
Tutorials & Lecturer.LMU - Human Computer Interaction 1 / Summer Term 2010, Munich, Germany
Supervisor. LMU - Sketching with Hardware / Summer Term 2010, Munich, Germany
Visiting Lecturer. CDTM Munich - Prototyping as a Design Process Tool / Summer Term 2010, Munich, Germany
Tutorials & Lecturer. LMU - Human Computer Interaction 1 / Summer Term 2009, Munich, Germany
Visiting Lecturer. LMU - Processing Kick-Start Course / Winter Term 2009/10, Munich, Germany
Supervisor. LMU - Sketching with Hardware / Winter Term 2009/10, Munich, Germany
Visiting Faculty. Designschool Kolding - Service Design / Winter Term 2008/09, Kolding, Denmark
Faculty. Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design - Graphical User Interface / Winter Term 2008/09, Copenhagen, Denmark
Faculty. Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design - Tangible User Interface / Winter Term 2008/09, Copenhagen, Denmark
Faculty. Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design - Video Prototyping / Winter Term 2008/09, Copenhagen, Denmark
Visiting Faculty. 180 Academy Denmark - Concept Blueprints & Experience Prototyping / Summer Term 2008, Middelfart, Denmark
Visiting Faculty. DKDS The Danish Designschool - Videoprototyping / Winter Term 2007/08, Copenhagen, Denmark
Visiting Faculty. Diginet Oresund - Concept Blueprints / Winter Term 2007/08, Copenhagen, Denmark
Organizer. Workshop on Interaction Design in conjunction with the Raffles College, Singapore / March, 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark
Co-Organizer. Workshop on Interaction Design in conjunction with the Ministry of Education, Singapore / November, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark,

Project, Bachelor and Diploma Theses

Vacant topics

Type	Supervisor	Title

Topics in Progress

Student	Title
Fabius Steinberger	Prototyping Hybrid Interactions (BA)

Accomplished Topics

Student	Title
Hanna Schneider	Key Challenges Designing Hybrid Interactions (BA)
Christian Orth	Visual Programming of Tangible User Interfaces and Tabletop Applications (BA)
Magdalena Bloeckner	Mobile Interaction with Multimedia Facades (in Conjunction with Feno)(DA)
Eduard Held	Throwaway TUI - Towards a Disposable Physical Interface (PA)
Florian Mueller	Defining Criteria for Gestures on Touchless Screens (in Conjunction with Ultratronik)(DA)
Henri Palleis	Vibrotactile Feedback Patterns with NFC (PA)
Nina Landmann	Ubiquitous Gaming - One Game, Thousand Screens (in Conjunction with Vodafone R&D)(DA)
Tobias Sattler	The Car-Key as a TUI on the Microsoft Surface (in Conjunction with BMW)(PA)
Robert Kowalski	inTUIt - Easy Accessible Personalized Content on Digital Surfaces (TUI)(PA)
Sophia Gross	Playful Mobile Experiences in an Art History Context (in Conjunction with the Pinakothek der Moderne) (BA)
Julia Kuefner	Paperbox 3D - A Novel Approach for the Development of Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) (DA)
Magdalena Bloeckner	Building in a Box - An Experience Prototyping Toolkit to Reveal Design Needs for Interactive Multimedia Facades (PA)
Alina Hang	Visual Design of Physical Interfaces for NFC/RFID-based Mobile Interaction (DA)