(Expert) Panels

Panel moderator at Medica Fair 2021 (in Düsseldorf) for the Medica Health IT Forum on 'Smart Robotics' , 16.11.2021

Closing panel discussion of TEI'2016 at TU Eindhoven, 17.2.2016. With Caroline Hummels, Hiroshi Ishii, Brygg Ullmer, Albrecht Schmidt, and Luc Geurts (moderator)

Expert forum of second Digital Childhoods event on Playing and Learning, 12-13 May 2011, Macrobert Centre, University of Stirling

Expert forum of the first Digital Childhoods event on Childhood and Parenting, 24-25 March 2011, Scottish Universities Insight Institute, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Expert Panel on Shareable Interfaces. 17.09.2010. ShareIT workshop ‘Exploring Collaboration with Shareable Interfaces’, University of Sussex.

Panel member at the Tangible and Embedded Interaction Conference TEI 2008, Bonn, Germany 21.02.2008

'Berlin Tangible Interaction Day' 17.5.07 Panel member on Tangible Interaction Panel the during the DesignMay in Berlin, Germany

Keynotes and Tutorials

Re-Thinking Care Robots – From Substitution to Interaction. Invited talk at the Geriatronics Summit 2023 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 2-3.7.'23. 3.7.2023.

Sociality and User Engagement in Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions in Public Spaces, Keynote at IHM 2015, 27ème Conférence Francophone sur l’interaction Homme-Machine. Toulouse, France. 30.10.2015

Wie wirkt sich die Repräsentationsmodalität auf die User Experience multisensorischer Datenrepräsentationen aus? Keynote, Workshop on “Be-greifbare Interaktion” at the Mensch & Computer 2015 (German HCI conference) in Stuttgart. 6.9.2015

Shared interactions beyond the desktop: how new interface types can support sociable user experiences. Keynote at the 'Crossworlds - Theory, Development & Evaluation of Social Technology' International Conference in Chemnitz (Germany), June 30th 2014.

Beyond Affordance: Tangibles' Hybrid Nature. Oder: All that talk about physical affordances to be considered harmful. Keynote, Workshop on “Be-greifbare Interaktion” at the Mensch & Computer 2013 (German HCI conference) in Bremen. 8.9.2013

Tangible Interfaces and Tangible Interaction – Frameworks and Theories. Keynote at FGTIS First French German Tangible Interaction Studio Summerschool, 25-31 August 2013 in Bidart, France at ESTIA. 26.8.2013

Investigating visitor behaviours around interactive tables in museums.
Keynote, Workshop on ‘Integrating Multi-Touch and Interactive Surfaces into the Research Environment’ at the Oxford e- Research Centre. 6-7.09.2011

Creating Engaging Visitor Experiences in Museums and Heritage Sites.
30.6.2011. Tutorial talk during SICSA summerschool on Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism 2011, St. Andrews.

Designing, Creating, and Evaluating Novel Interactions - Being continuously surprised by users.
3.6.2009, Keynote at Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance Graduate Conference, University of St. Andrews

Social interaction in computer-augmented environments - towards an understanding of users' experience in interactive spaces. Benutzerstudien und Evaluationsmethoden im Bereich des 'Beyond the Desktop Computing'. Ein Erfahrungsbericht anhand eigener Projekte . 21.04.2008. Workshop with 2 talks in the PhD graduate school Advances in Digital Media, Dept of Informatics, University of Bremen

A Framework for Analysis and Design of Tangible Interaction Supporting Social Interaction.
18. Sept 2005. Guest presentation in Tutorial ‚Prototyping Tangible Interfaces’ at E-CSCW 2005

Invited Talks and other talks without paper publication

Re-Thinking Care Robots – From Substitution to Interaction
3.7.2023. invited talk at the Geriatronics Summit 2023 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 2-3.7.'23

Towards Non-Dyadic HRI
6.2.2023. online guest talk for research seminar course for Master students at KTH, Sweden

ADHD and Technology Research – Investigated by Neurodivergent Readers
6.9.2022. invited presentation of paper by Katta Spiel, Eva Hornecker, Rua Mae Williams, Judith Good from CHI'22 at German Mensch und Computer 2022 Conference in Darmstadt, Germany

Towards Non-Dyadic HRI: Building Robots for Institutions
17.8.2022. Joint presentation with Antonia Krummheuer et al. for Workshop 4: 'Re-Configuring HRI' at the Robophilosophy Conference 2022, August 16-19, Helsinki, Finland

Visitor interactions with museum installations - Insights from 10 years of HCI research.
1.12.2021. online talk for SDU (University of Southern Denmark) Odense, NiS group seminars: Networked Media in Society

Ganzheitliches UX für kind- und familiengerechtes interaktives Spielzeug
11.11.2021. WUD World Usability Day Leipzig (@ Kunstkraftwerk) (this was one of the few in-person WUD's in Germany...)

Integrierte Forschung für Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion in Pflegesituationen
17.9.2021. Talk at the 4. Clusterkonferenz „Zukunft der Pflege“ (online) together with Andreas Bischof

RethiCare – Rethinking Care Robots. Some Experiences and Insights.
25.11.2020. online Workshop #ConnectingMinds - Caring Robots // Robotic Care (TU Wien, University of Salzburg)

HCI In Museums. (Guest Lecture)
12.6.2020. online talk at VU Amsterdam

Predicting User Behaviour: Evaluating Children’s Museum Installations for the Robert Burns Museum.
15.5.2020. online talk for UX Indonesia Meetup. uxmeetup.id

Besucher*inneninteraktionen mit Museumsinstallationen - Erkenntnisse aus 10 Jahren HCI Forschung.
16.10.2019. Symposion 'Digitalwerkstatt Museum, Impulse für Vermittlung Forschung & Entwicklung', Berlin, ufa-fabrik. Talk was recorded and is available on vimeo (in German)

Lecture Evaluation Methods
20.2.2019. ERC Amplify Winterschool 2019: 'Creating and Evaluating AR/VR/MR Systems'

How Bodies and World Meet in Tangible and Embodied Interactions: Tactile, Kinaesthetic, and Somatic Experience.
10. Dec. 2018 lunchtime series HCI group, TU Vienna

Mediale Ausstellungsgestaltung, Interaktionstechnologien - Beobachtungen aus 10 Jahren Forschung zu Besucherinteraktion mit Museumsinstallationen.
9.11.2018. Tagungs-Workshop 'Exponat – Raum – Interaktion. Perspektiven für das Kuratieren digitaler Ausstellungen' at Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, 9+10.11.2018

How Bodies and World Meet in Tangible and Embodied Interactions: Tactile, Kinaesthetic, and Somatic Experience..
12.6.2018. Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena. Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar.

Tangible and Embodied Interactions in Performance and the Cultural Domain.
25.1.2018. HCI-Seminar. KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm. Seminar 2018

“I don‘t understand it either, but it is cool” Visitor Interactions with a Multi-Touch Table in a Museum. Tabletop 2008 – ISS 2017
19.10.2017. 10 Year Impact Award Presentation. ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces 2017 (ISS).

Applictions of Digital Media: Tangible and Embodied Interactions – especially in the Cultural Domain.
16.1.2017. HfK Bremen (Hochschule für Künste). Lectures on Media Arts and Culture. 'Introduction to Digital Media' seminar & Informatik Kolloquium, Universität Bremen

How Bodies and World Meet in Tangible and Embodied Interactions. Tactile, Kinaesthetic, and Somatic Experience.
7.10.2016. International Workshop 'Symmetries of Touch'. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Beyond the Desktop: Sociality and User Engagement in Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions in Public Spaces.
16.6.2016. guest lecture in course 'Interaction Design' - LMU, Munich

The Interweaving of the Physical and the Social - A Framework on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction.
28.4.2016. KOMA Plenum (Kompetenzzentrum Medienanthropologie), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Shared interactions beyond the desktop: how new interface types can support sociable user experiences.
25.11.2015. Ringvorlesung (Colloqium) talk at Wissenschaftliches Zentrum für Informationstechnik-Gestaltung (ITeG), Universität Kassel.

pre-2015

Physical-Digital-Social Encounters: Exploring the Social Design Space of Physical Computing.
27.6.2014. Dresden Talks on Interaction & Visualization at TU Dresden, Germany.

The effect of representational modality on the user experience of data representation.
13.5.2014 Royal College of Art, London. Information Experience Design Talk series.
(talk about work done with my PhD student Trevor Hogan)

Creating Engaging Visitor Experiences in Museums and Heritage sites.
17.09.2013. EPFL Center for Digital Education, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne

Creating Engaging Visitor Experiences in Museums and Heritage sites.
10.01.2013. GIST talk, University of Glasgow.

Creating Engaging Visitor Experiences in Museums and Heritage sites.
14.11.2012. UCLIC seminar. University College London

Creating Engaging Visitor Experiences in Museums and Heritage sites.
12.10.2012. Design Informatics seminar. University of Edinburgh.

Engagement and interaction with museum installations.
International symposium "From Understanding the Present to Envisioning the Future" TU Vienna, Austria, celebrating Prof. Ina Wagner's retirement 22-23.09.2011.

What makes for an engaging museum installation?
21.06.2011 Berkeley Institute of Design Seminar, Berkeley University, California USA

Investigating Collaboration Around the TableTop: a comparative user study and observations of visitors using a museum touchtable.
7.02.2011. Departmental Seminar.  Computer Science, University of Birmingham.

The Chawton House Project: How Co-Designing Novel User Experiences for a Historic Manor House Led to the Idea of In-Situ Authoring Tools.
21.5.2010. User Interface Kolloquium. Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg.

Visitor interaction with museum installations in the Berlin Museum of Natural History
20.5.2010. invited lecture for staff at ART+COM AG, Berlin 

Designing, Creating, and Evaluating Novel Interactions - being continuously surprised by users
20.5.2010. colloquim talk at prometei Graduiertenkolleg (PhD school), Zentrum Mensch-Maschine-Systeme TU Berlin / Fraunhofer IPK 

Investigating Collaboration Around the TableTop - effects of input device configuration on awareness and equity of participation.
5.5.2010. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (MACS) seminar talk Heriot Watt University Edinburgh

What makes for an engaging museum installation?
15.4.2010 The Interaction Design Talk Series, University of Limerick

The Interweaving of the Physical and the Social - A Framework on Tangible Interaction and its Use in Form of a Brainstorming Card Game Exercise.
14.4.2010: 7pm. IxDA (Interaction Design Association) meeting, Absolute Hotel Limerick

pre-2010

What makes for an engaging museum installation?
18.11.2009. CID seminar. School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University.

Designing Surfaces for Public Engagement. Informal discussion and talk.
23.6.2009 Surface Tension Event at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre, London.

Beyond the Desktop - mobile, pervasive, tangible, embodied, embedded, multimodal.
5.5.2009 Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance Multimodal Interaction Theme Launch Event, University of Glasgow

The Interweaving of the Physical and the Social - The Tangible Interaction Framework Revisited
30.3.2009 Tufts CS Colloquia. Tufts University, Medford MA, USA

Investigating Collaboration Around the TableTop - effects of input device configuration on awareness and equity of participation
24.02.2009. Newcastle University, UK. School of Computer Science Colloquium. 

Investigating Collaboration Around the TableTop - effects of input device configuration on awareness and equity of participation
20.01.2009. University of Calgary, Canada, Computer Science Departmental Seminar.

The Interweaving of the Physical and the Social - Tangible Interaction Framework Revisited
19.01.2009. University of Calgary, Canada, Interactions Lab seminar 

Investigating Collaboration Around the TableTop - effects of input device configuration on awareness and equity of participation.
23.10.2008. GIST talk, University of Glasgow.

Talk on the concepts and terminology around tangible interaction. Mensch & Computer Conference. 
7.09.2008. Meeting of the German working group on ‘Be-Greifbare Interaktion in Gemischten Wirklichkeiten’

Investigating Collaboration Around the TableTop
22.11.07. Rainbow Interaction Seminar, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Verantwortung im informatischen Berufsalltag - Warum es wichtiger ist die Arbeitskulturen informatischen Handels zu reflektieren als über ethische Theorien und Whistleblowing zu reden... (on IT work and professional responsibility)
1.11.2007. Gesellschaftliche Auswirkungen der Informatik – Kolloquium. FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt

Social interaction in computer-augmented environments - towards an understanding of users' experience in interactive spaces
22.10.07. Research Colloquium Usability. Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin

Social interaction in computer-augmented environments - towards an understanding of users' experience in interactive spaces
11.7.07. University of Limerick, Ireland, seminar talk for the Interaction Design Center

Collaboration-sensitive design of tangible interation. Supporting social interaction in Computer-argumented environments.
13.6.2007 University of Nottingham, seminar talk at Mixed Reality Lab (MRL)

Social interaction in computer-augmented environments - towards an understanding of users' experience in interactive spaces
22.05.2007 seminar Talk Lancaster University, InfoLab21

Collaboration-sensitive design of tangible interation. Supporting social interaction in Computer-argumented environments.
10.5.2007. TeleLearning Research Group (TLRG) seminar talk, The Open University, UK

Collaboration-sensitive design of tangible interation. Supporting social interaction in Computer-argumented environments.
19.4.2007. Math & Computing seminar talk, The Open University, UK

Social interaction in computer-augmented environments - towards an understanding of users' experience in interactive spaces
28.2.2007. CCT Lecture at the Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University

The workaday world of IT professionals: A micro-ethical view
28.7.2006. Talk at Symposium ‘Professions, expertise and knowledge in ICT contexts’ during the international conference ‘Expertise in Context’. 26-28 July 2006 in Berlin. (publication by abstract)

A Framework for collaboration-sensitive design of tangible interaction
27.7.2006. Invited talk at ZMMS (center for man-machine interaction), Technical University Berlin and PhD graduate school Premetei

Co-Designing Novel User Experiences at a Historic Manor House - A Literacy Fieldtrip with Children
6.4.2006. Talk for Austrian-funded MARQ project (Mobile Augmented Reality Quest) consortium (Technical Universities of Vienna and Graz, Imagination GmbH and TMW) at the Technical Museum Vienna

Tangible Interaction and User-Centered Design.
25.01.2006. Seminar talk at FIT Lab (Future Interaction Technologies), Dept. of Computing, University of Wales, Swansea

Understanding and designing tangible interaction: a framework on physical space and social interaction.
15.11.2005. Invited talk at Dept. of Computing, Lancaster University

Co-Designing Novel User Experiences at a Historic Manor House.
4.10.2005. Guest talk at Institute for Media Informatics at Ludwigs-Maximilian University Munich and for HCI class

Tangible Interaction for Collaborative Use - A Design Framework
25. Feb. 2005. Human Centred Technology Group Seminar, University of Sussex, UK

pre-2005

Collaboration Support with Tangible Interfaces and Tangible Interaction -  Developing a Design Framework.
18. Nov. 2004.  Seminar talk at the Dept. of Design and Use of Information Technology (DUIT) at the IT-University Copenhagen

Tangible Interaction Supporting Collaborative Use - A Framework for Design and Analysis.
3. Nov. 2004. Guest lecture in IT Product Design program. University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Mads Clausen Institute

Verantwortung im informatischen Berufsalltag - Eine Mikro-Ethik informatischen Handelns.
25. Mai 2004, Albert-Ludwig Universität Freiburg. lecture within the Ringvorlesung on Computing and Ethics.

Assessing Support for Neighborhood Participation in Design: Multilevel Design using Role Play as Method.
27. November 2002, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Mads Clausen Institute

Tangible User Interfaces: Technische Ansätze und Optionen. (on technical aspects of TUI realisation)
4.November 2002. talk at Fraunhofer FIT (ex-GMD), Bonn  (slides in German, pdf)

Kooperatives Problemlösen mit interaktiven Medien - Erfahrungen bei der Verwendung eines Rollenspielszenarios zur Evaluation des Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC).
20. August 2002. talk at research group DIMEB (Digitale Medien in der Bildung), Dept. of Informatics, University of Bremen

How Graspability and Manipulability of Design Media Affect Interaction: Graspable Interfaces as Tool for Cooperative Design.
19. November 2001.informal talk at MIT's Tangible Media Group, Boston, USA

Graspable Interfaces: a Valuable Tool for Cooperative Modeling & Design.
23. October 2001. Guest talk in Ernesto Arias' class on Research Issues & Methods in Planning and Design' ENVD 3122. Dept. of Architecture and Urban Planning. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Graspable Interfaces: a Valuable Tool for Cooperative Modeling & Design
17. October 2001. Guest speaker at  L3D Meeting. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Center for Lifelong Learning and Design

Verantwortung in IT-Berufen.
Gastvortrag am 30.6. 2001 im SoWi-Seminar "InformatikerInnen -- hochbezahlte Gurus oder
nützliche Idioten" von Prof. Thomas Risse und Prof. Meyer-Braun im Studiengang Technische Informatik der Hochschule Bremen / guest talk in a seminar of the technical informatics studies program of Bremen University of Applied Sciences on responsibility in IT-work

Gegenständliche Computer-Schnittstellen: ein Werkzeug für erfahrungsorientiertes und ko-operatives Modellieren?!
10.11.2000, Chemnitz. Vortrag auf der Interdisziplinären Tagung  ”Neue Medien im Arbeitsalltag – Empirische Analysen, Gestalterische Impulse, Theoretische Befunde” der DFG-Forschergruppe ”Neue Medien im Alltag” an der TU Chemnitz /talk at  an interdisciplinary conference on informatization of work life about Real Reality and graspable interfaces in general

Greifbare (Computer)Schnittstellen für das kooperative Modellieren.
1.8.2000, Bonn. Vortrag bei der Arbeitsgruppe PROSEC (Projektgruppe Software Ergonomie und CSCW) des FG Informatik III, Uni Bonn / talk at research group PROSEC in Bonn about Real Reality and the PhD project

pre-2000

Integrated Real and Virtual Prototyping.
2.9.1998, Aachen, IECON ’98, 24th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. Vortrag in Vertretung für Prof. Bruns /talk in proxy for Prof. Bruns

Real Reality – Human Computer Interaction Leaving the Desktop Metaphor.
17.8.1998, Vortrag im Seminar des Computer Science Department der City University, London

Real Reality und Facharbeit,
Vortrag mit Bernd Robben im ITB-Kolloquium, 22.7.1998, Bremen / talk with a colleague, Bernd Robben, on pedagogical applications of Real Reality

Didaktische Probleme einer Informatik-Erstsemesterveranstaltung – Ansätze zu einer Hochschul-Fach-Didaktik der Informatik.
12. 12. 1995, IMA/HDZ, RWTH Aachen ./  talk on didactical problems of cs01-informatics-beginners